Cordo's internal struggle between financial ruin and the desperate need to protect others from the same fate

Cordo arrives at Gatherer Hade's office to pay his father's death taxes, only to find the debt has surged from eighty to one hundred thirty-two talmars due to corporate rate …

The Doctor and Leela follow their reluctant guide Cordo onto a narrow ladder as Company forces close in, their escape now desperate. As a freight lift looms above, Cordo abandons …

Cordo breaks down to the Doctor and Leela about his insurmountable debt from death taxes, revealing a hidden path to the Undercity where outlaws and escapees might offer refuge. Though …