Episode Report Card Strega: A | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Bank Shot
By Strega | Season 2 | Episode 19 | Aired on 01.04.2001
Some time later, Pirate Zhaan's Rygel-shaped deposit is being scanned. Aeryn and Crichton watch as the guards report that it doesn't contain anything of note. Natira notices that it's Hynerian, and comments, "It's extremely ugly." Heh. Zhaan doesn't disagree, but she says that it's priceless, and then asks for "[her] Luxan." Natira gives her guards a little wave, and D'Argo is escorted out into the lobby. Crichton helpfully observes that D'Argo doesn't look so good. Thanks, Crichton. Chiana goes to reclaim D'Argo, and Natira tells Zhaan, "Your guards can watch you from the observation area."
Pirate Zhaan follows Natira into a neighboring vault room. Which has octagonal doors! I wonder if this is the long-lost thirteenth colony. In the middle of the room is a polyhedron. I think. I bet there's a more specific name for it, but it's been a long time since I took geometry, and really it's not important since for our purposes it's another control console. Natira and Zhaan put their hands on the console's sides, and Natira announces that the security code for Zhaan's deposit is now linked to her genetic profile. She lectures, "Only you will be able to gain access." Natira must be kind of short, because even in her fierce platform Giger-boots, she's significantly shorter than Zhaan, who appears to be wearing fairly normal pirate boots. A guard enters with the Rygel-deposit. Another door slides open as Natira announces that the container is on the way. Through the doorway we can see a huge space, with what are presumably other containers zipping up and down in the distance. And then one of the containers appears at the end of the space, and whooshes toward them rapidly. It slams into the room and stops inches away from where Natira is standing. Zhaan stumbles backward in surprise, and Natira smirks, "The first time can be a little intimidating." The massive door of the container swings open, and a guard prepares to load the Rygel-statue into the container.
Meanwhile, Akkor escorts Aeryn and Crichton into the observation room. There are a number of octagonal viewscreens on the wall. One shows Natira and Pirate Zhaan watching as the container is loaded. Crichton tells Aeryn, "Bonnie and Clyde! Oh, no, forget about that one. It's a bad ending." A guard enters, whispers in Akkor's ear, and then they both hurry out. Awkward. Aeryn peers out through the doorway while Crichton pointlessly urges Zhaan to hurry things up. Then he hears Harvey whispering, "You can't escape me," in his echoey way. Crichton grumbles, "Get out of my head!" From the doorway, Aeryn says, "Scorpius." He sighs, "Yes." Aeryn walks toward the viewscreen and says, "No. Scorpius." Crichton turns to see that one of the viewscreens shows Scorpius walking down a corridor with Braca and Scorpy's glow-stick supplier. "This is bad," Crichton notes.