Episode Report Card Keckler: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Dullas Shittis
By Keckler | Season 2 | Episode 2 | Aired on 03.23.2000
Moya shakes violently, and Zhaan demands to know what's going on. Pilot reports that the tremors are occurring all through Moya and increasing the hull deterioration. Get the bitch off the ship! Crichton tells Sexan she's making things worse. "It's a healing incantation -- it should work," Sexan says wonderingly. Chiana scoffs at this. Rygel tells her to try another, try anything. Sexan says she needs to meditate to find another way, and asks D'Argo to direct her to a private place. I though she already knew the way to his private place.
Sexan meditates. D'Argo interrupts her and accuses, "We did this, didn't we? We caused this problem, we're harming Moya." Sexan promises that she didn't know this would happen. D'Argo asks what happened. Turns out? The power she sensed during the ritual wasn't D'Argo, it was Moya. She didn't realize the orbiting ship was a bio-mechanoid. Now I'm annoyed. She could tell that D'Argo was a fraud just from stuffing her hand in his appendix, but she couldn't sense a living ship wandering about above her? Bitch. Sexan insists there must be a way to put it all right and still keep her girlish good looks: "This ritual shouldn't keep draining strength from the leviathan -- she should recover." "She is dying," D'Argo points out. Sexan thinks she can save Moya, but she needs to go down and consult her scrolls on the planet. D'Argo refuses to abandon Moya. Sexan walks to a bulkhead and presses her hand on it. It sizzles. "I am a disease to this ship, get me away from her, it might at least slow the process down," Sexan says. That's not good enough for D'Argo. Sexan asks him to let her try everything she can.
Aeryn suggests to Zhaan that it's more than a little odd that Moya got sick right around the time Sexan found the fountain of youth. "They're not necessarily linked," Zhaan says. Oh, open your big blue eyes! They are! Just because she's holier than shit doesn't mean she's not culpable in this! Anyway, Zhaan thinks that if Sexan is responsible, she can fix it. Aeryn's not sure Sexan wants to. Pilot asks if he can have a word with Aeryn. Privately.
In Pilot's Chamber, Pilot is in really bad shape. His connections are deteriorating and he's suffering as much as Moya. He also appears to have developed asthma. It's something that happens to pilots only when they reach old age. Aeryn insists on finding Sexan and to make her cough up Moya's mojo. Pilot locates Sexan on her way to a transport pod. Aeryn promises stormily to Pilot that she won't let Sexan keep what she's stolen.