Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Last Tanga In The Paris Commune
By Jacob Clifton | Season 1 | Episode 6 | Aired on 04.22.1999
The bar, more music, more horrible dancing. Volmae interrupts Crichton -- dancing like an absolute idiot -- to ask him for a confab. They head into a warehouse, and before the door even opens, you can see Peacekeeper logos all over the place. "Would the cargo hold of your ship accommodate a significant portion of what you see here?" She indicates the crates of tannot all over the warehouse, and he admits Moya wouldn't hold the whole harvest. "I don't need it all," she says. She's very good in this scene, staying creepy as hell and giving the constant impression that he's about to get killed and/or that she's going to take Moya by force, but also seeming somewhat sympathetic. Which is a tough acting job, all of this at once, but can only be close to impossible when you're talking like you're about to have a seizure in white dreads and red contacts. "What do they do with all of this?" she muses. "If it has value to them, it must have value elsewhere." Volmae is now seeking ownership of the production itself. "You will bring the other two from your ship back down here immediately." He agrees, because he's fake-stoned, and Volmae leads him back to the celebration. John whispers, scared and grossed out, "Peacekeeper," and follows her.
Rygel, unthawed, is shivering and bitching a whole lot. Which Aeryn is not feeling: "I did the best that I could! It wasn't in my training, you know," she says proudly. Rygel points out that "Peacekeeper training" amounts to Advanced Killing with Nastiness Workshop, and Aeryn says that it's even more interesting, then, that a Peacekeeper just saved his life. He nods, and thinks, and then asks what the hell John wants with both of them coming back down planetside. "Well, can you understand Crichton?" Rygel grumbles. Actually, they kind of both do.
Aeryn grabs John outside in the destroyed main street, and he jumps. "Damn! Why can't you come in the front like regular people?" That's funny. She notes that he looks "terrible," and asks what the problem is. He says he feels worse than he looks, and asks after Rygel. Rygel is hiding in the transport pod, because this planet sucks. Some stoners walk by and John tells her to smile -- "That's what they do around here" -- as they continue to plot. She asks what he's on about and he gets pissy, so she says she's not following orders until he clears up what's going on. Instead of doing so, he whines some more, so she asks where Zhaan is, and he admits that she's with D'Argo, "dancing with the Grateful Dead." She shakes her head and suggests that they grab both of them and run. "We can't do that, okay? Not unless Volmae orders it, and Volmae's got plans of her own." He tells her about Volmae's plan to jam Moya with a bunch of tannot, and Aeryn's awesomely not having that: "I don't think so." John's like, "Okay, we're briefed, let's do some kind of plan," but Aeryn still wants some details, like what's going on. "Aeryn, it's complicated."