Episode Report Card Strega: A | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Bank Shot
By Strega | Season 2 | Episode 19 | Aired on 01.04.2001
Depository backroom. Natira tells Scorpius that she's arranged to repay her debt, but he'll have to wait for a little while. Scorpius tells Braca and glow-stick-girl to return to his Marauder. The best thing about this scene is Braca, whose eyes go up and down Natira about fifty times in the course of this short conversation. Scorpius assures glow-stick girl that Natira can take care of him, and Natira simpers, "I know many ways to bleed off your excess heat." Oh, my.
Moya. Chiana is tending to D'Argo, who's groaning in his bed. Not like that! Crichton walks in to check on him and trade banter. Chiana says that D'Argo's in a lot of pain, but he'll recover. With that out of the way, it's time to bicker. Crichton snits that they're doing this because "someone had to take matters into their own hands." D'Argo quite rightly replies, "And you never do?" Chiana intervenes by pointedly offering to go get more rags in case D'Argo starts bleeding again. After she leaves, Crichton admits that he just wanted to see how D'Argo was. D'Argo replies, "We've already covered that. Is there anything else?" Crichton rolls his eyes and exits. Oh, just kiss already, you two.
I think it's usually around this time when I start saying, "Is this seriously still just the first episode? How can that be? So much has happened!" I guess what makes this story feel so dense is that...well, first the problem was "Find Stark." But they found him in the teaser. Then the premise was "Rescue Jothee," which, after a shouting match, became "Rescue D'Argo" with a side-order of "rob a bank." And now Scorpius has turned up, and we're only halfway through the episode. It's crazy!
Depository. In the container, we hear a muffled Rygel recite, " One: get out of statue. Two: use gadget to retrieve prize. Three: jump into containers full of riches!" The top of the Rygel-statue is pried off as Rygel grunts, "The problem is step one!" As we zoom in on him, Rygel starts to pull himself out of the mold while griping, "The blue bitch said this would be easy!"
In the lobby, Akkor's somewhat startled to hear that Pirate Zhaan has returned to withdraw her deposit already. Zhaan says, "I said this was a short-term deposit."
Rygel complains to himself as he climbs out of the vault container. He holds a little remote and sighs, "Let's see if this thing actually works."
Akkor escorts Aeryn and Crichton back to the observation room and then leaves. Crichton expositions that Rygel just has to switch containers, and starts pressing buttons on the viewscreen console. Aeryn asks what he's doing, and Crichton says, "Doing what guys do best -- I'm looking for Baywatch." The viewscreens cycle through various views of the depository. He finds one camera offering a view of the backroom and adds, "Better yet, the Discovery Channel."