Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Family Ties
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 22 | Aired on July 14, 1998
Oh, wow! I can't believe I'm recapping Family Ties! Do you think I'll get to do the episode where Alex borrows diet pills from Mallory's friend Effie and gets hooked on speed?
Wait, what?
Oh. Sorry. So what am I doing?
You can't be serious. I can't afford the Kleenex for that! Don't talk to me about my contract!
Oh, fine. I made it through Everwood; I can make it through this. Establishing shot of Moya, still in the asteroid field. Crichton blurts out, "Tell me there is some kind of sick punchline coming!" I'm glad you're getting used to having me around. Anyway, to everyone's archly and sarcastically expressed chagrin, Rygel has left the ship in one of the pods and is refusing to acknowledge their hails, and moreover, he's about to depart the asteroid field, whereupon the Peacekeepers will undoubtedly spot him. D'Argo growls something in what's presumably his own language, and after hearing it, Rygel sniffs. I'd wonder why the translator microbes suddenly took a coffee break there, but given that Chiana informs us that D'Argo said something about Rygel's corpse and a "body function," they can be forgiven for thinking it was a conversation best sidestepped. Zhaan tries an appeal to Rygel's sense of right and wrong, an "interesting" choice, and Aeryn goes with an approach that's not doomed by definition, pointing out that whatever deal Rygel may cut with the Peacekeepers, Crais will never honor it. Rygel, however, is unmoved, as he's christened himself a "Dominar of action." It may sound a little grand, but I'm sure Moya's commodes would agree.
Cut to the Peacekeeper command ship, where Crais and Scorpius are wondering about the meaning of the single unarmed transport's approach. Scorpius wonders if there are any other ships out there, but Crais answers that the only one is their own Marauder, with "the alien girl you adopted." Scorpius asks if Crais has found the security officer assigned to watch her. Hee. It's too bad we never see M'Lee again; I was kind of expecting in a future episode to see Scorpius sic her on some hapless enemy while languidly singing "The shin bone's connected to the…knee bone!" I think even the Lord would have liked that. Anyway, Crais ignores the question in favor of going back to wondering what Rygel's up to.