Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Till The Suck Runs Out
By Jacob Clifton | Season 1 | Episode 11 | Aired on 07.08.1999
John and Aeryn hang in the warehouse, Aeryn still tech-tinkering with the beacon: "How long do you think your ruse is going to work?" Not long, but hopefully long enough for the Farscape One to get fixed. "You know, you're taking this pretty well. I figured you'd be killing yourself by now." Seriously. She shrugs. "It's necessary." She asks how the alpha plan occurred to him. "Hunch. My Dad had a couple of Dobermans." Not translated. "Dogs? They're pack animals. The biggest, baddest dog gets to be the alpha male. The leader." Which, Aeryn points out, is ironic: John's neither the biggest nor the baddest. Not compared to the Vorcarians, not compared to anything. "Yeah, well, they don't know that. Any sign of submission and you're lunch." Aeryn snits: "I showed no sign of submission." And John tells the ugly dog truth. "You didn't have to. You're a female." She gives him a scorcher and he apologizes. "I don't make the rules." But he sure is familiar with them, she grumbles. I get her point, and the point of writing that line, but on the other hand, Peacekeeper males wear stupid ponytails and eyeliner, so shut it. It's not exactly unflattering to humans -- or dogs -- that she doesn't understand these stupid rules.
Aeryn fiddles with the beacon and then stands up, at the ready. Crais reappears: "Your personal encoding sequence is accepted." Interested, John comes around behind her to watch. "Officer Aeryn Sun, Special Commando, Icarian Company, Pleisar Regiment, currently absent without leave." Unconsciously she stands at attention. You could cry for her. Were this an actual episode. "Crais is sending you love letters?" She nods: "I suspected as much." Really? I would have figured Braca. "You have committed numerous acts of treason. You cannot hope to avoid us forever. You will be captured; you will face trial, and punishment. Your one hope of avoiding this fate is to accept my conditional amnesty. Abandon the human criminal. Return the Leviathan. Surrender Ka D'Argo, Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan and Dominar Rygel Sixteen. Comply, and you will retire honorably with your commission fully restored. You have my oath as a Peacekeeper." She looks interested at that, although she did sneak a look toward John at "abandon the human." John's like, "Whatever." She breathes, and stares, and watches the empty place where the hologram just was. "Come on! Let's light a fire under Furlow so we can ditch these dogs before the flares go entirely." She doesn't follow him to the door. "Hey, you're not taking him seriously?" She turns sharply, back to Officer Sun once more: "I always take him seriously." That must be difficult.