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
Scorpius looks chagrined, probably that Crichton is putting his life in jeopardy, and tells Braca to pursue, and to alert the base to the possibility of an attack. Braca doesn't really see the urgency, but Scorpius hisses, "Do it!" Get him any more pissed and that electronic voice is going to come out again.Crichton asks how D'Argo's doing. D'Argo: "I have to pee." Hee. They both giggle.
On Moya, Zhaan reports that the Peacekeepers are moving away. Chiana, however, says they don't have enough room to pull off their leave-the-field-and-starburst plan yet, and besides, they have to give Aeryn sufficient time to rescue Crichton and D'Argo. Rygel still wants to go, but Zhaan impatiently shushes him, and then asks Pilot to make sure the baby understands where he has to be in order to be sucked along in the starburst. Pilot assures her he will, and then we linger on an ambiguous-looking Crais.
Scorpius gives his Prowlers a "direct, inviolate order" that the occupants of the transport are to be taken alive. He doesn't add that anyone who screws up will inviolately have his small intestine ripped out through his throat, but they're Peacekeepers. They know.
Crichton and D'Argo bicker a bit, and then D'Argo tells Crichton to arm the kronite shavings. Cut to Aeryn, monitoring them and urging them to get on with it. Pilot reports that the baby isn't responding to his entreaties, and Aeryn suggests that he call him by his name. She wells up just a bit as she goes on, "It's Talyn. It was my father's." I held off mentioning the name to do full justice to Aeryn's reveal there. I think it was worth all the extra letters I had to type.
Braca reports that an explosive device aboard the transport has just been armed. Doesn't it seem inefficient to have Braca running in and out to keep updating Scorpius? I know Scorpius looks imposing in the chair, but you'd think if he wants Crichton that badly, he could stand in front of a tactical display for ten minutes. Scorpius gives props to Crichton for the plan, unhappily musing that if Crichton ignites the oil surface of the moon, they'll have to abandon the base, yet he can't risk destroying the knowledge in Crichton's brain. "And he knows that!" Of course, if Crichton intends to die in the explosion, as it appears, Scorpius should just kill him and save the base, but regardless, he'd probably give a guttural electronic Scarran curse, so it's just as well he does so here.
As the transport approaches the moon, D'Argo and Crichton have finished their preparations, and D'Argo says it's time to go.