Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT A Kiss Before Dying
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 20 | Aired on 01.13.2000
Nice cut to everything deep inside Crais being forcibly and painfully extracted. Scorpius focuses in on Crais's father, and asks who he is. Crais tells him the truth, and begs him to turn the machine off. That's not happening, as Niem reports that he's hiding something. Scorpius smiles at Crais's pain.
Aeryn makes her way into a populated hallway. A Peace-trooper salutes her deferentially, which pleases her. Not in the "Ooh, I remember that fondly" way that would squick you out, though.
Gilina packs up her case and heads out of the room she first led Crichton and Chiana to. As she walks out, though, a hand reaches out and presses her against the wall. The voice attached to the hand asks if there's surveillance in the cell, and when Gilina answers negatively, Aeryn reveals herself. She enters and takes a seat, undoubtedly exhausted from all the effort, and thanks Gilina for saving her life. Gilina, perhaps feeling strange about getting gratitude from her suspected romantic rival, asks Aeryn what she's doing there, as her recovery should have taken at least ten days. Aeryn duhs that she didn't have that time to spare, and quickly ascertains where Crichton is. She gets up to go, but Gilina sits her back down and tells her there's no way to get to him without a direct order from Scorpius. Gilina goes on to inform Aeryn about Crichton's memory games, and tells her that when Scorpius learns for sure that Crichton has no knowledge of wormholes, he'll kill him. I can only wonder how many times in the future Crichton will wish it had turned out that simply.
Zhaan and D'Argo continue their work of planting explosives and hiding them under rocks to counter the Peacekeepers potentially coming up through "the level risers." Zhaan then says she always wanted to ask him about his Qualta blade, as for a warrior, it seems a "very unconventional weapon." Perhaps, but for a lion with tentacles all over his face, it couldn't be more fitting. D'Argo tells her that many cycles ago, there was a race worse than the Peacekeepers, called the "Teloks." They laid siege to the Luxan home world for over a hundred days, and when the final assault came, all the Luxans had were Qualta blades. "My own great-grandfather died in that war. When the final days come, Luxans believe that the Qualta blade will lead us to freedom." Zhaan says she understands, and apologizes for her curiosity, which seems odd, since I didn't get any sense from D'Argo that he was offended by the question. D'Argo tells her that there's one other thing: "My Qualta blade and I can cut stones for you." Zhaan looks at him all, "I don't know that you needed to be that grand about it, but sure, knock yourselves out."