Episode Report Card Strega: A | 8 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT Bank Shot
By Strega | Season 2 | Episode 19 | Aired on 2001.01.05
In med bay, Stark's making a rapid recovery, judging by the rate at which he's babbling. I don't think he was dying at all; I think he's just a drama queen. He pulls out some papers and hands them to D'Argo, who gratefully says, "What is this dren?" Let's work on the people skills a little, D'Argo. Zhaan tries to calm Stark down, and Crichton asks how Stark survived dispersal. While Zhaan tenderly removes the cloth covering his face, Stark lectures, "This body is only a molecular creation, which enables me to live in your realm. It's merely a vessel for my true, incorporeal self." Crichton blinks and says, "You wanna run that by me one more time?" Stark basically says that he's got spooky magical powers that don't make sense if you think about them for a minute, and he used them to get the plans he just handed D'Argo. Moving on! Zhaan fastens Stark's mask around his head as Rygel arrives, late to the exposition. Stark explains that D'Argo's son will be sold in a lot of 10,000 slaves. He holds up a sheet and identifies it as the blueprints for a depository. Chiana excitedly asks, "Are we gonna rob a bank?" Stark, almost as excited, says that they are. Zhaan, ever the killjoy, says that she can't rob people. Chiana chuckles, "Sure you can." Aeryn watches, looking a bit bored, as Stark explains that it's a bank for criminals, so the money is pre-stolen. Rygel identifies this as a "Shadow Depository," which sounds much cooler than "bank." He tells Stark, "So, you are insane." He catches up quickly. Aeryn says that Shadow Depositories are heavily armed. Stark agrees, and then displays a handful of plastic cards and says, "With these I can control the internal depository door motion detectors." He says he's got blueprints of the entire place, and goes in for the kill by saying, "In one container is enough wealth to buy an entire shipment of slaves and still have enough left over to make all of us filthy rich forever." Crichton asks how Stark got the plans, and Stark waffles, "I...helped the deposit designer cross over to death. His last thoughts led me to these." Crichton gets in Stark's face and asks if he killed the guy. Stark says, "Not exactly." Aeryn asks if Stark knows exactly how well-armed the depository is. Stark confesses that he doesn't. D'Argo figures they should go take a look in person. Aeryn and Crichton think the whole thing is nuts. D'Argo harrumphs, "Chiana, it's just you, me and Stark." But Chiana hesitates, and D'Argo says, "You're against me, too." He turns back to Crichton and says, "When you asked me to do something, did I ever question if it was possible?" And then he calls them all cowards and storms out.