Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Reality Bites
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 13 | Aired on 07.22.1999
... and, Unity. All seems to be going well until Crichton recoils at seeing the depths of Zhaan's soul. Crichton shivers in fear, but Zhaan calmly instructs him not to absorb any of her rage. She thinks it's time to separate, as she doesn't know how much longer she can shield him, but he insists that she look at the way he sees her. The Music of All's Right With The World swells as Crichton tells her all the beautiful things he sees in her. Zhaan takes in what Crichton's telling her...
... and then they suddenly break apart and fall to the floor. Crichton's okay, but Zhaan takes a few moments to come back to consciousness. She eventually sits part of the way up and looks at Crichton with red eyes, but he exhorts her to fight her demons, and her eyes start to go back and forth between blue and red. She then collapses again, and Crichton moves to her and puts her head in his lap. She slowly opens her eyes again, and they're blue. They both look like they're going to cry as she thanks him, but it could be because of the swelling of the overwrought music again. Still, awwww. That was nice.
Crichton's hacking away at the Sanctity Root with a small axe as Zhaan tells him that the memory of Unity is transitory. Tahleen and the other SAG Delvians rush up, and Tahleen focuses her powers on Crichton, but Zhaan blocks her assault and informs her enemy that thanks to Unity with Tahleen, she's now a tenth level Pa'u, and as such has the power to protect. I guess her hit points are going to go up too. (Like you're surprised I'm a geek?) With Tahleen no longer a threat, Crichton finishes his assault on the root, and the room starts to shake. Tahleen turns to Zhaan and pleadingly tells her they want the same things. Zhaan gives a long response that can be summed up as, "Um, not." She leaves the room, and Crichton, after stopping to exchange a warm touchy goodbye with Lorana, follows.
But first, Zhaan has to go through the motions of leaving her Pa'u vestments behind, as she feels she's no longer worthy of them. If murdering her lover wasn't enough to make her ditch them, I'm not sure why this would put her over the edge, but logic is a rare commodity in this part of the galaxy, along with other qualities such as "sanity" and "non-Muppetness." Anyway, Zhaan tells Crichton that she is a once and future, but not present, Pa'u. Crichton opines that it's a shame to waste all those cycles of training, but Zhaan demurs, saying they weren't a waste, but the best cycles of her life. Given that they were spent in prison, if I were Crichton, I'd take that as an insult. That is, if I were Crichton but had at least the intelligence of an average human. (Okay, I'll really stop now, but only because it's the end of the recap.) See you next time!