Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Right Now I'm A Race Car
By Jacob Clifton | Season 1 | Episode 4 | Aired on 04.08.1999
Zhaan comes to Kyr and offers her comm badge, affixed to her wrist, through the bars of his cell: "Your leader wishes to speak with you." I love how she's just arbitrarily over Kyr ("Bored of feeding my ego with your junkie bullshit! Next!") Kyr reports to Bekhesh, who asks if they have any money or riches or, you know, food. Or anything cool. He looks at Zhaan, hard. "I won't lie for you." It's an interesting moment, because it's that potlatch reversal thing: we would all assume that he's supposed to say yes, so when Zhaan tells him to tell the truth, she's not being manipulative, she's actually being real. Tell the truth; they can deal. But it also means that when Kyr does tell the truth, he's making the choice. "It's pathetic. They have no riches and all I've had to eat is food cubes." Bekhesh asks if they're forcing this reply, and asks if they're mistreating Kyr, and offers to slaughter everybody if he's not being treated well. "No..." he says, looking into Zhaan's eyes. "In fact, they've been trying to help me." This does not compute with Bekhesh, and Kyr's like, "Yeah, I don't know either." Zhaan turns off her comm, and gives him one of her patented holy smiles. "Perhaps I like to offer choices." Especially when people validate my mystique!
Bekhesh stares at John, I guess -- it's hard to say with the eyeholes -- and John's like, "If you don't believe me, start shooting, because we're done here," and drops his gauntlet onto the grass. He twitches a little bit due to the withdrawal and the horrible needles. "It's been so long since anyone's told me the truth, I don't recognize it anymore." Oh, cry to me, you old bitch. He kicks the bag over to John, who opens up the sack and asks Rygel quietly about the crystal. Rygel takes umbrage because of course they wouldn't come down just for him. Rygel's really gross and dirty right now because of the mud. John investigates him and Rygel says, sneakily, "It's safe and sound." John calls Rygel "Fluffy" for the first time, but demonstrates he's seen enough of this show to know that bodily functions are about to come into play, so whatever, let's get back to the Adrenaline Twins, because obviously you swallowed the crystal, because you are gross.
"Well? Am I to live, or die?" asks D'Argo, and Aeryn "jokes" that he's going to die, "but not today," she smiles, leaning in and showing him her hand, with the clear blood on it. Ha ha! Rygel and John bitch at each other as they approach. I love how over one act basically took place with something in a sack, bitching in VO, which the actors all pretended was a person. Now he's just wrapped in John Crichton's intense arms. John arrives, and immediately his eyes roll back and he drops. On top of Rygel. DRINK!
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