Episode Report Card Strega: A | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Bank Shot
By Strega | Season 2 | Episode 19 | Aired on 01.04.2001
An extremely vexed Scorpius hauls Crichton up and hisses, "You cannot let me die, any more than I can sacrifice you." Crichton gasps, "I think I'll give it a shot." Scorpius shoves the briefcase at Crichton and gasps, "Save me." Crichton moans, "No," and twitches horribly as he reluctantly pulls the cooling rod out. Scorpius tells him to insert the new rod and then collapses against Crichton's chest, gasping, "Insert the rod." Ahem. Crichton shivers some more, and you know, this is such a scenery-chewing bit, but Browder does sell it. His eyes tear up and he gasps, "You're really not my type!" Then he shoves Scorpius away and falls the ground himself as he shouts, "Die, you grotesque bastard!" He adds, "Even if it means I die, too." He drops the glow-stick to the floor as Scorpius spits out, "Neither one of us can die!" Crichton pulls himself across the floor, loudly singing "The Star Spangled Banner," to block Scorpius's orders. As he slides away, we see Scorpius struggling to reach the glow-stick on the floor, about a foot out of reach. We move into a close-up as Scorpius gets within a few inches of it, and then his arm spasms. Well, I'm totally sure he's dead, aren't you?
Moya. Rygel and Chiana are looking over the ingots in the containers as Rygel, wearing a different robe in a nice bit of continuity, gloats, "We are rich!" Zhaan reminds him that they agreed to rescue Jothee before dividing the loot. Rygel sighs, "Let's all pretend we're not thinking how ill-advised that covenant was." Stark apologizes to Zhaan for panicking. Since Zhaan wasn't there to see it, she finds it easy to forgive him. But then D'Argo pops in to give Stark his support, too. As Chiana busies herself with all the loot, D'Argo tells her, "I'm about to see my son, and that tortured being there is the one who's made it possible." Chiana asks, "What about your other tortured friend?" D'Argo says that friends support each other unconditionally, which I'm not sure is true. Chiana offers, "They also forgive one another." The strengths of this episode are also kind of its weakness, because there's been so much going on for the past half hour that it takes a second before I think, "Oh, right, D'Argo felt betrayed because Crichton didn't go along with his plan."
Crichton is sitting on the floor in Command, looking very small. Aw. Aeryn walks up to him and he tells her, "It was real. I didn't imagine it." She sits down next to him and asks what he means. He quietly says that Scorpius was in his head. "And it was hard, letting him die. There's still a part of me that wishes I'd saved him." Poor Aeryn thinks logic is going to help, and points out that Scorpius wanted to slice up Crichton's brain. Crichton huddles up, clutching his legs. He needs a hug! And a blanket. And some tea. And a few years of intensive therapy. He looks down and quaveringly mumbles into his knees, "Aeryn, I, um, meant what I said...didn't say." Aeryn frowns for second at her crazy boyfriend, and then pulls him over so that his head rests on her shoulder. She strokes his hair and looks sad, but determined, as she says, "I know." He has a nice neck.