Episode Report Card Jacob: A- | 372 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT A Message From the Ministry Of Awesome
By Jacob | Season 4 | Episode 16 | Aired on 2003.02.07
Pilot comms them half a minute -- half a minute for so much pain -- until the warship comes close enough to identify them. Scorpius gasps into comms that he's temporarily patched the sensor distorter in, and Pilot nods, feeling his options. Sikozu: "A Scarran ore freighter, and mimic its movements." Pilot engages the order.
D'Argo watches John staring down at the bioloid, its face still bubbling and popping. Sikozu opens the Scarran hail, and D'Argo orders her to answer it, which she does, sounding only slightly uncomprehending. The warship breaks off and wanders away. Sikozu and D'Argo sigh with relief; John's lost to them now. "What did you say to them?" She tells him that she said they noticed a Leviathan starbursting in, and they were afraid it was going to board them, so she thanked them for scaring it away. D'Argo grunts and turns away; Sikozu leans on the console and rests her eyes.
John kneels beside her, rocks back on his heels. It's not enough to say "I love you," or "Honesty from here on out." The lies will get you. Even if you think you're over it, you're not. There's some part of you that still sees her as an imposter. Sikozu digs through her guts and hands Chiana the homing device from Aeryn's brain. "That device confining Grayza was not meant to transport her," she realizes, and Scorpius comms in from the Cluster. "No, it replicates living flesh. We've known about it for some time, but never encountered the result." Chiana peers down into Aeryn's head. "Effective technique," D'Argo notes. "No rescue attempt, while they're at their leisure to torture Grayza." "Then why did they take Aeryn?" asks Noranti, while Sikozu fritzes out in the background, all of a sudden feeling very close to Aeryn indeed -- "I got away, she got caught." Noranti wonders if maybe they thought the Aeryn would bring back Grayza. "Or Crichton," Scorpius suggests. D'Argo murmurs Sikozu's name, and she looks up at him, nods, and leaves him alone with John.
"You okay?" John is not. "You know...it's not Aeryn." John stares. "It was never Aeryn." D'Argo lays it out. "We're not gonna give up on her, John. Sikozu said the Scarrans are taking Grayza to a place called Katratzi. Maybe that's where Aeryn is now." John stares past the bioloid into the sky: "She could be anywhere out there." D'Argo promises they're not letting her go, and gives him a smile of support. John, alone, turns back toward the body.