Episode Report Card Strega: A | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Bank Shot
By Strega | Season 2 | Episode 19 | Aired on 01.04.2001
A transport leaves Moya. Aeryn and Crichton hurry down a corridor as Pilot reports that D'Argo won't respond to their signals. Aeryn declares, "We're taking the Prowler."
The Prowler flies through a cityscape that looks like an Ewok village as directed by Ridley Scott. They fly over the depository. Its base is shaped like a Star of Lakshmi. Which is funny, if that's intentional. Actually, it's funny even if it isn't intentional. And then there's the obligatory spooky, spiny tower. Crichton says, "That's big." Aeryn offers a mild correction: "It's very big."
Aeryn and Crichton enter the depository. Even in the Uncharted Territories, all bank lobbies look about the same. There are various oddly-dressed creatures milling about, arguing with tellers. Across the room, D'Argo walks past some pillars. Then we see a guy with a remarkably square chin snap, "Don't forget who I am!" The person he's talking to has a fairly unremarkable chin. She's made up for that deficiency by turning herself into a replica of one of Giger's "Li" paintings. Her name's actually Natira, though. She tells Square-Jaw, "I haven't. You're nobody here." Aeryn and Crichton watch as Natira pushes Square-Jaw against a wall seductively. Only instead of Square-Jaw, Crichton sees Scorpius. Crichton pulls Aeryn back behind a decorative room divider and hisses, "Scorpius!" Aeryn sighs that he's having visions again. Crichton takes another look and grunts, "Sorry about that." As they move on, Aeryn sighs, "And we're worried about D'Argo..."
They stroll through a gate, and suddenly an alarm sounds and lights flash. Aeryn and Crichton pull out their guns as several leather-clad guards order them to hand over their weapons. Seriously outnumbered, they do so, and a bald bank clerk named Akkor asks what they're doing here. Crichton declares that the security is very good. He tells Akkor, "This is a depository, right? We have something to deposit." Akkor asks why he should care. Considering its a bank for criminals, Akkor's awfully fussy. Crichton asks if they've ever heard of KFC. He explains, "It is, to my knowledge, unique in the universe, and unique is always valuable." In the background, D'Argo fiddles with a control panel as Crichton continues, "We have managed to procure all eleven secret ingredients." His spiel is interrupted when someone shouts that there's been a security breach. Akkor turns to see a door sliding open and D'Argo not-at-all-stealthily ducking through it. Guards rush over, and D'Argo manages to take out a couple before they knock him to the floor. The guards haul D'Argo to his feet, and D'Argo harrumphs, "I was told the security here was weak. I was right. The security here is frelled!" He swats another guard down and is then knocked unconscious. Natira, who has the fiercest boots ever, toddles over and murmurs, "Luxans can be inartful at love, inadequate at war, and intrinsically inept. But this one is intelligent." Hey, see what she did, with the "in-" words? That's enough to make me like her, even apart from the boots. A guard asks if they should execute him, but she coos, "He also expects to be interrogated. Don't you?" D'Argo stiffly tells her his name. I think he would have gone on to announce his rank and serial number, except he remembered that he doesn't have those things. Natira chuckles that they can't disappoint him. D'Argo is hauled up again, and the head guard sucker-punches him. Natira turns and watches as Crichton and Aeryn edge away.