Episode Report Card Sobell: A | 2 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT "Can I Get A 'Hell, Yeah'?"
By Sobell | Season 3 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2001.03.16
Crichton sits up and lauds Stark for his sage advice, asking how he knew it would work. Stark replies, "I didn't. It just sounded good." Crichton's all, "Oooh-kay then. Not listening to the freaky bald dude anymore!" He's itching to pay the bill and get going. Stark is all, "At last! I can return to my proper place -- clinging to Zhaan's skirts like a moist and sticky toddler!"
Greenschlick lurches outside, calling for the Scarran. He's all, "So! No Scorpius here, but we do have John Crichton. Will you take that?" The Scarran replies, "Scorpius seems obsessed with him. We want to know why." Greenschlick merrily inquires," Why don't you ask him? He's in the surgery room, recovering. He'll confuse you with the insurance policy auditor." The Scarran begins to interrogate Greenschlick, and we cut to Scorpius mouthing the dialogue, assuring the Scarran that everything's on the up-and-up. After the Q&A's wrapped up, the Scarran grabs Greenschlick by the throat and thrusts him into the empty cryogenic pod, explaining, "I might have use for you later." Greenschlick's frozen in mid-scream. It's too bad Stark's not around to see it -- he would consider it just desserts.
Scorpius is like, "Okay! On to phase two!" He gives Sergeant Major Good-looking a name -- Offier Kobrin -- and there's some back and forth about needing to get to the carrier without getting blown to pieces by a sulky adolescent Leviathan. Kobrin confidently assures Scorpius he can do it because he's got mad pilot skillz -- "My last rating was nine-nine-one, sir. Highest active pilot ranking."
Stark had found Zhaan; she had evidently meditated her way to inner peace by parking herself in front of Aeryn's coffin. And how fortunate for all of us that she did -- Aeryn's only mostly dead. Stark points out that he can't hear Aeryn's voice, and "If her soul's not fled entirely, it's much too far to be reached. Even the attempt would be dangerous." Zhaan steels herself, agrees insincerely, "Yes, you're probably right," then rears back and clocks him.
Cut to the creepy, creepy Scarran running around. I tell you, he's what Velociraptor would have evolved into, given enough millennia.
Back in the operating theatre, Crichton's testing his ability to enunciate; he quietly recites, "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" while D'Argo tries to raise the rest of Team Moya via his comlink. We then hear D'Argo's tinny inquiry as Zhaan drags Stark's unconscious body. It is wrong, wrong, wrong of me to enjoy that whole knocking-him-out thing, isn't it?