Episode Report Card Keckler: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Bloody, Murder-Colored Mem'ries
By Keckler | Season 2 | Episode 5 | Aired on 04.13.2000
Aeryn says, with more than an edging of pride in her voice, that they never got Velorek to talk. They never learned what he did to sabotage Crais' experiment. "But I think I know now. It was Crais' project to impregnate a Leviathan, Moya," Aeryn says. "To breed a Peacekeeper-Leviathan warship," Crichton supplies. Aeryn nods. From wherever they are, they can see Pilot's big ass head moving around in the shadows below. Crichton realizes that Velorek created a shield to prevent conception. A Leviaphragm, as it were. "The shield that D'Argo accidentally shattered," Aeryn finishes.
D'Argo, Zhaan, and Chiana fiddle around with controls and things. Moya lurches. Zhaan says even if they can communicate with Moya, she can't actually do anything on her own. "Just my luck -- out of all the Leviathans in the universe, I end up with one with a second-string pilot," Chiana babbles. Shut up, Chiana. Zhaan points out that they have no way of knowing if Moya's first pilot was any better. Since the first pilot was crazy-insane Noranti and the second is crazy-murderous-insane Crais, I think they might have been better off with number one?
Pilot contemplates his detached navel. Aeryn and Crichton jump down from the ceiling, landing squarely in front of him. Pilot mutters something in his pilot-y tongue, and the DRDs start shooting. Crichton and Aeryn fire back, and I think they actually take out some of the DRDs, which makes me really sad, because the DRDs remind me of cats. Laser-firing metal cats. With wheels. Crichton and Aeryn approach Pilot, rudely shining a flashlight right in his face, which of course is the BEST way to get an wrathful, unstable, RIPPING HIS OWN GUTS OUT pilot to calm down. Aeryn won't leave, they need to talk. "Or what? You'll blast me into pieces like you did the pilot who used to sit here? Stay away from me!" Pilot bellows. Aeryn leaps up, her gun aimed at Pilot's face, yelling, "Tell me now, Pilot, or I swear I'll --" Crichton says her name, just once, and she stops. Crichton tries to make Pilot see reason. If he stays disconnected from Moya, he'll starve. Pilot bitingly points out that what they're really worried about is that if Moya isn't regulated, their life support systems won't function properly. Crichton reasons that Moya is probably scared by Pilot's disappearing consciousness. Pilot doesn't care, he thinks Moya will be better off without him. Aeryn slowly and deliberately drops her gun to the floor. It bounces heavily. Aeryn says that the recording brought back memories that neither of them wanted to recall. She knows she deserved to die for what she did and if Pilot wants to kill her, she won't stop him. All Aeryn wants is for Pilot to spare the others and himself. Pilot slowly says that he's the one who deserves to die, not her. "Okay, so you're not Moya's original pilot -- you replaced her, you can't blame yourself for that," Crichton says. Pilot says he didn't just replace the old pilot.