Episode Report Card Keckler: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Inherit Rygel's Wind
By Keckler | Season 2 | Episode 8 | Aired on 06.22.2000
Chiana watches Zhaan's arresting cop drink and bitches how he'll get promoted for this collar. Rygel wonders what's wrong with the cop's face. Okay, good, answers finally. "He's got blue eyes," the bartender non-explains. So? "There was a dual full moon the other night," bartender still non-explains. "Really?" Chiana says, catching on. "Litigarans with blue eyes usually stay inside," the bartender finally explains. "That's what burned his face," Chiana exposits for us. So, he got...moonburn? Okay, fine. Chiana thinks this cop might know a thing or two that might be worth their knowing as well, so she trots off to make a new friend. The bartender smiles. "I'm going to end up defending them both," Rygel grumbles. Chiana stands with her usual spread-leg seductiveness in front of the cop, who isn't that impressed. He isn't going to help her with her case. Chiana plays up that's not why she's there, besides he's already testified and they're going to enter a guilty plea the next day.
Rygel talks to the bartender about a concept mentioned in The Axiom called "The Light of Truth." Apparently, back in the day, the Litigarans believed that when a burning torch was held up to someone testifying, it would burn brighter if they were guilty. Rygel muses that he doesn't need to know if someone is lying, he just needs something that will let him lie. Okay, but he can actually lie, right? There's no burning torch in the court -- nothing to prove they're lying? Meanwhile, Chiana's getting on very well with her cop. She's on his lap now. Rygel looks over and mutters, "Blue-eyed, red-faced, sack of --" Something strikes him. He shoves over a photograph in a plastic evidence baggie and asks the bartender if that's the murdered guy. The bartender picks up the baggie and nods, choking back emotion.
Back in court, Chiana's nursing a hangover. Rygel nudges her and says he needs her awake since Zhaan's "off in some happy place." Chiana rasps that she already told him everything the cop told her and no one will notice if her head's on the table. Rygel plunks down some Nashtin cleansing pills for her to take at specific intervals.
Court is back in session, and Chiana jumps around, speed talks, and generally has a Jessie Spano caffeine pill freakout. Rygel finally groans and asks to have a word with Chiana. Chiana giggles over to her co-counsel and hops on the table. Rygel confirms that Chiana took all three cleansing pills at once, and he takes over the questioning. He gets the forensics expert to confirm that there was a dual full moon on the night of the murder and also that certain Litigarans don't go out those nights because of the painful moonburn. Apparently, this planet doesn't stock MPF-45 at their corner Lawgreens.