Episode Report Card Strega: B+ | 9 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT The Princess Bride
By Strega | Season 2 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2000.07.28
Crichton, Katralla, and Ro-Na are all splayed out in a hallway, wheezing. Katralla moans, "I doubted you. I'm sorry." Crichton croaks, "S'all right. Just the burden of being right all the time." Katralla says that she'll marry him. So I guess the news that her fiancee isn't a liar balances out knowing that her own life is in danger now.
A close up of the defused death globe. The Empress tells Rygel, "John Crichton may not leave this planet. But I will protect him." Rygel snickers at the protection she's provided so far, and the Empress snits that the death globe wasn't detected because it's new to them. That's not at all reassuring, Empress. Rygel says that it's probably a Scarran weapon. The Empress gets huffy about accusations against Clavor, and Rygel sighs, "Aren't we past that, Novia? You posture and deny any longer and we both lose what we want." Rygel proposes hiding Crichton somewhere until they figure out what's going on -- since Moya hasn't turned up, he can't escape. The Empress ponders, and mentions that the Jakent -- Ro-Na's race -- has a transport full of wedding gifts in orbit. They can stash Crichton on it. Rygel suggests that they tell no one about the plan. "Let them all think that Crichton has disappeared." The Empress mysteriously figures that this will encourage the assassins to be careless. Without anyone to assassinate, how careless can the plotters be? Are they gonna start running around stabbing behind curtains at random, just in case Crichton's there? Rygel and the Empress feel pretty smug about the plan, so I guess that's all that matters. Rygel asks if the Empress trusts Ro-Na, and the Empress firmly declares, "With my secrets and my life. Ro-Na will not betray us." Well, I think we all know what that means...