Episode Report Card Strega: B- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT You Know, For Kids
By Strega | Season 2 | Episode 4 | Aired on 04.06.2000
Moya continues past the pretty pulsars as Crichton tells T'raltixx that the pulsars are making everyone nuts. T'raltixx -- having apparently skittered back to where he's supposed to be -- insists that he's never heard of the pulsars affecting people so "drastically." Zhaan's still stretched out happily, wiggling her fingers like maybe she can see trails. Crichton asks why the pulsars don't affect T'raltixx himself, and T'raltixx explains that maybe since he's got no optic neurons to be affected by the light. From the floor, Zhaan urges Crichton just to enjoy the light, and Crichton grumbles, "Yeah, have another one, Blue Girl." Not one of his most creative nicknames. He tells T'raltixx about Zhaan's photogasms and adds, "Unless she's faking it -- they can do that, y'know." Zhaan giggles that she's not faking it. T'raltixx suggests that maybe they should turn back, and Zhaan immediately wakes up and insists that she wants Moya to start going in circles where they are. Crichton, slightly more rationally, notes that they're already past the halfway point, so turning around doesn't make any sense. T'raltixx says that the effects of the pulsars should begin to diminish. Crichton says, "They'd better." Or? Or he'll blow something up, I guess. That's his solution to everything. Just you watch.
Aeryn, rifle in hand, moves through the corridors. She's so pretty. The soundtrack goes, "Ooooh, aaaah," and there's a whizzy noise as well, and one of those sounds causes her to hiss, "Rygel, I know you're down here." She rushes for a vent, pops off the cover, and finds Rygel cowering inside. She grabs him by the neck as he whimpers, "Did D'Argo send you to finish the job?" Hands on the puppet! Aeryn calls him "a coward and a zannet," and adds that, nonetheless, she can trust him because he's too much of a coward to betray her. And too much of a zannet, I presume. Rygel gets as far as "I trust you, too, Aeryn," before she tells him to shut up. Aeryn says that she has a plan, and needs him to watch her back. She, um, cocks her rifle? She does something that makes it click and beep, anyway, and then aims it at Rygel's head and asks if he wants to volunteer.
In what we'll pretend is another corridor, Chiana is consulting D'Argo. She still thinks that Aeryn is hiding a secret message on the beacon. D'Argo takes the idea and runs with it, speculating that Aeryn's trying to turn them all in to Scorpius. Chiana wonders if Aeryn's working with Crichton. D'Argo shakes his head rapidly and exhales, because I guess he wanted to show off his chicken impression just then. He says that they'll have to get off Moya to be safe. Before he can continue that thought, Zhaan walks into view, and Chiana ducks away as she grumps, "You deal with it." D'Argo turns and asks Zhaan what she wants, and she duhs, "More light." D'Argo asks if she's working with Crichton, and Zhaan sneers, "What are you talking about?" and walks away. D'Argo calls her back and, when Zhaan turns, he gives her a tongue-lashing. You know, in that way he does. Zhaan collapses, and Chiana jumps out and boggles. D'Argo says, "She's definitely working with Crichton." Chiana agrees: "Definitely."