Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT A Kiss Before Dying
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 20 | Aired on 01.13.2000
The firefight continues. Crichton turns Stark's question around, and the answer is the memory of a place he saw when he was a boy. Crichton: "Must have been one hell of a place." I'd imagine, yes. D'Argo tosses a charge the Peacekeepers' way, which detonates to their disadvantage.
Chiana reports that she's unable to make the cut. Pilot tells her that Moya is trying to control the child, but his weapon is primed to fire. Chiana has an idea -- let the weapon fire on a low blast level. Pilot's unsure, but Chiana says it's the only way, as if they don't get the kid out, he'll destroy Moya's bulkhead.
Zhaan, D'Argo, and Aeryn make it to a position of relative safety. Crichton sticks an explosive on a support beam, and he and Stark move before the charge explodes.
Chiana's trying to get to safety before the weapon fires. She makes it back into one of Moya's corridors just in time to avoid getting her ass burned off. She muses, "That was a low-level blast?" Heh. Pilot reports success -- the child is free, and Moya is okay. For someone who just gave birth to the Death Star, that is.
Crichton, last of his party, backs right into Scorpius. However, Gilina appears and points a pulse rifle at him. Crichton gloatingly smiles and tells Gilina to shoot him, but she hesitates, and Scorpius plugs her right in the gut. Crichton knocks Scorpius away, but misses a very clear shot at him, so he escapes. Crichton picks up Gilina as D'Argo and Stark return to them, and the group makes its escape. Later, Scorpius slowly walks through the wreckage. His expression is inscrutable, but that could be all the makeup.
Pilot is telling the crew, minus Crichton and Zhaan, that before she left the base, Gilina scrambled the scanning data files; even Crais's carrier won't be able to find them now. The bad news is that they can't starburst with the child, and in fact won't be able to travel very far at all. Aeryn asks how Gilina is. Pilot: "Not good." He reports that Moya's child is all right, and a male. D'Argo: "What kind of a beast is he?" The kind that's covered in Peacekeeper colors and is built not to take shit from anyone, if the cut to the viewscreen is any indication.
Crichton is at Gilina's side, telling her to lie still and let Zhaan's medicine do its work, she'll be fine in a little while. She asks him to stop with the lies. Crichton: "I'm not lying." You're doing it again. She tells him that she came back because she had to help him, and that Aeryn was right -- if she'd stayed, she would have been discovered. They would have "found out that I love you." She gasps in pain, and Crichton says Zhaan's name, but she can only give a helpless grimace. Stark's voice cuts in, asking if he can help. He sits at the edge of Gilina's bed, asks if he can give her something, and stretches his hand over her face. "It's a place I once saw. I've been carrying it with me for a very long time." Ooh, is it Everwood? Maybe, as Gilina, apparently seeing it, says it's beautiful. He tells her not to let go of it, and he and Zhaan leave the room. Her voice now reduced to a whisper, Gilina asks if he thinks, if things had been different, if he could have loved her. Crichton is ready not to hesitate on this one as he manages a smile and a yes. She asks him to kiss her one more time. Crichton's barely holding back the tears, but he obliges her. No offense to Stark, but that's the thing I wouldn't let go of. By the time he breaks the contact, she's gone. Sniff. I know her story had nowhere to go, but this is still pretty sad. I mean, the love of this girl's life shows up, and she ends up saving his love interest's life and dying herself. No wonder the Peacekeepers don't believe in that love shit. Crichton looks reasonably devastated, and we're out.