Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Bass
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 17 | Aired on 02.13.2003
"When we come back, we will meet Officer Aeryn Sun, rumored within many circles to be John Crichton's lover." Video footage of Aeryn; John continues to drink. "This alien, who looks remarkably human, will reveal a side of herself that you may find disturbing." The camera zooms in tightly on Aeryn's face as she admits that she looks like a human, which...something. "Please stay with us as Alien Visitation continues."
Commercial, and it does. R. Wilson Monroe sits on a stage with Aeryn Sun, wearing black, her hair down and straight, her manner perturbed. "Earth is under no threat from the Peacekeepers," she grits. Monroe protests. "Look. If you were to make a pact with an enemy...then perhaps." She needed to watch more TV. John's face is reflected on the screen, behind Aeryn. "So the possibility exists that your people one day would attack?" She sighs and laughs -- Monroe's not doing his best to make us look smart. Or well-intentioned. "Why are you so determined to twist this into something it's not?" Because, he says, she's an admitted soldier an alien army. "You look human, indistinguishable to the naked eye." How could any of us know there aren't thousands of Peacekeepers roaming the planet, preparing for destruction? Homeland Security: when you start looking at people and pretending they're not people, everything looks like the enemy. Anybody could be anything. She says John must have explained the PK situation and he shakes his head: "We need to hear it from you." Hear what? That Earth is sacrosanct? That your perfect isolation can somehow be restored? Is that it? When the veil breaks you can't fault them for fearing; she's wrong about that. The correct response to a breach is terror and a quick response. What's on the tip of tongue is that hatred is not the correct response, but she doesn't know about that yet. "Look...you're not a threat. Technologically speaking, you're not even a potential ally, so..." -- she sighs, fucking this up just so bad by being the one thing you can't be: honest -- "if someone wanted to enslave you, if they wanted to destroy you, could it be done? Quite simply, yes." She shrugs and smiles, and the image freezes.
"The reason you have not seen that interview before is because it was held back, after requests from both our own government and the United Nations Secretary-General. Tonight, we have our first look at over one hundred and twenty hours of previously unseen videotape on the aliens. Tonight, you have the chance to see portions of this material, along with comments from various experts and leaders." But first, he introduces Cousin Bobby, who comes onstage nervous and smiling. Bobby explains about John being his uncle, and how he stayed with the aliens and John and his mom in Florida for "a couple of weeks." He insists that the aliens are "normal, just like you and me," but of course Monroe's not feeling that. "Some more than others," Bobby admits. "Did you ever feel threatened?" No. "Did you ever get a sense that there was a conspiracy between them?" No way. In the asking of the question there's the other answer to the question, and that is journalism. "So why did you and your family wait so long to make these tapes public?" Because everybody wigged out, and "all these weird accusations" were surfacing, and Olivia and her son decided to let the tapes out: "...That it was best to help everyone not be afraid."
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