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
"Pull yourself together," he says, shaking her; she begs him to let her go. Now, he stares at the still image; Sikozu on Earth, half hidden in silver. Then, she screams at him: "You! You shoot me!" The Noranti that Rygel could be gets a reprieve as he turns his gun on Stark. "Shoot! Now!" He asks her again if she'll come back. She will. Stark always does. She looks up into light. "Katratzi."
John turns to Sikozu, who's too stunned by John's weirdness. She mouths, "What?" He turns back to the screen. Aeryn speaks, out of time, out of nothingness: "I believe Katratzi to be some sort of base, highly guarded. They wouldn't have taken Grayza anywhere less secure." Stark screams the name. John stares at the TV, tears running down his face. The hope he's held onto was a dream, a fantasy, a reality unrealized. The hope dies.
The hope surges into life. Tears running down his face as he realizes what he must do, he apologizes to Sikozu, who blinks. "Sumbitch deserves an Emmy," he says, and turns off the TV. His face goes cold, the edge of a knife. He stands, sniffling, and looks at Sikozu. But there's nothing to say.
John walks into Pilot's den: "Do you still know the location of that wormhole to Earth?" He does, he admits hesitantly. "Could you set a course, please?" This with the hysteria, that tired edge of a person out of his depth. Pilot stalls: "I'll...have to ask the Captain." D'Argo enters, still so sympathetic; still so frightened for his friend. "D'Argo? Aeryn." D'Argo stares at him: "Wormholes? Earth? What?" John can't explain; they've already had a conversation twice the size you'd think, from the words on the page. "Look, it's complicated." D'Argo regards him, and whispers. "I understand that." He raises his voice again and addresses Pilot, who knows that tone in D'Argo's voice all too well. "I need not remind you that Moya is now phobic regarding wormholes..." John promises that they won't have to go all the way, still hysterical and begging. "Just get me close enough so that I can make it in my module!" D'Argo's confused: "You're not going back to Earth!" No, he says, he's not. "It's complicated." He looks at D'Argo, pleading.
"We need to maintain clarity of thought, healthy skepticism, and aggressive inquisitiveness. To that end, we at this network call upon the government to release all files pertaining to Officer Schelmacher's allegations of past visitation, and any other related matter. When the aliens return -- and they will -- we also urge an aggressive quarantine until the true nature of their presence is ascertained. Recall that the same extraterrestrials we behold with wonder, as they learn our language and dance to our music, also bear weapons, as well as potential illness, which could destroy us. Alien visitation is a reality. They've been here once, and we seem to have dodged the bullet. The truth is, can we be as certain the next time?"
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