Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Mothers & Fathers and Brothers & Suns
By Jacob Clifton | Season 1 | Episode 10 | Aired on 06.24.1999
D'Argo turns to Rygel, firing heartbreak and exposition at a mighty and equal rate. "I never had the chance, you were so young I never had the chance to tell out why your mother and I went away from the world that we knew. Jothee, please understand, I had to send you away. I was charged with your mother's murder. Before they arrested me I got you to another planet, safely away to a place where I prayed Macton and others like him would never find you. I had no other choice, but I can't be sure you have remained safe until I see you again. I can't..." John says his name, once, and he responds: "Macton arrested me, he still had her dried blood on his hands." John realizes that Macton was, then, a Peacekeeper, and is horrified but not really surprised, and Zhaan finishes the puzzle: "If he was a Peacekeeper, then Lo'Laan was..."
Think of D'Argo and Aeryn, now. Perched on a tree, calling bullshit on each other. Running around in their roid rage gauntlets, calling each other cowards and worse. D'Argo always wanting to investigate, to attack, and Aeryn always wanting to run, both of them offended and irritated by turns. Think of D'Argo watching Aeryn die in the heat; D'Argo angrily explaining to the Ilanics that Aeryn is family. The work he's done that we didn't even see him do. D'Argo activates a chip and his family appears: a beautiful Sebacean woman holding a cute Luxan child. Lo'Laan and Jothee. "I remember it all." John asks again about the explosion. More knowledge, not less, and the blood runs clear.
Cut to Aeryn in Pilot's den, about to shut down Moya's higher functions: less knowledge, not more. This is vulgar. Zhaan hopes out loud that John can isolate the problem before they take this step. "Be careful, John. You may be going to right in where the particles are most concentrated." Not that they can do anything to him. Aeryn realizes she can't simply "shut down" Moya's intellect: "But I do have access, I can cut the connections." Permanently? She steps back from that. "This isn't my decision alone. If I do this, we all have to be a part of it." John gives the order, even as D'Argo's searching for the PK shield. Realizing the DRDs have already bricked over, he starts kicking holes in the wall. Aeryn starts to cut. John enters the shaft. D'Argo: "What do you see?" John sees infinity. "Then you're close either way." D'Argo talks him through it; John complains that he's running low on oxygen. Aeryn stops cutting: "I'm through the protective casing."