Episode Report Card Jacob: A+ | 7 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Agnus Dei
By Jacob | Season 2 | Episode 22 | Aired on 2001.01.26
The scariest word in the Uncharted Territories: the word that takes one star and draws a thousand charts around it. The word that creates in its utterance, in the wake it leaves behind, a cartography for the unchartable. The word that creates in its utterance its opposite: a dichotomy, the word imputing fear and loss into that unchartable equation forever. Where before there was chaos, take zero and add two, and now there is certainty: now they have a way to get you. Now they know your heart. Another word for "hope" is "choices," the one thing she didn't have before she met him. That's how she found hope.
We see Harvey now; Aeryn sees only John. "I would be lost without you," John murmurs. And she responds: "Then you'll never be lost." The head on the shoulder, from "A Human Reaction," when they found each other; foreheads touching, more intimate than a kiss. The litany of their love, every signal they've ever given, and he turns it into something sour and ugly. She smiles slightly and looks up at his mouth; he rests his forehead on hers. "No matter what happens, you have...worked your way into my heart." And she looks up at him, so full of light and love. So much more. "You've shown me that I have one." He takes her face in his hands, voice ever softer, his cheek against hers, his nose and her brow. "I love you." And she leans in for the kiss: "I love you, too."
John slams her head against the wall behind her and pulls her in, unconscious now. John smells her. "Mmm. You are so my girl." He licks her sleeping face from her nose to her forehead, slowly. I don't know how to do this.
Crais stands in Talyn's command, intensely carrying on a conversation with him although we can only understand half of it. "Officer Sun cannot be blackmailed or enticed. If she is to join us, it would have to be of her own volition. If she joins us freely, we will tell her the truth." A strange signal begins to play; Crais demands Talyn find the source, and "play it loud!" We head up into the overhead lights of Talyn's command, the screen bursting with white.