Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 155 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT A Kiss Before Dying
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 20 | Aired on 2000.01.14
Crichton wonders what's keeping Aeryn. Unfortunately, this gives Gilina the opening to discuss the elephant in the crawlspace, and she asks Crichton if he wants to be with Aeryn. Crichton gives an inappropriate laugh and asks if they can talk about the subject another time, but Gilina tells him that if he wants her to go with him and give up everything she knows, he's got to be straight with her. Crichton doesn't say anything, and then Aeryn returns to let him off the hook. She reports that she ran into an old friend, and Crichton leads the way to head for the exit. But Gilina lingers and poses the question to Aeryn, now: Does she want to be with Crichton? Aeryn is more respectful than Crichton, saying that whatever Gilina and Crichton have been discussing is none of her business, but Gilina says that she can't go with them if Crichton is in love with Aeryn. Over Aeryn's protests and admonitions that she at least tell Crichton herself, she says she'll be fine, and takes off. I wonder what the Sebacean idiom for "holding the bag" is.
Niem and Scorpius are by Crais's side, and at least they've turned the machine off. Niem reports the escapee's use of the ident chip, and says they're climbing the air vent to the surface. She offers to burn them out, but Scorpius nixes that, as they need Crichton alive. "We'll take the level risers and beat them to the surface." Good plan -- charge!
Aeryn rejoins Crichton at the entrance to the stairs and breaks the news about Gilina. He has the gall to ask what Aeryn said to her, and maybe we'll all give him a pass here with what he went through, but if I were Aeryn, I'd make a mental note that I owe him a light slap in the face. Crichton starts to double back, but Aeryn firmly tells her that they don't have time for this, and it's what Gilina wants. She gets the door open, and they move.