Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Till The Suck Runs Out
By Jacob Clifton | Season 1 | Episode 11 | Aired on 07.08.1999
Aeryn fiddles with the beacon some more, Furlow watching as it beeps and does stuff. "You really have no intention of fixing this module anytime soon, have you, Furlow?" Furlow admits it's a lot easier to get her shit done without Boba Fett and Goldeneye and dog people attacking from every direction all the time. Aeryn smiles and offers a deal: "You any good at cyber manipulation?" I don't know what that means; I have Net Nanny. It's better this way, trust me.
John and D'Argo head across the square toward Furlow's; D'Argo will take Old Blindy back on the Prowler and John will meet them back on Moya. Except for the hail of gunfire that hits right then, causing them to duck behind some crates. D'Argo's still covering John. Shooting commences! It's the dog people! Banter! John offers to cover D'Argo so he can get back to the Prowler and D'Argo calls him his "ally" and says he won't abandon John. They shook hands and whatever. "Great! So we can be buried together. I'll deal with this." John swaggers out, thinking he's going to Dog John them again, but they just keep shooting at him, accusing him of switching sides on them.
Aeryn comes walking out of Furlow's, somehow clueless like being blind makes you not hear gunfire, and then there's more shooting, and Aeryn's walking in slo-mo, and John grabs her. She whispers, "Watch," as the beacon goes off. "I am Captain Bialar Crais. The Peacekeeper Command Carrier assigned to recover the three escaped prisoners has been called home on other business. Therefore, the reward offer for the fugitives has been officially withdrawn." I don't like this episode enough to check that all those phonemes were in the original message but I bet they were. Aeryn grins hugely, John stares at her, Rolf and Rorg are ghost like Swayze, problem solved. Episode over? Hell no. John congratulates her on her idea -- although she admits that Furlow did all the work -- and John's like, "You're so awesome but hey, those solar flares, so I can never see you again in this lifetime, okay? Let's get on with that."
Zhaan wanders up at this point to inform them that the flares have stopped, witness her not rolling around and moaning. She has a funny, almost embarrassed grin as she navigates this particular appropriateness minefield, and she assures John there will be other stars with flare activity. "We'll find them." He whines about how close he was and stalks off. I can't care, because the only time he's ever mentioned this is in the credits, and they don't watch those like we do.