Episode Report Card Sobell: A | 2 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT "Can I Get A 'Hell, Yeah'?"
By Sobell | Season 3 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2001.03.16
He then shoves Harvey, saying, "Come on, let me show you what I mean." And Harvey lands on his back on a dusty warehouse floor. He struggles to get up, and begins to speak to Crichton, but John's in his black tee and those leather pants. Clearly, Crichton came here to chew gum and kick ass, and he's all out of Big Red. Crichton punches him, noting that his brain ain't big enough for the two of them. Harvey reels, then attempts to be all menacing with, "Now, Crichton, I'm warning you." "I'm sorry, sweetheart," Crichton says, cheerily unrepentant as he eases into a boxing stance, then punches Harvey again. Harvey tries blustering and threatening, but Crichton's nimbly dancing along, floating like a butterfly, punching like a pissed-off dude who's had squatters in his head for a few too many episodes. Crichton kicks Harvey's ass, and as the appalled doppelganger struggles to his feet, Crichton bellows, "Can I get a 'Hell, yeah'?" An invisible chorus shouts back, "Hell, yeah!" Harvey looks visibly spooked. Then Crichton squares off and glares and looks really frelling hot as he says, "Pray for your soul, Scorpy. If you have one. And pray for the soul of Aeryn Sun." There's a world of pain in his kick. Harvey retches as he tries to recover. Crichton flings Harvey into a dumpster. The invisible crowd goes wild, and Crichton collapses. Catharsis takes a lot out of you, even if you're a tasty leather pants-wearin', ass-kicking space cowboy.
Back at Kaiser PermaNOTe, Tokut notices something blinky on a monitor. He trills something in distress at Greenschlick, but Scorpius is the one who exposits that one of the cryogenic pods just cued an auto-release sequence. Greenschlick attempts to bluff his way out of it, but it all ends badly: spurred on by conscientiousness, the doctor goes to check out the patient. As Greenschlick implores, "Doc, leave it to me! Doc! Doc!" -- thereby completely blowing his bluff in front of Scorpius and Braca, two of the least forgiving people in the universe -- the doctor soldiers on and gets a face full of Scarran for his trouble. Eeek! Those things creep me the frell out. They're like what would have happened if the dinosaurs hadn't gone extinct, I think.