Episode Report Card Strega: B+ | 14 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT The Runaway Groom
By Strega | Season 2 | Episode 13 | Aired on 2000.08.04
There appears to be a fashion show going on at the bar. I'm not sure. A blonde is walking on some kind of platform looking pleased as people applaud. If it is a fashion show, that's amusing, because of course they all wear nothing but white. I suppose she might be a performer of some kind. D'Argo walks up to Scorpius at the bar and asks if he knows where Crichton is. Scorpius doesn't, but insists, "I'm as anxious to find him as you are." D'Argo says, "For his wormhole knowledge," because it's been ten minutes since anyone has mentioned that. I do appreciate that they tried to keep the episodes reasonably self-explanatory. I just don't know if each scene needs to be self-explanatory. Oh well. Scorpius says, "That's secondary at this point. I'm without accompaniment. Totally unarmed. Should the Empress wish to execute us, I have no doubt she will succeed." He asks if D'Argo knows Cargn, and also provides Cargn's first name: Saskaretski. Or maybe that's his title. Either way, it's fun to say "Saskaretski." Less fun to type it, though. Scorpius figures that Cargn and Clavor are the most likely suspects in Crichton's latest disappearance. D'Argo asks what Scorpius wants, and Scorpius says that if he can take the wormhole knowledge, he'll help them get Crichton off of Faber'Ge alive and unharmed. D'Argo skeptically asks, "You're half Scarran, aren't you?" Scorpius hmphs that he shouldn't be judged based on that. "Because it would find him lacking!" Cargn growls from two feet away. Okay, seriously, how do you not notice Cargn walking up to you? Cargn compliments D'Argo on coming from "a great race of warriors," and congratulates Scorpius on getting one of his agents to marry Katralla. He asks, "How did you defeat my DNA alterations of her?" D'Argo says that Crichton and Scorpius aren't allies. Cargn asks, "Have I misjudged the situation that badly?" See, it's all just a wacky mix-up! Now they're all gonna have a few beers and laugh about the situation. But first Scorpius and Cargn have to bicker about the Scarrans forming an alliance with Faber'Ge. Then Cargn whirls and asks, "Luxan brute, where is Crichton?" while making his air-wooblifying hand gesture. D'Argo falls back against a wall and gasps that he doesn't know. Cargn asks if Crichton's been revived, and D'Argo doesn't know that, either. "Is there anyone who does?" an exasperated Cargn asks. D'Argo is compelled to say, "Chiana thinks she does, but --" Cargn releases him, and D'Argo collapses. Scorpius calmly offers to make a deal with Cargn, who growls, "I would rather race you to the Nebari girl." Scorpius says, "The means to our goals may be the same." Well, yes. I think that was Cargn's point. They trade more barbs about a Peacekeeper-Scarran war, and Cargn concludes, "I would still rather race you to the girl." Cargn hurries for the door, while Scorpius walks out the opposite way.