Episode Report Card Keckler: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Zhaan Goes To Seed
By Keckler | Season 2 | Episode 7 | Aired on 06.15.2000
As Chiana charges angrily through caverns, D'Argo follows and they argue about what each of them shouldn't have done. D'Argo will not allow Chiana to stay there with B'Sogg, and Chiana won't let D'Argo tell her what to do. "Well, someone has to!" D'Argo yells at her. Chiana says she had a brother and now he's gone. She doesn't need another. "I don't want to be your...brother," D'Argo breathes. "Then what?" Chiana pleads. D'Argo sighs and shakes his head, "I want to help you." That's not the answer Chiana wanted. She slumps and turns away, saying if he wants to help he can help Altana find her vein of crystals. D'Argo's willing to do that.
Moya. Completely on her own and without anyone else's technical help, the former Peacekeeper has rigged up something to the ship that will blast Zhaan with light. There's a blinding flash and the air fills with the breath of a little girl who just made her first wish on a dandelion. I'm quite scared to see that, though obscured by light, Zhaan's head looks like it has sprouted tentacles. Against a black backdrop -- just in case we didn't get what just happened -- we get a close-up of one of Zhaan's planter warts (get it? Plant-er warts?) fuzzing over with cottony seeds. Aeryn shuts off the light burst and asks Pilot what he's reading. I'd be less concerned with what Pilot is reading and more concerned with the fact that Zhaan is now sitting up, seemingly fully conscious, but still isn't talking. Pilot is reading that Zhaan is now exuding spores as a reaction to the light burst. Maybe she needs a spore-minimizing mask? Pilot can't do anything about the spore levels, and tells Aeryn she's made things worse. Zhaan's yellow eyes are rolled threateningly up in her head. Aeryn defensively tells Pilot that she had to do something and he wasn't giving her any suggestions. "Why did you do that?" Zhaan asks in a low voice. Aeryn says she was trying to help. "Lies, you were trying to kill me," Zhaan says, her spores blowing more and more seed. "Brutish Peacekeeper, you can't wait to see me die," Zhaan accuses, as Aeryn stifles a sneeze.
Budong. Crichton walks around muttering to himself about how things are never easy. He hears Chiana talking to B'Sogg about their deal. She tells him she'll stay no longer than half a cycle. B'Sogg retorts that his deal wasn't negotiable. Chiana stalks off swearing, and Crichton stops her to ask where D'Argo is. Chiana says he's in the mines with Altana. Crichton freaks and goes after him, bellowing, "It should be easy, it's never easy!"