Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT A Human Reaction
By Jacob Clifton | Season 1 | Episode 16 | Aired on 08.19.1999
Jack and his son stand on a pier at the beach, John's seven-month bout of paranoia reasserting itself: "I don't buy this, Dad...Wilson, letting me out. There's no way he'd let me out of his sight, if what you say is true." Jack's surprised that John knows Wilson, and Cobb, but explains to John that they're surrounded: "See that van in the parking lot? Those two women to our right? The one in the red, with the headphones? The one sunning herself on the rocks?" We consider these spies, again in dreamlike slow motion: "They're watching us." John watches one older man in a Speedo rising out of the water. "They like to get real close." How close? Jack removes an eagle pin from his jacket, and radio sounds can be heard. He drops it into the water below them, and a crab crawls around on it all, "Breaker breaker? I'm just a lowly crustacean." Jack exposits that there's a global alliance that's been set up to track the wormhole, and that Ray Wilson is the Pentagon's chosen point man. John asks what the hell Wilson wants, and Jack's no happier about it: "He wants you relaxed, so that I can tell whether or not you're really my son." John's like, "OMG already, dude!" Jack continues: "And he wants to know everything you know about the wormhole, and everything you saw on the other side." John scoffs, because he's obviously spilling everything he knows. Jack respects that. John takes out his puzzle ring and hands it over: more proof. "I kept that safe for you," he tells Jack. "Don't know if it brought me luck but it saved my ass." True, and a hearty round of applause for the ring for that particular giant favor, but also: and Aeryn's ass, and D'Argo's ass. And Aeryn's soul. Jack finally admits to his stages of grief when John disappeared. "Well, now you know,"says John. "Now you know how I felt as a kid, every time you went on a mission." The accent comes and goes. Jack ignores this total foul, and puts his hand on John's shoulder. "Come on, son. We've got a lot of work to do."
Helicopters buzz about busily as guards patrol the hangar. Cobb stares at the wormhole on his screen, and John and Wilson walk through the hangar. John's really enjoying a chocolate bar: "They have worlds out there. People out there that you wouldn't believe. But they do not have chocolate." ["Neither do I, at this moment, and suddenly it's making me sad." -- Wing Chun] John stops short. "Hang on a second." John approaches a tech who's futzing around with one of the extra pieces John added to the Farscape. "Hey, no," says John. "Don't do it like that. It's a propulsion fin; it's part of the Hetch drive, okay?" He's a scientist first. Remember when John was just a scientist, and never had to fight or kill? Remember how much happier he was. Walking away, John stops again with a déjà vu: "Have we met?" The tech stutters: "Last year in the Simpson Desert, uh, when you were down there for the shuttle tests." He looks and talks exactly like the boy version of Naomi Watts in Tank Girl. "You were with Cobb, right?" Jet Boy assents. "Right. Well, it's, um...it's good to see you again."
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