Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Reality Bites
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 13 | Aired on 07.22.1999
Speaking of, D'Argo's harassing Pilot to help him find his son, Aeryn's amusingly flummoxed by something technical, and Rygel, somewhere off-screen, still thinks he's the Napoleon of Hyneria. Well, even more so than usual. Crichton breaks away from "Alex," who poutily sighs. Zzzzz.
Crichton finally finds Tahleen, who tells him there are a billion Delvians living in fear, but Crichton doesn't want to hear it, saying that what she's doing is about power, not freedom. Fair point. He suggests Tahleen set things right, but when he's gone, she instructs Lorana to incapacitate him. Lorana doesn't see the harm in letting him go, but Tahleen says Zhaan held something back, and she didn't get enough to quell the madness. You know, this madness really doesn't seem so bad here, considering how everyone seems to be strolling around going about their daily routines. Then again, I see a lot of people for whom madness is part of their daily routine, but I do live in the East Village. When Tahleen's gone, Hasko warns Lorana that Tahleen will forge another Unity with Zhaan and probably kill her in the process. Crichton may have some competition for that "Prince of the Obvious" title here. Hasko sweeps out of the room, and Lorana looks picturesquely worried.
Crichton's walking around the temple. For a place that's supposed to be a sanctuary, people really don't seem to sit down and chill out a whole lot. "Alex" pops up and bitches at Crichton, holding up her ring, which is a mistake, since Crichton remembers he never gave it to her. Except, of course, another false memory pops up, wherein she's scared because she turned down Stanford, so Crichton asks "Alexandra Kimberly O'Connor" to marry him. In the present, "Alex" does aghast pretty well, and as Crichton stammeringly digs himself deeper, another false memory, this one of their wedding, pops up. Considering how much Crichton doesn't remember, he must think he had one hell of an imaginary bachelor party. Anyway, "Alex" succeeds in distracting Crichton from helping Zhaan. She'd really bug me if it weren't for her uncanny ability to get Crichton's shirt off.
Outside in the "orchard," we learn that Tuzak is Tahleen's father, he disapproves of the way she's gathering power, and Delvian women treat their fathers much as they treat their lovers. On the plus side, now Tuzak can fertilize all those sanctity roots that seem to be having a hard time growing. By the way, Tahleen's eyes are now red as well, but that could be from all the toxic dust as easily as from the patricide.