Episode Report Card Keckler: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Bloody, Murder-Colored Mem'ries
By Keckler | Season 2 | Episode 5 | Aired on 04.13.2000
Later, holding a flashlight over Moya's innards, Aeryn confirms that Pilot has been in pain all this time because Velorek couldn't take the time for the bonding to occur naturally. D'Argo berates her for not telling them this earlier, and Aeryn yells back that she didn't know it was this pilot. "Kids, save it for after school. Right now, how do we fix this thing so we stop bobbing about like three men in a tub?" Crichton demands. They don't, is the answer. Not without Pilot's help. Crichton doesn't think Pilot's in a "Leviathan for Dummies kind of mood right now." I wonder if there's a Crichton for Dummies...
Flashback. Aeryn enters Pilot's chamber and watches Velorek working on Pilot. Pilot happily natters that the DRDs are responding to his impulses now. As Aeryn observes him with an affectionate smile, Velorek has a whispered confab with a few other PKs. Pilot catches a few words and loudly asks what secret project they are talking about. Aeryn freezes, smile gone, and looks wary. Velorek tells Pilot not to worry and that the project will no longer be a threat to him or Moya ever again. Aeryn leaves.
Present day. Moya lurches. Aeryn wants to talk to Pilot, but Crichton stops her with, "Pilot's Etch-a-Sketch isn't operating with all of its knobs right now -- I'm afraid seeing you won't help." Hee. Crichton does get the best lines. D'Argo adds that Pilot has locked himself into his chamber and posted DRDs as sentries. "He must've used voice command," D'Argo adds for the nitpickers in the audience. Which are me. Aeryn insists it's all her fault, but Crichton won't buy that. Unless she's not telling him everything. Aeryn looks at D'Argo, who meets her gaze. She walks out, insisting she has to talk to Pilot. D'Argo volunteers to go after her, thinking he can talk sense into both of them. Crichton starts to argue that it should be him but interrupts himself to hold out a raised fist. They aren't...they are! They're Rock-Paper-Scissoring it! Crichton throws scissors and walks out with a "See ya!" "I can't believe it," D'Argo mutters, looking at his hand. It's so dark that it's hard to see what he threw. I assume, since scissors beat it, he must've thrown paper but I would not put it past Crichton to have taught D'Argo stuff like, "Scissors always wins, and only humans from Earth who come through wormholes are allowed to throw scissors."
Elsewhere, the DRDs patrol the corridors. Satisfied there's no one around, the DRDs hum merrily along. Aeryn and Crichton pop out with flashlights and guns. Moya lurches. Aeryn tells Crichton that she's the only one who can understand what went down in the past with everything. She needs to talk to Pilot. Crichton sort of whines about how she can't talk to him about it. Are you capable of being hooked up to and running a Leviathan, John? No? Then shut up because it's not about you this time. The rest of season two and part of season three? All about you and your seemingly never-ending and totally over-the-top insanity, so just sit tight. Like a forefinger flipping a pernicious hangnail up and down, Crichton keeps prodding Aeryn to learn what happened between her and Velorek.