Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Family Ties
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 22 | Aired on July 14, 1998
Aeryn has Pilot have the DRDs check the transport pod for tracking devices, and Pilot asks Chiana to reinstate the cell door functions on one of the tiers. Aeryn and Zhaan inspect Crais for weapons, and then D'Argo, the only one who hasn't spoken, goes from "simmer" to "boil" as he hits and kicks Crais to the floor, and demands that Crais tell his shipmates the truth. Crais admits that D'Argo didn't commit the crime for which he was imprisoned. "His mate was killed by someone else." Aeryn contemptuously adds that it was the wife's own brother, a Peacekeeper. In response to Crichton's disbelief that Crais knew the truth and yet kept D'Argo incarcerated, Crais says that regardless of his knowledge, only a tribunal order can release a convicted murderer. He adds that life is unfair, and they're all proof of that. Ooh, good idea -- appealing to their shared status as outcasts in an attempt to build a bond! Crichton: "If life was fair, you'd be dead." Um. Well, you can use the commercial break to go back to the drawing board.Crichton and Aeryn put Crais in a cell, and Aeryn asks if there's anything Crais wants to say to her, but Crais thinks everything was covered when she left him for dead in the Aurora Chair. Aeryn: "Good." Hee. Aeryn tells Crichton she's going to check out the transport ship, as she still doesn't trust either Crais or Rygel. Crichton locks Crais in and glowers at him, but the menace is reduced by how scorching he is. I think he needs to slap a fake scar on his face for occasions such as these, although I could just be nostalgic for Finola Hughes's days on General Hospital. What? Crichton asks what Crais is doing there, really, but Crais tells him he thinks it would be best for him if Rygel explained Crais's position for him. Crichton can't believe it: "You're letting Rygel be your advocate?" Yes, a pompous windbag with an elevated sense of his own importance as counselor? That never happens!
Rygel has decided to warm up with the two people he's likely to have the easiest time with, Chiana and Zhaan.