Farscape Episode 2.01: “Mind the Baby”
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scifi_rewatchHello, and welcome to a quicker, less rambly, easier-to-follow season of recaps, or so I hope. :P I plan to break things down into episode summary, thoughts and favorite quotes, Crichtonisms and otherwise. Starting with a brief teaser over the cut!
So this episode starts season two on sort of a downer note—I mean that instead of seeing any of the action that would propel us from the stellar season one finale of John and D’argo out in space with no way for Aeryn to reach them, we jump right to the somewhat lacklastuer aftermath. To be fair, shooting a rescue mission would probably cost more of the budget than “Farscape” could afford to part with.
The crew on Moya—particularly Zhaan—seem a bit weird as well, partially for reasons that will be explained later in the season. Zhaan comes off as a little inconsistent to me, though. Yes, we’ve established that she’s a deeply introspective being connected deeply to her faith, but it seems odd that the mother of the crew, basically, would distance herself from her loved ones for the sake of esoteric enlightenment. Believing John, Aeryn and D’argo are dead is one thing, but passively dismissing Moya, Pilot, Chiana and Rygel during their time of need? I call foul! :P
The strongest part in the episode, I think, is Crais. Not to give too much away, but season two launches him in a much more interesting direction than his one-dimensional vengeance cycle against John. Speaking of the next baddie who wants John, we also touch in briefly with Scorpius and Braca who’ve remained near the asteroid field after the destruction of the gammack base, hoping to give our crew a what for.
Summary:
A sheyang ship is firing on Moya! Chiana, Pilot and Rygel scramble to get away but Zhaan appears spacy and paranoid, claiming that D’argo will come to help any minute. We get a reminder that D’argo, John and Aeryn are in fact gone from the ship.
But the boys appear in a new space, surrounded by pipes. John is waking up D’argo, who is also paranoid and wondering if he’s dead. Also, fyi, he has new, more realistic-looking facial makeup. :D John explains that Aeryn rescued them and took them to this breathable asteroid. Right now she’s scavenging for scarce food. …or IS she?? Aboard her prowler, she puts in a call to none other than Crais! They’ve made some sort of deal, but they’re keeping their allegiance a secret from John. Uh oh.
No huge changes to the credits except that Gigi Edgley (Chiana) is included as main cast! Booyah.
Aeryn rejoins the boys, but although D’argo is incredibly warm towards seeing her, she turns a cold shoulder. John confronts her but she blames the bitchiness on lack of food availability. The boys suggest that maybe it’s time to leave but Aeryn is oddly insistent that they stay, claiming it’s the best spot to stay safe from Scorpius’s spies. The boys counter that they’re sitting ducks, but Aeryn grows angrier, reminding them that she saved their lives, so listen to her! She storms off.
On Moya, Pilot tells Chiana and Rygel that Moya has decided to go back to the asteroid field to look for her son, Talyn. Our crewmembers aren’t too happy, as this also leads them back to Scorpius. When Pilot adds that they might find Aeryn, John and D’argo, too, Chiana posits that they must either be dead or gone by now. Only logical endgames, right? :P
On Crais’s old command carrier, we get a closeup shot of Scorpius getting a blue rod inserted into his head! Braca reacts kind of like the admiral who witnessed Vader’s helmet getting sucked onto his head. :P Scorpius relays that although they had no choice but to let “the rogue prowler” rescue John and D’argo, why the frell has it still eluded capture? Obviously they need a new strategy.
Aeryn’s prowler docks onto Talyn; inside, Crais is trying to calm the gunship down. With Aeryn’s help, they find out that he’s distressed by staticky signals that Scorpius is sending out. Aeryn explains that this is just a diversion tactic and to chill out, so Talyn does. Aloneish, she tells Crais that the boys want to leave, but Crais wants more control over Talyn first. He’s part Peacekeeper, so he should take orders easier than a Leviathan, right? Aeryn is adamant that no matter what they will share command; she won’t relinquish it completely.
John teaches D’argo rock, paper, scissors while D’argo debates the rules. :P But when Aeryn comes back, they ambush her. After an amusing anecdote where Aeryn mistakes John’s “close” wording for sexually close rather than platonically close, she divulges that she made a deal with Crais, who found this breathable asteroid in time to save them all. In return, she’s helping him to reel in Talyn. The boys, understandably, are upset that she’s aiding this “kidnap.” Aeryn argues that she had no choice then and they have no choice now, to which D’argo tongues her unconscious. The boys play rock, paper, scissors again to see who will stay with their friend and who will confront Crais; John wins on the confrontation front.
Chiana goes to Zhaan, who is chanting in her room, to elicit her help in talking Pilot and Moya out of their travel plans. But Zhaan claims complete disinterest in current events and refuses. Charming.
An awakened Aeryn argues with D’argo about Crais’s new loyalties. He’s a fugitive from the Peacekeepers now, just like them. But does his newfound loyalty just to himself make him more or less dangerous? The two crewmembers fall on different sides.
Perhaps Crais is showing his true colors as he comms Scorpius! Crais claims that Aeryn won’t tell him anything about John’s whereabouts and that he needs more time. Scorpius tells him not to test his patience, and that Talyn is irrelevant. Alone, Crais uses this to encourage Talyn to see Peacekeepers as brutal towards their own kind. Nice play. Speaking of plays, here’s John in the doorway, acting amused and sarcastic but brandishing a gun. His laugh meter goes up as Crais insists he just wants to go his own way with Talyn and make a new life for himself. In response, Crais tells Talyn to lock his guns on this “intruder,” but John gets his own gun to Crais’s head and wrestles him to the prowler.
Pilot grumpily overhears Chiana and Rygel debating whether or not they should get off this boat. He passive aggressively suggests there are transports if they want to abandon ship. But Chiana brings up “Zhaan’s trial” as a reason for why they should stay with Moya. Meanwhile Moya has picked up a distress call from Talyn! Scorpius and Braca are aware of it, too, and talk about how they have to make sure she can’t conceal herself.
On Moya’s command, Rygel and Chiana track a nonresponsive prowler coming right towards them. Can it be…? Chiana goes down to the hangar bay with gun loaded, and there comes John toting a bound up Crais! Chiana does a Matrix-style leap into her crewmate’s arms. :P
John’s next crewmate, Zhaan, is unresponsive when he comes calling. She looks up from her meditation long enough to label him a hallucination, basically, of a friend who’s dead. John can’t convince her to get with the program; he and Chiana are at a loss of what to do next.
D’argo plays rock, paper, scissors with himself, which constantly ends in a tie. :P John returns to pick him and Aeryn up. Pilot comes on comms to say Talyn is leaving the asteroid field! Scorpius and Braca are also aware, and plan to follow the ships too far to be spotted, and then they’ll attack when they can’t go into hiding. John, of course, must be taken alive.
Rygel sees John, Aeryn and D’argo together, and immediately goes into a choking fit. As John tries to “Hynerian Heimlich” him, Aeryn explains the condition of “intons,” where Hynerians have a little seizure in response to strong emotion. Aww, Rygel has a heart. The boys, of course, make fun of this. :P
Talyn continues to flee, unresponsive to Moya, and Aeryn gets on the line to tell him to trust his mother. John goes to Pilot’s den directly to posit that this chasing makes Talyn more skittish. But Moya is hellbent not to lose that boy again!
Zhaan has moved to the cymbals but is still unresponsive as Aeryn comes in. Yet something comes alive in her when Aeryn calls her out on her selfishness for avoiding reality and not fighting for those she claims to love. Zhaan’s next turn on the cymbals is a shattering chord.
Crais, in his cell, tells his jailer, D’argo, that he’s trying to get over the PK-infused disgust he feels at D’argo’s marriage to a Sebacean. He also poses that Talyn needs him, but D’argo isn’t biting.
Things are apparently moving too slow, and Scorpius moves to overtake the ships. Aeryn, John and Chiana try to evade, but Talyn pulls a whammie by aiming his canon at his mother! Pilot translates that the gunship wants a captain to tell him what to do—specifically Crais. The crew says no and puts up the defense screen they got from the Zelbinion. Unfortunately it doesn’t hold long against Talyn’s fire. They’re gonna be toast soon…
Aeryn folds and says she’ll take Crais to Talyn and stay herself. John argues, but Aeryn is insistent. They free Crais and John warns him to play nice. He and Aeryn share a touching goodbye in the hangar.
Aboard Talyn, Aeryn immediately tells him to stick close to Moya for their escape. But instead, Talyn offers Crais the Hand of Friendship! It’s a neural link that binds captain and ship together. Turns out the boys want no part of Aeryn after all. She and Crais fight, but with Talyn’s guns trained on her she’s eventually forced off the ship. Later, he triumphantly comms Scorpius with his last message, claiming he killed John himself and is leaving the building. Scorpius wants to fire on them both, but Talyn starbursts! With Aeryn safely back aboard Moya, the Leviathan starbursts as well.
An eerily calm Scorpius wants Braca to fetch the Leviathan expert to be “educated” on the truth about the fact that Talyn was capable of starburst. Meanwhile he wants to go after Moya—not Talyn—because obviously Crais was lying about John’s death. He loses his cool a little as he displays how hellbent he is to find our human again.
D’argo goes to see Zhaan, who is thinking that Aeryn was right. The two of them talk about this existence with friends being temporal, unlike the esoteric levels of religion. Zhaan needs to cherish the here and now.
John and Aeryn sit at the base of Pilot’s den in an awkwardly touchy-feely scene. Aeryn is upset that she couldn’t do more for Talyn, but at Pilot can at least relay that Talyn told Moya he’ll be in touch. John’s not so sure that will happen, and is equally unsure of Crais’s ability to change. Aeryn is hopeful that he will, perhaps for Talyn’s sake above all. We fade back.
Thoughts:
Again, although the flashback episode in the middle of the season explains things, Zhaan’s little break from reality still seemed out of left field. Gave some nice interactions with Aeryn and D’argo, at least. And D’argo with the rock, paper, scissors…comic gold! :D Very nice callback, however small, to his backstory about his dead wife. Nice callback to the Zelbinian/defense screen episode, too.
Chiana and Rygel continue to be the vagabonds of the crew, but they both display caring for others at different times. Aaaw.
Aeryn, perhaps, faced the most tribulations this episode as she tried to save her friends from space death, pay a debt to Crais and make sure Talyn, whom she’s also close with, stayed loyal to his mother. The Hand of Friendship was incredibly creative—and gruesome to watch. It will propel Crais down some interesting avenues in the future…already he’s far more nuanced than he was a season back. I love how calm and sneaky he was, in comparison to his manic single-mindedness with his search for John. I love that Moya and Talyn are characters in their own right with their own bond.
John spends a lot of this episode being the funny guy, but also trying to right wrongs. He recaptures Crais, for how long that lasts, gets Aeryn to open up to him and tries to comfort her about her issues with Talyn. Understandably, he’s wary that Crais can change. He’s also aware of how badly Scorpius wants him, which is definitely a good thing for what lies ahead!
Favorite Quotes:
*John and D’argo argue with Aeryn about wanting to leave the asteroid*
D'Argo: When the Prowlers' fuel runs out, we starve! As John once said, 'I would rather go down on a swing.'
John: Swinging. You wanna go down - swinging.
*John and D’argo play Rock, Paper, Scissors*
D'Argo: Again, I win!
John: No, I win. Paper wraps rock.
D'Argo: No, paper cannot possibly beat rock.
John: It does. Paper beats rock.
D'Argo: Rock rips through paper!
John: D'Argo, that's not how it works! Paper - beats - rock!
D'Argo: That's unrealistic.
John: Well, it's the rules! And it's not supposed to be realistic, it's supposed to be entertaining!
D'Argo: My coma was more entertaining.
*John tries to get Aeryn to open up to him*
John: I have a question. How many times have we saved each others' lives?
Aeryn: I've lost count.
John: Safe to say more than once?
Aeryn: Sure.
John: Right, and how many times have you and I been close?
Aeryn: …Just the once.
John: Uh, nonono, not that kind of close.
Aeryn: Oh. Um. Friend close!
*in response to Crais’s plain to ride off into the sunset with Talyn*
John: You want to have a mid-life crisis? Fine. Good. Just - ditch the firm, head off to Maui, shack up with the supermodel, BUT YOU DO NOT GET TO KEEP THE PORSCHE!
*Rygel and Chiana discuss escape*
Chiana: Moya's in full lunatic mother mode.
Rygel: She'll blunder right into Scorpius' bad teeth!
Chiana: Ah - that module thing of Crichton's is still operational. We could let Moya go on without us.
Rygel: Hmm. We could. Not that any planet in this vicinity was very hospitable.
Chiana: Pilot and - Pilot and Moya didn't abandon us during Zhaan's trial. Ugh! We can't ditch. We gotta stick.
Rygel: Stupid though it may be.
Pilot: There is a transport pod available should you not wish to accompany us.
Chiana: What? Leave you and Moya? No. We-we couldn't. Could we?
Rygel: No. Oh. We'd never consider such a thing!
*Aeryn breaks through to Zhaan*
Zhaan: I love all living beings. The Seek has reopened my eyes to the wonder of the spirit. I am now going to devote my life to enlightenment.
Aeryn: Oh. Well, I think that's, um- -Really selfish, actually. You know, before you bliss off completely into oblivion, you might want to have a little look around you, because Moya and Talyn are in danger.(
Zhaan: Worldly concerns do not interest me now.
Aeryn: Oh really? Well, then don't give me any dren about how much you love me!
*Pilot relays that Talyn wants a captain*
John: Ouch. Let's get that boy some guidance before he turns into a full-blown Menendez brother.
*John and Aeryn free Crais from his cell to go aboard Talyn*
John: Crais, I don't like this plan and I never will. So you better behave yourself with Talyn. And Aeryn. 'Cos if you hurt either one of them - I'm going to hunt you down.
Crais: You hunt me down. That would complete the symmetry nicely, wouldn't it?
*after Moya and Talyn starburst*
Scorpius: Lieutenant. Your tactical expert claimed the gunship's ability to starburst would not mature for an arn. Send him to me. So I might educate him.
*Pilot relays that Talyn promises to keep in touch*
John: Oh they say they'll call home, Pilot, once a week. They never do.
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So this episode starts season two on sort of a downer note—I mean that instead of seeing any of the action that would propel us from the stellar season one finale of John and D’argo out in space with no way for Aeryn to reach them, we jump right to the somewhat lacklastuer aftermath. To be fair, shooting a rescue mission would probably cost more of the budget than “Farscape” could afford to part with.
The crew on Moya—particularly Zhaan—seem a bit weird as well, partially for reasons that will be explained later in the season. Zhaan comes off as a little inconsistent to me, though. Yes, we’ve established that she’s a deeply introspective being connected deeply to her faith, but it seems odd that the mother of the crew, basically, would distance herself from her loved ones for the sake of esoteric enlightenment. Believing John, Aeryn and D’argo are dead is one thing, but passively dismissing Moya, Pilot, Chiana and Rygel during their time of need? I call foul! :P
The strongest part in the episode, I think, is Crais. Not to give too much away, but season two launches him in a much more interesting direction than his one-dimensional vengeance cycle against John. Speaking of the next baddie who wants John, we also touch in briefly with Scorpius and Braca who’ve remained near the asteroid field after the destruction of the gammack base, hoping to give our crew a what for.
Summary:
A sheyang ship is firing on Moya! Chiana, Pilot and Rygel scramble to get away but Zhaan appears spacy and paranoid, claiming that D’argo will come to help any minute. We get a reminder that D’argo, John and Aeryn are in fact gone from the ship.
But the boys appear in a new space, surrounded by pipes. John is waking up D’argo, who is also paranoid and wondering if he’s dead. Also, fyi, he has new, more realistic-looking facial makeup. :D John explains that Aeryn rescued them and took them to this breathable asteroid. Right now she’s scavenging for scarce food. …or IS she?? Aboard her prowler, she puts in a call to none other than Crais! They’ve made some sort of deal, but they’re keeping their allegiance a secret from John. Uh oh.
No huge changes to the credits except that Gigi Edgley (Chiana) is included as main cast! Booyah.
Aeryn rejoins the boys, but although D’argo is incredibly warm towards seeing her, she turns a cold shoulder. John confronts her but she blames the bitchiness on lack of food availability. The boys suggest that maybe it’s time to leave but Aeryn is oddly insistent that they stay, claiming it’s the best spot to stay safe from Scorpius’s spies. The boys counter that they’re sitting ducks, but Aeryn grows angrier, reminding them that she saved their lives, so listen to her! She storms off.
On Moya, Pilot tells Chiana and Rygel that Moya has decided to go back to the asteroid field to look for her son, Talyn. Our crewmembers aren’t too happy, as this also leads them back to Scorpius. When Pilot adds that they might find Aeryn, John and D’argo, too, Chiana posits that they must either be dead or gone by now. Only logical endgames, right? :P
On Crais’s old command carrier, we get a closeup shot of Scorpius getting a blue rod inserted into his head! Braca reacts kind of like the admiral who witnessed Vader’s helmet getting sucked onto his head. :P Scorpius relays that although they had no choice but to let “the rogue prowler” rescue John and D’argo, why the frell has it still eluded capture? Obviously they need a new strategy.
Aeryn’s prowler docks onto Talyn; inside, Crais is trying to calm the gunship down. With Aeryn’s help, they find out that he’s distressed by staticky signals that Scorpius is sending out. Aeryn explains that this is just a diversion tactic and to chill out, so Talyn does. Aloneish, she tells Crais that the boys want to leave, but Crais wants more control over Talyn first. He’s part Peacekeeper, so he should take orders easier than a Leviathan, right? Aeryn is adamant that no matter what they will share command; she won’t relinquish it completely.
John teaches D’argo rock, paper, scissors while D’argo debates the rules. :P But when Aeryn comes back, they ambush her. After an amusing anecdote where Aeryn mistakes John’s “close” wording for sexually close rather than platonically close, she divulges that she made a deal with Crais, who found this breathable asteroid in time to save them all. In return, she’s helping him to reel in Talyn. The boys, understandably, are upset that she’s aiding this “kidnap.” Aeryn argues that she had no choice then and they have no choice now, to which D’argo tongues her unconscious. The boys play rock, paper, scissors again to see who will stay with their friend and who will confront Crais; John wins on the confrontation front.
Chiana goes to Zhaan, who is chanting in her room, to elicit her help in talking Pilot and Moya out of their travel plans. But Zhaan claims complete disinterest in current events and refuses. Charming.
An awakened Aeryn argues with D’argo about Crais’s new loyalties. He’s a fugitive from the Peacekeepers now, just like them. But does his newfound loyalty just to himself make him more or less dangerous? The two crewmembers fall on different sides.
Perhaps Crais is showing his true colors as he comms Scorpius! Crais claims that Aeryn won’t tell him anything about John’s whereabouts and that he needs more time. Scorpius tells him not to test his patience, and that Talyn is irrelevant. Alone, Crais uses this to encourage Talyn to see Peacekeepers as brutal towards their own kind. Nice play. Speaking of plays, here’s John in the doorway, acting amused and sarcastic but brandishing a gun. His laugh meter goes up as Crais insists he just wants to go his own way with Talyn and make a new life for himself. In response, Crais tells Talyn to lock his guns on this “intruder,” but John gets his own gun to Crais’s head and wrestles him to the prowler.
Pilot grumpily overhears Chiana and Rygel debating whether or not they should get off this boat. He passive aggressively suggests there are transports if they want to abandon ship. But Chiana brings up “Zhaan’s trial” as a reason for why they should stay with Moya. Meanwhile Moya has picked up a distress call from Talyn! Scorpius and Braca are aware of it, too, and talk about how they have to make sure she can’t conceal herself.
On Moya’s command, Rygel and Chiana track a nonresponsive prowler coming right towards them. Can it be…? Chiana goes down to the hangar bay with gun loaded, and there comes John toting a bound up Crais! Chiana does a Matrix-style leap into her crewmate’s arms. :P
John’s next crewmate, Zhaan, is unresponsive when he comes calling. She looks up from her meditation long enough to label him a hallucination, basically, of a friend who’s dead. John can’t convince her to get with the program; he and Chiana are at a loss of what to do next.
D’argo plays rock, paper, scissors with himself, which constantly ends in a tie. :P John returns to pick him and Aeryn up. Pilot comes on comms to say Talyn is leaving the asteroid field! Scorpius and Braca are also aware, and plan to follow the ships too far to be spotted, and then they’ll attack when they can’t go into hiding. John, of course, must be taken alive.
Rygel sees John, Aeryn and D’argo together, and immediately goes into a choking fit. As John tries to “Hynerian Heimlich” him, Aeryn explains the condition of “intons,” where Hynerians have a little seizure in response to strong emotion. Aww, Rygel has a heart. The boys, of course, make fun of this. :P
Talyn continues to flee, unresponsive to Moya, and Aeryn gets on the line to tell him to trust his mother. John goes to Pilot’s den directly to posit that this chasing makes Talyn more skittish. But Moya is hellbent not to lose that boy again!
Zhaan has moved to the cymbals but is still unresponsive as Aeryn comes in. Yet something comes alive in her when Aeryn calls her out on her selfishness for avoiding reality and not fighting for those she claims to love. Zhaan’s next turn on the cymbals is a shattering chord.
Crais, in his cell, tells his jailer, D’argo, that he’s trying to get over the PK-infused disgust he feels at D’argo’s marriage to a Sebacean. He also poses that Talyn needs him, but D’argo isn’t biting.
Things are apparently moving too slow, and Scorpius moves to overtake the ships. Aeryn, John and Chiana try to evade, but Talyn pulls a whammie by aiming his canon at his mother! Pilot translates that the gunship wants a captain to tell him what to do—specifically Crais. The crew says no and puts up the defense screen they got from the Zelbinion. Unfortunately it doesn’t hold long against Talyn’s fire. They’re gonna be toast soon…
Aeryn folds and says she’ll take Crais to Talyn and stay herself. John argues, but Aeryn is insistent. They free Crais and John warns him to play nice. He and Aeryn share a touching goodbye in the hangar.
Aboard Talyn, Aeryn immediately tells him to stick close to Moya for their escape. But instead, Talyn offers Crais the Hand of Friendship! It’s a neural link that binds captain and ship together. Turns out the boys want no part of Aeryn after all. She and Crais fight, but with Talyn’s guns trained on her she’s eventually forced off the ship. Later, he triumphantly comms Scorpius with his last message, claiming he killed John himself and is leaving the building. Scorpius wants to fire on them both, but Talyn starbursts! With Aeryn safely back aboard Moya, the Leviathan starbursts as well.
An eerily calm Scorpius wants Braca to fetch the Leviathan expert to be “educated” on the truth about the fact that Talyn was capable of starburst. Meanwhile he wants to go after Moya—not Talyn—because obviously Crais was lying about John’s death. He loses his cool a little as he displays how hellbent he is to find our human again.
D’argo goes to see Zhaan, who is thinking that Aeryn was right. The two of them talk about this existence with friends being temporal, unlike the esoteric levels of religion. Zhaan needs to cherish the here and now.
John and Aeryn sit at the base of Pilot’s den in an awkwardly touchy-feely scene. Aeryn is upset that she couldn’t do more for Talyn, but at Pilot can at least relay that Talyn told Moya he’ll be in touch. John’s not so sure that will happen, and is equally unsure of Crais’s ability to change. Aeryn is hopeful that he will, perhaps for Talyn’s sake above all. We fade back.
Thoughts:
Again, although the flashback episode in the middle of the season explains things, Zhaan’s little break from reality still seemed out of left field. Gave some nice interactions with Aeryn and D’argo, at least. And D’argo with the rock, paper, scissors…comic gold! :D Very nice callback, however small, to his backstory about his dead wife. Nice callback to the Zelbinian/defense screen episode, too.
Chiana and Rygel continue to be the vagabonds of the crew, but they both display caring for others at different times. Aaaw.
Aeryn, perhaps, faced the most tribulations this episode as she tried to save her friends from space death, pay a debt to Crais and make sure Talyn, whom she’s also close with, stayed loyal to his mother. The Hand of Friendship was incredibly creative—and gruesome to watch. It will propel Crais down some interesting avenues in the future…already he’s far more nuanced than he was a season back. I love how calm and sneaky he was, in comparison to his manic single-mindedness with his search for John. I love that Moya and Talyn are characters in their own right with their own bond.
John spends a lot of this episode being the funny guy, but also trying to right wrongs. He recaptures Crais, for how long that lasts, gets Aeryn to open up to him and tries to comfort her about her issues with Talyn. Understandably, he’s wary that Crais can change. He’s also aware of how badly Scorpius wants him, which is definitely a good thing for what lies ahead!
Favorite Quotes:
*John and D’argo argue with Aeryn about wanting to leave the asteroid*
D'Argo: When the Prowlers' fuel runs out, we starve! As John once said, 'I would rather go down on a swing.'
John: Swinging. You wanna go down - swinging.
*John and D’argo play Rock, Paper, Scissors*
D'Argo: Again, I win!
John: No, I win. Paper wraps rock.
D'Argo: No, paper cannot possibly beat rock.
John: It does. Paper beats rock.
D'Argo: Rock rips through paper!
John: D'Argo, that's not how it works! Paper - beats - rock!
D'Argo: That's unrealistic.
John: Well, it's the rules! And it's not supposed to be realistic, it's supposed to be entertaining!
D'Argo: My coma was more entertaining.
*John tries to get Aeryn to open up to him*
John: I have a question. How many times have we saved each others' lives?
Aeryn: I've lost count.
John: Safe to say more than once?
Aeryn: Sure.
John: Right, and how many times have you and I been close?
Aeryn: …Just the once.
John: Uh, nonono, not that kind of close.
Aeryn: Oh. Um. Friend close!
*in response to Crais’s plain to ride off into the sunset with Talyn*
John: You want to have a mid-life crisis? Fine. Good. Just - ditch the firm, head off to Maui, shack up with the supermodel, BUT YOU DO NOT GET TO KEEP THE PORSCHE!
*Rygel and Chiana discuss escape*
Chiana: Moya's in full lunatic mother mode.
Rygel: She'll blunder right into Scorpius' bad teeth!
Chiana: Ah - that module thing of Crichton's is still operational. We could let Moya go on without us.
Rygel: Hmm. We could. Not that any planet in this vicinity was very hospitable.
Chiana: Pilot and - Pilot and Moya didn't abandon us during Zhaan's trial. Ugh! We can't ditch. We gotta stick.
Rygel: Stupid though it may be.
Pilot: There is a transport pod available should you not wish to accompany us.
Chiana: What? Leave you and Moya? No. We-we couldn't. Could we?
Rygel: No. Oh. We'd never consider such a thing!
*Aeryn breaks through to Zhaan*
Zhaan: I love all living beings. The Seek has reopened my eyes to the wonder of the spirit. I am now going to devote my life to enlightenment.
Aeryn: Oh. Well, I think that's, um- -Really selfish, actually. You know, before you bliss off completely into oblivion, you might want to have a little look around you, because Moya and Talyn are in danger.(
Zhaan: Worldly concerns do not interest me now.
Aeryn: Oh really? Well, then don't give me any dren about how much you love me!
*Pilot relays that Talyn wants a captain*
John: Ouch. Let's get that boy some guidance before he turns into a full-blown Menendez brother.
*John and Aeryn free Crais from his cell to go aboard Talyn*
John: Crais, I don't like this plan and I never will. So you better behave yourself with Talyn. And Aeryn. 'Cos if you hurt either one of them - I'm going to hunt you down.
Crais: You hunt me down. That would complete the symmetry nicely, wouldn't it?
*after Moya and Talyn starburst*
Scorpius: Lieutenant. Your tactical expert claimed the gunship's ability to starburst would not mature for an arn. Send him to me. So I might educate him.
*Pilot relays that Talyn promises to keep in touch*
John: Oh they say they'll call home, Pilot, once a week. They never do.
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