Aboard a derelict Peacekeeper Command Carrier, the crew discovers a young female Tech, Gilina. Crichton is immediately attracted, and Aeryn finds herself fighting unfamiliar feelings of jealousy. Rygel is also uncomfortable, forced to confront his convict past. When a gang of fire-breathing Sheyang scavengers arrive and commence hostilities, Zhaan helps D’Argo play diplomat, a role that goes against his Luxan training, but one he must play to keep them all alive.

Full Synopsis

When Moya finds a dead PeaceKeeper ship D’Argo, Aeryn and Crichton board it to investigate, hoping to find information which will help them find their way home.

The obligatory Crichton cultural reference is to Titanic the movie.

Rygel tells Zhaan that it was the first ship on which he was held and tortured by the Peacekeepers and that’s why he hasn’t joined the others in their looting expedition.

The three find one live Peacekeeper, Gilina. She recognises them and Aeryn recognises her as a member of Crais’ crew. Crichton manages to stop Aeryn killing her on the spot and she explains that she was left with a team but they were all killed by Sheyang scavengers.

Heeding Zhaan’s advice Rygel goes over to the ship to ‘confront his demons’.

The Sheyangs return and power up their weapons to attack Moya but are frightened into backing down by a broadcast of D’Argo throwing a fit. Zhaan talks D’Argo into bluffing, against his instincts, to buy them more time. They have no weapons and no means of defence and if the Sheyangs discover this they will attack.

While Gilina and Crichton attempt to activate the defensive grid on the dead ship D’Argo’s bluff runs out as there is a mutiny on the Sheyang ship. Luckily when the Sheyangs fire the grid holds and Moya is unharmed.

Gilina agrees to help fit the second half of the defence grid on Moya and they start to strip the parts ready to transport over.

Crichton and Gilina start to get real friendly and Aeryn walks in on them. Awkward.

Rygel finds the desiccated corpse of the ship’s captain who had tortured him and it seems that Zhaan was right, he can now look on the remains of his enemy and know that he won, he is the one still alive.

Aeryn battles and finally defeats a single Sheyang who had got through the grid intent on killing them all.

With the Sheyang ship waiting outside the security grid Moya’s crew agree to have Gilina send out a distress signal to Crais so that they will leave. She promises not to tell him that Moya was there, she’d risk the same fate as Aeryn if she does, irreversibly contaminated. Not that she really wants to go, it seems she’s fallen for Crichton, but they say their goodbyes and Moya departs.

Aeryn finds the whole experience unsettling, not just the unexpected emotion of jealousy, but also being reminded of all that she has lost and seeing Gilina return to that life as she never can.

Not a great episode, but we see how deeply Rygel is still effected by his time as a prisoner of the Peacekeepers, haunted by his experiences despite all his bluster. The aliens of the week are interesting, fire breathing and gross and it’s nice how they gave the two main Sheyang different appearances which seemed to match their personalities.