But "Rygel Mason", I don't know if Hynerians mouths work that way. Needless to say this Farscape courtroom drama, one of two in the whole series, has all of the elements of great courtroom drama.
In the Perry Mason series of the 50s and 60s there was always one point where Perry Mason figures it all out and you see him woolgathering and that's when the little smile comes over his face.
Much the same thing happens here, to Rygel the 16th, as he pores through the Axiom, The letter of the law for the planet Litigara, of which 90% of the inhabitants are lawyers, and the other 10% are bartenders. And as he sits in the bar with the books, you can see the light bulb light up over his head as he figures it out.
And of course this episode takes place in a courtroom and in a bar.
Meanwhile Zaan has lost all grip on reality, she was not too stable at the beginning of this episode. But fortunately this is one of the episodes that shows how Chiana plus Rygel can be one potent force.
And this is a big turnaround because it is usually Zaan that takes care of these two.
While Rygel goes through all of the Tomes, Chiana gathers up even more useful information by her usual way of interrogating people (which includes flirting and teasing).
As the hearing begins, we don't see how things could get any worse. But they do.
But then all of the elements start coming together and when Chiana and Rygel are allowed to start playing to their strengths- ie, able to lie- they are actually able to use this planets "Holy Bible" to bring about a positive outcome.
There is not much else happening in this episode other than the discovery of Rygel's hidden Keevda barbeque in a transport pod's nav linkage... but the courtroom drama is quite enough to satisfy.
This episode is referred to in "mind the baby", because events in this episode happened before that. And this also explains why Zotoh Zaan was acting strangely in the first few episodes of this season.
As good as this episode was, it would not have made a whole lot of sense putting it at the very beginning of season two, because it didn't really involve anyone else, there is no Aeryn, D'Argo or Chrichton. Well, there is. "But not really".
It also goes to show how Moya it's not simply a ship, she has feelings and she is aware of what everybody is going through. And this is also important in this episode.