"I’d forgotten how beautiful you were," Aeryn mutters.

Aeryn wakes up while Chiana is looking after her. She asks for water, only to inject poor Chiana with a sedative once her back is turned.

She then visits Pilot, asking him to get the others out of the mist, then returns to the planet in a transport pod.

Crichton soon follows. After catching up with her on the planet, he tries to convince her to return to Moya.

"You don’t know what you’re talking about," she tells him. "Now please, just go."

He grabs her, but is startled by a blast of gunfire. A young woman orders him to put his gun down.

"You touch my grandmother again," she says, "and I’ll kill you."

The young woman is Aeryn’s granddaughter Ennixx, and she is amazed to learn that Crichton is real. She tells Crichton that Aeryn has been returning to the barren planet every year to try and make contact with Moya.

Aeryn tells Crichton to leave immediately. The opening in the mist is about to close, and if he doesn’t pass through it before it does he’ll be trapped for years.

On Moya, D’Argo and Chiana argue. He wants her to act more like part of the group, but she refuses to be changed by him.

With a sinking heart, she asks him, "We’re not going to make it, are we?"

As he returns in the pod, Crichton brings the others up to date. The hole closes just before he can pass through it.

Let’s get unified

Zhaan prays for Crichton and Aeryn. Stark brings her some water and some possible answers.

He’s heard of a stellar phenomenon known as "senta-halos" – mists where dimensions and times meet. Since Delvians can sense the time continuum, he thinks that by joining their spirits they may be able to get a better idea what is going on around them.

They try it, and time seems to stutter and freeze for a moment. Even Pilot feels the disturbance.

Permanent vacation

Years have gone by, and Aeryn and their granddaughter have brought Crichton back from the barren world to their beautiful "home" planet. Today, they’re planting trees.

Crichton hasn’t adapted well to his new home. He’s restless, and still thinks about returning to Moya.

On Moya, Stark and Zhaan tell the others about their experiment. They deduced the real problem – it’s not that Aeryn was aging at an accelerated rate, it’s that the senta-halo they are in is a place without time.

There’s another complication: the mist is hardening. If they don’t leave soon, they will be trapped in this timeless place forever.

More years have gone by, and the trees Aeryn and Ennixx planted have grown tall. Now very old, Crichton and Aeryn take a walk among them.

Crichton is bored. When he was a pilot, he was who he wanted to be, and he hasn’t given that up yet.

Not everything about his life on the planet is unpleasant, though. He tells Aeryn that she is the one thing that has kept him from "doing a kamikaze" in his transport pod.

Aeryn is having chest pains. As they help each other up for the walk home, her locket falls to the ground.

Crichton has heard there is a picture of somebody in the locket, and he wants to know who it is. "The only love of my life," Aeryn teases him.

She offers to let him open the locket and look, but after a moment he decides not to. He jokes that the picture must be of her long-dead husband.

J. C. phone home

More time passes. They return to the barren planet to attempt a rendezvous with Moya, and Crichton unpacks his carefully preserved comlink.

Ennixx doesn’t want Aeryn to go, but Aeryn tells her granddaughter that a Peacekeeper is born in space and must die in space.

After a long series of attempts, Crichton finally makes contact with Moya. They launch the pod and return to the ship.

When the pod docks, though, Aeryn has died of old age.

The old choice: misery or near-certain death

Crichton tells the others about the pocket dimension he has been living in for the last half century. It’s a safe haven, but Moya would be trapped and there are only a few dull worlds in it.

Crichton has an alternative. He thinks their best chance for escape is to try to exit the mist from the exact point they entered it.

Due to the mists’ timeless nature, Pilot thinks Moya is still very near the entry point. However, the mist has now almost completely hardened, and the ship is stuck.

Crichton suggests a reverse starburst, but it’s the kind of insanely risky maneuver that is only tried at the end of an episode. Fortunately, it’s almost the end of the episode, so Pilot reluctantly agrees to try it.

After the decision is made, Crichton wanders off. He sits down next to Aeryn’s body in the transport pod.

"There are so many places that I wanted you to see," he tells her.

As he gives her a last kiss, he sees her locket. He opens it and finds his picture there.

Time out of joint

Something goes wrong, however, and time begins to grind to a halt for the crew. Pilot tells the others to activate the starburst manually, but D’Argo and Chiana are frozen before they can get to the controls.

Zhaan comes up with another insanely risky idea that should only be tried at the end of an episode. Since she and Crichton still share a bond from unifying last year, she can unify with Stark and use their energy to keep time going for Crichton.

That this makes no sense whatsoever doesn’t seem to bother anyone, and they try it. Zhaan uses a telepathic link with Crichton to tell him what to do.

He hurries to the command deck with all the speed of a grieving 80-year-old, hitting the controls just as Zhaan’s strength is exhausted.

Moya starbursts backwards, reassembling herself just outside the mist. The maneuver also takes the ship and her crew back in time to just before they entered the mist.

Zhaan abruptly comes out of her meditations. She and Stark run for the command center, arriving just in time to convince the others to change course and not enter the mist.

Later, Stark and Zhaan review what has happened with each other, confirming that they are the only ones who remember what happened. Then Stark finally gets around to doing what he apparently came to the ship to do.

He has something important for D’Argo – a picture of his son found in a slave cargo loading manifest.

Always the mature reaction

D’Argo goes berserk and attacks Stark, demanding to know how long Stark has known about his son’s enslavement. Zhaan calms him down, assuring him that they will find a way to rescue the boy.

"I’ve got to save my son," D’Argo tells her. "We’ve got to find a way."

Crichton puzzles over a strange feeling that something has happened. Aeryn lightly tells him, "If something happened I’m sure we would have remembered."

In the meantime, she’s trying to figure out what happened to her locket, which she found fused shut in the transport pod. She gets it open, and she and Crichton try to figure out what the strange dust within it used to be.