It seems to me that being drug-addled would appear to be the only reasonable explanation as to why Crichton would even pretend that "Shh, I'm acting like I don't care about you so Scorpius doesn't know!" makes the slightest, remotest, tiniest lick of sense to anybody who's known Scorpius for more than thirty seconds. If Aeryn accepts that explanation, she is being uncharacteristically dumb. And if she doesn't, that "Yay, everything is wonderful and shippy now!" note that the episode ends on is out of place and frankly kind of disturbing. Either way, it bugs me.