No--I think it was a cop-out, not unlike Ripley needing to care for a cat and a child in order to be worth saving in the battle of the tough mamas in space.

One of the things I couldn't quite figure out is whether we were supposed to think she was drunk or on drugs when she was picked up. She said she was clean, I think, but she was weaving and seemed glazed.

Oh, and her teeth were far too white, which was distracting. Couldn't they have spent a moment's makeup on that?

Though on the "less grumpy" side of things, all the prossies wanted to give Reid a free ride (a comment in the show that I was torn between being annoyed by and finding hysterically funny).