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Re:Union

Episode 2.00
USA: June 01, 2001

The original season two premiere episode "Re:Union" was not aired in its original form but was reworked to become the episode "Dream a Little Dream" which then aired midway through the season. "Re:Union" aired for the first time in its original form on June 01, 2001.

  • Guest Cast:
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Mind the Baby

Episode 2.01
USA: March 17, 2000
UK: June 12, 2000
Canada: April 06, 2002 (Space)
Written by Richard Manning
Directed by Andrew Prowse

Crichton, Aeryn and D'Argo have narrowly escaped death, but now find themselves stranded in an asteroid field. Ironically the person who saved their lives is Crais, who is nearby in Talyn learning from Aeryn how to control the young Leviathan — the only thing Aeryn could offer in return for their lives. When Moya returns to the asteroid field to look for her offspring, and Crichton decides to remove Crais from control of Talyn, the events set in train finally give Scorpius the chance he's been waiting for to recapture Crichton.

  • Guest Cast:
  • Lani Tupu as Captain Bialar Crais,
  • Wayne Pygram as Scorpius,
  • David Franklin as Lt. Braca

Vitas Mortis

Episode 2.02
USA: March 24, 2000
Canada: April 13, 2002
Written by Grant McAloon
Directed by Tony Tilse

Having heard stories about another Luxan, D'Argo drags the others on a search that ends when he comes across an old, dying Luxan. However, she also happens to be an Orican — a Luxan holy woman, and she wants D'Argo to help her die. D'Argo has no choice but to take part in a death ritual, but as he helps her cross to the next realm, Nilaam sees a chance to alter her fate. Changing the ritual, Nilaam, instead of dying, emerges as a beautiful young Luxan. As far as she is concerned she has used what she thought was D'Argo's spiritual energy to regenerate and give herself a second life. However, it soon becomes clear that the energy she has used was not from D'Argo, but from Moya, and the consequences for the living ship are catastrophic.

  • Guest Cast:
  • Melissa Jaffer as Nilaam (old),
  • Anna Lise-Phillips as Nilaam (young)

Taking the Stone

Episode 2.03
USA: March 31, 2000
Canada: April 20, 2002
Written by Justin Monjo
Directed by Rowan Woods

When the life disc that joined Chiana and her brother Nerri extinguishes, she knows he is dead. Distraught, she blasts down to a royal cemetery planet and joins a group of nihilistic young aliens. Crichton, Aeryn and Rygel fly down to the planet to try to talk Chiana into coming back to Moya. Chiana has decided to take part in a terrifying local ritual which involves jumping off a cliff into a 300-foot chasm, your fall cushioned only by sound waves that are created by shouting as you descend. But if you don't shout correctly, you die. For Chiana, it is a way to prove to herself she is still alive and can go on without her brother. But Crichton can't understand why Chiana wants to jump and when he can't talk her around he tries kidnapping her. Crichton must learn that there is nothing he can do, Chiana needs to work it out on her own and he needs to let her.

  • Guest Cast:
  • Anthony Hayes as Molnon,
  • Peter Scarf as Das,
  • Michela Noonan as Vyna,
  • Natasha Beaumont as Janixx

Cracker's Don't Matter

Episode 2.04
USA: April 07, 2000
Canada: April 27, 2002
Written by Justin Monjo
Directed by Ian Watson

The crew returns from a Commerce Planet with a load of crackers and a meek alien called T'raltixx, who promises he can alter Moya's electromagnetics to make her untraceable. Crichton is skeptical; it seems too good to be true. But he is soon proved wrong when T'raltixx demonstrates his machine on Crichton's module, making it disappear before their eyes. As they travel to his transformation yards to get a device fitted to Moya, they must travel through the Five Pulsars that T'raltixx warns may have an adverse effect on them. As they pass through the pulsars an intense paranoia affects the crew. They start convincing themselves and each other that their fellow shipmates are conspiring against them. It starts off with petty squabbles over the crackers but soon escalates with D'Argo brutally force-feeding Rygel and Crichton opening fire first on D'Argo and then on Aeryn. While the crew are preoccupied, T'raltixx starts to take over Moya, rewiring and rerouting power to create an intense light chamber that makes the ship start to glow from the inside. As the light increases, so does T'raltixx's strength. Crichton must fight against his own paranoid delusions to work out what T'raltixx is doing and how to stop him.

  • Guest Cast:
  • Wayne Pygram as Scorpius,
  • Danny Adcock as T'raltixx

Picture If You Will

Episode 2.05
USA: April 21, 2000
Written by Peter Neale
Directed by Andrew Prowse

Chiana returns to Moya with a fortune-telling portrait she picked up from a passing trader. The crew watch in horror as the portrait correctly predicts that Chiana will break her leg — and even worse, be burnt to death. As the crew, one by one, meet their death as foretold in the portrait, Zhaan realizes her old foe Maldis, an evil sorcerer, is behind the terrifying goings-on. He is trying to re-corporealise and is feeding on the fears of Crichton, D'Argo, Chiana and especially Zhaan. Zhaan warns Crichton that he may be called upon to trust her implicitly at a crucial moment. Zhaan then kills them both and they pass into Maldis's realm. As his strength grows, Maldis is able to create an exitway from the painting into Moya. But as he does, Zhaan makes her move and, with Pilot and Aeryn's help, weakens his grip enough to allow the crew to escape from the painting and destroy Maldis.

  • Guest Cast:
  • Chris Haywood as Maldis & Kyvan

The Way We Weren't

Episode 2.06
USA: April 14, 2000
Written by Naren Shankar
Directed by Tony Tilse

A datacam tape is uncovered showing Aeryn as part of a Peacekeeper firing squad that executed a previous Pilot aboard Moya. The rest of the crew want some answers but Aeryn is not happy to re-visit her past — especially her relationship with Velorek, the man charged with forcibly bonding a new Pilot to Moya. Pilot too has memories that he would prefer not to uncover, and refuses to communicate with the crew. Crichton and Aeryn finally break through to talk to Pilot, and he is able to admit his own complicity in the demise of his predecessor, and his overwhelming desire to bond properly with his beloved Moya.

  • Guest Cast:
  • Lani John Tupu as Capt. Crais,
  • Alex Dimitriades as Velorek,
  • Melissa Jaffer as Voice of Female Pilot

Home on the Remains

Episode 2.07
USA: June 16, 2000
Writers: Gabrielle Stanton and Harry Werksman Jr.
Directed by Rowan Woods

The crew, starving and desperate, head for a mining colony within a giant Budong carcass. To get supplies, they must contend with B'Sogg, the camp's overlord, who has his eye on Chiana. Zhaan, worst affected by the lack of food, needs meat to survive a Delvian defense response which makes her sprout buds of toxic pollen. The crew go to work, in their different ways, to get meat for Zhaan. Chiana works on B'Sogg, offering herself in return for his help. Rygel tries his hand at the local gambling tables, but loses badly to the resident hustlers. D'Argo and Altana, an old friend of Chiana's, go crystal mining within the carcass. When Altana is attacked and killed by the Keedva, a vicious creature that roams the mining tunnels, Crichton soon discovers that B'Sogg, the colony's self-styled Keedva slayer, is in fact controlling the creature. B'Sogg unleashes the Keedva on an unarmed Crichton, leaving him to kill or be killed.

  • Guest Cast:
  • John Brumpton as B'Soog,
  • Justine Saunders as Altana,
  • Rob Carlton as Vija,
  • Hunter Perske as Temmon,
  • Gavin Robins as Keedva

Dream a Little Dream

Episode 2.08
USA: June 23, 2000
Written by Steven Rae (Rockne S. O'Bannon)
Directed by Ian Watson

Zhaan, still wracked by guilt-ridden nightmares, relates to Crichton what happened to them after they starbursted away from the burning Gammak Base, abandoning Crichton, Aeryn and D'Argo to an unknown fate. While desperately searching for news of their friends, Zhaan, Chiana and Rygel found themselves on the planet Litigara — a world where lawyers comprise ninety percent of the population. After being framed for a minor offence, Zhaan was jailed — a major complication given that Pilot was already having difficulty stopping Moya from StarBursting away to look for Talyn. Zhaan was unwittingly drawn further into the ugly domestic politics of Litigara when she was once again framed for a crime. But this time it was murder. With Moya champing at the bit to get away, it fell to Chiana and Rygel to defend Zhaan: a seemingly impossible task given the Byzantine laws of the Litigaran world.

  • Guest Cast:
  • Steve Jacobs as Ja Rhumann,
  • Sandy Gore as Judge,
  • Simone Kessell as Finzzi,
  • Marin Mimica as Dersch,
  • Peter Kowitz as Tarr,
  • Jeremy Callaghan as Bartender

Out of Their Minds

Episode 2.09
USA: July 07, 2000
Written by Michael Cassutt
Directed by Ian Watson

Moya is under sudden attack — an alien ship has locked weapons, is about to fire and is not listening to any white flag-waving messages. Crichton and the others are jolted from sleep and race from their rooms, while Zhaan flies out to the enemy ship to negotiate. On the very good assumption that she'll fail, D'Argo and the rest work on reactivating the defence shield they purloined from the Peacekeepers. They're right to try, as Zhaan can't stop the aliens from firing — and firing when the shield is only barely working. It is just powerful enough to prevent Moya from being destroyed. But the combination of weapons fire and a fluctuating, weak shield produces the very oddest of effects. For after the opening salvo, all of the crew on Moya find that they have swapped bodies…

  • Guest Cast:
  • Lani Tupu as Bialar Crais,
  • Dominique Sweeny as Yoz,
  • Angie Milliken as Voice of Yoz,
  • Thomas Holesgrove as Tak,
  • Nicholas McKay as Voice of Tak

My Three Crichtons

Episode 2.10
USA: July 14, 2000
Writers: Gabrielle Stanton & Harry Werksman, Jr.
Directed by Catherine Millar

An energy sphere penetrates Moya and roams the tiers until it finds Crichton. It absorbs him, even while Aeryn fires at it. Her firing seems to do some damage, though, as the sphere balloons out through the decking and eventually ejects Crichton. And then it ejects Crichton. And again. There are now three versions of Crichton on Moya — one as we know him, one as a super-evolved intelligent Crichton and one as a caveman throwback. The sphere tells the Crichtons that it is a research device gathering samples and that in this case the sample it wants is Crichton. But only one of him: it doesn't care which. But if it doesn't get one of the three of him it will take them all — the three Crichtons, Moya and everybody aboard.

  • Guest Cast:
  • Matthew Le Nevez as Crichton double

Look at the Princess (Part I): A Kiss is But a Kiss

Episode 2.11
USA: July 21, 2000
Canada (Space): June 15, 2002
Written by David Kemper
Directors: Andrew Prowse & Tony Tilse

Look at the Princess finds Crichton, Aeryn, Rygel, D'Argo, and Chiana on a planet about to crown their new monarch. The problem is, the Princess Katralla, cannot ascend unless she finds a mate genetically compatible to her poisoned DNA. Her brother, Prince Clavor, is over his head in a bargain with the Scarran Diplomat, Sastaretski Cargn, to ascend the throne in her place… whatever the cost. Enter Crichton, unawares of the game of thrones taking place around him. Spurned by Aeryn (again), he takes to the native culture of testing his genetic compatibility with the local women, which is a sort of kissing litmus test. The trouble starts when he kisses the princess and is found to be the only person ever to be compatible with her which could save the monarchy.
Meanwhile, Scorpius' warship arrives in orbit around the planet, forcing Zhaan to flee in Moya, only to discover a greater peril at the hands of Moya's builders — god-like creatures with the power of life and death over their creations.
Trapped on the planet, Crichton is forced to make a decision: marry the princess or be turned over to Scorpius, who has been pursuing Crichton across the galaxy. One of the many drawbacks to being crowned is that he will have to spend eighty cycles as a statue, absorbing knowledge of the state's parliament until it is time for he and his wife to rule.

  • Guest Cast:
  • Matt Day as Tyno,
  • Wayne Pygram as Scorpius,
  • Tina Bursill as Novia,
  • Felix Williamson as Clavor,
  • Felicity Price as Princess Katralla,
  • Nicholas McKay as Voice of Cargn,
  • Bianca Chiminello as Jena,
  • Aaron Cash as Dregon,
  • Gavin Robins as Cargn,
  • Jonathan Hardy as Kahaynu,
  • Francesca Buller as ro-NA,
  • John Claridge as ?

Look at the Princess (Part II): I Do, I Think

Episode 2.12
USA: July 28, 2000
Written by David Kemper
Directed by Andrew Prowse & Tony Tilse

Rescued from an assassination attempt by Prince Clavor's fiance Jena. Crichton learns that she is a Peacekeeper agent, who mistakenly assumes he is one too. He gets away to confront Clavor about the attack. It's a bad move. Tyno believes Clavor ordered the attack but without evidence Crichton's standing is falling rapidly. Previously he'd have loved that, it would mean he could escape without marrying the princess but now Moya's vanished and the only person waiting for him offworld is Scorpius. While Rygel negotiates for greater security on Crichton and Scorpius plots against him, Moya's found herself being probed by the Builders — the aliens who created her. They're not best pleased, either, at her having developed into something that can give birth to armed battlecruisers. The Builders are peaceful, you can see their point. But their point now is to decommission Moya — and that means death for her, for Pilot and for Zhaan. There's little hope for any of them and Crichton faces the knowledge that even if he can survive the next few hours, his best possible result is being married — and turned into a statue for eighty years.

  • Guest Cast:
  • Matt Day as Tyno,
  • Felicity Price as Princess Katralla,
  • Wayne Pygram as Scorpius,
  • Jonathan Hardy as Kahaynu,
  • Francesca Buller as ro-NA,
  • Tina Bursill as Novia,
  • Felix Williamson as Clavor,
  • David Franklin as Lt. Braca,
  • Nicholas McKay as Voice of Cargn,
  • Thomas Holesgrove as Cargn,
  • Aaron Cash as Dregon Carzenonva,
  • Bianca Chiminello as Jenavian Charto,
  • Jennifer Fisher as PK Nurse

Look at the Princess (Part III): The Maltese Crichton

Episode 2.13
USA: August 04, 2000
Written by David Kemper
Directors: Andrew Prowse & Tony Tilse

John Crichton faces eighty years as a statue. That is, until the Scarran Cargn decapitates the statue and drops the head into a vat of acid. He can be put back together, but his head is found by Scorpius who refuses to surrender it. Meanwhile, Aeryn goes rock-climbing with Dregon to try to take her mind off Crichton's marriage. She manages, too, but only when an accident sends them both tumbling to the ground. Far away from the Royal planet, Zhaan is faced with Moya being decommissioned by the Builders and the threat of dying in the cold, airless ship. Her only chance of escape is to get John's Farscape 1 module to work. With the Empress ordering the death of all aliens over the decapitation of John's statue, D'Argo finds his only option is to join forces with Scorpius if he is to survive.

  • Guest Cast:
  • Matt Day as Tyno,
  • Wayne Pygram as Scorpius,
  • Jonathan Hardy as Kahaynu,
  • Tina Bursill as Novia,
  • Bianca Chiminello as Jenavian Charto,
  • Felix Williamson as Clavor,
  • Aaron Cash as Dregon Carzenonva,
  • Nicholas McKay as Voice of Cargn,
  • Thomas Holesgrove as Cargn,
  • Felicity Price as Princess Katralla,
  • Rose Klemp as ?

Beware of Dog

Episode 2.14
USA: August 11, 2000
Written by Naren Shankar
Directed by Tony Tilse

For once the crew on Moya have plenty of food after bartering successfully on a commerce planet. Unfortunately, they are warned that the food may be carrying a parasite — and one that won't see much difference between the food and the crew. D'Argo and Chiana find a solution, though, when they buy a parasite killer, a small cute alien called a Vorc. But while they're convinced the Vorc is the solution, they're not sure there is a parasite yet and there's always the chance that they've misunderstood what the Vorc is for. That becomes especially likely when Crichton reports seeing a grotesque hunter/killer beast on Moya at the time the Vorc disappears. Only, Crichton's been seeing a lot of things lately and no one's too sure whether they should believe him or not.

  • Guest Cast:
  • Wayne Pygram as Scorpius

Won't Get Fooled Again

Episode 2.15
USA: August 18, 2000
Written by Richard Manning
Directed by Rowan Woods

Crichton finds himself back on Earth, apparently safely returned from his failed Farscape mission. Immediately suspicious, Crichton then starts seeing the crew of Moya one by one in various earthbound guises — Aeryn as a doctor, Zhaan as a psychiatrist, even Rygel as an executive. Eventually, Scorpius too appears, but unlike the others, he claims to know what is really going on. He tells John that this new earth is a hallucination created by a Scarran agent, and that in reality, John is a captive. The Scarrans know that Scorpius is interested in John, and through this freakish interrogation technique, they intend to find out why — at the expense of Crichton's sanity.

  • Guest Cast:
  • Kent McCord as Jack Crichton,
  • Wayne Pygram as Scorpius,
  • Lani Tupu as Capt. Bialar Crais,
  • Carmen Duncan as Leslie Crichton,
  • Murray Bartlett as DK,
  • Thomas Holesgrove as Grath

The Locket

Episode 2.16
USA: August 25, 2000
Written by Justin Monjo
Directed by Ian Watson

Returning from reconnaissance near an unknown planet, Aeryn appears on board having aged one-hundred and sixty cycles! After warning the crew that Moya is stuck in time, she then returns to the planet, leaving a desperate Crichton to follow her. Years pass on the planet surface. Aeryn has raised a family and is content with her life, but Crichton is a bitter and disillusioned old man. On Moya, Zhaan and Stark combine their powers to discover that Moya is trapped in a 'Center Halo', a region where time does not exist.

  • Guest Cast:
  • Wayne Pygram as Scorpius,
  • Paul Goddard as Stark,
  • Allyson Standen as Ennixx

The Ulgy Truth

Episode 2.17
USA: September 08, 2000
Written by Gabrielle Stanton & Harry Werksman Jr
Directed by Tony Tilse

Crais invites Crichton, Aeryn, D'Argo, Zhaan and Stark on board Talyn, and announces that he is going to remove the young gunship's weapons and replace them with a non-lethal Plokavian weapon called a 'Dampening Net'. When the Plokavians arrive with the device, Talyn suddenly targets and destroys one of their vessels! Crichton and the others are captured after Crais starbursts away with Talyn, and their situation becomes a desperate 'whodunnit'. Each is interrogated in turn by the Plokavians, who intend to execute the person they deem responsible.

  • Guest Cast:
  • Lani Tupu as Crais,
  • Paul Goddard as Stark,
  • Peter Carroll as Gahv,
  • Linda Cropper as Fento

A Clockwork Nebari

Episode 2.18
USA: September 15, 2000
Written by Lily Taylor
Directed by Rowan Woods

Aeryn and Rygel bring onto Moya two Nebari survivors of a Peacekeeper attack, Varla and Melak. Despite their weakened state, the ruthless Nebari manage to mind-cleanse the crew, and in the end only Crichton is unaffected, his mind protected by the Scorpius Clone. Crichton presses Chiana as to the motivations of Varla and Melak. It turns out that Nerri, the brother Chiana thought lost, is very much alive, and is now the leader of the Nebari Resistance Movement. The Nebari Establishment knows this, and intends to capture him using Chiana as bait.

  • Guest Cast:
  • Lani Tupu as Crais,
  • Wayne Pygram as Scorpius,
  • Skye Wansey as Varla,
  • Simon Bossell as Nerri,
  • Malcolm Kennard as Meelak

Liars, Guns, and Money (Part I): A Not So Simple Plan

Episode 19
USA: January 05, 2001
Written by Grant McAloon
Directed by Andrew Prowse

Stark returns from the dead with a plan to rescue D'Argo's son Jothee from the Slave Traders. Stark wants the crew of Moya to help him rob a Shadow Depository — a storage facility for ill-gotten gains — and use the stolen loot to purchase the lot of slaves that contains Jothee. D'Argo, furious when the others refuse to agree to Stark's crazy-sounding plan, takes matters into his own hands and heads for the Depository. Crichton and Aeryn follow him down, hoping to stop him from doing anything foolish, but arrive just in time to see D'Argo taken into custody after he uses a secret access code to enter a supposedly secure area.
Back on Moya, Crichton and Aeryn are furious that Stark has manipulated them into helping him rob the Depository; Stark gave D'Argo the code to force the Depository to change its codes after the security breach and unknowingly allow Stark to hack into the Depository's systems at that time. But with D'Argo captured, Moya's crew has no choice but to go along with Stark's plan.
Zhaan masquerades as a bad-assed criminal; Crichton, Chiana, and Aeryn act as her bodyguards. Zhaan tells Natira, the alien female in charge of the Depository, that she wishes to store some time-sensitive goods. (Hidden in the goods is Rygel; once inside the vault, he'll use a gizmo provided by Stark to swap the access code of their own container for one containing objects of far more value.) Zhaan tells Natira that D'Argo was sent to test the security of the establishment and that Zhaan would like D'Argo returned.
All looks like it's going to plan — until Scorpius arrives at the Depository. Crichton, still haunted by hallucinatory flashes of Scorpius, accuses Stark of knowing it was Scorpius' loot they were planning to steal. Stark blithely admits this, but refuses to abort the plan despite Scorpius' presence. Stark says that amongst the Slaves being auctioned are a thousand Baniks — his people. If they use Scorpius' money to free them, all the better. With Rygel already inside the vault, they have no option but to continue.
Zhaan successfully retrieves "her" container after Rygel has pulled off the container swap. But before they can all make their escape, Scorpius is alerted to their presence. With the Depository on alert, Crichton, Aeryn, Zhaan, Chiana, and Rygel attempt to escape with the loot.
In a final showdown with Scorpius, Crichton learns why he has been experiencing flashes of him; back on Moya, the others celebrate the successful heist — unaware that the loot is not quite what it seems.

  • Guest Cast:
  • Wayne Pygram as Scorpius,
  • Paul Goddard as Stark,
  • David Franklin as Lt. Braca,
  • Claudia Karvan as Natira,
  • Matt Newton as Jothee,
  • Adrian Brown as Gan,
  • Jennifer Fisher as PK Nurse

Liars, Guns, and Money (Part II): With Friends Like These

Episode 2.20
USA: January 12, 2001
Written by Naren Shankar
Directed by Catherine Millar

With the loot from the Depository heist at hand, D'Argo anxiously waits to make contact with the Slave Traders. It is revealed that Scorpius has beaten them to it and purchased the lot of slaves containing D'Argo's son Jothee — whom he'll trade for Crichton.
Crichton comes up with a plan: use the loot from the heist to hire some of their old foes — Tavleks, Blood Trackers, Sheyangs, and Zenetan Pirates — to help them storm the depository and rescue Jothee.
But after Crichton, Aeryn, and D'Argo fly off to find the mercenaries and persuade them to join in, Chiana and Rygel discover that the "loot" is not the valuable ingots they thought — but living creatures that are eating Moya! Zhaan discovers that the only way to kill them is with intense heat — enough heat to seriously injure Moya. With Pilot and Moya's support, Zhaan reluctantly implements a controlled burn of one ninth of Moya's area.
Crichton recruits Bekhesh, the Tavlek from Throne for a Loss. Aeryn finds a past-his-prime but still prideful Teurac, a fire-breathing Sheyang from PK Tech Girl. D'Argo finds Blood Trackers Rorf and Rorg from Till the Blood Runs Clear; Rorg, pregnant, insists Rorf go with D'Argo; they will need money to provide for their upcoming litter.
Rygel locates the Zenetan Pirates from The Flax — but discovers that his old nemesis, Peacekeeper Captain Durka, has taken command of the Pirates. After Rygel kills Durka in self-defense, the Zenetan Pirate Zelkin agrees to Rygel's mercenary proposal.
When Crichton and the others return, they find Moya burnt and severely damaged — and the money to pay the mercenaries is gone. And when Jothee arrives on Moya and reunites with D'Argo, Aeryn realizes what has happened: to free Jothee, Crichton has turned himself over to Scorpius.

  • Guest Cast:
  • Wayne Pygram as Scorpius,
  • Paul Goddard as Stark,
  • David Franklin as Lt Braca,
  • Claudia Karvan as Natira,
  • Matt Newton as Jothee,
  • Nicholas Hope as Akkor,
  • Thomas Holgrove as Teurac,
  • John Adam as Bekhesh,
  • Jeremy Sims as Rorf,
  • Jo Kerrigan as Rorg,
  • David Wheeler as Durka,
  • David Bowers as Kurz

Liars, Guns, and Money (Part III): Plan B

Episode 2.21
USA: January 19, 2001
Written by Justin Monjo
Directed by Tony Tilse

Left with no money and some extremely angry mercenaries on a badly burned Moya, the crew must deal with the fact that Crichton has given himself up to Scorpius to save Jothee. But Aeryn is not prepared for defeat. She convinces the others that the plan is still the same. Instead of rescuing Jothee, they're going to rescue Crichton. When the mercenaries question what they are going to be paid with, Aeryn reminds them that the Depository holds more riches than any of them could ever have dreamed.
In the Depository, Scorpius and Natira examine the captured Crichton. Months earlier, Scorpius had installed a neural chip in Crichton's brain; the chip contained a mental clone of Scorpius. The clone's task was to locate the information on wormhole technology that an alien race called the Ancients had locked away in Crichton's unconscious mind. Scorpius now dons a device that allows him to communicate with his mental clone: has the clone accomplished its task? Yes, says the clone; the wormhole information has been downloaded to the neural chip, and the chip can now be surgically removed.
But Scorpius is put on alert when Rorf is caught sneaking around the Depository perimeter. Scorpius lets Natira torture and interrogate Rorf, who gives up the information that Moya's crew plans to attack and destroy the Depository's generator, using the resulting dark as their cover.
D'Argo, Aeryn, and Bekhesh begin the assault, clearing the way for Zhaan, Stark, and Teurac to reach the generator so Teurac can breathe a fireball and destroy it. However, Scorpius and several guards are waiting at the generator. Teurac nonetheless completes his objective by refusing to be taken alive; he blasts himself, causing a huge explosion that takes out the generator.
Crichton persuades Natira that Scorpius, once he's gained his objective, will never let her remain alive; Natira releases Crichton in exchange for safe passage to Moya with him. But the Scorpius mental clone in Crichton's head is clamoring for Crichton to give up the escape attempt and return to Scorpius. Even if Aeryn and the others can fight their way out of the Depository, can Crichton resist the neural chip's takeover of his mind?

  • Guest Cast:
  • Lani Tupu as Crais,
  • Wayne Pygram as Scorpius,
  • Paul Goddard as Stark,
  • Claudia Karvan as Natira,
  • Matt Newton as Jothee,
  • Nicholas Hope as Akkor,
  • Thomas Holgrove as Teurac,
  • John Adam as Bekhesh,
  • Jeremy Sims as Rorf

Die Me Dichotomy

Episode 2.22
USA: January 26, 2001
Written by David Kemper
Directed by Rowan Woods

Wealthy from their bank heist, Moya's crew heads straight for an ice planet to meet with Diagnosan Tocot, a famous surgeon whom they hope can heal Moya's burns as well as remove Scorpius' neural chip from Crichton's brain. However, having located the wormhole information in Crichton's mind, Scorpius' mental clone is not prepared to give up his prize — and Scorpius' personality overtakes Crichton until the two are indistinguishable.
With the Scorpius mental clone controlling him, Crichton admits his love to Aeryn… but when she responds in kind, Crichton/Scorpius knocks her unconscious and attempts to flee Moya. Though captured by D'Argo and Jothee, Crichton/Scorpius tricks Zhaan into joining minds with him in Unity — and escapes again, this time flying off in Crichton's Farscape Module. Aeryn pursues in her Prowler, but is forced to eject when Crichton/Scorpius maneuvers his Module into a collision. Her descent takes her onto a frozen lake on the planet — and she is unable to free herself from her harness before the ejector seat's jets melt the ice and plunge her into the freezing waters.
The tragedy snaps Crichton back into control of his own mind, and he insists that Tocot operate and remove the Scorpius neural chip from his brain.
Meanwhile, the others must decide what their future holds.
Crais, aboard Talyn, regrets that Aeryn never joined them, nor had a chance to learn something that Crais had discovered — information that Crais thinks would have made Aeryn happy…
D'Argo has been planning to propose marriage to Chiana and live a quiet life on a farm with her and his son Jothee…
Chiana, however, is not at all interested in marriage to D'Argo, and Jothee is likewise uninterested in living on a farm. Chiana and Jothee also discover a mutual attraction…
Rygel, looking to desert from a crippled Moya, bribes the surgeon's assistant, Grunchlk, into helping him find a ship to purchase…
Stark offers his services to Zhaan to help care for the injured Moya, and offers to spend the rest of his life with her…
Tocot manages to remove the chip from Crichton's brain, but the operation temporarily removes Crichton's ability to speak. Before Tocot can restore Crichton's speech, Scorpius arrives in time to take the neural chip, deliver a death blow to Tocot, and leave Crichton helpless and speechless on the operating table…

  • Guest Cast:
  • Lani Tupu as Crais,
  • Wayne Pygram as Scorpius,
  • Paul Goddard as Stark,
  • David Franklin as Lt. Braca,
  • Matt Newton as Jothee,
  • Hugh Keays-Byrne as Grunchlk,
  • Thomas Holesgrove as Diagnosan Tocot