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Season of Death

Episode 3.01
USA: March 16, 2001
Canada: September 06, 2002 (Space)
Written by Richard Manning
Directed by Ian Watson

Scorpius makes his chilling presence felt on the Ice Planet while Crichton struggles to recover from brain surgery. D'Argo, Stark and Zhaan work to heal Crichton, but their efforts are stymied when Scorpius takes control of yet another body. Meanwhile, Crichton, still mourning Aeryn's death, struggles to remove a lingering trace of his nemesis from his mind.

Guest Cast: David Franklin as Lt. Braca, Matt Newton as Jothee, Hugh Keays-Byrne as Grunchlk, Thomas Holesgrove as Diagnosan Tocot/Plonek, Aaron Catalan as Officer Kobrin

Suns and Lovers

Episode 3.02
USA: March 23, 2001
Written by Justin Monjo
Directed by Andrew Prowse

Eager to spend the loot acquired from robbing the Shadow Depository, the crew of Moya head to a commerce station. The situation becomes disastrous when the commerce station is hit by a violent storm, severely damaging the station and trapping Moya in the docking cables. The storms may not be natural phenomena, but weapons of wrath used by religious zealots to protect their Sacred Stillness from the evils of commerce. With little time to lose, Crichton, Stark, and Rygel set about locating the source of the signal attracting the storm. Meanwhile, D'Argo is confronted with the ultimate betrayal by those closest to him, and becomes depressed and self-destructive. Intoxicated, he bids Pilot goodbye and heads out on the potentially suicidal mission of releasing Moya before the storm hits.

Guest Cast: Matt Newton as Jothee, Thomas Holesgrove as Moordil, Leeanna Walsman as Borlik, Jessica Fallico as Alien Girl, David Lucas as Cryoman

Self-Inflicted Wounds (Part I): Could'a, Would'a, Should'a

Episode 3.03
USA: March 30, 2001
Written by David Kemper
Directed by Tony Tilse

While Crichton inspects a wormhole, a small ship screams out of the hole and collides with Moya. When the two crews recover, they find that the two ships have fused together in a freakish amalgam, and Crichton wakes up face to face with two aliens armed with needle-shooting gills. However, there is little time to exchange pleasantries. The fused ships are trapped in a series of wormholes, looping repeatedly and Moya seems to be reacting badly to the collision, her systems dying section by section. It is discovered that to separate the ships, one of them must be cast into the wormhole wall and destroyed. The intruders insist that because Moya is on death's door, it is THEIR ship that must be saved, with both crews on board.

Guest Cast: Tammy MacIntosh as Jool, Victoria Longley as Neeyala, Nicholas Hope as Kreetago , Dwayne Fernandez as Cresto, Kerith Atkinson as Shreena, Brian Carbee as Lastren

Self-Inflicted Wounds (Part II): Wait for the Wheel

Episode 3.04
USA: April 06, 2001
Written by David Kemper
Directed by Tony Tilse

Faced with the imminent death of both Pilot and Moya, who will be cast into the wall of the imprisoning wormhole, the inhabitants of the living ship prepare to disembark and take their chances with Neeyala's vessel. That is, until a critical discovery is made. Moya's disintegration is not a result of the collision between the two ships, but sabotage. As time runs out, and the yawning wormhole beckons, a moment of truth is reached. One crewmember will sacrifice their life so that the others may live.

Guest Cast: Tammy MacIntosh as Jool, Victoria Longley as Neeyala, Nicholas Hope as Kreetago, Dwayne Fernandez as Cresto, Kerith Atkinson as Shreena, Brian Carbee as Lastren

…Different Destinations

Episode 3.05
USA: April 13, 2001
Written by Steve Worland
Directed by Peter Andrikidis

The crew of Moya stop at the ancient site of a great siege, where Peacekeeper forces once negotiated surrender to a vastly superior army. Then, in the midst of this tranquillity, the impossible happens. Through a freak combination of Stark's ethereal presence, and a mysterious tear in the fabric of time, Crichton and his comrades are thrust back into the past. Materialising in the midst of the ancient siege, they accidentally change the course of events. Now as time grows short, they must discover how to set right what once went wrong — before they become history, too.

Guest Cast: Tammy MacIntosh as Jool, Lucy Bell as Nurse Kelsa, Basia A'hern as Cyntrina, Marshall Napier as General Grynes, Dan Spielman as Sub-Officer Dacon, Terry Serio as Colonel Lennok, Alan Cinis as Officer Tarn

Eat Me

Episode 3.06
USA: April 20, 2001
Written by Matt Ford
Directed by Ian Watson

D'Argo, Crichton, Chiana and Jool are onboard a transport when they're forced to land on a seemingly abandoned Leviathan. They discover that the ship is populated by flesh-and-Leviathan-eating zombies. The ship appears to be under the complete control of a villainous type who has the power to "twin" any living beings. He twins D'Argo (whose other half dies), Chiana, and finally, Crichton. John Deux survives and is brought onboard Moya. Meanwhile, Aeryn, Rygel and Stark discover a beaten and battered Talyn drifting through space, along with an unconscious Crais.

Guest Cast: Tammy MacIntosh as Jool, Shane Briant as Kaarvok, Lisa Griffiths as Belima, Sean Masterson as Voice of Rovhu's Pilot

Thanks for Sharing

Episode 3.07
USA: June 15, 2001
Written by Clayvon C. Harris
Directed by Ian Barry

D'Argo, Chiana and Rygel head down to Kanvia to pick up some Chromextin, the drug they need to heal an ailing Talyn, and become embroiled in local politics. Meanwhile, we have two Chrictons and an injured Crais. As Crais regains strength, he reveals to Aeryn knowledge of her mother and her roots — Aeryn was conceived naturally, out of love. Her mother, however, now commands a Peacekeeper Retrieval Squad who are Talyn's mysterious attackers.

Guest Cast: Tammy MacIntosh as Jool, Rebecca Gibney as Sarova, Robert Brunning as Pralanoth, Sandy Winton as Tolven, Linda Cropper as Xhalax Sun, Julianne Newbould as Felor, Hunter Perske as Bloy

Green-Eyed Monster

Episode 3.08
USA: June 22, 2001
Written by Ben Browder
Directed by Tony Tilse

Still recovering from the attack by the Peacekeeper Retrieval Squad, Talyn is unprepared when he is swallowed by a gargantuan space creature known as a Budong while hiding in a planet's ice rings.
Unable to Starburst or to navigate against the electromagnetic current, Crais makes the decision to make his way through the Budong's digestive tract, hoping Talyn is small enough to pass through unharmed. Safe on the Transport Pod with Rygel, Stark is horrified when he learns of their plan, informing them that the stomach of a Budong is an inferno, which they will never survive.
Managing to calm Talyn long enough to tether him to the wall of the Budong, Crichton, Aeryn and Crais contemplate their fiery future while they try to come up with another plan. To complicate matters, Crais's neural connection with Talyn is having adverse effects on Crais's health. Wanting help to control the gunship, he asks Aeryn to join him by also taking the Hand of Friendship — an eventuality that Talyn also desires.
But Crichton is not so sure of Crais's motives, especially when he stumbles across a video recording that shows Aeryn and Crais having sex.
When Stark does eventually come up with a plan that just might save their lives, Aeryn will be forced to face her true feelings if all of them are to survive.

Guest Cast: none

Losing Time

Episode 3.09
USA: June 29, 2001
Written by Justin Monjo
Directed by Catherine Millar

When Moya passes through an electromagnetic cluster, Crichton begins having strange blackouts and bouts of bleeding. Exhausted from his relentless search for wormholes, the rest of the crew initially claims Crichton's experience was a result of fatigue, until it is revealed that Crichton was not the only one to lose time. To prove the point, Crichton makes the crew sit together in the Centre Chamber with a DRD recording events. Crichton plays back the DRD's recording, to everyone's shock, they see themselves spasm and then freeze — for half an hour. They turn to Pilot for answers, only to find that Pilot has been possessed by a strange energy being who tells them they must prepare to face judgment.
The being explains that a diseased energy rider entered Moya when she passed through the electromagnetic cluster. This rider is malevolent, and will attempt to keep whichever body it possesses until that body dies. It must be hunted out — something that the being in Pilot had hoped to do without being discovered. Since its more subtle probes into the crew haven't worked, it must now 'taste' each of them individually to find the energy rider — a painful and possibly lethal process.

Guest Cast: Tammy MacIntosh as Jool, David Franklin as Lt. Braca , Jo Kerrigan as Linfer, Danny Adcock as Co-Kura Strappa, Ian Bliss as PK Scientist Drillic, Tux Akindoyeni as PK Pilot Rinon

Relativity

Episode 3.10
USA: July 06, 2001
Written by Rockne S. O'Bannon
Directed by Peter Andrikidis

While Talyn's crew wait for him to heal on an uninhabited jungle planet, a vigilante Peacekeeper ship arrives intent on capturing Talyn and the rebel Peacekeeper, Captain Crais. The Peacekeeper Retrieval Squad is under the command of Senior Officer Xhalax Sun — Aeryn's mother.

Guest Cast: Linda Cropper as Xhalax Sun, Thomas Holesgrove as Vek, Dominique Sweeney as Thek and Kek

Incubator

Episode 3.11
USA: July 13, 2001
Canada: November 15, 2002
Written by Richard Manning
Directed by Ian Watson

In order to get the final piece of wormhole technology that continues to elude him, Scorpius places Crichton's neural chip directly into this brain. This sets up a little tête-à-tête between Scorpius' mental projection and yet another Crichton, a neural clone. Scorpy wants to convince the John-clone into decoding the hidden wormhole equations placed in his brain by the Ancients. And he hopes to do that by appealing to John's bleeding heart, by showing him the most intimate details about his early life. He believes once John sees that they face the Scarrans as a common enemy, he will decide to help Scorpius and the peacekeepers.

Guest Cast: Tammy MacIntosh as Jool, David Franklin as Lt Braca, Amy Salas as Tauza, Evan Sheaves as Child Scorpius, Stephanie Jacobsen as Nurse Froy, Paul Shedlowich as Plint, Jo Kerrigan as Linfer, Danny Adcock as Co-Kura, Thomas Holesgrove as Wolesh, Sam Healy as Rylani Jeema, Nicholas Bishop as Ghebb Dellos, William Zappa as Captain Molayne

Meltdown

Episode 3.12
USA: July 14, 2001
Written by Matt Ford
Directed by Ian Barry

Talyn draws dangerously close to a star, pulled by some mysterious force. Coinciding with this event is the appearance on board of two alien beings: the timid Sierjna and her captor, Mu-Quillus. Crichton and the others learn that Mu-Quillus is responsible for the radiation pulses that are compelling Talyn to fly into the sun and that eighty-three Leviathans have already died in this way. Stark makes a pact with Sierjna to free her spirit from Mu-Quillus and let her pass into the afterlife. However, Stark is acting of his own accord, and his quest to save Sierjna puts the rest of the crew in dire peril.

Guest Cast: Susan Lyons as Sierjna, Mark Mitchell as Mu-Quillus, Linda Cropper as Xhalax

Scratch 'n' Sniff

Episode 3.13
USA: July 20, 2001
Written by Lily Taylor
Directed by Tony Tilse

Crichton tells the story of the crew's shore leave to a pleasure planet via flashback to a very unreceptive Pilot. It seems D'Argo, John, Jool and Chiana had themselves a little too much drink, drugs and fun, and ended up getting into a lot of trouble. The pleasure planet is currently home to a charismatic drug dealer and outer space pimp whose substance of choice is pheromones — extracted out of the victim's body, until they die. This drug is a big commodity, and luckily for the drug dealer, Moya's got two such candidates: Jool and Chiana. They get kidnapped, drugged, milked and put up for auction — and it's up to the boys to save these women in jeopardy.

Guest Cast: Tammy MacIntosh as Jool, Francesca Buller as Raxil, Tamblyn Lord as Fe'Tor, Laura Keneally as Theiadh, Anthony Martin as Mitols, Milan Keyser as Sarl, Jaye Paul as Heska Tinaco, Julia Trappe as Blue Girl, Rachel Sheriff as Green Girl

Infinite Possibilities (Part I): Daedalus Demands

Episode 3.14
USA: July 27, 2001
Written by Carleton Eastlake
Directed by Peter Andrikidis

The Ancients, in the form of John's father Jack, come to Talyn, informing John that the wormhole data he collected previously is now in the wrong hands. That's courtesy of grubby entrepreneur mechanic Furlow who's built her own module and stabilizer and has hired bad people Charrids, an old enemy of the Hynerians, to pilot. But they've double-crossed her and are now attacking her compound. But the Scarrans are also on their way on a dreadnought — and they've also managed to download enough wormhole data from Furlow's computer. This forces the good guys to convert the stabilizer into a powerful weapon meant to destroy the Scarrans. But that means extracting the secret wormhole technology implanted by the Ancients. Except, of course, Scorpius got there first a long time ago, and his not-so-dormant neural clone "Harvey" is not going to go quietly.

Guest Cast: Kent McCord as Jack Crichton, Magda Szubanski as Furlow, Thomas Holesgrove as Alcar, Patrick Ward as Zylar

Infinite Possibilities (Part II): Icarus Abides

Episode 3.15
USA: August 03, 2001
Written by Carleton Eastlake
Directed by Ian Watson

With the Ancient's help, John finally rids his mind of the Scorpy clone. But his mental and emotional freedom is short-lived, with the Scarran dreadnought still on its way, John and alien Jack work to build the weapon that can destroy the villains. But they are betrayed by Furlow, who is working as many sides as she can for any possible profit. John will have to take the wormhole powered weapon into space himself to save the day. Meanwhile, a Scarran advance scout infiltrates Talyn.

Guest Cast: Kent McCord as Jack Crichton, Magda Szubanski as Furlow, Thomas Holesgrove as Alcar, Noel Hodda as Charrid Leader 2

Revenging Angel

Episode 3.16
USA: August 10, 2001
Written by David Kemper
Directed by Andrew Prowse

A fight between D'Argo and Crichton over the malfunction of D'Argo's mysterious new ship ends with Crichton being knocked unconscious. The Scorpius Clone in Crichton's mind tries to convince John that revenge against D'Argo is the only way to settle the conflict, but John prefers to resolve it in his own head, acting out a Crichton vs. D'Argo cartoon battle set in Road-Runner land. Meanwhile, the ship malfunction leads to the activation of a self-destruct sequence that threatens to blow Moya to pieces should D'Argo fail to deactivate it.

Guest Cast: Tammy MacIntosh as Jool

The Choice

Episode 3.17
USA: August 17, 2001
Written by Justin Monjo
Directed by Rowan Woods

Grieving for Crichton, Aeryn travels to a planet of mystics and frauds and makes contact with a man who claims to be Talyn Lyzcak, her father. Talyn puts her in touch with Seer Cresus, a creature who is able to 'channel' the dead Crichton. Meanwhile, Stark and Rygel search for Aeryn, but first come across an old enemy. Lurking on the planet with malign, warped designs of her own is Aeryn's mother, Xhalax Sun.

Guest Cast: Linda Cropper as Xhalax Sun, John Gregg as Talyn Lyczac, Stephen Shanahan as Tenek, Raj Ryan as Hotel Owner

Fractures

Episode 3.18
USA: August 24, 2001
Written by Rockne S. O'Bannon
Directed by Tony Tilse

Not far from Moya and Talyn's expected rendezvous point, Moya picks up a badly damaged Leviathan Transport Pod carrying a Scarran, an Hynerian and a Nebari — all escaped prisoners — and their Peacekeeper hostage, complicating the long awaited reunion between Moya and Talyn's crew. When the Scarran is shot, it's clear that someone on board is a traitor.

Guest Cast: Tammy MacIntosh as Jool, Kate Beahan as Hubero, Matt Doran as Markir Tal, Alexandra Fowler as Voice of Orrhn Pak, Thomas Holesgrove as Naj Gil, Nicholas McKay as Voice of Naj Gil

I-Yensch, You-Yensch

Episode 3.19
UK: January 21, 2002
USA: April 05, 2002
Written by Matt Ford
Directed by Peter Andrikidis

Rygel and D'Argo meet with Scorpius in a diner on a desolate planet in order to negotiate their freedom: Crichton will board Scorpius's Command Carrier and assist Scorpius with his wormhole research; in return, Scorpius will grant immunity to Moya, Talyn, and the rest of Moya's crew. Meanwhile, trouble is brewing with the paranoid Talyn who fires on a hospital ship, killing 6,000 innocent beings. Crais suggests the only solution is to shut Talyn down and reset him, effectively making him a new-born again. But neither Moya nor Talyn are happy with that solution

Guest Cast: Tammy MacIntosh as Jool, David Franklin as Lt. Braca, Ben Mendelsohn as Sko, Anthony Hayes as Wa, Inge Hornstra as Essk, Salvatore Coco as Voodi, Thomas Holesgrove as Naj Gil

Into the Lion's Den (Part I): Lambs to the Slaughter

Episode 3.20
UK: January 24, 2002
USA: April 12, 2002
Written by Richard Manning
Directed by Ian Watson

Crichton, Aeryn and Crais are received with honour aboard Scorpius's command carrier, with Scorpius promising amnesty in exchange for Crichton's cooperation on wormhole technology. Scorpius and Crichton are linked by neural receptor bracelets — however, Crichton is playing a dangerous game.

Guest Cast: Tammy MacIntosh as Jool, David Franklin as Lt. Braca, Rebecca Riggs as Commandant Mele-On Grayza, Danny Adcock as Co-Kura Strappa, Sean Taylor as Lt. Reljik, Lenore Smith as Lt. Darinta Larell, Marta Dusseldorp as Officer Yal Henta, Lewis Fitz-Gerald as Tosko, Mark Mercedes as Officer Vonk, Paul Shedlowich, Royston Innes, Nick Frisina

Into the Lion's Den (Part II): A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

Episode 3.21
UK: January 28, 2002
USA: April 19, 2002
Written by Rockne S O'Bannon
Directed by Rowan Woods

On the Command Carrier, Crichton is making incredible breakthroughs in his wormhole research, accessing information previously locked away. His crewmates are not so sure about the success of the plan, and are debating whether to leave or stay. Crais also has his own interests at heart, and when he is denied access to Talyn by the Peackeepers, he realizes he needs a bargaining chip. He goes to Scorpius and reveals Crichton's true intentions: to sabotage the wormhole research and destroy the Carrier. The plan blown, Moya's crew is immediately arrested, and it seems all is lost.

Guest Cast: Tammy MacIntosh as Jool, David Franklin as Lt. Braca, Rebecca Riggs as Commandant Mele-On Grayza, Danny Adcock as Co-Kura Strappa, Sean Taylor as Lt. Reljik, Lenore Smith as Lt. Darinta Larell, Marta Dusseldorp as Officer Yal Henta, Lewis Fitz-Gerald as Tosko, Mark Mercedes as Officer Vonk

Dog With Two Bones

Episode 3.22
UK: January 31, 2002
USA: April 26, 2002
Written by David Kemper
Directed by Andrew Prowse

Moya transports the remains of Talyn to a sacred Leviathan burial ground. Those on board are at a crossroads, each wanting to pursue a separate path. Crichton dreams of returning to Earth with Aeryn at his side, but Aeryn is unsure. Upon entering the graveyard, Moya is attacked by a huge Leviathan. The crew must team up once more to save their home, but it seems that no matter which way the battle goes, their intertwined fates are sure to unravel.

Guest Cast: Tammy MacIntosh as Jool, Kent McCord as Jack Crichton, Melissa Jaffer as Old Woman, Samantha Wellington as Woman behind counter, Jacob Vanderpuije as Boy #1, Dion Bilios as Boy #2