Farscape second season

Farscape season 2

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The second season episode guide

Mind the Baby / season 2 - episode 1
Writer Richard Manning
Director 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 Leviathanùthe 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.

Vitas Mortis / season 2 - episode 2
Writer Grant McAloon
Director 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 Oricanùa 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.

Taking the Stone / season 2 - episode 3
Writer Justin Monjo
Director 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.

Crackers Don't Matter / season 2 - episode 4
Writer Justin Monjo
Director Ian Watson
The crew returns from a Commerce Planet with a load of crackers and a meek alien called Traltixx, 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 Traltixx 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 Traltixx 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.

The Way We Weren't / season 2 - episode 5
Writer Naren Shankar
Director 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 pastùespecially 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.

Picture if You Will / season 2 - episode 6
Writer Peter Neale
Director 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 legùand 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.

Home on the Remains / season 2 - episode 7
Writer Gabrielle Stanton & Harry Werksman Jr.
Director 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.

Dream a Little Dream / season 2 - episode 8
Writer Steven Rae
Director 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 jailedùa major complication given that Pilot was already having difficulty stopping Moya from StarBursting away to look for Talyn.

Out of Their Minds / season 2 - episode 9
Writer Michael Cassutt
Director Ian Watson
Moya is under sudden attackùan 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 firingùand firing when the shield is only barely working. It is just powerful enough to prevent Moya from being destroyed.

My Three Crichtons / season 2 - episode 10
Writer Grant McAloon
Director Catherine Millar
Story Gabrielle Stanton & Harry Werksman Jr.
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 ùone 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.

Look at the Princess (1): A Kiss is But a Kiss / season 2 - episode 11
Writer David Kemper
Director Andrew Prowse & Tony Tilse
Crichton, Aeryn, Rygel, D'Argo, and Chiana are 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.

Look at the Princess (2): I Do, I Think / season 2 - episode 12
Writer David Kemper
Director 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 Buildersùthe aliens who created her.

Look at the Princess (3): The Maltese Crichton / season 2 - episode 13
Writer David Kemper
Director 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.

Beware of Dog / season 2 - episode 14
Writer Naren Shankar
Director 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 parasiteùand 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.

Won't Get Fooled Again / season 2 - episode 15
Writer Richard Manning
Director Rowan Woods
Crichton finds himself back on Earth, recovering from his Farscape accident. With his friends on Earth telling him that his adventures on Moya were a dream, he becomes very suspicious when his doctor looks like Aeryn, he is convinced it's a trick by Scorpius and is determined he won't get fooled again.

The Locket / season 2 - episode 16
Writer Justin Monjo
Director Ian Watson
Aeryn's no sooner gone missing in a stellar mist than she's back again 165 cycles older, and insisting she has to go back to the granddaughter she left on the planet below. In their efforts to rescue her (and later John), Moya's crew gets stuck in the mist, and it'll take both of Zhaan and a returned Stark's best efforts to prevent the irreversible.

The Ugly Truth / season 2 - episode 17
Writer Justin Monjo
Director Ian Watson
When Aeryn investigates a mist, she returns the next day. However she's 165 cycles older with children and a husband on another planet. She warns them away, but John gets himself trapped with her on a planet, with Moya frozen in time.

A Clockwork Nebari / season 2 - episode 18
Writer Lily Taylor
Director Rowan Woods
Just when they were almost completely forgotten, the Nebari show up again and their charming personalities and interest in mind-cleansing haven't lessened one bit, while their interest in Chiana has increased for reasons which are even more sinister than before.

Liars, Guns and Money (1): A Not So Simple Plan / season 2 - episode 19
Writer Grant McAloon
Director 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.

Liars, Guns and Money (2): With Friends Like These / season 2 - episode 20
Writer Naren Shankar
Director Catherine Millar
When Scorpius beats the crew to D'Argo's son, they must use the loot from the heist to recruit old friends and foes to help save him. However, in the end the only thing that Scorpius wants is John Crichton.

Liars, Guns and Money (3): Plan B / season 2 - episode 21
Writer Justin Monjo
Director Tony Tilse
The crew's plan to rescue D'Argo's son are instead put into play to rescue Crichton when he gives himself up in exchange for Jothee. But with Scorpius's neural control over Crichton's brain, maybe John doesn't want to be rescued.

Die Me, Dichotomy / season 2 - episode 22
Writer David Kemper
Director Rowan Woods
The crew seek out help to heal the burnt-out Moya and to remove Scorpius's neural chip from Crichton's brain. But Crichton's likely to dieùand the help may be far too late anyway.

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