Launch conditions at 0H-30mn are optimal.
Final checks underway, recovery craft in position.
- How are the CRC numbers? - Mid thirties and holding.
Meteorology has got some hiccup, they're checking out.
See our latest press?
Childhood Friends... Out to prove a theory.
Can a manned spacecraft overcome atmospheric friction
and exponentially increase its speed
using only a planet's natural gravitational pull?
Man, what is wrong with you?
DK...
You know, that feeling you get the night before something big's about to happen in your life?
It's the night before, we graduated high school?
It's the nightbefore, we started this job?
Well, I had that feeling last night in quarantine.
This experiment, that important to you?
... One small step, Bud.
- Hey DK! - Sir.
Well you're looking pretty sharp there... Commander Crichton.
Thanks Dad!
Let's do this thing!
I... talked to, Pete Maxwell and the others at Control.
They're going to take real good care of you while you're up there.
I heard that you went AWOL from the Rat Cage this morning.
Man, in my day, if I'd ever broken quarantine like that, they would have...
Son, you got rattlers in your stomach?
Oh, I've been up on the Shuttle before, Dad... twice.
Didn't matter how many times I went up, every time, rattlers...
first EVA... first time I walked on the moon.
I'm not going EVA, Dad. I'm not walking on the moon.
I'm just running a little experiment.
Yeah, an experiment to prove your own theory.
You have any idea how proud that makes me?
That's something I never did.
I mean, the guys the in button down collars and the neck ties,
they got to use their brains.
- The only thing I ever used was... - Guts... and the seat of my flight suit.
Son, I can't help being who I am... who I was.
It's not who you are, Dad, I love who you are.
It's being son of you.
Look... I... I can't be your kind of hero.
No, you can't be,
each man gets the chance to be his own kind of hero.
Your time will come and when it does, watch out.
Chances are it'll be the last thing you ever expected.
Oh no... that's your good luck charm, Yuri Gagarin gave you that!
Oh listen... you hang on to it, you give it back to me tonight, okay?
Ladies and gentlemen of the press... At 2614 on the flight clock,
we begin the major experiment on this shuttle mission.
Commander John Crichton, will pilot a craft of his own design
in a dangerous attempt to use our planet's own gravity as a speed booster,
slingshotting him off into space at previously unrecorded speeds.
If successful... the results are anticipated as the first concrete step toward interstellar travel.
Canaveral, this is Farscape One... I am free and flying.
- Are you with me there, Mama Bear? - Yeah Farscape, I'm reading you loud and clear
Authorising flight computer to initiate acceleration sequencing... now.
You are go for insertion procedure.
Approaching maximal velocity in... twenty one seconds.
Eighteen seconds.
Entering critical apogee phase.
- Farscape One, hold a moment! - Hold Canaveral, hold what?
Meteorology reports some kind of electromagnetic wave... John, do you read me?
Yeah, I read you...
What're we talking here?
Canaveral?
- John, abort! - Canaveral!
John, you have to abort! Abort now!
Oh... God... I can't...
Canaveral, this is Farscape One. I'm okay... repeat, I'm okay.
Hey, did you guys get video for all that?
Canaveral?... DK?... Dad?
Where are you guys? Where's Earth?
What the... ?
Canaveral?
Oh gee, Canaveral, I've been hit!
That's big!
That's really big!
Canaveral? Dad? DK. I am being pulled!
The engine's not responding and I can't break away!
Look, can anybody hear me, Canaveral?
Oh my God... hell!
... Hi!
My name's John... John Cr...
Explain yourself!... Who are you?
I can't understand what...
I suggest you answer him quickly, you know how Luxans can be.
Your ship... what kind is it?
Your ship appeared from nowhere and we don't know that technology.
- Is it something we can use to escape? - We brought you aboard for one reason.
Tell us or die with us.
Pilot! I demand you give me maneuverability now!
- Pilot! - There's is nothing I can do,
not while the control collar is still in place!
Moya can't withstand this assault much longer!
Those synapses, you are tearing out are not wired to the control collar.
Then I shall keep pulling until I find the ones that are!
Get out of the way!
The others, where are they?
There are no others. I checked every cell level.
I found a manifest, we were scheduled for transfer to Terran Raa.
That is a lifers' colony.
Prisoners? Escaped prisoners?
I will not be taken prisoner again.
They brought you on board, didn't they? Don't worry!
I'll protect you. I'll look after you now, you look after me later.
Attention... hull integrity is reaching critical compromise!
- What have you done? - What do you mean?
The coding wall... It's dimming!
I've hit the code...
I've hit the code!
The control collar... It's coming off!
Pilot, prepare for immediate Starburst!
- But Moya has been restrained so long! - She is a Leviathan!
It is the single defensive manoeuvre that she is capable of...
Terminate assault! ... All Prowlers terminate assault!
Claw onto something, people! Prepare for Starburst!
I hate Starburst!
- Captain... Captain Crais? - Yes, Lieutenant?
The Prowler Squadhas returned sir, they report... the Leviathan transport has escaped.
One of the prisoners, somehow secured the key codes to the prisoners' cells
and... there were casualties sir, ... two ships lost.
I don't care about casualties!
A Leviathan transporting prisoners does not escape while in my custody.
Has my brother returned yet?
I'll despatch him, to track her down in the Rear Battle Fighter.
Sir... This is playback from the Recon Satellite monitoring the pursuit of the Leviathan.
What manner of craft is that?
My brother's Prowler... I'm sure that he will...
We lost a second ship, sir.
It was absorbed with the Leviathan when it went into Starburst.
- I want to see him! - See him, sir?
Peel back the image!
I want to see who is inside.
We've done it! We've escaped!
Attention... One Prowler travelled with us!
Block its radio!
As good as done!
Pilot, does Moya know where we are?
Yes, of course! We're someplace else!
I'll... get back to you on the specifics.
At least we are free.
What is the matter with you people?
This damned Leviathan has no idea where we are.
- I am Pa'u Zotah ZHAAN... and you? - Ka D'Argo!
- You are Delvian? - A priest.
I have heard of your kind's practices...
Your... appetites...
Such as?
I have... heard of something known as the...
Fourth Sensation
I have experienced this.
But... not lately.
Why were you...
- why have you... - Imprisoned?
Because on my home world, even among my kind,
I was something of an anarchist.
Actually... I was the leading anarchist.
- And you? - I killed a fellow soldier.
My commanding officer.
- How old are you? - Thirty cycles.
Oh, you are but a boy.
I am not... I am a Luxan warrior.
I have seen two battle campaigns.
Only two?
You know Peacekeeper coding?
Yes... I spent three cycles on a maximum labour planet.
Which one?
Mekkar 7... Assigned to Peacekeeper Intellilan Interface.
- I was on Mekkar 7. - Truly?
In the ninety third level, in the Kemlac mines.
- Why aren't you dead? - I often ask myself the same question.
I watched so many others die while the Peacekeepers looked on,
somehow it made me stronger.
I suppose the warrior in me became too strong not to survive.
Perhaps you survived for this.
This escape... I doubt it will last long enough
for the Peacekeepers even to note it in their log.
Not the escape itself, but what we pray will be the result... Freedom!
That is a very Delvian way to look at the situation.
I am nothing if not a product of my upbringing.
And I of mine.
Then perhaps together a warrior and a priest can help save each other.
Oh please, let it all be a dream.
A very bad, a very twisted dream.
What, um... where...
where are my clothes?
Hey! Why did you take off my clothes?
I am Rygel the Sixteenth.
Dominar to over six hundred billion people.
I don't need to talk to you!
I thought you were a prisoner!
Falsely imprisoned,
my cousin Bishan, stole my throne from me while I slept.
A mistake I will soon be correcting.
Your garments were removed so that we could examine you.
Examine?... Examine me?
How?... Where?... One of those things of your injected me right here.
- Translator microbes! - Microbes?
They colonise at the base of the brain, allow us to understand each other.
Why you weren't injected at birth I cannot fathom.
Colonise? The brain?
Why... why have you got me locked in here?
I'm... I'm not here to harm you. Hell, I wouldn't know how to harm you.
We can no more trust you than we can trust that.
... My name's John!
What is your rank and regiment? and why are you out of your uniform?
Rank and regiment, now!
Get me out of here, you Hynerian slug!
Your efforts are wasted, Peacekeeper!
you of all people should know that!
Peacekeeper... you were one of those out there attacking the ship, they think I'm one of you!
Officer Aeryn Sun! Special Peacekeeper Commando,
Icarian Company, Pleisar Regiment!
Identify yourself!
My rank... is Commander,
... but I'm not military, at least not any military you know.
I'm a damned scientist!
It's been so long!
Our possessions...
- My blade! - Hands off, Luxan!
Ah, you're awake, both of you. A problem, my dear?
You should be used to viewing the likes of us through bars.
You've got to listen to me! I'm not what you think I am!
Not a Peacekeeper? ... Yes, we know that now!
You have some decidedly unfamiliar bacteria living within you.
I'm from a planet called Earth! ... l'm human, Homo sapien, sapien!
It's time for us to eat!
Eat what?
Whoever killed my brother will pay dearly.
Captain... the techs are completing, the imaging of the module's pilot.
Show me!
On the final sweep now, sir.
He's Sebacean!
Inform the Rear Battle Fighter. They will take charge of the armada.
We are going after the Leviathan.
- But sir, regulations... - That is a direct order, Lieutenant!
Look, you know I'm not a Peacekeeper! How about you get this stuff off my wrists?
- We still do now know your loyalties! - My loyalties?... I just got here!
You know, you're the first alien contact anybody from my planet has ever made.
We dreamed about it, made movies about it,
what part of the universe are we in?
Are we still in Orion's Arm? Still in the Milky Way?
You have no idea what I'm talking about, do you?
I need to see some star charts, get some common points of reference.
Damn... you know this ship is amazing, what kind of...
She's a Leviathan, a bio-mechanoid, a living ship!
You blame me? If I hadn't pulled those wires...
your precious Moya, would still be wearing that control collar!
But in doing so, you also caused Moya to haemorrhage
most of her iriscentant fluid.
Leading to what result... Pilot?
Maximum speed which is barely "Hetch Two".
Moya and I, don't want to return...
Why are they doing this? ... feeding us?
They'll need information if they're going to survive,
and they're hoping we'll provide it.
I'd eat... if I were you.
Attention, we are approaching...
It may be the only chance, we get.
We?
The ship's pilot has just informed us
that we're approaching an inhabited system, with a Commerce planet.
A Commerce planet? ... Excellent, we need many things!
Hynerian cream soap, definitely, some fresh janeray syrup
to get rid of the taste of these food cubes and...
- We need iriscentant fluid! - How dare you, you Luxan swine!
Silence... your eminence!
I've been searching for a reason not to jettison you with the next refuse dump.
You dump me? I bribed the Maintenance Drones at the last checkpoint.
I secured the cell codes that allowed for your escape!
Gentlemen... I suggest we focus on the situation at hand...
Before we approach this planet, we must know.
Is there Peacekeeper presence in this system?
I don't know... wish I did.
We are wasting time, she is infantry.
Peacekeeper Command tells her where to fight and die.
And this one, he's some kind of higher brain function deficient.
How he escaped the genetic sieving process. I do not know...
- Rygel? - What just happened?
It is a perfectly natural bodily function... and it's odourless.
So your loyal subjects tell you!
- You fart helium? - Sometimes, when I'm nervous or angry.
Attention... I thought you would want to know we are entering planetary orbit!
Thank you, Pilot!
You know, you only expose your ignorance
if you don't concede knowledge of the Hurlian stone.
- Twenty! - Twenty barrels of fluid?
There was a time when you would have been disembowelled...
... with a dull Lashan spade for half such an insult to me.
Thirty five!
Boy, was Spielberg ever wrong...
Close Encounters, my ass!
Wormhole...
I must have come here... through a wormhole!
So if I did come here through a wormhole, the only way I'm going to get back is to...
... to find another wormhole,
or to create one... Yeah!
Oh... look... You want to make one of these wormhole things of yours?
How do you expect to do that from inside this cell?
- Come on, move faster! - What are you doing?
I'm going to sabotage this ship!
Sabotage? Give me a break. They haven't hurt us!
How about we show 'em a little compassion?
Compassion... what is compassion?
Compassion? What, you're kidding, right? ... lt's a feeling,
that you have when you see someone else's pain,
and instead of taking advantage of their weakness, you help them.
- Oh, I know this feeling. - Well, it is a fairly common human feeling.
Mmm... I hate it!
You know what? I'm on the wrong team here! I'm just going to stay!
Fine... do what you want, but if you stay with these lowlifes, you'll die with them.
Yeah, well, how do I know I can trust you?
You don't... That's just another thing you don't know!
Damn!
- What is that? - That's cutting edge technology!
We're taking mine!
Captain... we are receiving a transmission from one of the out systems.
It's Aeryn Sun, the Prowler pilot we thought we'd lost.
She was taken captive aboard the Leviathan, but she's escaped.
She has the being from the white pod with her.
I'm on another planet!
Yes Pilot, understood!
The female Peacekeeper and the human have just escaped,
and there is a Command Carrier on approach to this planet.
A full Carrier?... Crais!
But it makes no sense for him to come after us himself.
Unless the two who just escaped are something special.
This barter session is over!
Trouble! We must go!
What are you asking for those Wellan Glow Crystals?
Come on! I've relayed our rendez-vous point. We can get off this waste hole of a planet.
That's the Leviathan's pod they're getting away. Come on, we have to report it!
Aren't we about to be rescued any minute? I mean, they are no danger to us now!
They are prisoners... escaped prisoners, they must be recaptured!
Or destroyed...
- Do not tempt me! - You need to get out of here, there's a ship full
- of Peacekeepers on its way here right now! - Traitor!
That is why I want you both aboard Moya... as insurance.
Just go, before...
You are such fools! I will not fall for such an ancient ruse!
But fall you will, Luxan!
If a Luxan hits you, you will fall!
Captain Crais...
Name?
It's, er, John Crichton.
And where are you from... John Crichton?
Sir, he claims to be a human from a planet called Erp, but he's shown himself to be...
To be what, Officer Sun? A clever imposter?
An accomplice to a ship full of escaping prisoners... my brother's murderer!
Your brother's what?
You charged my brother's Prowler in that white death pod of yours!
Wait a minute... Are you talking about that near, I had the first minute I got here?
- That... that was an accident! - It was no near miss for my brother!
A human... It will require some study!
I will personally enjoy pulling you apart to see what you are made of!
- Wait! - Yes, Officer Sun?
- You know something about this alien? - Only that I have spent time with him, sir.
I believe him when he says that what happened to your brother was an accident.
I don't believe that he is brave enough or intelligent enough
to attack one of our Prowlers intentionally.
Exactly how much time have you spent with this human?
Not a lot... Not much at all.
Because as you know, Peacekeeper High Command has very clear parameters
regarding contact with unclassified alien lifeforms.
You may have very well exceeded those parameters, Officer Sun, which...
- No, sir, I... ... would make you irreversibly contaminated.
- No, sir, I... - Take them away... Take them all away!
Deploy your men while we search for the others!
Warrior to warrior, I vow one day I will kill you!
Keep moving, come on!
Pilot!
- Pilot, how's it coming? - Fluid tanks are nearly full...
... Shouldn't be another minute or two.
- Any word from D'Argo? - None... I'm sorry!
Right, turn around!
- What is this thing? - It's a toy... a puzzle... you have to figure out,
- how to take it apart and put it back again. - A field resourcefulness exercise?
Yeah... Something like that. ... Here, pull that loop through there.
- Yeah! - Turn around!
Yeah, right... I think I've got the hang of this.
Now figure out how to put it back together again.
What is it? It's a weapon, you fool!
- Give it here, before you break it! - No, don't do that!
Don't move!... or I'll fill you full of ... little yellow bolts of light!
Throw me the key!
On the ground!... Now!
Give up now Officer Sun! ... You might avoid the death sentence!
- Unlock me then I will unlock you! - No, me!
Come on, there isn't time!
Unlock me!
Down!
If you run, you're going to have to find someone else to unlock you.
Then you're going to have to explain, these handcuffs.
Give up now, Officer Sun... You might avoid-the death sentence!
- Now unlock me! - No, he is a criminal!
We all are!
Officer Sun... they are...
- Can you get me away from here? - What?
Can you get me off this rock, away from these over-amped rent-a-cops? Away from Crais?
- And we take her too! - What?
Never! I will take you, you are manageable, but she...
If she stays... we all stay!
Okay!
No... I will not come with you!
- irreversibly contaminated, remember? - It means death.
It is my duty... My breeding... Since birth... It's what I am!
You can be more!
- Say again, Pilot? - It is D'Argo and the arriving Prowler!
He is telling us to leave orbit immediately!
Thank Khalaan!
The Peacekeeper female and that other one... are with him.
Can't you see he's under duress? lt's a trap!
I'd take them to the Transport Hangar and...
Pilot, break orbit!
Destination?
The Unchartered Territories! ... I will explain later.
Your attention!
Distance between the pursuing Peacekeeper Carrier and Moya...
Sixty metras and closing...
They are bringing around their Frag Cannons...
- Frag cannons? - What is the range of their Frag Cannons?
I'm afraid neither Moya nor I is sufficiently conversant with Peacekeeper technology.
Forty five metras.
Let's just do another one of those Starburst things!
There's no time, the Leviathan must restore her energy reserves.
Fifty metras...
- I need paper! - Paper?
To write on! ... Turn the ship around!
We have to go back to the planet!
Go back to the planet?
Frag Cannons are locking on...
Crichton, what are you doing?
It's a theory... It has to do with overcoming atmospheric friction.
Are you completely insane?
Listen, we're going to have to hit a pretty exact trajectory... can you do that?
I'm doing all that, I can maintaining Moya's regular systems at this speed...
- Can this ship thing be flown manually? - Manually!
- Yes, but there are... - Good, you do it!
- I am not trained as a pilot! - Fine... You're the experienced pilot!
- No! - This is madness!
Weapons control... Full charge!
It appears our only alternative is death.
The charmer!
Pilot, give me manoeuvreability now!
We may dodge one shot, but never...
- Do it! - Do it!
Fire!
- Target is banking! - Reacquire!
Banking towards us, sir!
She's accelerating, sir!
We end this... now!
Just go for the maximum! Let the planet's gravity pull us in!
Hetch 9!
Now, head straight into the atmosphere!
Twenty eight to thirty degrees! You got it?
Do it if you're gonna do it!
More speed... More speed as we reach the horizon!
We are there!
- Sir... the Leviathan... she's... - I can see that, Lieutenant!
Pull out... Pull out now!
She's off our scanners, sir! ... We've lost her!
- It's gone! - Thank you!
- It's gone! - You can let go now, John... Thank you!
- We need to talk! - Get your hands off me!
You have a warrior's instinct, good... we'll need that!
Cool.
I have spent eight degrading cycles aboard this ship and now I'm finally liberated.
Congratulations.
I don't know who you are... where you're from... or what you want...
but if you threaten my freedom... I'll kill you.
They're a brutal race, uncivilised. Indiscriminate in their deployment of violence.
- Right... unlike your people. - My people... might have helped you,
if you hadn't put us into this position.
Me? Oh no, no, no... Try your boy, Crais!
So you haven't forgotten about him? I know he hasn't forgotten about you!
Yeah... well, the transparent purple guy, what's his name? Pilot?
He said we've passed into the unchartered territories
and that your people don't have jurisdiction.
Crais thinks you killed his brother.
In such a case, would you obey jurisdictional boundaries?
Listen to me.
If you want to live...
choose your allegiances carefully, that's not to say that there's any guarantees there.
Come here! ... l'm not going to hurt you, come here!
Hey Dad... It worked DK's and my theory it actually worked, sort of.
Look, I know this crazy... I mean, you're never going to get this message...
but I just wanted... to let you know that I'm alive.
Oh, hold still!... hold still!
I don't know where I am... technically I don't know how I got here,
but... I'm not going to stop trying to get home.
See? You're fixed!
Go play!
What the hell are you doing?
Your equipment may be worth something in trade.
My equipment... it's mine!
Are you a sound sleeper?
There's life out here, Dad.
Weird, amazing, psychotic life.
and death... in technicolour.
Dad, you know those rattlers in the stomach we talked about? Well I got 'em now.