Previously on Farscape...
Crais, come in, this is Aeryn.
Pilot, there's no answer from Crais.
Nor is Moya getting any answer from Talyn.
Aeryn, what do you see?
He's been hit hard.
Crais!
Where is Talyn? I can barely sense him.
He is alive, but unresponsive.
Moya is supplying nutrients.
Talyn destroyed one Prowler. But their attack was merely a diversion.
Peacekeepers. They... want Talyn back.
A Vigilante with an immobilizer pulse.
What attacked Talyn...
... was a Retrieval Squad.
You do know, John, that if we can revive Talyn, ...
... we have to Starburst away immediately, and we can't go back.
There is something I deeply wish to share with you.
Wake up, Aeryn.
I'm your mother.
I came to tell you something.
You were concieved in love.
Our love.
We wanted you, ...
My mother.
Yes.
The Retrieval Squad. She is somehow part of it.
The Squad is under the command of Senior Officer Xhalax Sun
We're out of the bonisphere. And Moya's sensing a Peacekeeper scan.
Talyn, Starburst immediately!
Talyn's done it, he's escaped!
There will be no contact with Moya until the threat of the Retrieval Squad is resolved.
they are hoping that my mother's presense will divide my loyalties.
But I will *not* let them get Talyn back.
Even if it means I have to kill her.
And now on Farscape...
Rygel!
Oh... I may be small, but allow me to remind you...
that only serves to put me at castration level!
What's the matter? Didn't sleep well?
How could I?
With them on the other side of this...
very thin bulkhead!
Bit noisy, were they?
She was bad enough, but Crichton...
he was louder than she was!
He actually sounded like he was exerting himself!
What kind of a male is he anyway?
They're between bouts. Give them a few microts
Hang on
What the matter?!
Oh, god!!
You were louder than that, believe it or not
How much longer... ?
How much longer what?
... does Talyn have to stay onboard this planet?
Oh, well...
heavy gravity's letting him sleep
Stark said that the uh... vegetation has restorative power so it's our one...
... quick stop chance to get him back to full fighting strength
I suggest you all get up here immediately
Talyn's sensors... ... sensors have picked up another ship entering the planet's atmosphere
Dangerously close
Damn
Friend or foe, friend or foe, friend or foe... ?
Talyn's laboring to discern that
If it's a Retrieval Squad are we going to be able to blast our way out of here?
Talyn is powered down to stasis level on all systems facilitating the recuperation process
We all agreed to take that chance
So, in other words: "No, we can't move"
- Friend or foe, friend or foe, friend or foe... ? - Will you shut the frell up!
Of course it's a "foe", we have no friends!
Talk to us. What do we got?
Talyn has identified it as the Vigilante...
... the Peacekeeper ship pursuing us
We've got to do something! There's nothing we can do!
Crichton, you always have a plan! Well, sometimes
How close?
It has just landed
It's your mother who's running the frelling Retrieval Squad. Maybe we can use that
Yo! Not now, Rygel
Not now?!
They're here, Crichton, on the planet
They're gonna be knocking down that door at any microt...
and our ship is sound asleep!
Xhalax...
Heavy gravity...
Two...
two and a half times what my species is used to
How is your wound?
I will... earn my share!
Good news...
your shares have just increased
Decoys?
This is an awfully big ship. You really, really, really think the three of you can...
Stark, if you have any other ideas we'll be thrilled to hear 'em before we go out
The Peacekeeper ship set down some distance from here
Clearly the planet's vegetation is masking Talyn's whereabouts, as we were hoping
That's not gonna last forever
We gotta get these guys away from Talyn and give him a chance to recuperate, then we got a shot
Maybe
Talyn's restoration is nearly complete. We need only buy him a little more time
What about me? Hm? What about me, why can't I go out?
I agree. I am the logical choice to stay here with Talyn -Logical...
- yes, but it ain't gonna happen, boy - Listen to me
they're here to take Talyn. We can't let them anywhere near him when he's vulnerable like this
Crichton, Crais and I will go down. You will stay here and keep him calm
Wake up, Aeryn
I've been watching this
The night your mother came and saw you
My name... is Xhalax Sun
I'm your mother
Rygel, what the hell are you doin'?
She... sounds like she likes you
Maybe we can use that to, ah...
This is Aeryn's stuff
Keep your hands off, and your nose... out of other people's business
Well, uh... what are we supposed to do, when you're out there and dear old mother comes blasting in?!
Buckwheat...
we're gonna keep the Retrieval Squad away, and you're gonna keep your hands... off Aeryn's stuff
Is that clear?
I don't give a ropey dren about heavy gravity
Our targets are near. Keep moving!
How many missions have you been on?
Six
Nine
Nine and out, right?
This is your last mission as a mercenary?
You complete this one, and you can buy your freedom
You have a mate? Offspring?
Yes
Nice,
it'd be a frelling shame if you and your mate here screwed up,
and you were to start your mission count back at zero
So frell the gravity,
cinch up your mivonks... and keep moving!
Pulse rifles!
Definitely Peacekeeper!
This way!
What the hell's wrong with this gun?
I don't... know
Maybe the Chakan mist is ruining the pulse deploy
Well, they're either after us, or they're not
We've left a trail Stevie Wonder could follow
Oh, well. Wait
What
Oarusk fruit
Remind me not to put that on my Cocoa Puffs
Oh... stop that incessant humming!
When you stop that hiccuping
I
hiccup when
I'm nervous!
Well, I hum when I'm nervous!
A hiccup is involuntary you...
pellish venker!
Humming isn't!
Rygel
What
Vines from outside, growing inside
Fresh trail, that way
Indigenous?
No,
Sebacean
Okay, welcome to the butthole of the universe
Very close
Three point vector
Are you up to this?
We are ready
This can't be good!
It can't be bad
It's the same vegetation that's helping to heal Talyn
Rooted to the planet!
How's Talyn supposed to take off...
with this stuff... laced through him?!
Once Talyn's back to full... strength,
I'm sure he'll be able to tear himself away... easily!
Come on, pull!
How far have we gone?
Not quite one full metra
One more metra, we should circle back
Right
What you got?
That way!
There!
Cover me!
Aeryn?
John?
Aeryn?
John
Damn
Move and you die!
Where is he?
Are you Xhalax?
Are you Xhalax Sun?!
Where is he?!
Stop!
Nice to see you again, Mother
Aeryn?
Aeryn!
Crichton!
Crichton,
stop making noise or they'll find us
I've been hit
Aw, hell, that's ugly
I-I gotta find Aeryn
Crichton, don't you leave me here
The Retrieval Squad, they're using Colartas
They're using what?
Expert Trackers
You leave me here bleeding, they will find me and kill me
And?
Are you shot?
No... the gravity
One of my hearts, it has... burst
Can you move?
Won't slow you down...
I can still... track
Have you seen Xhalax?
No... I can... locate her
No
But she might be wounded
We pursue and retrieve our target
That is our mission
We don't get paid for finding Xhalax
Move
What are you doing?
Do you want to bleed to death?
What do you think?
Then shut up
This might sting a little
Okay... maybe... more than a little
This should...
slow the bleeding, stop any bone from working it's way out. At least, temporarily
You knew who I was
Who are you?
I'm Aeryn
Aeryn Sun
I'm your daughter
If you are my daughter, you are a Peacekeeper
I'm not a Peacekeeper anymore
Then you are with Crais
Where the hezmana have you been?
On the Bridge
Comfortable up there?
Because while you've been fotzing around, I've been trying to keep this dren...
Rygel!
... from taking over every square...
Rygel, shut up!
Talyn, he's almost healed!
What
Completely?!
It's ah... yes
Can we blast ourselves free of this yotz?
Well, soon
If, if, if we can keep these under control...
then I think Talyn will be strong enough to break free
But what if the other's aren't back by then?
They're up against a Peacekeeper Retrieval Squad out there
Don't delude yourself, fahrbot. They're probably never coming back
What do you smell?
Two of them
One is unknown to me. The other is ah...
a Sebacean...
wounded
At least with this... gravity, the Colartas will be in more trouble than...
... we are
That's a comfort. Get up.
Get up! We gotta get outta here
Aeryn had... positioning device
So, she'll be able to find her way back to Talyn
If she is still alive
She is still alive
She is alive
Where are you taking me?
Back to the gunship
Which, I named Talyn, by the way
Yes, I thought you'd find that amusing
Naming it after daddy... it's not amusing, it's sentimental and weak
Is that why you're sparing me? Because I'm your mummy?
No
Because, with that wound, out here, you will die
Alive, you're potential leverage
Regulation Field-Op procedure insists you terminate all hostile personnel on point of contact
Eliminate the threat
And when I'm dead, you can name your Prowler after me
Oh, yes. That's very funny
Well, I no longer follow 'Regulation Field-Op Procedures',
and I know it's not by chance that you ended up out here on this assignment
High Command knew I was out here with Talyn and Crais
They probably thought "Send her mother", or perhaps, you even volunteered for the pleasure, did you?
Thought you know, "If things go wrong, we end up face-to-face, perhaps the daughter will flinch. "
I'm not flinching
You have no idea where we are going
We could be going around in circles
We're not goin' in circles, nimrod
Because we've never been here before. We're completely lost!
Oh, God!
I hate mazes
My first girlfriend, Julie, she loved 'em. Oh, boy, did she!
"Hey, Johnny, let's go in the mirror maze together, huh?"
Hey, Jules!
Is this makin' you horney?!
Our size and weight will give us a slight advantage over the Colartas
But our sweat and blood will continue to lead them right to us
Shut up
You shut up!
No, you shut up. I got an idea!
What are you doing?
Here,
smell that
Geez, if this doesn't cover our scent, or kill us...
I don't know what will
Yeah, that's good, spread it around!
Don't forget to... cover your private bits
How much... longer...
til Talyn's fully healed?
Look, I'm still not sure we should leave, but...
We're leaving!
As soon as Talyn's ready, we're leaving whether they're here or not
You got that?
Rygel
Oh, what?
The hero
Aeryn!
I... always knew you'd make it back
The others aren't as capable as you!
- Not as strong, no... really, I... - Shut up
This is, this is your mother?
Aren't you going to introduce us?
No
What's the news on Crichton and Crais?
No news, you're the first back
no scent
How is that possible?
Body heat
This way
Here
Crais...
Crais!
All right. Come on, John, come on, man. Concentrate
Find Aeryn, get the hell out of here alive
Oh, poor baby. Poor, poor Johnny
Now is not a good time, Scorpy, go away
On the contrary, you summoned me
You know what? You are really becoming annoying... go away!
But your subconcious did, and that's where I reside remember?
This point...
it needs to be sharp, but not so spindly that it is weak
As long as you're here...
these Pina Colada things chasing us... are they everything Crais has cracked them up to be?
Oh, yes. In that at least, Crais has been completely forthright
Where has he not been... forthright?
As far as I can tell, Talyn's systems are almost back to normal
Then it's time to wake him up and get aloft. We'll use Talyn's sensors to locate Crichton and Crais
Talyn, activate the intruder...
Let us out of here, ya snarking dellot! Let us out!
Ah, you murderous little beast! You're gonna be dead meat!
Dead meat, dead meat, dead meat...
Oh, you really do have three stomachs,
and the smallest little heart I've ever seen
Help...
... me
please... Stark
Help...
me...
This is a remarkable vessel
High Command could have never anticipated that their hybrid genetic would evolve so successfully
What are you doing?
Can't fire the ship up while he still has the capacity for independent thought
You're severing his higher functions
After which I can fly him home manually
Techs are standing by to bring him back to life...
once he's got a control collar on
Talyn is not like other Leviathans. He will die before accepting a control collar
My mission is to subdue the Leviathan hybrid for easy transport
Then track and deliver the second target
Captains...
are the elite
The most trusted jarheads in all the Peacekeeper ranks
Cuz... you make Captain?
You're on the "A" list for all the top parties
All the heavy duty crap that the Peacekeepers sure as hell don't want floatin' free in the universe
Crichton, listen to me...
You know, I always wondered...
why a swingin' cat like you would be way out here in the boondocks
Why you wanted so bad... to be Talyn's Prom date, and then suddenly...
it all came very clear to me
You need us...
You knew we wouldn't lift a finger to help you,
but we would do anything to protect Talyn
The Peacekeepers...
they're not only after Talyn
They're after you
From the moment you set foot on Moya,
you knew that this day was coming,
and you kept us as allies... when they came gunnin'
That's not true...
that's not the only reason I wanted to help you
Crichton, you can't leave me here like this
Yes, I can
What are you going to do?
If you're what the Retrieval Squad wants...
brother...
this is their lucky day!
Hey, boys!
Can you smell him now?!
Oh, Pina Colatas!
No! Come back!
Crichton!
Even in this dormant state he still struggles against me
Don't do this
He won't struggle when I've finished crippling him
My entire life... on every assignment, every transport ship, I scanned the soldiers...
looking for a face I'd only ever seen once
And now finally, seeing you, I feel nothing but shame
Officer Sun,
do you actually believe I care what you think?!
Your sentiment disgusts me!
I have not wasted a microt of my life thinking about you!
You're ashamed of me?
You
A traitor? An enemy to everything you were bred for?!
The Peacekeepers made me the enemy that I am
Look at what you are doing! You are butchering this magnificent creature in it's sleep
When it wakes it will be a slave, and there is no guarantee it will survive the procedure!
You are pathetic
You are not my daughter
I am
You made me very aware of that the night you came to me when I was a child and you told me what you'd done
Which, may I remind you, was not regulation
I never came to you!
You only dreamt it
Oh, well... for many cycles I believed that
But, you see, I now have a vid recording which I would be happy to show you if you'd like to see it
Or are you ashamed of your sentiment?
Yes I am, and I paid for it!
My superior officers knew I visited you that night
They interrogated me...
and I professed my...
attraction... for a certain Peacekeeper Officer
My father
Yes, Talyn
He was older than I was,
no longer as effective in battle
But my superiors didn't want to lose me
So... they gave me a chance to redeem myself
What did you do to redeem yourself?
How did you redeem yourself?
By killing your father
I found the scent again...
at last!
Wait...
this could be a trap
The other might still be near
Do you... smell him?
No
Captain Bialar Crais...
or should I say, 'former' Captain Crais?
Do you have any idea how many Inquisitors want you back in High Command?
Our orders are to take you in... alive
But half alive is still...
Wait...
there's... I smell something...
Yes!
Hey, hey, Crais!
Couldn'ta done it without ya!
Why didn't you tell me!
Needed your fear, homebody. Needed the sweat!
I've served my purpose as your lure, now untie me!
You don't get it do ya?
Ain't no way, son
You stuck the knife in one time too many
What, you're just going to leave me here like this?!
Well...
you earned it
If you're going to execute me, execute me!
Kill me!
But don't leave me here to die!
You lied to us!
You betrayed us and you used us!
I used all my assets to stay alive!
And those assets were you!
You think of your own survival now
What if Aeryn is dead?
She's not
What if she is?
How are you going to command Talyn?
How are you going to get off this planet without me?
And what if Aeryn isn't back at Talyn when you get there?
What are you going to do then?
What about Rygel? Is he dead?
He died for several microts, but I managed to get his little heart beating again
Then I sewed the wound closed with the vines, the restorative vines
But... I'm no diagnosan...
I don't know what else to do
She doesn't know it yet,
but Talyn is almost recovered
All we have to do is wait till he wakes up
He's not going to wake up
Aeryn
Wake up, Aeryn
Aeryn...
My name is Xhalax Sun
The night you've so conveniently forgotten
I'm your mother
You mustn't reveal to anyone that...
I was here, do you understand?
I came to tell you something
Aeryn...
you're life was not an accident
You cared enough then, to risk everything...
to meet the child that you had concieved
You can't have burned that love away completely
Talyn...
that's your father's name
He and I... chose to have you
You were conceived in love...
our love
I am that child
I am part of you. I am part of Talyn
I wanted you to know this
Peacekeeper way isn't the only way
It's not too late for you
It makes you special
We wanted you
No!
This is dead history
Your father is dead!
And you...
you will face a Peacekeeper Tribunal...
on a charge of high treason!
Rygel!
I've been... filleted
The restorative vines, they're working
Rygel, come over here now and untie us!
Get over there?!
I need bed rest, for at least the next fifty arns!
Have you seen these so-called stitches?
Who did this to me?!
I did
Oh, great!
A one-eyed hingmot with no 3-D vision!
How many of my vital organs did you puncture?!
I saved your life!
Saved my life?!
Look!
You sewed this to me!
Rygel!
My robes...
you sewed my robes to my chest!
Get over here now!
Is this thing workin'?
It had better be
We'll never find Talyn without it
Oh, for frells sake, Rygel! Use two hands! Two hands?!
I'm going as fast as I can!
My robes are stitched inside my chest cavity!
You are so ungrateful
And... I'm trying to keep my guts from spilling out all over this frelling floor!
Right
See if you can wake Talyn
If he's up to it... when I get back...
we're going
Come on...
come on
We've been here. That's Old Faithful, we must be near Talyn
Aeryn?
I would take you back,
attempt to redeem you if it was possible!
But your corruption is too advanced!
My corruption began the moment I was conceived!
No!
Watch his teeth!
Don't you see? My independence comes from you anyway!
I grew up wanting to be just like a woman I'd only seen once!
You are a traitor!
I am the part of you that wanted to be a rebel!
The part of you that knew deep down inside what was right...
Shut up!
You've resisted Peacekeeper doctrine before!
Shut up!
Why can't you do it again now?
You...
are an abberation!
I am your child!
Right
John, get out of the way
Let her do it! Let her shoot me!
No, Aeryn. Don't kill her!
We have to
You can't!
There's been too much killing!
No, we let her live
She comes, she hunts us down again
Aeryn! You should not be the one to do this!
She can't do it!
She's afraid
Aeryn, please
Put the gun away
You're wrong
Aeryn is right
We must not let Xhalax live
Officer Sun knows Peacekeeper regulations
If we don't kill Xhalax, she will come after us again
Aeryn is not going to be the one to kill her mother
You want her dead...
fine, you do it
As you wish
Somebody must do it
Go, now! You must not witness this!
Coward!
She can't kill me
I am right, aren't I?
We let you live,
you come and you find us again
What, do you expect me to lie?
To beg for my life?
Crais is right
I will hunt you down, and I will kill you
Good bye, mother
Aeryn, you have to go
Go on, do it
Do it
No!
You're recovery is truly a miracle
If I don't die of heklakos from these threads in my chest!
Don't move!
Let me see!
There... that's done it!
Does it look all right?
You're, you're as handsome as you ever were
And all things considered...
you know, Rygel, you're lucky just to be alive again
Alive...
again?
Yes
For a while there you were dead
No!
Yes
And when I joined with you, to bring you back,
I met with Zhaan
Zhaan?
Yes
That's why you stitched the frelling tunic to my chest!
You were busy hallucinating!
She looked...
contented
She whispered to me...
What?
It's a prayer of guardianship
It means...
she's watching over us
How is he?
Crais is attempting to splice his neural engrams with Talyn's...
and if he can,
then Talyn will be able to navigate on his own once again...
... and we can get some sleep
... or not
You don't have to wait up for me if you don't want to
No, I don't mind
It is all we can do
Yeah...
it's just a large part of Crais's psyche will now reside in Talyn
It's the only way to bring Talyn back to life
My...
Xhalax...
was my last connection to the Peacekeepers
All my ties to them are now completely severed
I know