Farscape s01e12 Episode Script

Hey Baby, Alex, what's wrong? (sighs) I'm taking the Stanford job.
Stanford.
You know, there are other medical research programs.
Not with full grant scholarships.
Well, I've got a shot at the space program here.
I know.
We've talked about this, John.
Taking a break.
It's not a break, Alex, if you're all the way across the continent.
I know it may not seem like it now, but I'll always be there for you.
Well, if we're meant to be together, we'll be together.
I love you.
I love you.
(loud explosion) D'argo: Pilot! Pilot: I have no answers as yet.
A little long for a starburst, don't you think? Hail Prince of the Obvious.
About time.
Now explain yourself.
Pilot: I told you, I did not initiate starburst, nor did I terminate it.
Then who did? Moya.
She thought she heard the distress cry of another pregnant Leviathan and was attempting to locate the source.
I like my wives pregnant and my ships cold to the touch.
That way, my feet stay warm and my slumber is uninterrupted.
"Wives," plural? Big fella.
I was just dreaming about my final mating session when our gestating goliath decided she needed some exercise.
That's my underwear.
What does this say? Calvin.
Then they're not yours.
D'argo: This is strange.
I dreamt of my wife last night.
About the last night we spent together before she was murdered.
That was my dream.
No, no, no.
Not not your wife.
Someone I cared about.
What about you girls? Sex dreams? I sleep soundly.
I am unimpressed by your masculine reveries.
Pilot, has Moya found the ship she's looking for? Yes and no.
There does not appear to be another Leviathan, let alone a pregnant one in distress.
Then why are we here? Hmm We're receiving a transmission.
Salutations.
I apologize for the deceit but there was no other way our signal could reach across the void.
And we so want to meet you Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan.
My name is John Crichton, an astronaut a radiation wave hit and I got shot through a wormhole Now I'm lost in some distant part of the universe on a ship.
A living ship full of strange alien life-forms Help me Listen, please.
Is there anybody out there who can hear me? being hunted by an insane military commander doing everything I can I'm just looking for a way home.
Tahleen: Upon landing, our vessel heats the rock to molten, then settles below ground.
That's your ship? Must have been one hell of an impact.
It's a missionary habitat.
It's clever.
Decreases the likelihood of an enemy being able to spot you from space.
It's always instructive how different cultures view the same reality.
Where a Peacekeeper sees defense from attack, we see solitude for piety.
Pa'u Tahleen, your use of deception continues to trouble me.
Tahleen: Perhaps our many cycles of reclusion contributed to an error in judgment, but we could think of no other way of leading you here.
Let us replenish at the Altar of Essence.
In the sweet air, you'll soon forget this world's toxic surface.
Toxic.
That figures.
Welcome to the New Moon of Delvia, our modest temple to the Goddess of Spiritual Renewal.
(whispering): You weren't supposed to bring a weapon.
That's why D'argo stayed on the ship.
D'argo is young; I am cautious.
I understand your vessel is low on supplies.
Lorana will show you to our food source.
Please be greedy.
The more you pick the more that grows to replaces it.
(whispering): It's so perfect, my teeth ache.
Well, that's from all the sincerity.
Why did you lure us here? Search yourself, Zhaan.
You know why.
I do not.
What I do know is you invaded my soul last night and you left me bitter.
Your friends were happy with their remembrances, were they not? So you caused me to remember.
We always remember, Zhaan.
We simply choose to ignore.
Whoa! There you go.
An "untended renewable" that's part plant, part animal, total nutrition.
What's not to like? This place.
These people.
Their serenity.
Well, at least you've thought out your position, Aeryn.
Amazes me how people mistake theosophy for superiority.
You know, I don't think anything amazes you.
I mean, look at this.
You ever seen one of these before? What would you call this? I dub thee, trigopod.
And, what, you're just no! No no reaction from you.
Incredible.
How special.
They're a food source, John.
No, Aeryn, it's unique.
It's a squid calamari cucumber, and it is incredible.
Look up.
Look at this.
This is a ship, Aeryn.
And it's incredible.
It's also a little creepy.
Tahleen: Look around, Zhaan.
Crichton: Okay? Almost everything we see, almost every day is brand new to both of us.
And it's worthy of a response.
On the other hand, it is a little creepy.
You know our cause is just.
I sympathize, but I cannot help you.
Then give us the powers to help ourselves.
When did the madness begin? Only recently but already, Pa'u Tuzak is beyond redemption.
You went too fast, didn't you? That is why we must have your secret, before we are all consumed.
I have no secret, Tahleen.
I am just me.
All that hatred and anger.
You should be insane.
I was insane.
I don't know how I survived those early cycles.
But you did.
So how does the pious Zhaan coexist with all that rage? Share with me.
Save me.
And in return, I will show you paths to abilities beyond your comprehension.
Mom! Mom! Look at the water snakes! They're huge! John, come away from there before you fall in! Mom! Help me! Mom! Mom! Help! Help! What? Geez! What is it? There's um stuff in the water.
I mean, uh Miracles of the mind.
You altered his memory.
Help me to understand your powers and I'll help you to understand mine.
Put him back and make him as he was.
You are the most bizarre creature I have ever met.
Any word? Aeryn and Crichton have close to a 40-day supply of fresh food on the transporter already.
Excellent.
What's the matter? Is there food I won't like? Something Crichton said is disturbing me.
Finally.
I've been saying that since he arrived.
It's what he said about us all having the same dream.
It wasn't the same.
Mine was better than yours.
I sense Delvian trickery here, Rygel.
We must leave this place.
Get the food first.
Do not touch.
The Sanctity Root.
Poison to your hand.
Death.
Oh right.
Um well, thanks.
And you're, um? Tuzak: Teacher-Leader- Holy Reaper-Seeker of the Flame.
I am here because of you Peacekeeper.
I'm not a Peacekeeper.
Yes, you are.
I am insane.
Yeah.
That would have been my next guess.
Insane because of you.
Because I touched inside what I needed to touch you outside.
Right.
One you travel with is in peril.
Aeryn? No, Aeryn's not a Peacekeeper.
Not yours, mine! Zhaan.
Vigilance, Peacekeeper.
Confusing times.
Do not touch the root.
You are forbidden in this sanctuary.
I was just looking for the meditation room.
You also carry a prohibited weapon.
I appreciate your rules, but I was allowed to A Peacekeeper lie.
I have been driven from my homeland by your kind.
I will not be driven from here also.
It is you who must go.
This is wrong, Lorana.
We're far outside our vows.
What choice do we have, Hasko? That is Tahleen talking, not you.
Don't be blinded by her madness.
I pity you, your jealousy.
Tahleen and I share Unity now, not you and I.
Accept that and move on.
(group chanting) Zhaan, I just heard that Aeryn got booted out of the temple.
Yes.
She's already taken a transport pod.
She's gone.
What? Wait a minute.
No, no, she left without us? No.
I wanted her to.
I need you to help me make a decision.
Look, if you want to stay here, that's fine.
We can take these people on Moya.
We have no star charts or reference points home to Delvia.
We prefer not to wander.
Oh, that makes sense.
Hell, everybody's lost in this corner of the universe anyway.
John, John.
You asked if I dreamt the other night.
I did.
I, too, was reminded of the last person I ever loved.
Open your mind.
John, you must keep an open mind.
Are you sure, Zhaan? His capacity is well below even a level one.
He will understand.
You must.
Show him.
Show him.
In the fires of Tadesh, I search for Unity with you, my companion.
Oh magnificent Zhaan, Ease the burdens of my flesh with your soul.
Envelop me.
Release your mind, Bitaal.
Surrender your demons, for I have others to replace them.
What are you doing? Avenging the lives you have ruined and the world you put at risk.
No, Zhaan! Zhaan! (crying) What the hell was that? The crime I was imprisoned for.
You you you killed a guy you were having sex with.
I admit I have not revealed all parts of myself to you.
No.
No, you haven't! You killed the guy you were having sex with, Zhaan! I need you, John.
I need you.
For what? Target practice?! I am adrift.
As the past is sweeping over me I must rely on the judgment of someone I trust.
Please understand.
Please.
You want me to understand? Then tell me, why the hell did you show me that? Because they want me to do it again.
Bitaar was our spiritual counselor, John.
He was a very powerful man.
I was studying with him at the time and things just took their course.
Why did you kill him, Zhaan? His tenure was up.
Instead of yielding control, he and the other conservative Pa'us hired the Peacekeepers for external security.
Our world changed forever.
Delvian coup d'etat.
I didn't think you people had it in you.
Peacekeepers rounded up all the liberal thinkers and voices of protest.
My own father was sent to an asteroid camp.
He may still be there for all I know.
Was that before or after you killed Bitaar? I loved Bitaar, John.
And these people Tahleen and the others, they want you to kill again? Not by my own hand.
They want me to help them regain power.
And so-so so what are you supposed to do? Serve as poster child for the revolution? As we train for purity, Delvians often become vulnerable to their own dark impulses.
Should it surface, they succumb as if to an infection.
Is that what happened to Grandpa Loony Tunes? And now madness is threatening his followers, too.
But not you.
No, you're as twisted as they come but you're still sane.
Exactly.
I can help these people, John.
How? Through Unity.
The sacred surrender of two minds together.
Two spirits, two souls.
Wait, w no, just back up.
You're telling me you're going to give a piece of your mind, a piece of your soul to one of these people? Am I just being stupid here or does that sound a little crazy in its own right, Zhaan? It is crazy, John.
But where there is risk, there is also hope.
Look, couldn't it wait until we've loaded more supplies? This trigopod is mythic.
Oh! You say it's part vegetable! Anymore from Crichton? He says they want Zhaan to participate in some sort of ceremonial mating.
This is such a bad combination.
I never should have left them.
Zhaan distracted, Crichton confused.
Crichton is always confused.
Pilot, prepare the transport pod.
We're heading back to the planet.
Very well.
Oh, wait for me! If we spent another thousand cycles here, we couldn't find the strength that that woman can give us in an instant.
The Peacekeeper has signaled her intention to return with the Luxan.
Stop them.
Let nothing distract Zhaan from what I want her focused on.
The one Crichton is challenging her with questions.
I can send him back to his ship.
No, she wants him here.
Their minds are weak.
Preoccupy them all as you would children.
Attack them with their own hopes and fears.
Is that how you would treat your children, Lorana? So, what's the story? When do we go? Who the hell are you? You don't recognize me? Oh, I recognize who you're supposed to be, Alex.
What's wrong with you? What's wrong with this picture? Why aren't you in your lab at Stanford? I never went to Stanford, John.
I joined the space program with you.
Remember? Yeah, I but, Alex how did you get here? The same way as you.
Or doesn't being your co-pilot count? Smile, baby, this is for my Mom.
Remember now? (coughing) Took you long enough.
I had to get up the nerve.
I know who you are.
I know who you are.
I do respect your teachings, Pa'u Tuzak.
And I respect your choice of murder victims.
What are you doing here? The young refuse to tend the orchard.
Sanctity Roots don't grow on trees, my dear.
I need your advice.
Uh-uh I have tasted of my darker impulse, so I'm I'm insane.
What I am contemplating is also a little insane.
Ah.
Pa'u.
Ninth Level? (dry coughing) When the darkness rises up from inside, that is normal.
It's when you reach down to pull it up that the noxious warnings sound.
Should I give Tahleen what she wants? Oh, she would like that.
Will she use the ability I give her to hurt people? Certainly.
But she may also free a planet from tyranny.
(Hasko chanting) If you hear nothing from us, come down immediately.
Yes, of course, my thought exactly.
Aeryn, are you ready? Ready.
Are you ready? My pulse rifle just fell apart.
What are you talking about? Just pick it up.
It's in pieces, D'argo.
I don't know what happened.
What happened is, you are wasting my time.
I don't have any training to use this bit.
Pilot, are there any Delvian transmissions coming to Moya? Boy: Daddy! Daddy! Jothee Jothee.
Daddy! Help me! Peacekeepers! Pilot! Seal all the exits! There are Peacekeepers on board! Rygel, can you help me with this? (agonized scream) What made you decide to share Unity with me? The potential.
If you have even the slightest doubt, we must refrain.
I will give you what you wish.
What do you need? The smallest seed.
Point me to the knowledge, and I will spend my life mastering it.
Both: I am yours.
Your spirit is raging.
You strive for so much.
And yours is so calm.
I will show you what you want so you might ease your soul.
(painful whimpering) What are you doing, Tahleen? I'm sorry, Zhaan, but what you have achieved will take me too long to master on my own.
No! Forgive me, Pa'u, but I must have all of what I need.
You betrayed me.
What's up? What happened? I made a mistake.
Why-why are your eyes red? It's tissue bile migrating to my brain.
(chuckles) Madness? Maybe.
My dark impulses are released.
She ripped from me my ability to control them.
Then go take them back.
It doesn't work like that.
I'd have to start over.
Zhaan, you're in a temple surrounded by the Goddess.
If you can do it in a Peacekeeper cell, you can do it I spent nearly 17 cycles tortured by my own dark impulses.
Feeling insanity's grip ebb and flow.
I don't have the strength to start again! No, just just stay put.
Stay put.
We're not done yet.
Crichton: Tahleen! Tahleen! Tahleen! Alex, where's Tahleen? Lotus position somewhere.
John, sit down.
She screwed over Zhaan.
That was Zhaan's choice.
Let it go.
No, but you should see her.
And you should see me.
John, we made a promise to always be there for each other.
Wait, wait, wait.
When have I not been there for you? Whenever anybody else needs you.
Alex Zhaan is our friend.
Who made a choice to stay with her own kind.
Accept it.
Do you remember the night that we made love in the reflecting pool at Canaveral? Pilot: Crichton, are you there? Yo, Pilot, what's up? I'm afraid everyone up here is behaving rather strangely.
D'argo: Jothee! Jothee, where are you, boy? Jothee, where are you? Pilot, I demand that you help me find my son.
Now! I'm sure you heard that.
How's Aeryn? Just as bad.
(laughing): I am not as bad as that.
I just, um I I can't figure out how these controls work.
And Rygel is faring no better.
He somehow thinks he has shrunk to even smaller dimensions.
I'm on it, Pilot.
(sighs) This is a pretty sacred place, isn't it? You think you still belong here? Tahleen: There are over a billion Delvians living in fear on our home world.
Crichton: And you're going to save them, right? Not alone.
It will take many dedicated to freedom.
But it serves no end if I go insane before This isn't about freedom.
It's about power.
You know, your friend really is a remarkable woman.
Whatever you've done to my friend, you put it right.
Incapacitate him, Lorana.
Even if you have to destroy his mind.
Why not just let them go? You already have what you want.
Because I have not.
Zhaan held too tightly to her secret.
I didn't get enough to quell the madness.
She will forge another Unity with Zhaan and most likely kill her in the process.
Hey! Where have you been? Oh! Dealing with Zhaan and the blue people.
How are we going to get back on Moya? I don't know.
Look, Alex, let me ask you a question.
Have you noticed anything unusual that might indicate that they've been messing with our minds? The only person messing with my mind, John, is you.
I don't have time for this right now, okay? I am serious.
And you don't think I am? When am I going to become more important to you than Zhaan? I never gave you that.
Hi.
Baby, what's wrong? I'm scared.
Yeah, right, you're scared.
What? Well, when I agreed to pass on Stanford and go with you What if things don't work out between us and I'm stuck in Florida, alone? You will never, ever be stuck alone, I promise.
Now how am I going to hold you to that one? Alexandra Kimberly O'connor, marry me.
You never gave me this? No, I mean, I remember giving you the ring.
I just don't remember And I promise never to place another before me, till death do us part.
You don't remember what, John? Marrying me? Yeah, of course.
I'm Do you want it back? No! No, no.
Never.
Then honor your vow, or choose Zhaan over me and take the ring.
If you return to Delvia, many may be tempted to seek your word, barely coherent, over mine.
Oh, they wouldn't listen to me, my daughter.
You didn't.
On the contrary, all those cycles growing up I listened.
When I brought you all here to accelerate your teaching, it was to create a new class of Pa'u, a better class.
And in your legacy, we will shine on.
You go too fast.
Pillaging knowledge without the wisdom to control it.
I mean, learn from my error, Tahleen.
I have.
Even now, insanity creeps upon me.
But rather than sit idly by tending trees that will not grow, I take action for myself, and for my homeland.
What you do is worse than the insanity you seek to stave off! You're quite lucid today, father.
No! (gasping) Zhaan.
Come back to Moya with us.
No, Tahleen needs me.
I will be a Pa'u, dedicated to helping others.
After all she's done? Yes.
I will join in Unity with her one more time.
You know, you're full of it.
You're going to kill her, aren't you? Just like you did your lover.
You were always the most clever one on Moya, but I will not miss you.
Zhaan, just stop.
Stop thinking about Tahleen.
I want you to think about yourself for a little while.
The urge to give retribution is intoxicating.
I have missed it.
You know, Alex said that you were going to do this.
That you'd quit.
Alex? Who is Alex? Alex.
My wife.
I should not have brought you here.
Let's face it.
We have both lost.
(chuckles) (sighs) Why do you care for Zhaan so much? Huh? What kind of question is? Why is Zhaan so important to you? Honey, think of all the times she's put herself on the line for us.
Not for me, John.
You know what? This is stupid.
She likes you.
She can't like me, because she doesn't even know me.
What the hell are you talking about? I'm not here, John.
I've never been.
Baby, they are messing with your mind.
You flew with me.
We share quarters on Moya.
Forced memories to distract you.
You're real.
No.
I love you.
I release you from what is not true.
How in God's name do you call yourself a priest? I have no excuse.
So what now? Kill me? Cage me? Teach me tricks? Your feelings for Zhaan, I share them, too and for you and the others.
We have fallen off the path.
The Sanctity Root around which our temple revolves represents purity of thought and intent.
Your tree it's twisted on itself.
Whilst in your mind, you have showed me the ember of my own virtue.
Next time, ask.
If you are willing to take the risk, you may be able to accomplish the same result with Zhaan.
Hasko: I am sorry but you must focus on this moment.
Your friends' lives hang in the balance.
I get a vote.
I say we go down and shoot them all.
Oh! Look, D'argo almost stepped on me.
Pilot: Your eminence you were never any smaller than your current stature.
Hasko: You must not invade our temple.
The balance is very delicate.
Please, I have restored your memories.
Now, allow us to do it our way.
You have two arns.
That's all.
Why do you disturb me as I prepare for Unity with Zhaan? Because what you are doing is wrong.
Such simple analysis from a vessel I poured much effort into.
How disappointing.
If you thought so little why choose Unity with me in the past? Because you were too foolish to look deeper and question me.
You were easy and pleasurable.
Pardon the intrusion, Pa'u, but I think you should know Zhaan and Crichton have fled to the surface in an attempt to reach their ship.
Then I must stop them.
Where is she? The part of Tahleen in tonight's Unity will be played by John Crichton.
You wish to share Unity with me? Well you guys are always going on about how hot it is.
I thought I'd give it a go.
This is not sex.
The fusion of our two minds will surely kill you.
Not if you're careful.
I hear you can protect me if you want to.
I see no purpose to this union.
(clucking) Your translator microbes handle that one? Although I must admit, I have always wondered what could possibly go in there.
Not a lot.
I'm a guy.
Come on, Zhaan.
What are you afraid of? (grunts) Take my head.
Our two spirits will pass into each other until we inhabit a single consciousness.
Too late to be afraid.
Move into me.
Oh, my.
What is that? Unity.
It's like Disney on acid.
Ten years of really great sex all at the same moment.
(chuckles softly) My God, what is that? What is The core of my soul.
The part of me that is capable of murder.
Wh-what what's happening? What what's happening to me? Focus on something else, John.
Do not absorb any of my rage.
(whimpers) All right.
All right.
I'm all right.
We must separate now, John.
I don't know how long I can protect you.
No.
There's something in me that you need to see.
(chuckles) Look at yourself as I see you.
Gentle, giving.
That's you, Zhaan.
Tahleen can't take that, and she didn't.
You're still that Pa'u.
Follow me, Zhaan.
See what I see.
Build on that peace.
(gasping softly) Be her again.
(groaning) (groaning) Zhaan? Zhaan! Fight it.
Fight all the things that betray you.
(groaning) Zhaan.
Thank you, John.
How come I can't remember? The details of another's mind fade after Unity.
But the essence of bonding remains.
Tahleen: Stop! How dare you! This tree is the center of your existence, right? The source of your goodness? Spiritual flame? Well, burn down the temple sister, just 'cause you're a bastard sect in any religion.
I will destroy your useless mind! How did you block him from me? Unity also gifted me with a part of you, Tahleen.
I am now a Pa'u of the Tenth Level, able to protect.
(rumbling) We want the same things, Zhaan.
No, we don't.
You reach for the dark impulses I leave behind.
We all visit the precipice.
Each one of us must find our own way down.
With your father gone, he will need you to tend to his orchard.
John? (drops ax) It's okay.
Crichton: What are you doing? The vestments of a Pa'u.
Feels like a shroud.
I'm no longer worthy.
You do that and she wins.
It's not about winning, John.
Each day infuses us with a knowledge we carry into tomorrow.
I I will be a Pa'u again, but I'm not today.
Seems a shame.
Waste all those years of training.
Hardly wasted.
They were the best cycles of my life.