• Part I: A Not So Simple Plan
• Part II: With Friends Like These...
• Part III: Plan B

Brief synopsis:

The Main Story:

Trivia Quiz:

References and continuity:

Stark: "Scorpius killed then thousand of my people. Ten thousand cast into space! Ten thousand souls scream in my brain. The chair, the chair, remember the chair?"
Rorf: "What chair? This frek is crazy!"

A reference of course to the slave shipment blown up once Jothee was singled out from the crowd, but looking further back also to "the chair", the Aurora chair, the device Scorpius used on his Gammak base to try and force the secrets from Stark's mind into the open.

Crichton: "Alright Fronkenstein, let's get it on. Get your property out of my head."

Fronkenstein was the less famous, junior version of Frankenstein, a similarly oddly constructed monster who starred in his own horror adventure.

Crichton: "Its kinda hard not to flinch here Scorpy, with Frau Blucher tickling my prostate."

Continuing on the same theme, I believe this was Fronkenstein's, erm, lover, who had such quotes as "Und he had ze mosht beeyouteevull bottomsies".

Crichton: "Oh dear dear dear, what has Moya done here? You're so screwed Medusa."

Very briefly, in Greek mythology, Medusa represented female wisdom, but was better known for her serpent like body and tentacles of the same nature, along with her stare that was said to turn men to stone should they look into it.

Bekhesh: "Farewell my friends, and thank you for teaching my to kill again."

This is a Tavlek warrior we are talking about, when did he stop killing? Well, he discovered religion after having a priest held hostage. He read through some of the teachings and it rubbed off on him. However, thanks to the events of this episode, it was all undone again.

• Seen the Flax before? Yep, look back to The Flax where Aeryn and Crichton had a run in with this huge space net and the Zenetan pirates.
• Bekhesh says he will take Rorf's share of the wealth to the Vorcarians mate, Rorg. She was last seen in With Friends Like These where she went into hiding to give birth to Vorcarian babies.

Crichton's recording: "This thing in my head - this chip, part of me... now wants it to control me. So I'm going to go to Scorpy and have him take it out before its too late, before I no longer want it gone. Goodbye my friends. 'Least by swapping myself for Jothee I can do you some good."
Aeryn: "You see how you misread him?"
D'Argo: "Yes..."

A sad moment for viewers, and certainly for the crew. Powerful stuff as D'Argo realises just how good a friend Crichton really is.

Aeryn: "You can have anything you want, anything."
Crais: "Aeryn Sun! Are you offering yourself? Crichton - if he's alive - must mean a great deal to you."
Aeryn: "You can take what you want, and I won't stop you."

Shocking! Aeryn offering herself despite their past, and of course the fact that she loves Crichton, but it seems that this same love is so powerful she is willing to go to extremes to help save Crichton.

Aeryn: "Are you ready to go down now and save Crichton?"
Zelkin: "But we all heard his transmission. What if Crichton's worse, and won't be rescued?"
Aeryn: "Well that's easy. I put a bullet in Crichton's head, and end it."

A curiously human expression seeing as it would presumably be laser fire, not primitive bullets, had it gone that far, but in the end, she only punched his lights out.

Scorpius: "Good news. I'm always suspicious of good news." This alone makes him a superb villain. Where so many would take good news as being somehow related to their own greatness, Scorpius is suspicious of anything that doesn't come with a price. This is a philosophy the whole show generally sticks to. Crichton: "Aeryn, I'm gonna go to Scorpius..." Aeryn: "Frell you are. (Hits him)"

Funniest moment I reckon. John's lost it, Scorpius has control, wallop. Aeryn knocks him out and saves the day. Love is painful.

Crichton: "D'Argo. Kill me. D'Argo please. Kill me."

Certainly no happy endings here, but erm, go on to Die Me Dichotomy to find out what happens.

Writer:

Justin Monjo wrote this episode, and was also responsible for:

Director:

The director of this episode was Tony Tilse who also directed:

New Aliens:

None

Farewell to:

Rorf		Shot whilst trying to escape.
Teurac		Caused himself to explode, taking out the generator.
Zelkin		Shot during a struggle with Chiana.
Scorpius?		Trapped in an exploding depository?

Guest Stars:

Nicholas Hope as Akkor. Claudia Karvan as Natira. Matt Newton as Jothee. David Franklin as Lieutenant Braca. John Adam as Bekhesh.

• Jeremy Sims as Rorf.
• Thomas Holesgrove as Teurac.
• Lionel Haft as Zelkin.
• David Bowers as Kurz.

Personal Opinion:

It was crazy enough just stealing from a shadow depository, but blowing one up!! Wow! Crichton played a relatively minor part in this episode as he was basically just pulled in many directions by his friends and enemies. The other characters also played small parts simply because everybody was involved. Each person had their piece to add to the mix. Aeryn and D'Argo perhaps stood out though, especially Aeryn's conversations with Crichton.

Is Scorpius dead though? Well, look ahead to Die Me Dichotomy to find out, but one thing we do know is that Harvey is still very much there, infecting Crichton's brain, and something needs to be done quickly. In better news though, Aeryn and Crichton are as close as ever, and its nice for D'Argo to have his son safely back, but are things going so well between D'Argo and Chiana?

	Woah! A massive action episode, but its not over yet!		10/10