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#0320 - Lambs To The Slaughter

Overview
As the Moya crew are received aboard Scorpius's Command Carrier with full honour and diplomatic immunity, some of the officers take offence by their status. John gets down to working with the wormhole tech with Scorpy, but soon it is revealed the Peacekeepers are making new plans...

In Whole
John receives a warning from Harvey about sabotaging Scorpius's wormhoe research in the middle of a conflict within his mind, but convinces Harvey. Chiana and Jool show some doubts but, with D'Argo and Rygel already aboard Scorpius's Command Carrier, continuing the negotiations, the rest of Moya's crew board (in amazing special effects), arranging a rendezvous with Moya, Pilot and Talyn later. Crichton tests out his neural bracelet link with Scorpius, to agreeable effect. The crew are immediately granted immunities, rights and courtesies on the Command Carrier.
Scorpius immediately asks John about his co-operation, John explaining that he is co-operating mainly to help out his crew-mates. Crais asks for Talyn to be fixed, and Scorpius agrees eventually. Crais orders for Lieutenant Lorell to oversee repairs on Talyn, and leaves for his quarters. Crichton is anxious to start work - Scorpius asks whether he'll work for or against him.
In the officer's lounge, Aeryn, Jool, Rygel and D'Argo are greeted with a cold welcome, while Braca shows Crais to his quarters, telling him about the hostility amongst the crew toward him. Meanwhile, Strapa and Scorpius show Crichton what he'll be working with. Crichton's annoyed - he wants the big toys and access to everything, not an advisory role. A bit of an argument erupts between Scorpius and John, while Braca keeps going on at Crais.
Back in the officer's lounge, Jool complains about the walls in which Aeryn grew up in, while Chiana tries to do what she does best - make new friends, with not very good results this time. Chiana's new "friend" insults D'Argo about what he was imprisoned for, before Rygel asks for his promised report on the Hynerian political situation. D'Argo then leaves for surgery to remove the prison hooks in his chest - Braca is working on the other "thing" they promised D'Argo.
Aeryn meanwhile encounters an old friend, who doesn't seem as friendly now, believing her to be a traitor, while Crichton tells of his encounter with Lynfur in Incubator, who was a PK pilot who turned to goo after a wormhole flight. They give John access to all their equations.
D'Argo meanwhile is undergoing surgery in a room filled with Anesthetic mist which also has the good fortune to block PK surveillance. This allows for John and Aeryn to talk about plans of action - as far as John can see, the options are either to erase the wormhole data, but he can't find the erase button, steer them in the wrong direction but he doesn't know which way is wrong, or run. However, in the officer's lounge, two officers are hatching a plot to kill D'Argo...
In the surgery, D'Argo and Jool are alone, Jool voicing her doubts, when one of the afore-mentioned officers challenges D'Argo, equipped with a saw-blade arm thingy. Jool tries to make herself useful, but the Peacekeeper eventually falls onto his own blade in a sticky mess. Scorpius is justifiably angry and decides to execute anyone who touches his guests. The Moya crew wish to return to Moya, and Chiana, D'Argo, Rygel and Jool decide to journey back, but not before D'Argo is given a file containing the status and last known location of Macton T'el, his former wife's brother who murdered her and framed D'Argo.
Crais meanwhile is greeted by a former flame, the lieutenant Lorell who admits she was instructed to spy on him, but does not reveal if she will or not. Continuing their work, Braca tells Crichton of a plan to use the command carrier's mass to stabilise the wormhole. Crichton though gets annoyed at Scorpius's interruptions, and Scorpius still thinks Crichton believes he will mis-use the wormhole tech. Scorpius gives Crichton full access to the files on his origins, to convince him that the Scarrens are the threat they need to defeat. Harvey agrees, but tells John he has normalised John's energy signiature so Scorpius can't detect John has been lying to his face. Harvey doesn't want to die.
With Talyn now aboard, Crais and Lorell inspect him, with Lorell secretly telling Braca Crais believes her completely. Aeryn takes Crichton to a planetary simulation, Crichton asking Aeryn's opinion of Scorpius's opinion that Scarrens need to be stopped. He contemplates giving the PKs wormhole tech.
Back on Moya, Rygel is going over the info on the Hynerian political situation, which looks favourable - four planets in the system of Hyneria call for the abdication of his cousin Bishan. Chiana meanwhile has a vision of Pilot screaming, and a moment later PK ships approach. Moya is shot while in mid-starburst.
On Talyn, Lorell asks Crais about Talyn, and his intentions to leave him. Lorell questions him about his motives and leaving the PKs, while Aeryn meets up with her old friend again and tries to get some sense into her. That is, until there is a message of a captured Leviathan.
Moya has been captured.
Crichton meanwhile is asking Strapa about Lynfur when he hears the news of Moya, and goes to confront Scorpius. However, it seems that Scorpius isn't pulling the strings any more - it's a Peacekeeper known as Meelon Grazar. She informs Scorpius of an alliance between the Peacekeepers and Luxans, introducing a Luxan ambassador known as Kortosko, sent to promote more alliances in order to show strength against the Scarrens. Yet half the planets he visits fear Peacekeepers - the other half laugh at them, for their inability to catch Moya and her crew. The Peacekeeper council wish to bargain with the Scarrens for a truce, thinking the wormhole tech has no value, but Scorpius argues. Crichton and Aeryn find Braca and get him to show them to Scorpius and Grazar. Grazar believes Scorpius has lost control, but Scorpius orders Moya and her crew released, and Grazar escorted out of the sector. Grazar concedes, but promises she'll return with full council sanction, planting a comm on a lieutenant she knew she could trust.
Crichton meanwhile talks to Pilot, with Scorpius also reassuring. Moya was hit by an immobiliser pulse. Meanwhile Grazar, being escorted out of the command carrier, contacts the lieutenant she gave a comm to. They discuss a plan, highlighting the vulnerability of Scorpius - through Crichton.
Jool and Rygel however are having a quick gamble in the officer's lounge, while Aeryn is getting through to her old friend. Scorpius informs D'Argo of the pact between the Peacekeepers and Luxans, which D'Argo doesn't find too appealing. Crichton meanwhile is telling Aeryn in the surgery (which, remember, can't be spied upon) that he's beginning to unlock the Ancient's wormhole tech by himself, so he's able to steer the PKs onto the wrong path. He's just unsure it's the right thing to do. He's not clear what to do next.
Lorell is telling Crais that he could come back to the Peacekeepers if he can earn Scorpius's trust again - Scorpy wouldn't risk the wormhole tech. Meanwhile, Aeryn and Crichton are being stalked, and ambushed in a generator room. Scorpius senses this through the neural bracelets and, as John and Aeryn sort out their ambushers with weird glowing balls, poles and jet-packs, sends for reinforcements to find them.
Safe for the moment, Crichton and Scorpius meet. Crichton tells Scorpius that his ship is out of control, their timetable and wormhole tech threatened by Grazar. Scorpius believes John is stalling, and had hoped John would see the truth. After a bit of an argument, Scorpius shows John a planet they've found from pin-pointing the stars and constellations in the recovered neural chip. A planet which, even without wormhole tech, is still possible to be reached in just over sixty cycles. A planet which, if John won't co-operate, Scorpius will burn to ashes infront of John's eyes.
The planet is Earth.

What I thought
Holy flying frell are there some spoilers here! I wish I had't read that spoiler on the Farscape Zone message board (I think from some guy who'd seen it in Israel or somewhere) which told me that Moya had been captured and the PKs had found Earth! But this is a cool episode, with even more new and better effects than I-Yensch, You Yensch. The intro scene when the transport is escorted and lands on the command carrier is superb, and the generator scenes, while showing some (understandable - this isn't a big-budget movie remember) problems with very few effects, is just amazing! The scenes in John's head with Harvey are extremely well done, in black-and-white with the same scratchy lines across the screen on occasions like an old war movie, and the whole thing gave me the impression the war between PKs and Scarrens was put into John's head, with him and Harvey in the middle. The storyline is brilliant, and sets the tone for things to come - will Scorpius also turn renegade like Crais? How will the Luxan deal affect the war? What will John's next move be? The new Luxan Kortosko also looked brilliant, and we have the return of Strapa. Overall though, this has to be one of the best episodes so far in my opinion. The special effects, new characters and revelations, and just the whole situation, is simply awe-inspiring. Anyone who hasn't seen this episode will love it. In my opinion, 5 out of 5, and definitely one of the best yet!


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