Farscape (1999–2003): Season 3, Episode 9 - Losing Time - full transcript

Upon passing through an electromagnetic cluster, Crichton sees a strange being aboard Moya. It seems to attack him, causing him to black out and bleed profusely. However he cannot prove his experience actually occurred, so the rest of the crew believes he is hallucinating. He continues to have these episodes, but without the help of his friends he has little chance of discovering what is happening to him.

Hello, John

Oh, at last

At last!

Yes

Sorry to wake you, sir, but...
I think we've finally done it

On my way

Crichton

Pilot, can we keep going?

We can do anything if the 'others' want to. But...

Well then, can we turn around?

I am sick of running to the ends of the fekik
just because he's got a ballium up his butt!



I have explained this to you!

You have explained it to all of us!

Over and over and over

The deep space variances we encountered
indicate that we could...

We could be somewhere near a wormhole

The variances 'could' also indicate
a 'trillion' other possibilities,

none of which have anything to do with...

wormholes

Guys, I know...

that you have been patient

No. No more

No more, I have had it up
to Krasacs Bow with patience

-Pip, no, Chia, come on,
Chiana, don't... don't... don't... don't
-Pilot

-Don't! Look...look...
-...get us out of here



remember the ship, in the wormhole?!
I saw the Three Stooges... the broadcast!

I'm with Miss Monochrome

Let's just get the frell out of here

D, come on, man.
Look, it's the Stooges!

I gotta... I gotta... l-look,
it's-it's Earth, it's home!

I know, I'm a little... a little obsessive,

but... I gotta

John, we have been searching for ten solar days

I mean, come on, enough is enough

You saw that broadcast through a wormhole,
and you know as well as I do...
your home could be anywhere

Pilot, you game to continue?

I'm afraid the others would object

But there is something else now, too

What?

Moya's approaching an electro-magnetic cluster

All of her scans indicate it's benign, but...

That was the cluster, right?

We just passed through it

Pilot, are we okay?

Everything... seems fine

Pilot...

there's something in...

Is anybody having any... problems?

D'Argo?

Chiana, where are you?

Pilot...!

What's the matter, Crichton?

Light...

...came in here

Moya's sensors registered nothing

Oh, look...

right after the cluster...

there was that-that light, it...

Abbott!

Crichton...

What's the matter?!

Chia! you okay?!

Yeah, yeah, I'm fine

-You all right?!
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. You look terrible,
what's the matter?

I cr...could...the light that came into Moya...
went through me...and, and, and it just,
like I, I bled

I bled

Okay

Am I cut?

Let me see

Am I cut?!

No, there's nothing there

You sure?!

Oh, yeah!

Are you sure you bled?

Yes, I-I bled! You don't make som...
Like a... it was like a lake of blood...
it was biblical!

Crichton... you've barely eaten or slept
in ten solar days, maybe you imagined it

Nobody imagines things like this

Okay...

Here

Right here

What ?

what am I supposed to be looking at?

There's blood... blood.
It was right... here

Pilot, did you, did you register
an electric surge down here?

Nothing

I told Crichton that

What? What are you,
What are you lookin' at?!
You think I'm makin' this up?

All right

Go eat...

and then go bathe, because you stink

Hold still

Hold still, and quit your whinin'

You know you got my blood in here

Can't have vaporized it all

Nothin

Nothing, nothing, nothing

Oh...Oh, god...Oh, god!

What's happening to me must have to do
with that cluster we passed through...
the, the, the light...thing!

Crichton, I told you.
All scans indicate the cluster was harmless!

It was not harmless, run the scan again!

Look, look... I, I, I...
maybe I imagined the light thing, but I bled!

And I have the blood to prove it

And I'm not cut anywhere!

There could be another explanation
for what's happening

When... Kaarvok duplicated you
on the diseased Leviathan, perhaps he...

You think maybe Kaarvok did something to me?
That, that my body is breakin' down?

I'm sorry, but it is possible

What, what is going on?!

My chamber is boiling hot,
this place is leaking

Well, Pilot says he's having some troubles...
with the internals

-He says he's working on it
-Crichton...

calm down. You're tired,
it could all turn out to be nothing

Nothing?

I am bleeding, and I have no wound!

So, I'm either 'St John of the Uncharted Territories',
or there's something very,
very wrong with me

What, what would you like us to do?

I want all of you to watch me in case
I have another episode, a bleed,
whatever you want to call it

I'm sorry, as much fun as that sounds,
I don't think so

Pip, stop okay? You know...
look, I thought...

...that I was the real me,
and that that other guy, the,
the guy on Talyn... that he's the clone,

but I'm startin' to think
maybe I'm the photocopy

Crichton... this has nothing to do
with the split. Just sleep

You'll be fine

No

I'm not imagining this

Watch me...

please

All right, John

Sit down, and...

Girls... we will all sit down...
and watch John

after we'll go

What if I have to piss?

Well then, we will all urinate together

You promise?

You havin' fun yet?

Galaxies of it

Can we go now?

No

-Sorry, but I'm not gonna sit here...
-No

Whoa!

There's water everywhere

Where'd that come from?

That bucket's overflowing already?

Oh, yeah, see?! See, see, see...
told ya! Strange things are happening!

Now, I had this DRD record us,
he's gonna put it on the clamshell!

You havin' fun yet?

Galaxies of it

What's going on?

We're not moving

Can we go now?

No

-Sorry, but I'm not gonna sit here...
-No!

Whoa!

What happened to us?

...There's water everywhere

Where'd that come from?

All the scans indicate normal

All right, well,
let's seek official approval, shall we?

Sir,

the prowler retained it's integrity
on the last six reentries

No gravitational distortions?

No

Nothing

Electronics, biomass indicators,
all within acceptable parameters

And now you want to send a Peacekeeper?

He has oscillation ratings

With respect Scorpius,

With respect Scorpius, biomass reentry will work.
Your...indecision is wasting time

Oh, what he means, sir...

the wormhole is degenerating,

and stabilization has been unsuccessful so far

If, if we don't complete our trial soon,
it will delay us...

to find another wormhole

So, can we please get started?

You demanded my transfer here
so I could master wormholes and
create the weapon you desire

You did not transfer me here to wait
for your permission as if you were my mother!

It is now time to proceed with biological trials

Right, son

Well

Deploy him

Clear the hangar area

Standby for manual Prowler Launch

Best I can figure,
we were out for about half an arn

How can that be?

Well, perhaps Moya lost atmospheric pressure
and we blacked out and lost time

We were doing a lot more...
than just losing time

I think,

but I'm not sure... but I think...

I may have lost time earlier

Before I changed into this
I was running a soak and the water was warm

Instantaneously... it was cold

Why didn't you tell us this?

Well, I just thought it was a heating coil malfunction

Anything strange happen to you guys?

I live on this ship,
something strange always happens

Not like spasming

Before... my first episode,

I saw some kind of light,
Moya passed through an electromagnetic cluster

Now, Pilot says it's harmless,
but it's gotta be related

Pilot, you run the long range
re-scan on that cluster yet?

Pilot!

Pilot!

You okay?

Where are the lights?

Pilot!

Is he breathing?

I don't know

Oh, hezmana, he stinks!

What happened to us has happened to Pilot, too

Does anybody know how to check his pulse?

It's behind the neck, in between the vertebrae

Right

Get back! Get back! Get back!

Apologies

But you must stay back

For one of you, judgment starts now

Judgement?
What the hell are you talkin' about?

Pilot's gone

I am in him now

Apologies

Tried to taste without your knowing,

Taste?!

...but you discovered

Get back! Don't know how to
ontrol this body... this ship, yet

Must slow down.
This body cannot contain me

Then get out of it

Please... I will not harm your Pilot

I can stay in him a short time
to find the diseased Energy Rider

My group probes could not detect who it occupies

What's an Energy Rider?

We live in clusters

When you passed through ours...
a diseased Rider escaped on your ship

Are you saying...

there's a diseased alien in one of us?

Yes

I must taste you, alone now, to find it

What the fek are you talkin' about?

What is he talkin' about?!

Shoot him. Shoot him, you're the warrior,
shoot him now!

All right, with what? My nose?

Shoot him!

It's Pilot, we're not gonna shoot him

Why not?!

Fek up, Jool

First law in my world:

"Don't hurt the body."

Rider...

I am not here to hurt you

Reveal yourself,

I do not wish to hurt these others

Must calm this Pilot
Do not try to ambush me
I will know!

Does anyone know what's going on here?

I don't know, do you feel any different?

What do you mean, "different"?

"Different", like I might have a diseased
alien in me, "different"?

No... I don't feel like that

Actually, now that you mention it,
I've been feeling a little angry

That's normal for you
Jool... wrong way

Why do you believe a word that
thing inside Pilot's saying?

I don't have to believe it, Chiana

But something made me bleed,
and it made all of us shake like a sheep in Arkansas

Well I think I should just grab my Qualta Rifle,
stick it in it's mouth and say,
"Hey, get out of Pilot."

And what if it says no?

Run a full vessel scan,
see if we have control of anything on board

I hate to point out the obvious but, if...

something is inside us,
I think it likely,

since you had the first symptoms,
that you're the infected

Kiss my butt, if I'm Linda Blair,
why am I tellin' you guys anything

Well, it'd be the smart thing to do
if later you need to appear innocent

I'm not that smart

I thought of that...

I still think you're the best candidate

All right, opinion noted.
Leave me alone

D'Argo, what'chu got?

Nothing. I can't get control of anything

Me either. The damn thing in Pilot left us with squat

You know, it is possible that we're fine,
and, and Pilot's the only infected one

Why? What could it possibly want?

I dunno

Maybe he's crazy

Sounds feked to me

I think we should all get
a Transport Pod out of here now

Weren't you listening?

We have no control

If that thing in Pilot doesn't want you to leave...
you're not leaving

Look at the lights!
Look at the dripping water!
That thing is not controlling everything

Maybe I'll get lucky

Good luck

Unified plan, as always

Auto-retrieval and bio-fluctuations appear normal

Then why is your pilot not responding to our comms?

I suspect, um...antenna burn out

Vessel integrity is definately intact

Well, open it

Your Pilot's integrity is, ah,

well...

it is definately not intact

There must be a malfunction
in the negative shield deployment

This will never happen again

Oh, it'll happen once more.
Inspector Drillic...

will pilot the next trial

Wash out the prowler

for immediate deployment

Scorpius, I'm not flying the next trial

I'm afraid that, uh...

Braca will insist

Drillic is... Project Leader, he...

And what is your name?

Strappa,

Co-Kura Strappa

Strappa

Well, Strappa,

you are now Project Leader, and perhaps...

now that you know what to expect...

you can discover exactly what went wrong here

Yes

Scorpius, we had to run Sebacean trials,
it was time!

Don't, don't send me... Scorpius!

Scorpius...

All right, D
We'll try it your way

Be cool

Luxan, you cannot ambush me

I have my weapon pointed at your face

I don't think I'm doin' too badly

Now... I would like to see...the 'real' Pilot

I am trying to save you pain,

I wish you would believe that,

but since you...ask

D'Argo,

Crichton,

he's...not lying,

there is a creature...
in one of you

Please, get it out! Get it out!

Please

Help me find the rider

The longer it remains in one of you,
the more damage it will do

Why don't you jump into us,
like you did Pilot... find it yourself?

The Rider is a child, it can possess you

If I did, my power would destroy you

And what did it do?
Why do you want it so bad?

This Rider stays too long and diseases minds

Gives only desire and despair

How do we know which one of us it's in?

Rider had to burrow in quickly

It will not know details of the heart.
Sire, siblings, your private world

Lo'laan was my wife, uh, Jothee was my son,
he slept with Chiana, who was my...fiancee

My dad's name was Jack
My dog's name was Hubble
I lost my virginity to Karen Shaw in the back of a Four-By

How old were you?

Sixteen

I was seven

Chiana, what's your brother's name?

You know what my brother's name was

Just answer the question

You were right

Couldn't even open a Transport Pod to see if...

What's going on?

Boys are playing detective

What, that thing in Pilot tell you to do this?

You don't know the answer, do you?

Nerri

Okay, good...

good with the "Nerri".
Now, question 2:

Did you, or did you not...kill Sakis?

His name...was Salis

And you don't even know if I killed him

Yeah, well...

you stay there

What are you doing?

That creature in Pilot says whichever of us
is infected won't know personal details

None of you know anything personal about me

I could make everything up, I could lie!

Well, we know how you got frozen in the Stasis Chamber

Tell us, and the truth

I ah...

I...

discovered a Noatian gem mine

The guards caught me,
they sold me to Grunschlk, end of pathetic story

And what about your cousins?
How'd they get frozen?

They waited in the village for me,

they got sick, and...

That is not what you told us before

I was lying before!

I'm sorry, Princess

I think you just elected yourself most likely

Have you found the infected?

Yeah. Take Jool

No, we haven't found that thing yet

Apologies

Must begin now

Do you suspect this female?

No they don't!

No, no, no. We need more time

I'll try not to take...long

John, we cannot let them take Jool

I know, I... Look, hey, just don't...
take anybody yet
We don't...

I'll try not to hurt...much

Stop, no!

What are you doing?

Stop!

Let her go!

Piloto! Whoever you are!

Stop now!

Did you get it?

Did you get that thing out of her?!

No. It is well hidden

I have not found my rider

Apologies

Stuff the apologies, fekik. Is it in her or not?

I am not certain

It could still be in this female,
or in one of you

I'm afraid I must taste each of you in turn

This is all the Rider's fault

Is she all right?

She's breathing

D'Argo, come on. I got an idea

No, I'm comin' with you

Uh-uh. Chiana, somebody has to stay with Jool

No, no, no. Not me. Not this time

All right, you two go. I'll stay here

We're gonna have a little chat

Moya must know that there is
something seriously wrong with Pilot

We gotta get that thing out of him
Does she have any idea how we can do that?

You understand any of this?

No

All right, we don't understand the R2-D2 crap

We're gonna use the Star Trek system

One blink for yes,

two blinks for no

You understand?

Good

Will you help?

Where are we?

Below the Neural Cluster

I heard Pilot once say there's a...
chamber down here where he has no sense receptors,

kind of like the human brain

Pilot can't feel anything

Can't find us down here

Starburst Chamber

This must be where the energy of Starburst first coalesces

From in here, can we get that thing out of Pilot?

I don't know

What the hell is that?

Do you think it wants us to push something?

You're asking the wrong cowboy

Where'd DRD Pike go?

Oh, forget about it

Hey, yo, Chiana
Don't, don't touch anything

Don't be a trak

It wouldn't have brought us down here for no reason

Hey, Moya

You want us to push this?

Chiana, don't push it...

Turn it off!

Turn it off!

How?

Hit the button again!

Was that a Starburst blast?

No, if it was Starburst, we'd be dead

Moya must have shut it down

Why would Moya want us here for this?

I have no idea...

unless...

Unless what?

Unless, ah... I get some more schematics
I don't know

You... know

Know?

Know what?

You...

saw...

saw...

Saw me

Show...gla, glad to... show...

Mmm, so good

Feels... good

Chi, what the hell are you doin'?

Taste...

taste!

Love to try this body

Okay, whatever you are,
you can get the hell off me

This body...

wants you

Fear...

no fear of me

Tallip,

he lies,

lies

Tallip's that thing in Pilot

Heard him say I hurt this body...

not true

Love this tight body!

Whoa, oh yeah, yeah, we all love this body. Okay You ah, sit...

...we'll sip later. I'll call you.
You're in the book, right?

Tallip wants to kill me

That's why I hide

I hide when your ship pass

Mistake

Only four here, only four, not take long to find me

Not-not long

Tallip?

Tallip likes pain

After me, he kill...

You

Tallip said... that if you stay
in Chiana you're kill her

Tallip... lies

I not lie

Good...

...god.

what did you just do to me?

Sip...

sip

Inspire

Tallip is pain

Not me

okay

That... that, tha's good

But it doesn't prove anything

Won't hurt your friend

Just... must hide

Get me 'way, to where there are many

Tallip not find, if there are many

Please?

Fine, I'll, ah...

I'll talk to my friends
You, you're gonna, you're gonna stay here

You're, you're safe here

How I know?

Trust you?

You don't

But I'm a guy, I'll probably be back
in fifteen minutes

That's not natural

Good god!

Braca

You're busy, I'll come back later, sir

No, no, no. Come in, come in

Braca

Why is that Crichton, a human,
can survive wormhole reentry...

and a Sebacean cannot?

Well, perhaps there's some information still
hidden in the chip we took from Crichton's brain

Perhaps

Do you know why you're my Second-in-Command, Braca?

No, sir

Because you don't ask questions

But have you ever asked yourself, Braca,

why do they give us so much rein?

Chasing Crichton

Researching wormholes

Well, like you said, sir,

I don't question High Command

Would it surprise you to learn,

that the Scarrans...

are planning a massive assault against us,
but they haven't, because...

Because they fear our hidden wormhole weapons

We have no hidden weapons

We lied...

and I think the Scarrans are beginning to suspect that

High Command reports...

that they've been massing armies

By latest estimates,

Scarran Warriors outnumber Peacekeeper Soldiers...

ten to one

But, if and when they attack,

we will lose, Braca

Unless we harness a superior weapon

Yes,

wormhole technology, without it,

the Sebacean race will be overrun

Thousands of cycles of history, gone

There's so little time

Sometimes I feel...

it is already inevitable

All right, we gotta talk

You let me in the Starburst Chamber
to find that thing in Chiana, didn't you?

Yes

Does Moya want me to reveal it to Tallip?

And what if Tallip...

is lying?

calm do... calm down!

I know you're freakin' out about Pilot,
but if that thing in Chiana's not diseased...

does Moya still want me to betray it?

Okay

If it touches me again, D'Argo...

I will die!

I found the Energy Rider,
it's in Chiana,

she's hiding in the Starburst Chamber

Tell Pilot,
and get that thing off Moya now!

It might be...
a little more complicated than that

I sense your anger. I did warn you,
tasting would be...painful

We've hidden the Rider,

and you will never find him

So let's make a deal

You turn the ship around,
head back to your cluster,
we'll tell you where the Rider is,

and you two can play,
"Pick the friendly alien in your neighborhood."

How do I know one of you is not infected,

that this is not the Rider's plan?

It's not

This plan is so bad... it has to be ours

Okay...

I choose

I not... not leaving

No...

no

Crichton thought you were safe here...

but he was wrong

What's going on?

"What's going on?" ... Get up!

Why the pulse pistol... Princess?

Crichton told us... you're the one

Now...

get up!

Okay...I'm the one...

Get up!

I'm the one...

Get up!

Move!

Okay... okay... you, you right...
no, no Chi... poof!

They can't fool Jool...
too, too smart

Your human must say...
I not bad... not, not bad

Jool!

What are you doing?

I'm taking her... to Pilot

Look that Demon's got D'Argo...

Get out of my way!

There's no need to...

No more talk!

Let me go

Tiny brains...

no more talk!

Let... me... go

Please...

pretty please

I give them

Please let go

Okay, so, everything Tallip said
about you was true

Yes...

desire...

they stay...

Hey cupcake,

have you noticed the lights?
They're not pulsing anymore

Your friend must be done with D'Argo

Tallip, take the Rider,
but don't hurt Chiana!

Tallip?

Tallip... you're killing her!

Tallip!

Crichton, she's alive

The thing's out of her, she's alive

Is that it?

You finished?

Yes

I have killed the Rider

That's what it said you wanted to do

Turn Moya around, head back to your cluster
and leave us the hell alone

No, human

I love this now

I have mastered this body and your ship

And now...

I am going to stay

I thought you couldn't stay in Pilot

Never knew it could be like this

So good!

The Rider was right...

it is perfect to stay too long,

perfect

Moya will never accept you

Moya will do what I command!
Now go!

Take the Luxan with you...ah,

so I can... enjoy this

Thought I might find you here

Moya... you were right, I should have given
the Rider to Pilot when you said,

but I still think he would have screwed us.
Don't you?

Okay, I got a new plan, it's a better plan...

but I need your help, okay?

Is she okay?

Yeah

All right, I need you to go to the Neural Cluster,
Tier 7.
D'Argo's waiting there for you

What's happening?

Just go!

The less said the better

D'Argo will tell you what to do

Pip, I need your help. Can you walk?

No

No?

Oh, God

Moya's going to try to direct
some Starburst energy into the Den

Won't that kill Pilot?

Not if we time it right

We get the Demon out,
we kill it, and Pilot lives

So, that the only plan we got?

That's it

Okay. What do you want me to do?

All right

D'Argo and Jool are gonna spook the thing

I'm gonna press an override panel in Pilot's Den.
I'm gonna comm you

You join these two circuits together,
DRD Pike's gonna do the same thing over there

You remember what happened here last time,
don't you?

I'm not talkin' about the sex thing
That was great, but I'm not talkin' about it

Starburst blast

Right

Well, this one's gonna be
a gazillion times stronger, Chiana,

so you got ten microts
to get your ass outta here

Plenty of time

Chiana?

Do you understand what you have to do?

Yeah, easy

-You comm...
-Yes

-I join...
-Yes

Leave

Very good

Plenty of time

DRD Pike!

Keep an eye on her!

I'm awake! I'm awake!

What are you doing here?

Oh, relax, Casper.
I'm not here to interrupt your blissing

Too much makes you go blind though, you know

What do you want... human?

I want you to take us to the shipping lanes

Then we can all get off this boat,
and you can continue what you're doing uninterrupted

Okay?

What's the matter?

Stay away! It's your Pilot,
I think this body is...

Monitor his internal circulation rate

Circulation rate

I-I can't find the circulation rate!

What?

Oh, perfect!

What?

No circulation rate means he's dying, numbnuts.
You're killing Pilot!

I couldn't be!
I gauged that this body could sustain me

You must've gauged wrong!

Stay back!

I'm stayin' back. I'm stayin' way back,
and watching you die

If I die, you'll all die!

I'll vent every chamber on this ship!

Whoa, there's no reason to be vindictive!

We can figure something else out...

Moya...

Moya's a living ship!

Yes

Well, if she's alive, then...

It will have neural capacity

More than enough to hold me
till we could get back to my cluster

There you go!

Yes

I will go into Moya!

Now, Chiana!

Chiana, now!

Chiana, it's leaving Pilot
Do it!

Chiana!

If it get's into Moya, we're screwed!

What?!

Chiana!

All right, I'm up,

Hey, Pip! Get on it!

Okay, I'm up, okay, here, here we go
Here we go

I've done it

Great, Chi
Now get out of the Starburst Chamber!

Now, Moya!

Now!

Pilot, put the claws away,
we can function without Moya being perfect for a while

I can't stop

There are... hundreds of little things
not working right in her

I feel like I had a spiritual enema

Well, take a break, dude

Unless... anybody wants to go look
or the Three Stooges broadcast again?

That's a no. Take the rest

Hey, Doc

How come I bled and you guys didn't?

Well, that's obvious

You bled because you are an irritating
and inferior species

Good night

Good night

Chiana,

Chiana, you had that thing in you
longer than any of the rest of us

You feel any different?

No

I just feel like fek

D'Argo... you still down in the cluster?

No, he's not down there

He's here

No... he's down in the cluster

How did you know that?

What?

How did she know what?

No, no... don't, don't tell me

I don't really wanna... I just wanna sleep...
I'm gonna go get some sleep

Hello, John

Now, you tell me...

everything you know about wormholes

-Look!
-Everything!

I found it! I...

You found nothing, Scorpy! You missed it!

You missed the whole thing! Game over!!