Farscape (1999–2003): Season 4, Episode 18 - Prayer - full transcript

Aeryn has been captured by the Scarrans. The Scarrans realize they no longer need Crichton for wormhole technology. They can gain the knowledge from Aeryn's child. If the child is really ...

Every wormhole system has millions of
exits, each to a distinct time and place.

Einstein, what the hell
is going on here?

Aeryn's out there under
a flag of truce.

Katratzi.

You will never get the
wormhole tech from me.

Scorpius is here, looking for
the key to what is inside my head.

He will use you and the baby.

We need a sensor distorter for
our ship, to fool long-range scans.

Gizah!

A Scarran!

If I'm not back at the Pod in
half an arn, you go without me.



What?
- Go.

The Scarran warship is
still in pursuit.

What about the...

Baby? What about the baby?

What?

Where's Aeryn?

A bioloid.

I don't care about the
things you care about.

Peacekeepers rule the Scarrans,
Scarrans rule the Peacekeepers.

I care about one thing.

Help me get her and I will
give you wormholes.

And now, on Farscape.

- There was one guard.
- I don't remember her face.

She never told me her name.



She told me a legend about...

how Sebaceans once had
a god called...

Djancaz-Bru.

Six worlds prayed to her.

They... built her temples,
conquered planets.

And yet, one day she still...

rose up and destroyed
all six worlds.

And when the last warrior
was dying, he...

he said, "We gave you everything.
Why did you destroy us?"

And she looked down upon him,
and she whispered,

"Because I can."

Aeryn could be dead.
- The Scarrans will not kill her.

They wanna use her to find me.

The Scarrans will
mind rape her until

she has no allegiance to you.
- I will find her before then.

She will not be able to resist
for long. I know...

Stop. I'll find her.

I just want to make you aware
of the improbability...

- I am aware. Shut up.
...of what you propose.

You have a plan?

Yes, and don't interrupt before I
finish, no matter how stupid it sounds.

John...

I said do not interrupt.

When I met Einstein,
I blipped to bizarro Moya.

Same Leviathan, but different.

The Stark there uttered
"Katratzi."

I know that.

I thought it was gobbledy-gook.

But then Sikozu heard the same
word when Aeryn was being kidnapped.

I know that, too.

You think this Katratzi is the
Scarran base they'll be taking her?

Right. But you do not know
where it is, do you?

No, you know that.
- Right again.

So, I figure if bizarro Stark knows the
name of the base he might know its location.

That's it. Best I got. You got
any better ideas, I listen.

If I help with this insanity,
and we do get Aeryn back,

you will tell me all you know
about wormholes?

Every equation, every formula?

Everything.

What are we in, the Mob?

Your turn.

Nosferatu.

First instinct is always right.

Scarran Blood Vow.

You hate everything Scarran.

I will help, if you taste.

Look, Djancaz-Bru,

I know I'm not the sort of person
who usually does this sort of thing,

so I'm not quite sure what I'm
supposed to be saying,

except that I really
need your help.

I need you to send me some sort
of sign that he's coming for me.

Can you do that?

I've given you time
to consider.

Are you ready to answer?

Yes.

Stiinga-tuk.

Wait, did I pronounce that
correctly? Let me try that again.

Stiinga-tuk. That's better.

I gave you a chance.

Where is Crichton?

I don't know! I...

Stop resisting. Where is he?

My name is John Crichton,
an astronaut.

Three years ago I got shot
through a wormhole.

I'm in a distant part
of the universe

aboard this living ship of
escaped prisoners,

my friends.

I've made enemies.

Powerful, dangerous.

Now all I want is to
find a way home

to warn Earth.

Look upward and share
the wonders I've seen.

He's...

he's on Moya.

600 telliks and rising.

If you don't stop,
you'll kill her.

I'm using no more force than
usual. This won't harm her.

What do you know abut
Crichton's wormhole research?

620.

I don't know anything.

He didn't tell me anything.

Stop.

What's the matter with this one?
Is she weak, or is she faking?

She's not faking.

Well when she wakes, convince her to tell
me all that she knows if she wants to live.

Or I will start again.

You're going to go to
the variant Moya?

Yeah.
- But you could end up on Earth again. Mess up everything.

No, I got this hum in my head,
like a whale.

A whale? What's a whale?

You know what a fish is?
- Fish.

Think big fish with sonar.

John, I think you should
have a rest before...

D, I got a hum in my head.
I'm gonna follow it.

Well, you got something in
there, but it's not a brain.

Einstein said I can get back to
the places I've been to before.

It's like a homing beacon.
I can make it.

You can't go with fek-face.

He'll screw you and then
he'll betray you.

So little trust, Nebari.

What's going on?
Why are you going with him?

John and I have an agreement.

- What agreement?
- The details are confidential.

John, don't.

Guys, I know what I'm doing is
stupid, but it's out of my hands.

I gotta save Aeryn.
You know that.

Just get us close to
the wormhole.

If we don't come back...

Right.

Feeling better?

Critical heat delirium.

Mmm, I almost couldn't get your
temperature down in time.

I thought Peacekeepers were
supposed to be battle strengthened.

Why did his heat probe
almost kill you?

I... I'm tired.

Just go away.

Wish I could.

Listen, that fenik will kill you
unless you give him a reason not to.

I've seen it happen.

You'll be just another D.I.T.

"Died in Transit."

All right. Don't listen.

I'm just trying to
save your life.

Are you really Sebacean?

Yes.

Does it make it easier?

To make the others do your dirty
work and you take the coward's choice?

Listen, I've heard all
that dren before.

Usually from people like you,
chained to a cell.

Look at me. I'm not.
You know why?

Because I figured out a long
time ago, Peacekeepers, Scarrans,

what difference does it
matter who rules?

It won't be me.

All I'm going to do is survive.

I suggest you should
do the same.

I'll tell Captain Jenek you're
ready for another interrogation.

Pilot, thank Moya for us and stay well
clear. You guys have come far enough.

Crichton, Moya's senses indicate
the wormhole is destabilizing.

Yeah, it's not too good.

Grasshopper, you still
up for this?

I was just musing. If you miss
your intended target,

we could change the future,
or the past.

Create a world devoid of
Peacekeepers and Scarrans.

Would you like that, John?

Clear the mechanism.

Focus.

Guys.

We'll see you around.
- Good luck, Crichton.

And come back.

Left.

And left again.

No, damn, right!

Thought you knew where
you were going.

Shut up, Grasshopper,
I'm trying to concentrate.

Left.

Up there.

That should be it.

And we are... here.

And where exactly is "here"?

The signal from her bioloid stopped before
our dreadnaught could locate their Leviathan.

How did they detect
it so quickly?

That is the first question
I will ask the Sebacean.

Captain, there's something
about her.

Her reaction to your heat probe
was so severe, I was...

Nurse, you seem confused.

I don't care if she dies. Her usefulness
is most likely already completed.

I know, but give me an arn.

I have an idea how she still
might be useful to us.

One arn.

Then she answers or dies.

Something to make you sleep.

I don't need any help.

Orders.
- No, I don't want it.

Stay away from me. Get away
from me and don't touch...

It'll only be more painful
if you fight.

Get it out of me!

Wait a minute. You're not giving
me something. You're taking.

What are you doing?

What have you done?

Some kind of crap has frozen up
in the fluid drives.

We're not going anywhere
unless I can...

Hey, flip that switch again.

Ironic, wouldn't it be,

if we were to die here together.

Yeah, we're a regular
Romeo and Juliet.

Damn this.

This spinning makes me feel
like I'm drinking Mezcal.

You got something like Mezcal?

Drink the drink, eat the worm.

I could see you eating a whole
plateful of worms.

Maybe not.

Just for the record, if you'd
have gotten the information

and were able to control wormholes,
what would you have done with it?

Taken over as much of the
universe as possible,

found your home planet
and destroyed it.

That's not funny.

No.

No, I would use the wormholes as a
deterrent against any future Scarran attack.

All right, strap yourself in.

We could be in for
a little jolt.

That stuff should be
melted by now.

Oh, come on baby.

This should work.

Left.

Again.

Gotta go.

Is that the Moya we're
looking for?

Better be.

My head's ringing like
a fire bell.

How did you know we planned
to kidnap Grayza?

I... I just...

Again!

How did you know?

Accident.

Captain Jenek, stop.

The Sebacean is dissembling,
she will...

No! I know why she's
reacting like this.

Stop!
- Do not interfere.

She's with child.

Scarran heat probe will kill
a pregnant Sebacean.

With child?

Well she was close to Crichton,
was she not?

Yes.

I couldn't have stopped him.
- You should have. Aeryn is dead.

I know Scarrans.
She is dead by now.

We are not leaving.

Grayza knows the location of
this wormhole. D'Argo!

She put the Skreeth on Moya
when we were last here...

Listen to her, Captain.
She's right.

Grayza knows Crichton used this
wormhole as a path to get back to Earth.

She knows he'll come back here.

And I thought you were finally convinced
Crichton's wormholes would get you home.

We're staying another arn.

Pilot, get Moya to do a long
point, all range scan.

I don't care if it's a gas
cloud or an asteroid field.

I wanna know the microt
she senses something.

Setting scans now.

Can you retrieve incumbent
knowledge from fetal DNA?

Not here.

But the med labs on Katratzi
might be able to.

What have you done?

What did you say to him?

I've saved your life.

You realize what this
could mean?

If this is Crichton's child,
we could learn all he knows

about the wormholes from
this fetal DNA.

Yes.
- Get me out of here.

Get me the frell out!

Get me out!

Djancaz-Bru,

I'm going to say this again because
I don't think you heard me last time.

Just get a message to him.

Let him know where I am
so that he can find me.

I didn't think Peacekeepers
had gods.

I thought they believed
in the Warrior Code.

"Battle and die" and
all that dren.

Is there a Peacekeeper here?

Can she help us?

She can't even help herself.

She's praying.

Whose child is it?

Captain Jenek will
force it from you.

He believes that if he can find the
human's child, the Scarrans will reward him.

Right now, he's dreaming of
palaces and virgins.

I'm very happy for him.
- I warn you.

He won't kill you.

But unless you tell him what he wants,
he'll make you wish you were dead.

I have a dozens of embryos inside
me. I recreated with so many people.

Mmm.

Just one. Whose is it?

No, really.

P.K. Tralka, that's what
they used to call me.

Talk to the other women here.
They'll tell you.

We can keep you drugged, asleep.

Or we can make things
hard and ugly.

Worse than you can imagine.

Every wormhole has
millions of exits

to different times and places
which are complete and unending.

So in this reality everyone on Moya
has became someone they weren't before?

Like they went into a blender.

Why?

With these wormholes,
anything is possible.

Somewhere the Cubs are
winning the World Series.

Don't ask.

Did you feel that?

Better hurry.

We got an arn before Crais overruns
this place and slaughters everybody.

Stark?

Rygel?

Mm-hmm.

It's a weird universe.

I didn't invent it.

Genetic incubation.

They find something
interesting about us.

See if they can produce an
offspring that they can use.

They've bred me six times.

Three of them died before term.

Three of them, I don't know
where they are.

So what's interesting
about you?

The organic food on my planet
grows a metal skin.

I can dissolve it with saliva.

Why don't you spit on these
and get us out of here?

Can't do that. Only thin metal.

Right.

Well, that's why they're
breeding me.

See if this little gnik in here
can destroy weapons grade metal.

And you just happen to be awake
right now to talk to me?

No. I palm the dren they
give me to sleep.

I've saved up enough so I can
kill myself whenever I want.

You don't believe a
word I'm saying.

You think I'm working for
that bitch nurse?

Well?
- They don't need me to control you.

You can't beat them.

They travel us around on
frelled-up freighters like this,

and no one ever knows
exactly where we are.

No one can save us.
And we can't escape.

I know. I've tried for cycles.

Then I gave up.

But I see.

You still think
someone's coming.

You should talk to me.

In here, talk's all you've got.

I heard you say it. "Katratzi."

I don't know, Crichton!

She did. She said it.

She said it when Chiana was
killed! -Chiana's dead?

No, no, no. Chiana's not dead.

Would you like me to take over
the interrogation?

Go away!

Stark, shut up!
- Does Zhaan know...

I heard you say a Scarran word. Katra...
- Katratzi.

Katratzi. I think it's a military base.
- Katratzi.

Do you know the location?

Military base? No.

You said it when you were
crossing someone over.

When you were in that
trance state.

No, I never have any recollections
when I'm in the stykera state.

But how could you speak in
the Scarran tongue?

Once I... I must have
crossed over a Scarran.

They tell me things.

And now you have
no memory of it?

No. Only when I'm in the trance does
the knowledge come flooding back to me.

Where are you going?

Keep him here.

I'll be right back.

It is a remarkable
reproductive structure.

Watch.

The Sebacean egg is fertilized.

It splits with life,
it splits again,

then stops.

How does that happen?

The ovum secretes a fluid that
keeps the pregnancy in stasis.

Literally, freezes the
explosion of life.

She can store this proto-fetus for up to
seven cycles before triggering gestation.

And that won't hurt the embryo?

No. This will just pry the
truth out of her.

No, don't use that. I won't lie to you.
I'll just tell you what you want to know.

You wouldn't lie to me?

Yes, of course I'd lie to
you, you stupid bitch.

Aeryn. Whose child is
inside you?

Yours.

Whose child?

I don't know.

Is it John Crichton's?

If... it were...

Is it his?

I don't kn-know.

There was another man.

Another?

Mmm.

Velorek.

This Velorek, where is he now?

He... he's dead.

How did he die?

What charge?!

High Command executed him for
treason because I betrayed him.

The man who conceived
your child?

I reported him.

She's lying! The serum isn't
working, give her more!

Mmm, I'm not lying.
I'm just not a very nice...

I, uh... I...

This Velorek. Is he the
father of your child?

No.

Wake up.

Wake... up!

Wake her up.

I can't. Not until some of
the serum wears off.

Are you working for her?

No! Of course not!

Your mind seems uncompromised.

What about hers?

How is her embryo coming along?

I'm afraid her initial DNA scan shows
no enhanced ability to the embryo.

Then I will kill it.

No, it's too early.

No!

It's too early!
Your tests can't be accurate!

They're accurate.

And I will to watch it die.

No! No!

It's too early!

No!

No!

No, no, no!

Unless I get answers that
please me, you will be next.

Let go of me!

Who are you?!

Crichton! What is happening?

Dominar.

Quiet.

Crichton, who is this tralk?!

Now.

You can channel past journeys
when you cross a soul over?

Yes.

What are you doing?!

Now cross her over!
- You cannot just shoot people!

They'll be dead in an arn.
You said so yourself.

We don't have time to negotiate.
Now cross her over!

No, I can't! I can't! I can't!

And why not?

Because I have to
love the soul!

I have to care about where it
goes to cross it over!

What do you mean,
"love the soul"?

You never had to love
the soul before.

I've always had to
love the soul.

Different Stark,
different rules.

So, what happens if you don't love
the soul? You won't cross it over?

No, it's not a question of
"won't". I can't.

When they die they...
they just go.

Nothing happens.

Whoops.

Are you in pain?

What do you care?

I'm just a Scarran spy and
you're a Peacekeeper.

No, I'm not a Peacekeeper.

That's the third one
they've terminated.

I saw it on the scan.

It must've been malformed, or...

The three that survived,
they were beautiful.

Healthy.

And you've had six pregnancies?

They'll wait a while,

then they'll fertilize me again.

Unless I've got the guts to...

Have you ever had a child?

No.
- Never?

Well, soldiers seldom do, unless
they're placed on a breeding roster.

In any case, it's not the same
as being a mother, is it?

That's why I vowed I'd never
have one that way.

And now?

And now protecting this child
will probably end my life.

There is another way.

To make sure that they
never get it.

I've hoarded enough sleep pills
for the both of us.

But I've never been brave
enough to end it myself.

Coward.

What's your name?

Morrock.

Well, Morrock, when someone comes
to get me, they can save you, too.

Who does Stark love?
- You cannot just shoot people!

I find your priorities odd.

We are in a hurry and these
deformities are preordained to die soon.

Who does Stark love?!

Just because you do not have
the resolution to...

I got more than enough resolution
the last time I was here

and sometimes, Scorpy, I do not
like the way you do things!

I've been comming them every
30 microts. Nothing.

Will his module even be able to
make a reentry through that?

I don't know.

Moya's scans indicate the wormhole's
stability has decreased another 12%.

D'Argo, you know what we should to do.
- Stop hammering me.

Grayza is no fool. We will die
if we stay here much longer.

I'm not leaving Crichton! We're
giving him another chance.

How much longer?
- Look, I don't know!

Back off, psycho.

No, we should vote.

We wake up Noranti and
the six of us vote.

Because Crichton is safe!

But we will die if
Grayza finds us here!

Majority rules.

Not yet, it doesn't.

I'm the Captain. I'm not
willing to make that decision.

- I'm afraid you might have to.
- What's the matter, Pilot?

Moya's long range scan has just picked
up another vessel heading this way.

Is it military?

I can't tell yet.

Any match on the embryo DNA?

Nothing. It's a pattern
the memory banks have never catalogued,

so it could be half human.

We have no sample of
Crichton's DNA.

If I tell you?

Your pain will end.

When I was off Moya,
I had another job.

Assassinations. Subversions.

Whatever I was ordered to do.

There was a man named Lechna.

He was my contact.
Found me all my assignments.

But he was also my lover and I have tried
to suppress it until now to protect him.

But I don't want the
drugs anymore.

It is most likely his
conception.

This man.

What world is he from?

He's from a place
called Vendrall.

It's a small planet
off most charts.

Have you heard of it?

Yes. It's in the Callus Nebula.

That's a long way from here.

Perhaps that's why the DNA
isn't in our database.

I might cross-check the genetic
similarities from the same nebula.

We're gonna do this my way
with Stark, not yours.

You haven't got the resolution to do what's necessary.
- You can stop already with the resolution!

Crichton!

What are you doing with Chiana?

That is Jool.

Jool, just let us pass.

What are you doing with Pip?

Shoot him.

Technically, it's a she.

Shoot it!

Let me handle this.

Where are you taking Chiana?
- Jool, let us pass.

Stay back!

Shoot it!

Damn it, Jool!

Shoot it!

Are you satisfied?

No. I don't like the way
you do things either.

Very messy.

No, don't!
- You lied!

We found record of
Vendrall DNA.

Your embryo is not the product
of one of Vendrall's sons.

Well Lechna lied to me.

There is no Lechna!

There is Lechna.

Leave her alone!
- Give her more!

I've doubled the strength.
- No, please!

Again!

Stop it! She's telling
the truth!

Again!

No, please, don't. No!

You'll kill the child!

Is John Crichton the
father of your child?

I've already told you,
it's Lechna's, not Crichton's.

How many times do I
have to tell you?

I knew Lechna before
I went onto Moya.

I was on Moya to watch Crichton.

And as soon as I left, I went
straight back to Lechna.

I have never... ever
loved John Crichton.

I've never loved him.

You lie.

Tell the truth.

When I...

Yes?

When I left Moya...

Ter... terminal soldier...
Lechna, he-he...

I forgot all about Crichton.
It was...

I completely forgot
about Crichton.

I forgot all about him.

D'Argo, it's a long way off,

but the vessel approaching
seems to be a Command Carrier.

We've done all Crichton
could ask of us.

We've stayed here too long.
We must Starburst now.

No. No, what if...

what if we initiate the engine
signature change that I bought off Rekka?

Like we did before.

Are you fahrbot?

Turn Moya into a
Scarran freighter?

Peacekeepers are approaching.
They'll attack anything Scarran.

We won't let them
get that close.

If they long-range scan us, they'll
move off because we're not Moya.

It's worth a shot.

I need a decision, Captain.

In thirty microts we'll be in
scanning range of the Command Carrier.

Come on.

Okay. You wanted a vote?

Do we Starburst or do we
initiate engine signature change?

Starburst.

Stay.

Pilot?

Moya and I say... stay.

Okay, we're staying.

Initiate the signature change.

Given these differences,
are you sure this will work?

It's what happened before.

Pip got killed.

Stark channeled the Scarran
while he was crossing her over.

You or me?

I'll do it.

Hey, Crichton. Untie me.

You know, I know I always
tie up people I like.

If you kill her,
I won't help you.

I won't cross her over.
- Yes, you will.

What is he talking about?

Look, I know this doesn't
make any sense,

but you're gonna die
in half an arn.

And there's nothing I can
do to stop that.

What...

What do you mean?

I'm not gonna die.

Yes, you are.

Listen, Crichton, are you in
some kind of trouble?

Who is this fek?
Is he making you do this?

If you untie me, I can help
you. I always do. Can you just...

It is not Aeryn.

Looks a lot like her.

Okay.

The... the joke's over.

Okay? I...

I was stupid to take it this
seriously, 'cause it's a joke, right?

You... you have to stop,
because...

because you can't kill me.

You...

you can't.

No.

No, I can't.

I can.

No!

Now cross her over.

Frell.

I don't know if it's
Crichton's child.

The frell with your drugs.
They're not working.

No. You'll kill her!

Who is the father?

On Vendrall... I met a...
ugh... a man.

There is no Lechna.

I made him up.

Just Crichton.

Only ever... Crichton.

Just him.

Dadayo qillna frazac,
charn, Oza-Maga.

Oza-Maga.

Has she said it yet?

Be quiet, I can't hear.

Oza-Maga. Kilay ti partree.

Kilay ti partree. Katratzi.

Katratzi?

That's it, Stark.

That's the name of the
base, Katratzi.

Where is it?

Seat of Scarran power.

Small. It's Fortified.
It's dangerous.

Disguises its presence...

by mirroring the orbit of one
of the moons of Trilask.

Trilask.
- Trilask... Katratzi...

Yes, I know that planet.

John.

We can go.

Peacekeeper, wake up.

How did you...

I watched the sequence codes.

Are you sure?

At the same time, then.

Thank you.

What for?
- For doing this with me.

I don't wanna be their
test stallik.

No. No. Neither do I.

Anyway, what other choice
do I have?

But your child.
Aren't you afraid?

I'd rather be dead than
let them have it.

Is it really his?

The man you loved?

Does these really
make you tired?

At first. But then...

You know, I had such incredible
dreams for my child.

It's impossible not to.

How she was going to
change the world,

how she was gonna look
after me when I was old.

They were so foolish.

Not foolish.

I had the same dreams.

Is it his?

Is it Crichton's child?

Come here.

Did you really have a child?

I told you, I...

had six pregnancies.

Only three of them survived.

I want the truth from you.

I know that these pills won't kill
me. I know that you're their spy.

So I wanna know the truth.
Have you even had one child?

Have you even given birth
to one child?

The truth.

No.

Good.

Then I orphan...

no one.

- We're back.
- Open the hangar doors.

And we know where that
Scarran base is.

No time, John. There's a
Command Carrier on the way.

We've got you in the Docking Web
and we're about to Starburst.

Got it.

We will go as slow as we can, but
you better buckle down in there.

Starting Starburst
countdown grid.

Why is nothing ever
easy with you?

I wish I knew.
- Hold on, John.

Pilot, Starburst...

now.

We've set a course
for Katratzi.

They've been informed of your condition
and there is a surgeon on hand.

Now, Djancaz-Bru...

you haven't listened,
and you haven't helped.

And I'm running out of time.

So I'm gonna forget about you.

I am now willing to make
a deal with anyone,

with anything,
to save my child.

Not because I can,

but because I have to.