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Farscape s02e01: Mind the Baby

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1. Series: Farscape (per Wikipedia contributors)
2. Season: 2 (per Wikipedia contributors)
3. Episode: 1 (per Wikipedia contributors)
4. Written by: Richard Manning (per Wikipedia contributors)
5. Directed by: Andrew Prowse (per Wikipedia contributors)
6. Original air date: 17 March 2000 (United States)
7. Rights-holder upload: Published on YouTube on 8 November 2024 under the title "Mind The Baby"; runs 2,656 seconds
8. Summary
9. According to YouTube automatic captions, the episode follows the crew's divided efforts to stay hidden and to decide what to do about Talyn and its new pilot.
10. Plot
11. The episode opens with a flashback to Crichton and Aeryn drifting in space after Crichton ejected from a transport; a Cheyenne vessel is about to fire on them and D'Argo is called to act but does not.
12. According to YouTube automatic captions, D'Argo wakes from a long period of unconsciousness on an asteroid and does not initially recognize where he is or that Crichton is beside him.
13. According to YouTube automatic captions, Aeryn explains that she recovered the two of them and brought them to an abandoned mining camp on the asteroid, where food and water are scarce.
14. According to YouTube automatic captions, she has also contacted Crais through Pilot aboard Talyn and arranged to delay the check-ins so that Crichton does not find out about the arrangement.
15. According to YouTube automatic captions, Crichton then learns that Moya has escaped, but that Talyn, Moya's baby, is in Crais's hands after Crais stole it.
16. Elsewhere, Scorpius's command carrier continues to scan the asteroid field for any Leviathan offspring, for Crichton, and for signs of a rogue Prowler.
17. Crichton and D'Argo pass the time playing rock-paper-scissors, with D'Argo insisting that paper should beat rock and being told that it is a children's game.
18. According to YouTube automatic captions, D'Argo is furious that Aeryn placed Talyn's weaponry within Crais's reach, though Aeryn argues that Crais's control of Talyn is preferable to Scorpius's.
19. Memorable quotes
20. In order to save your lives, I had to make a deal with Crais.
21. You should have let us die.
22. I want to go with you.
23. You hunt me down. That would complete the symmetry nicely, wouldn't it?
24. In the episode
25. D'Argo wakes on the asteroid D'Argo regains consciousness on an abandoned asteroid and learns from Crichton that Aeryn rescued them from deep space.
26. Crichton hears the bad news Crichton learns from D'Argo that Crais escaped with Moya's baby ship and that Scorpius's command carrier is still searching the area.
27. The crew argues about staying hidden D'Argo and Aeryn clash over whether to wait out Scorpius or risk leaving the asteroid, while Pilot announces Moya is returning to search for her offspring.
28. Scorpius reports a dead end On the command carrier, Scorpius receives word that orbital scans have found no trace of Crichton or the Leviathan offspring.
29. Tallen panics over mysterious signals Crais tries to calm the distressed gunship as Talyn reacts badly to unknown transmissions from Scorpius in the asteroid field.
30. D'Argo and Crichton play a game D'Argo and Crichton pass the time with a hand game while waiting for Aeryn to return from scouting the asteroid.
31. Aeryn confesses her deal with Crais Aeryn finally admits to D'Argo and Crichton that she secretly agreed to help Crais control Talyn in exchange for saving their lives.
32. Scorpius presses Crais for progress Scorpius contacts Crais aboard Talyn, demanding results on locating Crichton and warning that his patience is not unlimited.
33. Moya rushes to Talyn's rescue Pilot explains that Moya heard a distress transmission from Talyn and is accelerating blindly toward the asteroid field.
34. Zhaan refuses to eat on the asteroid Stranded on the rock, a gaunt D'Argo tells Zhaan she can eat him when she dies, only for Crichton to arrive with a rescued Rygel.
35. Talyn fires on his mother Talyn targets Moya with his main cannon and demands Crichton be transferred to him, escalating the standoff with the approaching carrier.
36. Crais seizes total control of Talyn Crais accepts a neural transponder from Talyn, cutting Aeryn out of the command loop and giving himself direct control over the gunship.
37. Aeryn returns to Moya Crais ejects Aeryn from Talyn and reports Crichton's death to Scorpius, but Talyn then starbursts away with Crichton still aboard.
38. Background
39. According to the list of Farscape episodes, Mind the Baby was directed by Andrew Prowse and written by Richard Manning, and first aired in the United States on 17 March 2000.
40. According to YouTube (Farscape), the episode is presented here because the rights holder, The Jim Henson Company's Farscape channel, published the episode on its own YouTube channel on 8 November 2024, under the title "Mind The Baby".
41. The rights holder's upload of the episode is titled "Mind The Baby", which differs from the episode's title of "Mind the Baby".
42. In the series
43. According to Wikipedia contributors, Mind the Baby is the first episode of the second season of Farscape, which premiered in North America on the Sci-Fi Channel on 19 March 1999.
44. 1999-03-19: Farscape premieres on the Sci-Fi Channel.
45. 2000-03-17: Mind the Baby airs in the United States as the first episode of season 2.
46. 2024-11-08: According to YouTube (Farscape), the Jim Henson Company's Farscape channel publishes the episode on YouTube under the title "Mind The Baby", running 2,656 seconds.

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