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Farscape s02e17: The Ugly Truth

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1. Series: Farscape (per Wikipedia contributors)
2. Season: 2 (per Wikipedia contributors)
3. Running time: 44 minutes 16 seconds
4. Uploaded by: Official Farscape YouTube channel
5. Summary
6. According to YouTube (Farscape), the episode takes place largely aboard Talyn as the crew faces the consequences of the shot and the investigation that follows.
7. Told across a cold open and the main story, the hour moves between a recorded message from John Crichton and the events that unfold once the Plovians arrive to question the people aboard.
8. Plot
9. The episode opens with John Crichton broadcasting a recorded distress message in which he describes how he was shot through a wormhole and is being hunted by an insane military commander.
10. According to YouTube automatic captions, Crichton and the others are left unconscious in a transport pod after a dampening net is deployed, while Crais remains aboard Talyn under the control Crichton had previously taken.
11. According to YouTube automatic captions, when the Plovians board Talyn, they question the crew about who fired the cannon and Crais tells them that nobody was responsible for the shot.
12. Pilot reports that Moya is searching for Talyn after Crais Starbursts away from the encounter with the Plovian ships.
13. According to YouTube automatic captions, after the Plovian encounter, Aeryn is questioned separately by the Plovians and tells John that the only story she could give them was that Talyn had malfunctioned.
14. Memorable quotes
15. if they hadn't would it make a difference to your story no you're lying you don't want to see either of them dispersed
16. your lack of cander gives us no choice but to have you all put to death
17. I cannot let the others die on my behalf I have to tell the truth I fired on the bavan ship and destroyed it
18. he thought he was protecting Moya
19. In the episode
20. Cannon fires without warning The group reacts in shock as Talyn's weapon discharges on its own and a second hostile ship approaches.
21. Crew regroups aboard Moya The passengers awaken in the transport pod with no communications and find themselves separated from Aeryn.
22. Pavian captors interrogate the crew Armed aliens accuse the group of destroying one of their vessels and demand to know who fired the cannon.
23. Crais proposes trading Talyn's weapon Crais explains he wants to swap Talyn's main cannon for a non-lethal dampening net purchased from a peacekeeper arms dealer.
24. Pavian dealers arrive to negotiate Crais meets his contacts while the crew argues about the ethics of trusting a weapons-dealing species.
25. Crais confesses to the others Alone, Crais admits the cannon went off by itself because no one could stop Talyn once the manual override was removed.
26. Moya searches for Talyn Pilot guides Moya along a spiral pattern trying to locate Talyn while the crew debates abandoning the search.
27. D'Argo rages over the deal D'Argo explodes in anger at the plan to deal with the dealers, citing his people's history of being enslaved by their weapons.
28. Stark takes the weapon's transponder Stark grabs the control device from Crais, restoring his authority over Talyn and forcing the group off.
29. Zhaan loses her mask Under questioning, Zhaan's control slips and she cries out for her mask as her energy threatens to overwhelm her.
30. Accounts fail to match The captors compare testimonies and conclude the prisoners are lying, announcing that executions will begin.
31. Death sentence is delivered The leader announces that the group's lack of honesty leaves no choice but to execute them all.
32. D'Argo reveals the truth Back aboard Moya, D'Argo explains that Talyn fired the shot on his own after detecting the forbidden weapons aboard the dealer.
33. Background
34. According to YouTube (Farscape), Farscape was created by Rockne S. O'Bannon.
35. The full episode was uploaded to YouTube by the official Farscape channel on 20 February 2025, where it runs for 2,656 seconds, and is publicly watchable because the rights holder published it on its own channel.
36. The official channel's premise summary describes the episode as one in which Crais and Talyn return to learn they will be put on trial for an attack Talyn made on an alien ship.
37. 2025-02-20: The full episode was uploaded to YouTube by the official Farscape channel.
38. In the series
39. The Ugly Truth is the seventeenth episode of Farscape's second season.

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