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Farscape s02e20: Liars, Guns and Money, Part 2: With Friends Like These

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1. Series: Farscape
2. Season: 2 (per YouTube (Farscape))
3. Episode: 20
4. Running time: 44 minutes 16 seconds
5. Uploaded to YouTube by: Farscape official channel
6. Plot
7. According to YouTube automatic captions, Crichton and his friends on Moya are preparing a plan to buy Jothee's freedom from the slave trader Feyd. According to YouTube (Farscape), they intend to use a stockpile of stolen loot to bargain with Feyd and have called in aliens they have encountered before to help them waylay the slave ship carrying Jothee. According to YouTube automatic captions, the crew split up, each taking on a piece of the operation, and the early part of the episode follows their separate preparations.
8. According to YouTube automatic captions, About twelve minutes into the episode, the crew learn that the enslaved Sebaceans travelling with Jothee have been killed by Scorpius. According to YouTube automatic captions, Aeryn counsels D'Argo that, although the loss is heavy, Jothee was not among the dead and can still be rescued.
9. Around thirteen minutes in, Crichton makes contact with the Scorpius clone lodged in his mind and compares the experience to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. According to YouTube automatic captions, the episode works through the crew's contacts with their old acquaintances and sets up the interception of Feyd's ship.
10. According to YouTube automatic captions, the episode ends with the crew having to adjust to the news that Jothee's companions are dead, and with Crichton still contending with the Scorpius clone, as they move to carry out the rescue.
11. Memorable quotes
12. I can't lose JY not again not like this D'Argo not like this
13. you burn Moya to save her no there must be another way I haven't given up hope trying to find one and I won't but if we run out of time pilot you must believe me this may be moa's Last Hope
14. how did you escape Scorpius he let me go you what why
15. In the episode
16. D'Argo and Chiana's bitter argument D'Argo lashes out at Chiana over the failed bid for Jothee, and she throws his repeated failure in his face.
17. Scorpius takes a separate deal Scorpius negotiates with the slavers, who refuse to pick one boy from the ten thousand, and he settles for the rest of the Banik slaves.
18. Crichton lays out a rescue plan Crichton proposes recruiting a blood tracker, a Shang fire-breather, a Tavik gauntlet fighter, and the Zha Zen pirates to assault the depository.
19. Jothee is declared not dead Zhaan reads the dying Tavik and declares Scorpius did not kill the Banik slaves, restoring hope that Jothee can still be rescued.
20. Scorpius taunts Crichton's mind Crichton reaches a planet in a borrowed ship and is confronted inside his own head by the Scorpius clone, who mocks his plan.
21. The treasure has been eaten Rygel and Stark discover the depository ingots are actually dormant creatures, and the infestation has already taken hold.
22. Negotiating with a reformed Tavik Crichton tries to hire a Tavik who has abandoned violence, and the man reluctantly agrees to lend his gauntlet.
23. A Shang's plea for aid A Shang survivor begs Crichton to spare his pregnant mate, and Crichton offers her safety in exchange for help raiding the depository.
24. Jothee meets a fellow hybrid Held captive by Scorpius's agent, Jothee learns the torturer is a Luxan-Sebacean hybrid like himself and that his father still loves him.
25. Scorpius makes contact Scorpius reaches Moya and demands to speak with D'Argo and Crichton, offering a trade for Jothee.
26. Claiming the Tavik gauntlet Crichton defeats the Tavik and finally takes possession of the prized gauntlet weapon.
27. The painful plan to save Moya Zhaan proposes flooding nearly a tenth of Moya with Jaxan vapor and igniting it to burn out the metal-eating creatures.
28. Moya is set ablaze Zhaan ignites the vapor and flames erupt across Moya's hull as the crew watch from the cargo bay.
29. D'Argo and Jothee reunite D'Argo and Jothee find each other on the depository, embracing after years apart.
30. Crichton bargains with Scorpius Crichton faces Scorpius in person and offers to trade the wormhole technology for the removal of the clone implant.
31. Background
32. According to YouTube (Farscape), with Friends Like These is the twentieth episode of the second season of Farscape. Farscape was created by Rockne S. O'Bannon and began on the Sci-Fi Channel on 19 March 1999, and was cancelled after its fourth season with the storyline left on a cliffhanger.
33. In the series
34. With Friends Like These is the second part of the two-part Liars, Guns and Money story that runs across episodes 19 and 20 of season 2.
35. Availability
36. The episode is presented here because Farscape's official YouTube channel published the full episode on 8 March 2025, with a runtime of 2,656 seconds (about 44 minutes 16 seconds). The channel identifies itself as the home of the show and asks viewers to subscribe for more episodes. According to YouTube (Farscape), at the time the upload was published, the channel had 88.1 thousand subscribers and the video had received 36,703 views. According to YouTube (Farscape), the rights holder uploaded the episode under the title "Liars, Guns and Money Part 2: A Not So Simple Plan", which is not the episode's title.
37. Liars, Guns and Money (Part 2): With Friends Like These The episode as published by the rights holder, from the start.
38. 1999-03-19: Farscape premieres on the Sci-Fi Channel in North America.
39. 2000-12-19: The episode list within the same source also names this date as the last episode of season 2, in conflict with the 11 December air date given above.
40. 2025-03-08: The rights holder's official YouTube channel uploads the full episode under the title "Liars, Guns and Money Part 2: A Not So Simple Plan".

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