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Farscape s04e10: Coup By Clam

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1. Series: Farscape
2. Season: 4
3. Episode: 10 (per Wikipedia contributors)
4. Rights holder upload title: Coup by Clam
5. Running time: 44 minutes 16 seconds
6. Where to watch: Farscape channel on YouTube
7. What happens in "Coup By Clam"?
8. Moya's crew is stranded on a planet whose only local doctor feeds them a Qatal mollusk, telling each diner that the flesh must be swallowed whole and shared with a partner. He reveals that dividing the flesh among different stomachs produces fatal food poisoning, and the people who shared a mollusk now share a linked set of symptoms. When the crew learns the price of the cure, the doctor demands a quarter-million currency pledge from each of them before he will help.
9. The doctor explains that human bodies cannot merge the way the mollusk halves can, so the shared symptoms will worsen and eventually kill the affected crew members. According to YouTube automatic captions, he offers a cure that involves drinking a mixture made from the linked patient's urine while pressing bare hands together until the bacteria precipitate out.
10. YouTube automatic captions record that the linked symptoms continue to escalate as the crew decides how to meet the doctor's terms.
11. Coup By Clam The episode as published by the rights holder on the Farscape YouTube channel, from the opening frame through to the end.
12. Memorable quotes
13. My silence for some of the mollusks. So you use them for extortion, and they use them for coup by clam.
14. If we keep our captives alive... Then their partners will be drawn here. Where they can all die at once.
15. In the episode
16. Doctor declares abnormal eating levels Rygel defends his excessive eating as the crew discusses Pilot's warning about the planet and the need for Zyntian filtration.
17. Medical examination for space madness The Khurtanan doctor scans the crew, revealing D'Argo's Scarran ancestry disqualifies him from setting foot on the planet.
18. Doctor reveals deadly extortion scheme The doctor confesses he poisoned the crew with the shared mollusks and demands a quarter-million each for the cure.
19. Crew investigates linked stomach symptoms Aeryn assigns Chiana to watch the mechanic while John organizes the filter installation as the crew discovers their shared mollusk is causing symptoms between them.
20. Chiana confronts mechanic in Moya Chiana catches the mechanic Mujombre acting suspiciously while he works on Moya's neural system.
21. Doctor explains bacterial linking The doctor explains the mollusk bacteria force their hosts to merge and that without a cure, the linked pairs will eventually die.
22. Noranti experiences intense pleasure D'Argo reports that Noranti's linked sensations have shifted to overwhelming pleasure that he is struggling to endure.
23. Female shooter wounds the doctor An unseen female assailant shoots the doctor as he receives a delivery of mollusks, and the doctor realizes he can no longer cure the crew.
24. Doctor explains the feminist resistance The doctor reveals that Khurtanan's female resistance movement controls the mollusks and uses them to assassinate powerful men.
25. Aeryn plans club infiltration The crew decides to infiltrate the female revolutionaries' club by posing as elite male clientele to obtain more mollusks.
26. Rygel secures the mollusks Rygel locates and retrieves the Qatal mollusks inside the club while John and Aeryn search for the captive women.
27. Scorpius takes mollusks to buy time Scorpius consumes discarded mollusks to link with the rest of the crew and slow the progression of their fatal symptoms.
28. Mujombre considers her future After completing the filter installation, Mujombre discusses her hope for a new identity once the revolution succeeds.
29. Crew escapes with antidote Aeryn and Sikozu break free during a distraction as John arranges the antidote, leaving the remaining mollusk for wild animals.
30. Air date, credits and where to watch
31. According to Wikipedia contributors, it sits as the tenth episode of the show's fourth season.
32. The episode is presented on this page because the rights holder has published it on its own YouTube channel. The upload was posted on 20 November 2025 under the title "Coup by Clam", which differs from the episode's own title of Coup By Clam. The upload runs about 44 minutes and 16 seconds.

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