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Farscape s01e13: The Flax

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1. Series: Farscape
2. Season: 1
3. Episode: 13 (per episode list); 12 (per YouTube upload title) (per YouTube (Farscape))
4. Running time: 47 minutes 47 seconds
5. Summary
6. Aeryn takes Crichton out in a transport pod for flying lessons and the two become trapped in an invisible mesh known as the Flax. A stranger named Stans, who introduces himself as a garbologist working the mesh, offers to help them. According to YouTube (Farscape), on Moya, the rest of the crew receives the distress signal and debates whether Stans can be trusted.
7. Plot
8. According to YouTube automatic captions, Aeryn agrees to teach Crichton to fly a Prowler so that he may become vaguely useful in battle, and the pair set out in a transport pod for the lesson.
9. The pod is drawn in by something that registers no mass on sensors, which Aeryn identifies as the flax.
10. A stranger named Stans introduces himself as a garbologist who works the flax. He explains that the flax is an invisible magnadrite mesh placed by Zenetan pirates to snare passing ships.
11. According to YouTube automatic captions, Back on Moya, D'Argo picks up Crichton and Aeryn's distress signal, and the crew debate whether Stans can be trusted to help.
12. Stans admits to having been one of the Zenetan pirates who ran the flax before being imprisoned by the Peacekeepers.
13. Memorable quotes
14. I may be able to dissolve a small part of the flax unless they've already changed the code
15. you lied like a dog god that hurt like hell how'd it go the environmentals they fixed I I didn't finish you didn't what your time was running out when you stopped
16. I don't want to die alone
17. In the episode
18. Ship snagged by something invisible An invisible force pulls the ship in and the crew cannot detect any mass on their sensors.
19. Stan comes aboard A stranger named Stan docks with the ship, claiming to be a scavenger, and offers to help with the snag.
20. Stan explains the flax Stan reveals the ship is caught in a massive invisible pirate mesh and warns that Zenan pirates will soon come.
21. Stan admits to piracy Stan confesses a criminal past with the Zenan pirates and asks for a reward in exchange for his aid.
22. Stan reveals Luxen boots Crichton spots Luxen boots on Stan, exposing that Stan looted a dead pilot from a derelict ship.
23. Pod breaks free at high power Aeryn pushes the engines to full power and the transport pod tears loose from the flax.
24. Stan fears his old boss Stan admits a pirate captain named Cragis is hunting him and that his tracer may lead the pirates straight to Moya.
25. Cragis meets Rygel The pirate captain Cragis boards Moya and begins playing games with Rygel to extract information.
26. Welding torch is broken Inside the stranded pod, Crichton and Aeryn discover their only welding torch is damaged and cannot be tested before depressurization.
27. Crichton teaches CPR Crichton prepares Aeryn to revive him with a nerve shot by walking her through human resuscitation techniques.
28. Crichton dies for the repair Aeryn fires the kill shot, Crichton welds the atmosphere line, and she begins chest compressions to bring him back.
29. Stan finds the Luxan derelict Stan locates the derelict Luxan ship in the flax just before it is to be melted down for scrap.
30. Pod running out of air With the line unrepaired and the atmosphere nearly gone, Crichton accepts he may not survive and asks Aeryn what she saw when she was dead.
31. D'Argo reflects on his failure After the rescue, D'Argo confesses to Zhaan that his hesitation cost lives and may have cost him his only chance to find his son.
32. Background
33. The full episode was uploaded to YouTube by the official Farscape channel on 8 September 2024, running for 2,867 seconds (about 47 minutes 47 seconds). According to YouTube (Farscape), the channel's own description summarises the episode as Aeryn taking Crichton out in a transport pod for flying lessons, after which they become stuck in the Flax.
34. In the series
35. Source 2, the episode list, places The Flax as the thirteenth episode of season 1 of Farscape; source 1, the rights holder's YouTube upload, titles the same episode "S1E12" and describes it as "season 1, episode 12".

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