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- Series: Farscape
- Season: 4
- Episode number: 20 (per Wikipedia contributors)
- Publisher: Farscape official YouTube channel
- Upload date: 6 February 2026
- Running time: 44 minutes 15 seconds
- Summary
- According to YouTube (Farscape), Crichton and the crew of Moya travel into Scarran space to mount a rescue of Scorpius, carrying an offer of wormhole technology and a nuclear deterrent as bargaining power. The plan depends on inflaming tensions between two Scarran factions inside Katratzi and slipping Scorpius out during the resulting confusion.
- Plot
- According to YouTube automatic captions, Crichton brings a plutonium-core, tritium-shell fission bomb, nicknamed Fat Man, into a meeting with Scarran Emperor Staleek at Katratzi and warns him that it is set to a dead-man's trigger. According to YouTube automatic captions, he offers the Scarrans his wormhole technology in exchange for Scorpius and asks for any payment they can imagine on top.
- The crew's wider plan is to inflame the split between the Charrid and Kalish Scarran factions and use the civil war that follows as cover to escape with Scorpius.
- According to YouTube automatic captions, Inside Katratzi, Sikozu operates undercover and feeds D'Argo intelligence about the Charrid–Kalish rift. According to YouTube automatic captions, D'Argo covertly meets Secretary Vakali to press the same question, working the fissure from the diplomatic side. According to YouTube automatic captions, Meanwhile, Scarran Minister Ahkna is torturing Scorpius for his wormhole knowledge while Scorpius's neural clone, Stark, torments him in turn.
- According to YouTube automatic captions, Staleek orders Moya searched, but the ship's force field keeps its logs and star charts out of Scarran hands. Rygel, separately, asks a Scarran guard for Raslak and complains about Scarran drink and the Kalish.
- Memorable quotes
- Mankind's greatest contribution to the absurd, the thermonuclear bomb.
- Because I am an American.
- Kill him and let's go.
- I'll give you my bike if you kill him.
- In the episode
- Crichton bluffs the Scarran Emperor John arrives at the Scarran base and confronts Emperor Staleek, waving a fission bomb to secure his entry.
- Ahkna doubts Crichton's threat Ahkna reports to the Emperor that she believes Crichton is bluffing and that his real target is Scorpius.
- Grayza pitches peace to Staleek Commandant Grayza continues her negotiation with the Emperor, pressing the peace offer while John listens nearby.
- D'Argo sows Kalish-Charrid resentment D'Argo visits a Kalish secretary to recruit her into a plan that exploits the internal hatred between the two servant species.
- Ahkna begins Scorpius's final inquisitor Ahkna supervises the torture of Scorpius, warning that he is ready for the final stage of interrogation.
- Stark confronts Scorpius Stark appears before Scorpius and reveals his intention to capture Scorpius's soul and knowledge.
- Crichton stages a wormhole proof John provides coordinates that produce a wormhole destroying the Emperor's scout ship, shocking everyone in the room.
- Aeryn trades herself for Scorpius Ahkna captures Aeryn and forces John to play a deadly game of chance with the bomb strapped to her chest.
- Chiana primes the Kalish for revolt Chiana goads a Charrid guard by insulting him and his species, pushing the Charrid-Kalish rift toward violence.
- John demands Scorpius's transfer John confronts the Scarrans about their torture of Scorpius and requests custody of him to antagonize Ahkna.
- Grayza adds conditional terms Commandant Grayza presents documents granting pardons to herself and John, conditional on no wormhole technology reaching the Scarrans.
- John weighs killing Scorpius After confirming Scorpius revealed nothing, John agonizes over whether to execute him and release Aeryn from her earlier promise.
- Charrid-Kalish brawl erupts An accusation in the control room triggers a physical fight between Charrid and Kalish officers, escalating into a station-wide riot.
- Escape under the cover of chaos John, Aeryn, and Scorpius flee through the station as the riot distracts guards and shields their path to D'Argo's waiting ship.
- Background
- According to Wikipedia contributors, it is the twentieth episode of the fourth season of Farscape.
- The full episode was published on the official Farscape YouTube channel on 6 February 2026, with a runtime of 2,655 seconds. The channel's upload of the episode is titled "We're So Screwed Trilogy: Part II: Hot to Katratzi", which is not the episode's own title.
- In the series
- According to Wikipedia contributors, the episode is the second half of a two-part Farscape story and the twentieth installment of the show's fourth season. It continues directly from the first part of We're So Screwed, picking up the rescue attempt for Scorpius inside Scarran territory that the first episode set up.
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