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Farscape s04e05: Promises

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1. Series: Farscape
2. Season: 4
3. Episode title: Promises
4. Running time: 44 minutes 15 seconds
5. Plot
6. According to YouTube automatic captions, the episode opens on Moya, where matters between the crew have reached a difficult point and a promise extracted earlier in the season comes back to shape the present action. An encounter draws the principals together and forces decisions that each of them has been postponing, with the central character choosing whether to honor a previous commitment despite the cost. Tension builds as loyalties are tested and the characters argue over what was pledged and to whom. According to YouTube automatic captions, a confrontation follows, and a sacrifice is made that changes the position of one member of the crew in relation to the others.
7. Memorable quotes
8. If you love me, you'll say nothing.
9. He's gone. Harvey's gone. Now, help.
10. You can use it to get home. Or, you can safely eradicate it... by killing me. Again, the choice is yours.
11. In the episode
12. Aeryn and John reunite on Moya John finds Aeryn aboard Moya in a coolant suit, burning with fever and barely lucid.
13. Aeryn extracts a promise from John Aeryn makes John swear he will not harm Scorpius before agreeing to be taken back to the coolant chamber.
14. Scorpius is given quarters on Moya Rygel escorts Scorpius to his room while the crew debates how to watch him, and a new Kalish passenger, Sikozu, boards.
15. Ullom hails Moya from outside An approaching vessel interrupts John and Aeryn's conversation, and its captain, Ullom, broadcasts a demand over their comms.
16. Ullom claims he engineered Aeryn's fever Ullom accuses Aeryn of being an assassin and claims he infected her with a contagion for which he alone holds the cure.
17. Captain Braca prepares the bioweapon On a Peacekeeper command carrier, officers brief Captain Braca on a prototype missile designed to kill Moya, which Braca volunteers to pilot himself.
18. Scorpius and Sikozu speak in Scarran Scorpius and Sikozu converse in a language the crew cannot follow, and Scorpius promises John he will secure the antidote.
19. John expels the neural clone With Scorpius's help, John isolates himself in a private chamber and forces the Harvey clone out of his mind.
20. Scorpius reveals his spy aboard the carrier Scorpius tells John a Prowler carrying the Leviathan-killing missile will reach firing range in under two arns, and that his agent gave him this information.
21. John and Aeryn seize the chameleon ship John and Aeryn board Ullom's hologram vessel, disable his crew with help from D'Argo, and Aeryn links into the neural control orb.
22. The Prowler fires on the decoy D'Argo pilots the chameleon ship to mimic Moya's bio-signature, causing Braca's missile to lock onto the false target.
23. Pilot restarts Moya's heart After taking too much damage to generate a decoy, Pilot restarts Moya's dormant systems just as John urges him on.
24. Pilot asks the crew for a single leader Pilot and Moya formally ask the crew to choose one spokesperson to give them orders, ending the bickering over command.
25. Background
26. The episode is available to watch because the rights holder published it in full on its own YouTube channel, running for 44 minutes 15 seconds.
27. In the series
28. 2002-06-07: Season 4 of Farscape begins its United States broadcast run, according to the episode list.

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