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Farscape s03e20: Into the Lion's Den, Part 1: Lambs to the Slaughter

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1. Series: Farscape
2. Season: 3
3. Episode number: 20
4. Writer: Richard Manning (per Wikipedia contributors)
5. Director: Ian Watson (per Wikipedia contributors)
6. Original US air date: 24 January 2002 (per Wikipedia contributors)
7. Running time: 44 minutes 15 seconds
8. Hosting: Farscape channel on YouTube
9. Summary
10. In this episode the crew of Moya accepts Scorpius's invitation and boards his command carrier under the guise of diplomatic envoys, with the real purpose of sabotaging his wormhole research. According to YouTube automatic captions, Crichton is given a guide to the ship and begins to learn things about Scorpius he had not previously known, while Aeryn and the others prepare to do the damage they came for.
11. Plot
12. Crichton announces to the others that he is going aboard Scorpius's command carrier to stop Scorpius and keep him from using the wormhole knowledge drawn from Crichton's brain.
13. Aeryn warns Crichton that Scorpius will kill him if the sabotage they are planning is discovered.
14. On the command carrier Scorpius formally grants Crichton and his companions full diplomatic rights, immunities and courtesies for the duration of their stay.
15. Scorpius requests that the gunship Talyn be brought aboard for a full cognitive system replacement, and Braca later tells Crichton that Talyn's weapons will be removed, his memory reprogrammed, and he will be set free.
16. According to YouTube automatic captions, Crichton asks that the Leviathan specialist Lieutenant Laurel be assigned to him as his guide, and the request is granted.
17. Memorable quotes
18. Scorpius has the knowledge from my brain, and I'm not going to let him shaft the universe with it. I'm going to the command carrier. I'm going to stop Scorpius.
19. Cuz I'm not 100% sure it's the right thing to do.
20. Dick Tracy's freaking neural bracelet linking me to Bram Stoker's nightmare. What more do you want from me? cooperation.
21. In the episode
22. Crichton pilots into the command carrier Crichton flies the captured Marauder toward the Peacekeeper command carrier, ignoring Aeryn's warnings that Scorpius will kill him if he sabotages the wormhole project.
23. Crichton negotiates with Scorpius Crichton tells Scorpius he came to help with the wormhole research so his crew can finally be safe, and begins bargaining over terms for their cooperation.
24. Scorpius agrees to disarm Talyn Scorpius concedes to Crichton's demand to bring Talyn aboard, strip his weapons, and reprogram him, but insists on Lieutenant Brea as the Leviathan specialist.
25. Braca demands better tools Braca rejects the modest workstation offered to him and demands access to bigger equipment, asserting his independence from Scorpius.
26. Rygel and D'Argo meet an old enemy In the officer's lounge, Rygel and D'Argo encounter a Nemar Trell, a Sebacean who married a Luxan and murdered her, leading to a tense standoff.
27. Scorpius removes the Ienna bracelet Scorpius surgically removes the neural bracelet from Crichton's arm while explaining that the bone will soon knit and that the mist will help them heal.
28. Brea confesses she is a spy Brea reveals to Crichton that Scorpius extracted her memories in the Aurora Chair and forced her to report on him, and Crichton responds with sympathy.
29. Scorpius shows his biography Scorpius shares his personal file from before joining the Peacekeepers, including the reason he despises the Scarrans, in an effort to prove his motives to Crichton.
30. Moya arrives in custody The crew is alerted that Moya has been captured and is being escorted to the docking area, leading Crichton to confront Scorpius.
31. Commodore Graaser arrives A Luxan ambassador and Commodore Graaser board the carrier to investigate Scorpius's prisoner program, and Graaser pulls a weapon on Crichton.
32. Scorpius orders the prisoners freed Scorpius overrides Graaser, orders the release of Moya and her crew, and warns Graaser not to return without council sanction.
33. Crichton and Scorpius are ambushed Crichton and Scorpius are lured into a generator room where a gunfight breaks out, forcing them to fight back-to-back against armed attackers.
34. Scorpius threatens Earth Scorpius reveals he has triangulated Earth's location from Crichton's memories and threatens to destroy it unless Crichton cooperates with the wormhole research.
35. Background
36. Farscape is an Australian-American science fiction series created by Rockne S. O'Bannon and originally broadcast in the United States on the Sci-Fi Channel from 19 March 1999.
37. The episode is presented on this page because the rights holder published it on its own Farscape YouTube channel; the upload is titled "Into the Lion's Den Part 1: Lambs to the Slaughter", which is not the episode's title but refers to the same installment.
38. In the series
39. According to YouTube (Farscape), the episode is the twentieth of season 3 and the first part of a two-part story; an upload of the second part, "Into The Lion's Den Part 2: Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" (S3E21), appears in the recommended videos panel beside this upload.

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