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Farscape s02e15: Won't Get Fooled Again

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1. Series: Farscape
2. Season: 2
3. Episode number: 15 (per Wikipedia contributors)
4. Writer: Richard Manning (per Wikipedia contributors)
5. Director: Rowan Woods (per Wikipedia contributors)
6. Original air date: 18 August 2000 (per Wikipedia contributors)
7. Network: Sci-Fi Channel
8. Summary
9. According to YouTube (Farscape), Won't Get Fooled Again follows John Crichton, who appears to have returned to Earth and finds himself surrounded by people from his past and present. The episode raises the question of whether the apparent homecoming is genuine, or a deception staged by an unseen party.
10. Plot
11. According to YouTube automatic captions, John Crichton comes to in surroundings that resemble Earth, with familiar figures from his past and present assembled around him. According to YouTube automatic captions, the encounter is framed by a question posed in the episode's own presentation: is Crichton really back on Earth, and if not, who has arranged the scene and why. According to YouTube automatic captions, from the transcript, the episode plays out as a sequence in which Crichton confronts these figures and works through what is real and what is being staged against him.
12. Won't Get Fooled Again The full episode as published by the rights holder on its own channel, from the opening title to the end of the upload.
13. Memorable quotes
14. this is cruel please don't meet you with me don't do this to me
15. I don't know who I am anymore
16. the scatter aren't trying to fool you John are they're trying to break you this is a deliberate attempt to drive you into insanity and it's working
17. the scaran has not disarmed you your weapon is of no consequence to a scaran their Skins are extremely tough pistolar will not kill a scaran before he kills you so your best chance is not to shoot but but to what
18. In the episode
19. John wakes in restraints John Crichton awakens strapped to a hospital bed and panics violently, forcing staff to restrain him further.
20. A week has passed Dr. Fairchild tells John he has been unconscious for a week since crashing, and he recounts a nightmare about a ship of aliens.
21. A psychiatric referral DK tells John he must pass a full psych evaluation before flying again and refers him to a psychiatrist.
22. The new rival appears Colleagues introduce Gary Rego, an ambitious astronaut with tentacles who is being groomed as John's replacement.
23. Scorpius breaks the pattern A scarred, pale stranger introduces himself as Scorpius and reveals he is operating outside the dream's usual logic.
24. Meeting the new boss John and DK meet Douglas Logan, the new project administrator, who threatens to shut down the Farscape project.
25. A second chance is granted Logan offers John one more flight of the module, pitting him directly against Gary Rego for the slot.
26. The dead mother returns John's deceased mother appears in the truck, comforting him before he pushes her away and she vanishes.
27. Encounter on the street A drunken John stumbles through the street and is confronted by a patrol officer who recognizes him.
28. The truth is revealed A disguised Scorpius explains that a Scarran captured John on the Commerce Planet and is using induced delusions to break his mind.
29. Harvey is explained Scorpius reveals a neurochip containing a mental clone of himself living inside John's subconscious, warning him to ignore the full Scorpius.
30. Dream figures arrest him A parade of dream characters, including a flirtatious officer and his mother, confront John with escalating personal attacks.
31. John stops his own brain Harvey halts John's neural activity to defeat the Scarran's interrogation, ending the hallucination and returning him to the Commerce Planet.
32. Background
33. According to Wikipedia contributors, Farscape is a science fiction television series created by Rockne S. O'Bannon and co-produced by The Jim Henson Company and Hallmark Entertainment, which premiered in North America on the Sci-Fi Channel on 19 March 1999. According to the episode list, Won't Get Fooled Again was written by Richard Manning and directed by Rowan Woods, and first aired in the United States on 18 August 2000. The full episode is available to watch because the rights holder published it on its own YouTube channel.
34. In the series
35. According to Wikipedia contributors, Won't Get Fooled Again is the fifteenth episode of Farscape's second season.

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