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Farscape s01e20: The Hidden Memory

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1. Season: 1
2. Episode: 20
3. Running time: 48 minutes 17 seconds
4. Rights-holder upload published: 18 October 2024
5. Upload views at time of reading: about 60,974
6. Summary
7. "The Hidden Memory" is the twentieth episode of the first season of Farscape. According to YouTube automatic captions, the episode cuts between two fronts: Crichton, still held on the Gammak base and strapped into an Aurora chair for mind-probing, and Moya's crew, who are trying both to deliver Moya's newborn and to break Crichton out. YouTube automatic captions record that the action drives toward a shared plan in which Aeryn takes her own turn in the Aurora chair so that she can use the link to reach Crichton's hidden memories.
8. What happens in "The Hidden Memory"?
9. YouTube automatic captions state that the episode opens with the crew reacting to a past loss and to D'Argo's plan to leave Moya, per the transcript. Moya cannot starburst because she has gone into labor, and the crew is told that her birth is not a natural birthing cycle. Pilot explains that blasting the newborn with coolant from Moya's thermal chamber is the way to deliver it.
10. The Hidden Memory The episode as published by the rights holder, from the start.
11. On the Gammak base, Aeryn is told that Crichton is still being mind-probed with an Aurora chair, per the transcript. According to YouTube automatic captions, during a break in his interrogation, John uses a slingshot maneuver around a black hole while narrating his standard wormhole-pitch speech, per the transcript. YouTube automatic captions record that Gilina reveals a magnetic crypt encoder she built to try to open his cell door, and she explains that she can hide her thoughts from the Aurora chair because she is of the Banik slave race, per the transcript.
12. Captain Crais visits John in his cell to thank him, claiming a wormhole-information payoff will let him rise, per the transcript. YouTube automatic captions state that Scorpius orders Crais placed in the Aurora chair to verify whether Crais's story is true, per the transcript. According to YouTube automatic captions, Outside the base, Chiana tricks the base scans with a scanning blind, letting the team move undetected, per the transcript.
13. By comms, John tells Aeryn to focus on their shared memory of a kiss on the Zanian while she enters the Aurora chair, per the transcript. YouTube automatic captions record that Aeryn presents a tissue graft to John as the cure implied by the previous episode, per the transcript. John admits that the kiss on the Zanian is the memory he is deliberately blocking from the chair, per the transcript.
14. Memorable quotes
15. don't try and stop me Dogo I won't I'm strong enough to go alone
16. you will never order me again I will track you down and kill you officer on that I give you my vow
17. it's only about the time I kissed the girl really
18. In the episode
19. Moya enters premature labor Pilot reports the living ship can no longer starburst because she has begun a dangerous, early delivery.
20. Crichton enters the aurora chair Peacekeepers strap John into the extraction device and force him to relive his arrival through the wormhole.
21. Stark reveals his homemade lockpick Zhaan's fellow prisoner shows her the magnetic encoder he has been building for two cycles to crack their cell.
22. Chiana guides Crichton from below John hears Chiana's voice through a wall tap and she warns him to turn his back to the camera.
23. Chiana offers John a secret to hide Over the open comm, she tells him to remember their kiss on the Zinian so the chair cannot pull it out.
24. Scorpius presses for wormhole data He demands John surrender what he is blocking, unaware the memory is actually about Aeryn.
25. Crais exposes the fabricated confession Crais admits on camera that the farm story he fed to the chair was a complete fabrication.
26. Zhaan learns Stark's hidden past Stark explains that his Banik slave heritage lets him cloud thoughts from the chair's scanners.
27. D'Argo refuses to share the qualta blade Rygel presses D'Argo for the ancestral weapon, and D'Argo refuses, citing his great-grandfather's death.
28. Moya begins opening the ship to space Pilot warns that the leviathan is equalizing pressure with the vacuum to give birth, forcing the crew into sealed tanks.
29. Crais discovers Scorpius in the chair Captain Crais returns to find Scorpius contaminating himself with neural extraction and rejects his authority.
30. Chiana decides to stay behind She tells John she will not leave the base and slips away to jam the Peacekeeper scanning data.
31. Moya's offspring reveals weapon growths A visual scan shows the newborn leviathan covered in Peacekeeper-derived weapon pods.
32. Crew fires on the trapped infant With the weapon-armed baby stuck in the birth vent, Crichton orders a low-level blast to free it.
33. Stark gives Chiana a parting gift As they recover, he presses a small stone into her hand and urges her to hold onto it.
34. Air date, credits and where to watch
35. The episode is the twentieth of Farscape's first season.
36. The full episode can be watched on this page because the rights holder published it on its own YouTube channel, with the upload dated 18 October 2024 and running about 25 minutes and 4 seconds. That upload had been viewed about 60,974 times when the page was read, on a channel with about 88.2 thousand subscribers at the same time.
37. References
38. Farscape season 1, episode 20, YouTube (Farscape).
39. List of Farscape episodes, Wikipedia contributors.
40. Farscape, Wikipedia contributors.

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