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Farscape s01e06: Thank God It's Friday, Again
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- Series: Farscape
- Season: 1
- Episode in season: 6
- Production code: #10106
- First aired (US): 23 April 1999
- First aired (UK): 17 January 2000
- Director: Rowan Woods
- Writer: David Wilks
- Running time: 48 minutes 17 seconds
- Summary
- Back aboard Moya, Rygel's body fluids turn explosive, and Aeryn and Pilot must work out the cause before he is killed by his own condition.
- Plot
- According to YouTube automatic captions, the episode opens with Rygel's attendants explaining that D'Argo is in Luxan hyper-rage after being off the ship for three days and has taken a transport pod down to the planet below.
- Crichton and Aeryn follow him and discover that the local population includes beings who are distant cousins of Sebaceans.
- Zhaan is also drawn to the planet and decides she wants to stay and labour alongside the workers.
- According to YouTube automatic captions, Crichton learns that a small band of rebels on the planet is naturally immune to the food-borne worm that keeps the other workers docile and uses it to stay free of its effects.
- Aboard Moya, Rygel is placed in cryostasis at 105 degrees below the Glarian frost point while Pilot and Aeryn investigate his condition.
- Memorable quotes
- the entire population of this planet they grow this for another race every half cycle they return in the a ships collect all that we have harvested
- I would rather be dead father please share in celebration what you so richly deserve the work day is complete
- this happy plant that you love so much it's used to kill they use it to imprison and to enslave food weapons it doesn't matter
- tomorrow is a rest day a real rest day
- In the episode
- D'Argo's rage subsides John finds D'Argo calm and content after his violent episode.
- Arrival at the Luxan settlement The settlement leader welcomes John and D'Argo while the group watches them closely.
- Aeryn demands a swift departure Aeryn urges John to leave with her and Zhaan despite D'Argo's desire to remain.
- Rygel triggers an explosion Rygel's body erupts after he leaves his quarters, and Aeryn orders him taken back to Moya.
- Rygel becomes volatile John and Pilot discover that Rygel's bodily fluids have become dangerously explosive.
- Tanger reveals the worm Tanger secretly gives John a protective organism and explains that he must swallow it.
- John learns the food caused the explosion John confirms that Rygel absorbed an explosive chemical from the local food.
- John becomes infected John realizes that the local people placed a creature inside him to control the toxin in his body.
- John develops a treatment John explains the food reaction to Aeryn and arranges a process to remove Rygel's volatile elements.
- The crop's true purpose emerges Tanger reveals that Peacekeepers harvest the crop as food, fuel, and a means of controlling the population.
- Han's condition worsens Tanger describes the settlement's decline and her father's failing health as their farmland deteriorates.
- Aeryn refuses an immediate escape John and Aeryn argue about leaving while D'Argo remains under the crop's influence.
- D'Argo rejects the crew D'Argo turns against John and orders Rygel to keep the others from taking him away.
- The crew departs without D'Argo Pilot begins the starburst as John and Aeryn accept that D'Argo has chosen to stay.
- Background
- The episode was written by David Wilks and directed by Rowan Woods, according to the episode list.
- It first aired in the United States on 23 April 1999 and in the United Kingdom on 17 January 2000.
- According to YouTube (Farscape), Farscape is a Jim Henson Company production created by Rockne S. O'Bannon and starring Ben Browder.
- In the series
- Thank God It's Friday, Again is the sixth episode of the first season of Farscape.
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