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Farscape s03e17: The Choice

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1. Series: Farscape
2. Season: 3
3. Episode: 17
4. Running time: 44 minutes 16 seconds
5. Summary
6. According to YouTube (Farscape), Aeryn leaves the ship Talyn behind on another planet so that she can grieve alone, and there she encounters someone she believes may be her father. The episode follows her through a settlement of mystics and criminals as she is offered ways to contact the dead.
7. Plot
8. The episode opens with a recap in which a character introduces himself as Zalak Sun and states that Aeryn was conceived in love.
9. A figure who offers to channel the dead tells Aeryn that he speaks to the dead and can help her find the one she seeks.
10. According to YouTube automatic captions, Elsewhere in the episode, a man admits over a radio to the Peacekeeper commander that he never killed Zhaan and that he had struck an arrangement with her to report the crew as dead. In a separate scene, Crichton sings his theme song about seeing Earth from a distance.
11. Memorable quotes
12. We do nothing for love. Not one thing.
13. I did that for love.
14. Why don't you come out here a bit closer? It might make it easier for you.
15. Let me fall, Aeryn. No, do it.
16. In the episode
17. D'argo and Rygel argue over Aeryn D'argo and Rygel clash in a crowded street over whether to protect Aeryn, who wants to be left alone on the planet.
18. Zhaan channels Talyn Zhaan performs a spiritual channeling and announces that John Crichton, the astronaut, has been found.
19. Aeryn meets the channeler Aeryn meets a robed woman and pays her to make contact with her deceased father, Talyn.
20. Brennan reveals his altered face The disguised man shows a blood spectrometer to prove his identity and reveals his surgically altered face to Aeryn.
21. Zhaan confronts Talyn Zhaan accuses Talyn of betraying them by secretly making a deal with Aeryn's mother, Zalax.
22. Aeryn learns a plan Aeryn speaks with Brennan, who promises to return at moonfall with a creature that may help her reach the dead.
23. Stark locates Aeryn Stark and Rygel force entry into Aeryn's room, only to find she is not there.
24. Stark reports seeing Crichton Stark bursts in claiming he has seen John Crichton and Talyn alive, leaving Aeryn stunned.
25. Zalax confronts her husband Zalax finds Talyn sitting in a chair and begins to physically and emotionally torture him for his past betrayal.
26. Aeryn attacks Brennan Aeryn storms in and violently attacks Brennan, realizing he has been deceiving her about channeling her father.
27. Zalax turns her gun on Aeryn Zalax catches Aeryn at gunpoint, and the two engage in a tense standoff with weapons drawn.
28. Aeryn shoots Zalax Aeryn fires her weapon, and the standoff ends as Zalax falls from the upper level.
29. Zhaan's final message Zhaan's voice echoes through Talyn, instructing the crew to seek out a Crichton nonmoyer with what she has left behind.
30. Aeryn seeks another session Aeryn quietly asks the channeler if they can attempt one more session together before departing the planet.
31. Background
32. Farscape was created by Rockne S. O'Bannon, according to the description on the official YouTube upload of the episode. According to YouTube (Farscape), the series was produced by The Jim Henson Company and was the first original series on the Sci-Fi Channel, per the same channel description.
33. The full episode was published on YouTube by the official Farscape channel on 11 July 2025, and runs 2,656 seconds. Because the rights holder released it on its own channel, the episode is watchable on that platform.
34. In the series
35. According to Wikipedia contributors, The Choice is the seventeenth episode of the third season of Farscape. According to YouTube automatic captions, it falls in the final stretch of the season and deals with Aeryn's grief following the apparent loss of Crichton.
36. 1999-03-19: Farscape premieres.
37. 2025-07-11: The rights holder publishes the full episode on the official Farscape YouTube channel.

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