Farscape s03e08: Green Eyed Monster

Series

Farscape^[3]

Season and episode

Season 3, episode 8^[2]

Rights holder upload

Farscape YouTube channel, 19 May 2025^[1]

Running time

44 minutes 16 seconds^[1]

What happens in "Green Eyed Monster"?

In "Green Eyed Monster", a creature called Budong swallows the warship Talyn while Rygel XVI and Stark are out scouting the area, and the rest of the crew tries to get Talyn out from inside it.^[1] Trapped inside a living space, the crew tries to work out how to free the ship without killing it.^[4] As the situation inside Talyn worsens, John Crichton and the others piece together what Budong is and how it feeds, and they realize that attacking it directly will only make things worse.^[4] On the surface, Rygel and Stark search for a way to reach the crew and eventually make contact over a comm channel that keeps breaking up.^[4]

0:00 Green Eyed Monster The full episode as published by the rights holder, from the opening scene to the closing moments.

Memorable quotes

“You are like a plague, John Crichton, and you have ruined my life.”40:56

“I always name it Aeryn.”42:09

“Would you like to name some stars? There's a lot of them. And we could take our time.”42:31

In the episode

0:32 Crais approves a propulsion change Crais tells the ship that he has taken Propulsion offline and approves the elegant adjustment.

2:30 A hidden object approaches An undetected orbital object changes course and speed, accelerating toward them as the crew scrambles.

4:14 The leviathan engulfs Talyn A massive creature traps the ship and begins pulling them down into its body.

6:02 A harpoon plan takes shape The crew equips mooring cables with renium claws and prepares to anchor to the creature's ribs.

8:01 The anchor holds fast Crichton fires the harpoon into bone and the ship stabilizes, halting their descent.

9:02 Stark delivers grim news Stark reveals the creature is a budong and warns that no one survives being swallowed by one.

14:01 Planning the digestive escape Crais proposes navigating the budong's digestive tract to fly the ship out.

18:03 Aeryn joins with Talyn Aeryn undergoes the neural integration and awakens sharing consciousness with the living ship.

22:33 Talyn severs a cable Crais discovers Talyn trying to release the anchor cables against his commands.

24:00 Crichton confronts Crais Crichton finds Crais at the mooring panel and holds him at gunpoint while Talyn refuses to release.

28:00 Stark proposes the vomit plan Rygel and Stark offer to feed the budong ice and have the crew dump cesium for an explosive escape.

36:30 Talyn abandons Crichton Talyn dumps the fuel and begins flying away, leaving Crichton stranded outside the ship.

39:00 Crichton rejects the recording Crichton confronts Aeryn about the surveillance image she shared with Crais and denies giving her permission.

Air date, credits and where to watch

"Green Eyed Monster" is the eighth episode of the third season of Farscape, a science fiction series that premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel in North America on 19 March 1999.^[2][3] The upload runs about 44 minutes 16 seconds and appears on the channel under Farscape's own branding rather than through a third-party distributor.^[1]