Farscape s01e10: They've Got a Secret

Series

Farscape^[3]

Season and episode

Season 1, episode 10^[2]

Running time

48 minutes 17 seconds^[1]

Published on YouTube

25 August 2024^[1]

What happens in "They've Got a Secret"?

The episode opens with Ka D'Argo and John Crichton discussing the ongoing sweeps of Moya for Peacekeeper devices, while Pilot explains that the work is necessary.^[4] During the search D'Argo falls through a chute and is ejected, though the sources describe the accident differently: the official YouTube description says he destroyed a Peacekeeper shield during routine searches for Peacekeeper beacons, while the Wikipedia summary says he was flushed into space while inspecting access shafts for hidden, dangerous Peacekeeper technology.^[1][2] He is recovered unconscious and frozen after roughly half an hour in vacuum.^[4]

Once revived, D'Argo tells the crew he does not remember the Peacekeeper device he apparently found.^[4] While he recovers, Zhaan identifies a substance on the malfunctioning maintenance DRDs and on D'Argo as biomechanoid fragments from Moya's biopolymer structure, and the crew concludes that a biomechanoid virus left behind by the Peacekeepers is infecting Moya's systems.^[4]

As the sabotage spreads through Moya's systems, Pilot's vital signs drop sharply, putting the ship's biological interface at risk.^[4] In the middle of the crisis, D'Argo, still recovering from his injury, tells Crichton about his former lover Lolan.^[4]

The episode weighs the hidden dangers the Peacekeepers left inside Moya against the crew's need to keep trusting one another and the ship they live on, and it closes with the crew dealing with the biomechanoid infection in Moya's systems.^[4]

0:00 They've Got a Secret The episode as published by the rights holder, from the start.

Memorable quotes

“you love what you enslave we don't enslave them all right we all right fine we enslaved them”8:05

“our beloved ship may be trying to kill us”28:48

“I think uh I think Mo is pregnant”39:50

“in his eyes I see you D'Argo no matter what happens to us I will never tell anyone about your son”46:24

In the episode

0:11 D'Argo pulls a trigger and explodes While scanning Moya for hidden Peacekeeper technology, D'Argo pulls a wire on a control panel and is blown into space.

4:30 The crew revives a frozen D'Argo Crichton retrieves D'Argo's frozen body from outside the ship, and Aeryn and Zhaan fight to restart his breathing.

9:04 Ambulatory drones attack the crew Crichton and Aeryn are ambushed by malfunctioning maintenance drones that glue D'Argo's hand to the deck.

11:31 The crew suspects a biomechanoid virus After removing the glue-like substance from D'Argo's hand, the team theorizes that a Peacekeeper virus may be affecting the ship's living systems.

16:30 Pilot's vital signs crash While Zhaan and D'Argo talk, Pilot suddenly collapses, revealing that Moya's environmental systems are sabotaging him.

19:02 D'Argo embraces his hallucinated son D'Argo behaves oddly, embracing Rygel and calling him Jothee, and becomes increasingly hostile to those around him.

25:00 Crichton enters the sealed shaft With Moya's life support failing, Crichton and Aeryn descend into the maintenance shaft where D'Argo triggered the blast.

27:02 Moya's higher functions are located Aeryn forces open a sealed door and discovers the massive biological core where Moya's intellect is housed.

30:30 D'Argo relives his marriage D'Argo's delusions deepen as he imagines fleeing with his lost wife and rejecting his brother-in-law, Macton.

35:59 Aeryn begins severing Moya's functions To stop the ship from killing them, Crichton and Aeryn agree that Aeryn must physically cut the connections to Moya's higher brain.

39:34 The crew realizes Moya is pregnant Inside Moya's core, Crichton discovers the particles are a catalyst for a pregnancy, meaning Moya rerouted resources to protect her unborn child.

41:00 Aeryn halts the shutdown Crichton radios Aeryn in time to stop her from finishing the severing, saving the Leviathan and her baby.

43:00 Pilot recovers with fresh air Pilot wakes up as Moya restores the atmosphere, and explains that she acted to ensure the survival of her offspring.

45:30 D'Argo shows his son to Aeryn With Moya safe, D'Argo introduces his hallucinated baby son to Aeryn, who swears to protect the child's secret.

Air date, credits and where to watch

They've Got a Secret is the tenth episode of the first season of Farscape, which premiered in North America on the Sci-Fi Channel on 19 March 1999.^[2][3] Rockne S. O'Bannon created the series, and The Jim Henson Company and Hallmark Entertainment co-produced it.^[3]

The episode can be watched on this page because the rights holder published it on its own YouTube channel; the upload runs 48 minutes and 17 seconds.^[1]