Farscape s04e16: Bringing Home the Beacon

Series

Farscape^[1]

Season

4^[1]

Episode number

16^[1]

Running time

44 minutes 16 seconds^[1]

Published on YouTube

17 January 2026^[1]

Lead characters named in the channel description

John Crichton (Ben Browder), Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black)^[1]

Premise (channel description)

The women of Moya visit a commerce settlement to obtain a device that can disguise the ship; Peacekeepers and Scarrans confront them there.^[1]

Caption track available

English (United States)^[1]

Summary

Bringing Home the Beacon is the sixteenth episode of season four of Farscape.^[1] The women of Moya travel to a commerce settlement to acquire a sensor distorter that can camouflage the living ship against long-range scans, and there they come up against high-ranking Peacekeepers and Scarrans who arrive with a new mission and a new danger.^[1] The episode appears on this page because the rights holder uploaded it to its own YouTube channel.^[1]

What happens in "Bringing Home the Beacon"?

On Moya, Ka D'Argo notices that Rygel XVI has stopped eating for an unusually long stretch, the first sign that something is off.^[4] The women take a transport pod to a commerce settlement that Sikozu identifies as built inside the carcass of a dead Leviathan fused to a planetoid, where traders have made a home of an old ship.^[4] Aeryn Sun is there to find a sensor distorter she can fit to Moya so the ship can pass long-range scans undetected.^[4]

A negotiator agrees to sell her one but insists on half payment up front and a four-arn wait to take Moya's sensor modulator off the ship, conditions that leave the women exposed on the station while the work is done.^[4] Before long, Commandant Grayza and Braca arrive at the settlement with four SSD Commandos and jam the women's comms, cutting them off from Moya and the men.^[4] Soon after, Scarran War Minister Ahkna, third in rank of the Scarran fleet, also reaches the settlement and is shown into a meeting with Grayza.^[4]

In a massage parlor, a Nebari called Marella corners Chiana and paralyzes her from the neck down by pressing on a nerve.^[4] With the meeting heard and the trap closing, Aeryn at one point floats the idea of assassinating Grayza while the chance is there.^[4]

0:00 Bringing Home the Beacon The episode as published by the rights holder, from the start of the upload to its end.

Memorable quotes

“I wasn't thinking about talking. I have a gun.”Aeryn16:31

“Alive I can repudiate that treaty. But you proposed it, and you signed it. And if the Scarrans had not betrayed me, I'd have stood by it.”Grayza29:06

In the episode

1:32 Arrival at the dead Leviathan marketplace Aeryn, Sikozu, Chiana, and Noranti land at a derelict Leviathan housing a black-market settlement to find a sensor distorter.

2:34 Negotiations with Rekka's broker Sikozu and Aeryn meet the negotiator at a bar and begin bargaining for stealth modifications for Moya.

4:31 A costly deal is struck After back-and-forth haggling, the broker agrees to a price for the custom distorter and hands out tokens to the settlement's facilities.

5:33 Peacekeeper fleet detected Aeryn spots Commandant Grayza, Captain Braca, and four Command carriers arriving at the settlement, forcing the group to hide.

8:41 Chiana asks around for Rygel and D'Argo Chiana approaches a service worker searching for the two Luxans, drawing unwanted attention from the locals.

9:34 A Scarran Stryker arrives The crew overhears an unusual sonic signature and realizes a Scarran warship has docked, meeting Grayza's delegation.

10:32 Chiana is paralyzed by a Nebari agent A disguised operative pins Chiana down with a nerve pressure technique, and Noranti arrives to intervene.

12:00 Scarran peace delegation arrives Aeryn and Sikozu witness Grayza greeting War Minister Ahkna and her escorts for a secret conference.

13:03 Noranti reunites with Chiana Noranti finds Chiana and warns her about the Peacekeepers, prompting them to seek genetic modifications to evade DNA scans.

14:01 Chiana and Noranti undergo transformations The pair rush to a modification booth and undergo cosmetic surgery to disguise themselves from the scanning commandos.

19:01 Commandos search for Chiana Braca's squad patrols the settlement asking about a Nebari female, confronting Chiana and Noranti in their new bodies.

22:03 Aeryn debates intervention Aeryn argues for assassinating Grayza to prevent the treaty, while Sikozu urges caution as the signing proceeds.

25:00 Regrouping after the treaty signing The scattered crew reunites in the marketplace, learns of the gunshots, and plans to follow the Scarran Stryker.

32:31 Crew boards the pod and escapes Aeryn arrives at the transport pod, and Pilot executes a starburst to flee the pursuing Scarran warship.

35:00 A bioloid imposter discovered Sikozu locates a homing device in a neural processor, and Scorpius reveals the Scarrans are using a flesh-replicating duplicate.

40:57 Homing beacon found in the bioloid John confirms the tracking device inside the duplicate, leading Scorpius to explain Grayza's replacement.

42:00 Vowing to rescue Aeryn Chiana and John process the loss of Aeryn and decide to chase the Scarrans to Katratzi to find her.

Air date, credits and where to watch

The list of Farscape episodes places Bringing Home the Beacon as the sixteenth episode of season four; the series aired on the Sci-Fi Channel in the United States and on the Nine Network in Australia across four regular seasons from 1999 to 2003.^[2][3]

The episode belongs to the final stretch of Farscape's original run and is a single installment rather than one half of a two-parter; the rights holder's channel description frames it around the women of Moya meeting Peacekeepers and Scarrans at a commerce settlement.^[1] The full episode can be watched on this page because the rights holder published a complete upload of it on the Farscape YouTube channel on 17 January 2026, running about 44 minutes and 16 seconds, with English (United States) among its caption tracks.^[1]