Farscape s02e15: Won't Get Fooled Again

Key facts

Series

Farscape (season 2)^[1]

Episode number

15^[1]

Title

Won't Get Fooled Again^[1]

Uploaded to YouTube

23 January 2025 by the Farscape channel^[1]

Running time

44 minutes 16 seconds^[1]

YouTube views (when read)

41,025^[1]

Summary

After John Crichton's Farscape module passes through a wormhole insertion, he wakes in a setting that looks like an ordinary American hospital.^[4] The people around him behave like familiar figures from his past, but Crichton quickly grows suspicious that the room, the staff and even the planet may not be what they seem, and the episode becomes a sustained test of what is real and what is being staged for him.^[4]

What happens in "Won't Get Fooled Again"?

The episode opens with Crichton in his Farscape 1 module going through a wormhole insertion; he later wakes in a hospital room that resembles an ordinary American medical facility.^[4] He tells a nurse that he is John Crichton, an astronaut who was hit by a radiation wave and shot through a wormhole to a distant part of the universe aboard a living ship full of aliens.^[4]

A doctor who introduces herself as Dr. Fairchild says Crichton has no brain damage, only a low-grade infection that should clear up with antibiotics.^[4] Crichton confuses her with Aeryn Sun, telling her that she resembles his old girlfriend except for prettier hair.^[4] He is then sent to a psychiatrist the transcript identifies as Dr. Jean Kaminsky, who turns out to have blue skin and identifies herself as a Delvian plant life form.^[4]

Crichton theorizes that someone is running an experiment on him, and that the people around him are aliens using a science project to test his reactions.^[4] He then recognizes a figure from his past as Scorpius, who says he is the only one who can help Crichton find wormholes again and warns him that he is not going anywhere.^[4] Crichton reasons that his Aurora chair experience with Scorpius may have triggered what he is going through now, and that the whole Moya story could be an illusion or a dream.^[4]

Crichton acknowledges that the people around him were drawn from his memories, telling one figure that they were not real.^[4] The episode frames these encounters as a single test of whether what he is experiencing is genuine or a constructed illusion.^[4]

0:00 Won't Get Fooled Again The full episode as published by the rights holder on its YouTube channel, from the start.

Memorable quotes

“this is an experiment somebody's messing with my mind trying to see which way I'll move next sort of like a r in the Maze kind of thing huh”11:02

“your mind is about to crack and I cannot allow that”30:08

“you're Harvey or is it Clarence daring Angel invisible rabbit Harvey”31:24

“the scaran has not disarmed you your weapon is of no consequence to a scaran their Skins are extremely tough”32:39

In the episode

1:00 Waking restrained in a hospital John Crichton wakes up strapped to a hospital bed, disoriented and panicked, as a nurse and doctor try to calm him.

1:59 Crichton's desperate distress call John calls out into the void, introducing himself as an astronaut shot through a wormhole and hunted by a military commander.

3:02 Meeting the doctor who looks like Aeryn Dr. Bettina Fairchild introduces herself and explains that a week has passed since John crashed.

6:32 Pizza to the wrong address John orders a pizza, only to discover the blue alien Zhaan waiting for him in her apartment instead of his psychiatrist.

9:01 Cleared by a plant psychiatrist Zhaan declares John mentally fit after their session, and he leaves relieved.

12:01 Introduced to Gary Rego John meets Gary Rego, a brash astronaut whose appearance already unsettles him.

13:00 Confrontation with a black-gloved man A leather-clad man calling himself Scorpius approaches John and offers to help him.

15:34 A new project administrator arrives DK tells John that Douglas Logan, a strict new administrator, has taken over the project.

17:01 Logan threatens to replace John Logan warns John he can be replaced by Rego if he fails again.

22:00 An impossible visit from his mother A vision of John's dead mother appears and comforts him, deepening his emotional turmoil.

26:07 A skeptical patrol officer A uniformed officer finds John incoherent on the street and tries to drag him back to the station.

29:30 Scorpius explains the interrogation Scorpius reveals that the visions are a deliberate effort by Scarrans to break John's mind.

37:33 Waking in the holographic chamber John comes to on the Commerce Planet, inside an underground chamber, with Scorpius standing behind him.

41:00 Brain activity flatlines A hidden observer notes that all neural activity in the captive has ceased.

Air date, credits and where to watch

Won't Get Fooled Again is the fifteenth episode of Farscape's second season; the episode list does not mark it as the first of the season or as part of a two-parter.^[2]

The full episode can be watched here because the rights holder, the Farscape YouTube channel, published it on its own channel on 23 January 2025. The upload runs 2,656 seconds (about 44 minutes and 16 seconds) and has auto-generated English captions.^[1] When the page was read, the channel had about 88.2 thousand subscribers and the upload had 41,025 views.^[1]