Farscape s02e22: Die Me, Dichotomy

Series

Farscape^[3]

Season and episode

Season 2, episode 22^[1]

First aired

19 December 2000, United States^[2]

Running time

44 minutes 16 seconds^[1]

Uploaded to YouTube by

the Farscape channel (rights holder), 22 March 2025^[1]

Title on the channel's upload

"Die Me Dichotomy" (without the comma)^[1]

What happens in "Die Me, Dichotomy"?

Moya's crew head to an ice planet to meet Diagnosan Tocot, a surgeon they hope will treat the burns Moya suffered and remove the Scorpius neural chip lodged in John Crichton's brain; the rights holder's plot summary gives this as the reason for the trip.^[1] On the planet the crew negotiate a fee with the Diagnosan for treating Moya and settle on roughly 15,000 kmas, before a higher figure of 20,000 is quoted against Pilot's meter running and accepted.^[4]

The Diagnosan examines Crichton and tells him that the chip cannot be removed without killing him, but that he has located a biological match donor in his cryogenic storage and may be able to work around the chip rather than take it out.^[4] The episode's chapter titles on YouTube frame a surgical arc around this donor, with "Aon's sacrifice" at 9:01 and "Chip removal risk" at 32:40.^[1] Outside the surgery, Aeryn Sun tells Ka D'Argo that she is reconfiguring a comms signal so that she can eavesdrop on Crichton's radio traffic, because she does not trust him.^[4] When a Peacekeeper signal identified as a captain's-rank pulse is detected, Aeryn suspects it carries the Scorpius neural circuit.^[4]

Crichton is later shown wrestling with a vision of Scorpius that he knows is not real, while Aeryn tries to pull him back to reality.^[4] The chapter "Forced landing" begins at 24:25, and the closing chapters, "Future plans" at 35:11 and "Final resolution" at 37:28, mark the back half of the episode.^[1] Zhaan offers Crichton hope; he tells her that she has worked her way into his heart, and the two exchange "I love you".^[4]

0:00 Die Me, Dichotomy The full episode as published by the rights holder on YouTube, from the opening titles to the end.

Memorable quotes

“Make no mistake, I believe you'll pull the trigger. I just don't believe you'll hit anything.”23:28

“Aeryn forgive me. I love you.”32:45

In the episode

0:30 Crew arrives at the alien healer The crew arrives at a surgical facility to negotiate treatment for their ship and its pilot.

1:31 John hallucinates a scorpion John experiences a violent hallucination of Scorpius and is restrained by his crewmates.

4:00 Negotiating the healer's fee D'Argo and Rygel haggle with the Diagnosan over the price of treating the living ship.

6:31 D'Argo confronts his son Jothee reveals his mutilated sebacean features to his father D'Argo, who reacts with shock.

8:36 Zhaan offers John hope The Delvian priestess comforts John and urges him to place his trust in her.

10:04 Scorpius contacts the crew The crew detects a Peacekeeper signal and deduces that Scorpius is tracking John.

12:37 Surgeon examines the contaminated healer The doctor inspects the Diagnosan in his decontamination suit and confirms he is sterile.

15:00 Surgeon proposes a donor The doctor reveals a frozen biological match for John but admits the donor is an abomination.

18:31 Spy arranges other passage Aeryn secretly negotiates separate transport for the crew while John prepares for surgery.

20:03 John absorbs his thoughts into Moya John asks the living ship to carry a message to Earth in case the operation fails.

22:31 John broadcasts to Scorpius Under the chip's influence, John transmits their coordinates to his pursuer.

26:00 Aeryn is shot down Aeryn ejects from her vessel and crashes toward a frozen lake.

29:30 Zhaan leads the rite The crew gathers around a pyre as the priestess conducts a funeral for Aeryn.

33:41 John faces the surgeon again John is prepped for the risky operation to excise the neural implant from his brain.

Air date, credits and where to watch

Die Me, Dichotomy first aired in the United States on 19 December 2000.^[2] It is the 22nd episode of season 2 of Farscape, the science fiction series created by Rockne S. O'Bannon that premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel's SciFi Friday block on 19 March 1999 and ran for four regular seasons and the 2004 miniseries Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars.^[3] The series stars Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Virginia Hey, Anthony Simcoe, Gigi Edgley, Paul Goddard, Lani Tupu, Wayne Pygram and Jonathan Hardy.^[3] It is a Jim Henson Company production, and the company is credited with the alien make-up and prosthetics, including the puppet characters Rygel and Pilot.^[3]

The rights holder, the Farscape YouTube channel, published the full episode on its own channel on 22 March 2025, which is why it can be watched on this page.^[1] The upload is titled "Die Me Dichotomy", which is not the episode's title: the title card on the episode itself reads "Die Me, Dichotomy", with the comma.^[1] The upload runs for about 44 minutes and 16 seconds.^[1]