Farscape s03e16: Revenging Angel

Series

Farscape^[1][2]

Season

3^[1][2]

Episode number

16^[1][2]

Official upload date

6 July 2025^[1]

Hosting channel

Farscape on YouTube^[1]

What happens in "Revenging Angel"?

The episode opens with John Crichton telling Pilot that he is getting better at controlling his Farscape module, and the scene turns when Ka D'Argo angrily says he warned Crichton not to go inside a particular ship.^[4] Pilot reports to Aeryn Sun that Crichton has blood in his skull and swelling and is barely breathing.^[4] An energy pulse, Pilot explains, killed all of Moya's active power conduits while comms were down, and a krastic ship is still firing on them.^[4] D'Argo admits to the others that he tried to kill Crichton and that Crichton slipped; Chiana tells Pilot that D'Argo used his Qualta blade against Crichton, and Rygel XVI asks Pilot when the ship is going to blow.^[4]

Pilot tells the crew that only the DRDs can rewire Moya, and Aeryn tells the dying Crichton that revenge is the strongest emotion, that he put himself there, and that he should live to even the score.^[4] Inside Crichton's mind, Harvey, the neural clone of Scorpius, tells him that his mind is no longer strong enough to control his comings and goings and urges him to unleash the revenge deep within his psyche.^[4] Pilot, watching Crichton flee through the cartoon space, advises him to rise above D'Argo's behavior and remove himself as a target, and Harvey adds that Crichton can only run for so long, even in the childlike safety of his cartoon.^[4]

Back on Moya, Pilot reports that Chiana's work with the DRDs has restored minimal functioning and that the energy signature shows the ship will explode in just under an arn.^[4] He may have a way to save the crew, he says, by jettisoning the krastic ship from pressure hatchway 16 on Tier 16's Treblin side.^[4] Aeryn says Crichton ought to last several solar days before succumbing to hypothermia, provided Pilot ejects the ship.^[4] On a control she finds a Luxan symbol that D'Argo recognizes as the Luxan symbol for spoken word, and Chiana asks why the krastic ship is trying to kill them and why it speaks Luxan.^[4]

Crichton records a message warning anyone who can hear him that, if he makes it back, others will too, while Pilot explains to Chiana that Crichton's earlier interference disabled the sequence of commands he had been building up.^[4]

0:00 Revenging Angel The episode as published by the rights holder, from the start.

Memorable quotes

“I have no wife, no son, no home, nothing. I have been forced to manufacture distraction to live. That ship is all I have.”0:56

“If you can hear me, beware. If I make it back, you will.”1:54

“Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to pay our final respects and to say farewell to our dear friend, Commander John Kitton. a schmuck.”31:32

“We have a code. Aggression against an ally entitles retribution.”41:43

In the episode

2:44 Crichton found badly injured Pilot reports Crichton has skull trauma and is barely breathing after a power pulse disabled Moya's systems.

4:31 Crichton refuses to die A delirious Crichton resists Scorpius's urging to use revenge as a survival motivation and dismisses the advice.

7:00 Crichton retreats into a cartoon Rather than confront D'Argo, Crichton retreats into an animated fantasy world to avoid the conflict.

12:01 Limited time before explosion Pilot announces the docked ship will detonate within one arn and offers a last-ditch plan to save the crew.

13:00 Jool and D'Argo escape the blast Jool and D'Argo survive the explosion of the Luxan ship while the rest of the crew remains aboard Moya.

14:00 Luxan script discovered Rygel identifies a Luxan symbol on a control panel, leading to a theory about why the ship was trying to kill them.

17:34 Jool confesses she tripped the sequence Jool admits she was inside the docked ship earlier and believes she accidentally activated its self-destruct.

19:04 D'Argo accepts Jool's apology D'Argo responds warmly to Jool's effort to learn about his ship and considers them friends again.

21:31 D'Argo suddenly attacks Crichton The reconciliation shatters and D'Argo physically attacks Crichton, reigniting the fight.

23:00 Acquiring a translator microbe A translator microbe is prepared so the crew can attempt to communicate with the self-destructing vessel.

24:03 Voice demands an ancient relic The docked ship's voice reveals the self-destruct can be voided by surrendering a specific Luxan heritage artifact.

36:08 Variable blade discovered D'Argo finds the Qualta blade that the voice has been demanding and calls out that he has it.

38:38 D'Argo saves the ship D'Argo surrenders the blade and addresses the ship in ancient Luxan, disabling the self-destruct and restoring power to Moya.

Air date, credits and where to watch

Farscape premiered in North America on the Sci-Fi Channel's SciFi Friday segment on 19 March 1999 and ran for four regular seasons, each of twenty-two episodes, from 1999 to 2003.^[2][3] The episode can be watched here because the rights holder published it in full on its own Farscape YouTube channel on 6 July 2025.^[1]