Farscape s02e06: Picture if You Will

Series

Farscape^[1]

Season

2^[1]

Episode

6^[1]

Running time

44 minutes 16 seconds^[1]

Published on YouTube

11 December 2024^[1]

What happens in "Picture if You Will"?

Early in the episode, the crew trades with Kyren, an old woman trader, aboard her ship, and Chiana is given a portrait as a gift.^[4] The painting is a small, ornate frame showing her face, and at first Chiana is pleased with it.^[4]

Then the portrait starts to change. It first shows Chiana wearing a necklace she had lost, and later shows her with a broken leg, and both images unsettle her.^[4]

A comment on the rights holder's upload notes that the episode also features the character Maldis speaking to John Crichton.^[1]

0:00 Picture if You Will The episode as published by the rights holder, from the start.

Memorable quotes

“haven't you read the super villain's handbook this is where you're supposed to twirl your mustache and gloat”31:07

“I've never been more scared in my life”43:06

In the episode

0:00 Chiana browses the trader's wares On a junk dealer's ship, Chiana and Rygel examine curios including a tiara while an elderly trader talks about her art.

4:00 Crichton records a distress message John records a video log describing how a radiation wave hurled him through a wormhole onto a living ship filled with alien life forms.

5:05 Chiana reports the painting changed Chiana tells D'Argo the portrait she bought appears to predict the future, showing her with a broken leg after showing her a lost necklace.

7:00 Rygel discovers the tiara is genuine Rygel realizes the tiara he traded away for a food cube is authentic and demands the pilot reverse course to retrieve it.

9:31 Chiana refuses to surrender the portrait D'Argo urges Chiana to discard the unsettling artwork, but she insists on keeping it and asks to be left alone.

11:31 Crichton checks on Zhaan John finds Zhaan in her quarters troubled because her tests on Chiana's portrait reveal nothing unusual about the material.

13:02 Zhaan asks for the painting Zhaan tells John she may soon need everyone to follow her orders exactly and asks him to bring her Chiana's portrait.

14:00 Chiana panics over a new image Chiana bursts in screaming that the portrait now depicts her on fire and she feels herself burning.

15:03 Chiana is locked in the freezer Aeryn and D'Argo lock Chiana inside the cargo bay freezer to stop the fire she believes is consuming her.

17:09 Rygel confronts Zhaan After Chiana is found dead in the freezer, Rygel accuses Zhaan of failing to save her despite her warnings.

20:03 The second portrait appears The crew discovers a new version of the painting on the floor, still wet, having apparently regenerated after being burned.

25:04 D'Argo reappears unharmed Crichton is pulled through a portal and finds D'Argo alive, having been ejected from the painting's interior with no injuries.

27:00 Zhaan explains the creator The trader admits under threat that she was forced by the being Maldis to craft the dangerous painting linking their realms.

36:00 Maldis threatens Earth Maldis taunts the group with images of Earth's billions of inhabitants, describing them as a potential food source for his fear.

40:33 The crew debriefs after victory Back on Moya, the crew puzzles over how they all returned intact while Chiana's leg is still broken, and Zhaan explains her plan.

Air date, credits and where to watch

"Picture if You Will" is the sixth episode of the second season of Farscape, which ran from 17 March 2000 to 19 December 2000.^[2][1]

Farscape was created by Rockne S. O'Bannon and premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel in North America on 19 March 1999.^[3] It ran for four regular seasons of 22 episodes each, followed by the 2004 miniseries Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars.^[2]

The rights holder's upload of the episode runs about 44 minutes and 16 seconds.^[1]