Farscape s02e13: Look at the Princess, Part 3: The Maltese Crichton

Series

Farscape^[1]

Season and episode

Season 2, episode 13^[1]

Upload title

Look at the Princess Part 3: The Maltese Crichton^[1]

Published on YouTube

16 January 2025^[1]

Running time

42 minutes 8 seconds^[1]

Summary

"Look at the Princess, Part 3: The Maltese Crichton" is the thirteenth episode of the second season of Farscape, the science fiction series created by Rockne S. O'Bannon.^[1][3] The episode weighs Crichton's forced marriage to the princess against Scorpius's bid to extract the wormhole knowledge from his mind, while Aeryn Sun comes to terms with what she feels for him.^[1]

What happens in "Look at the Princess, Part 3: The Maltese Crichton"?

The episode opens with John Crichton's head sealed inside a stone statue whose acoustics carry every sound in the chamber to whoever is trapped within it.^[4] One character explains that Scorpius has been given until the end of the local solar day to leave the system, and that once he has gone, Moya will be allowed to return.^[4] From inside the statue, Crichton hears himself described as a collection of self-encapsulated cells, each one preserved as long as the crystallized parts keep their metalized state.^[4] He delivers the show's familiar astronaut's monologue, identifying himself as a human shot through a wormhole by a radiation wave and now hunted by Scorpius, the Peacekeeper commander.^[4]

Outside the statue, a courtier announces that whoever cut off the princess's intended must pay in kind, and forbids anyone in the system to leave or signal their ships until the daughter's husband is restored.^[4] Scorpius is already at work: one of his people notes that Crichton's DNA was sampled when he was in the Aurora chair, and that his crystallization was engineered to survive eighty cycles of airborne corrosives.^[4] Scorpius offers Crichton a deal, saying he hopes to get him off the planet alive, take what he needs from his mind and release him unharmed; Crichton answers that their plans never work out as intended.^[4] When Crichton protests, his captor threatens him with a full-on acid attack, points out that he is already beginning to pit, and promises that although his body cannot be recovered, the wormhole calculations he carries can.^[4]

Elsewhere, a captive asks the man holding them whether he is truly John Crichton and which Sebacean house he belongs to, and is told that if they answer they will have to be killed.^[4] A voice calls on Moya to recommission herself and refuses to shut her drive down, begging Crichton and asking how it feels for his prayers to go unanswered.^[4] In another sequence, one character talks a companion through a wall climb, urging them to take the offered hand and draw a deep breath, before the climber's leg gives way.^[4] Crichton is later told that his speech is now so limited he could not convince a president he is anything more than a head inside a statue.^[4]

0:00 Look at the Princess, Part 3: The Maltese Crichton The episode as published by the rights holder, from the start.

Memorable quotes

“because of all the days before it hurts the good days when you're in love it's too bad you can't get back to”24:58

“search for thermic constancy is tful”30:02

“a child deserves two parents my child deserves a father make me a statue”33:27

“I just can't stop think about cry will never see his daughter again he it's pretty close to Har the fact that I may never see my son again is a grief I would wish upon no one”38:11

In the episode

0:30 John's head reunited with body Crichton's disembodied head is connected back to his bronze body in a chamber where officials can hear him.

4:06 Empress seals the planet The empress orders the lockdown of the surface until her daughter's husband is found whole.

5:03 Scorpius traces Crichton's head Scorpius reveals he used a DNA sample from the Aurora chair to track the crystallized head.

6:32 Moya's life put at risk A priestess informs Zhaan that if Moya must die, the pilot and Crichton must also perish with her.

9:05 Head placed on wrong body Crichton's head is attached to an unfamiliar body, leaving him disoriented and unable to speak clearly.

11:00 Jothee falls from the wall During a climbing exercise with D'Argo, Jothee loses his grip and dangles dangerously above the ground.

13:01 Sikozu proposes alliance Sikozu explains she needs Crichton to block Prince Clore and offers her help in return.

17:31 Scorpius pitches a deal Scorpius proposes to Aeryn that he can retrieve Crichton alive if she lets him scan the wormhole knowledge.

20:04 Chiana taken by Stark Rygel informs the group that Chiana has been captured by Stark's forces while searching for Aeryn.

24:00 Aeryn opens up to Jothee While recovering from a broken leg, Aeryn talks with Jothee about fear, love, and telling Crichton her feelings.

28:01 D'Argo confronts Stark D'Argo and Scorpius locate Stark, who holds Chiana at knifepoint and refuses to cooperate.

33:01 Crichton rejects the crown Crichton refuses to be made a statue again and learns he fathered a child with the princess during the transfer.

36:07 Crichton meets his daughter The princess brings the newborn child to Crichton for a brief introduction before he leaves.

38:32 Aeryn and Crichton reunite Aeryn and Crichton reconnect after the crisis, acknowledging their feelings as they watch the stars.

Air date, credits and where to watch

The rights holder published the full episode on its own YouTube channel on 16 January 2025 under the title "Look at the Princess Part 3: The Maltese Crichton," which differs from the episode's own title; a reader who arrives from that channel is watching the same episode.^[1] When the page was read, the upload ran about 42 minutes (2,528 seconds), had been viewed 38,207 times, and was hosted on a channel with 88,200 subscribers.^[1]