Farscape s03e06: Eat Me

Series

Farscape^[3]

Season

3^[2]

Episode number

6^[2]

Running time

44 minutes 12 seconds^[1]

Uploaded by

Official Farscape YouTube channel, on 3 May 2025^[1]

Views as of 20 September 2026

29,499^[1]

What happens in "Eat Me"?

The episode opens with John Crichton flying a failing transport pod with Chiana, Ka D'Argo and Jool aboard, low on oxygen and unable to reach Moya.^[4] Instead of Moya they find a Leviathan wearing a Peacekeeper control collar, and Crichton brings the pod down inside it over the others' protests.^[4]

On board, the pod turns out to be beyond repair without 3K wire and narium coils, and the Leviathan has no transport pods or escape craft left, as if everyone who could leave already has.^[4] The ship is diseased and oozing pus, with no DRDs in sight, and it proves to be a Peacekeeper prison ship.^[4]

Crichton finds the Leviathan's Pilot begging to die: Growgan cuts off his arms and, when they grow back, hacks them off again to eat.^[4] The Pilot explains that Scarrans ambushed the prison convoy and left the ship drifting and starving, with one prisoner, Kaarvok, and that the creatures roaming it were once its Peacekeepers.^[4]

Meanwhile Moya starbursts without warning to answer a distress call, stranding Crichton's group: the caller is Talyn, badly hurt, and Aeryn Sun can raise neither Talyn nor Crais.^[4] Aeryn takes a transport pod to collect the others, while Rygel plans to cut Talyn loose and starburst before she returns.^[4]

Kaarvok "twins" his captives into equal copies to feed on, and he twins D'Argo and then Crichton.^[4] Crichton has the dying Leviathan try to starburst despite its collar, and the group, Jool among them, escapes in the pod; afterward D'Argo tells Crichton he saw his own copy as a corpse and wonders which of them is the original.^[4]

Memorable quotes

“I saw myself. Another me. Do you remember the actual moment? No, I don't remember anything except it was a corpse.”41:23

“Bon Carvak was full of it. Then how do you know that I am not the copy? Maybe the real D'Argo is dead.”41:46

“Because you just know, you know, Phil”41:55

In the episode

1:09 Everyone out of the pod John Crichton brings the failing transport pod down inside a collared Leviathan and orders everyone out into a hangar that reeks of death.

2:30 Crichton's opening narration The opening titles: Crichton's season three narration, wondering whether to lead the nightmares he has seen to Earth or to stay away and protect it.

3:33 Assessing the ruined ship The pod is dead without 3K wire and narium coils, and the Leviathan has no transport pods or escape craft left; Chiana and Jool stay with the pod while the others hunt for parts.

6:31 Sick ship oozes pus Crawling through a duct for 3K wire, Crichton and Ka D'Argo find the ship oozing pus with no DRDs in sight, and learn it is a Peacekeeper prison ship.

7:31 Splitting up to scavenge Crichton leaves D'Argo to gather parts and goes to find the Leviathan's Pilot; at the pod, Chiana goes off on her own and leaves Jool, whose people have no weapons, with a pulse rifle.

10:33 Crichton meets the armless Pilot Crichton finds the Leviathan's Pilot begging to be killed: Growgan cuts off his arms and, when they grow back, hacks them off again, because they are eating him.

12:31 Hunting for Chiana The ship's starving inhabitants close in on Chiana as she wanders alone, and D'Argo, searching for her, confronts a stranger who will not say where she is.

15:41 Moya finds Talyn Moya starbursts without warning to answer a distress call, stranding Crichton's group: it is Talyn, badly hurt, and Aeryn Sun gets no answer from Crais.

18:06 Jool on her own Lost and alone in the Leviathan, Jool talks herself into courage, repeating what her parents told her and sure that someone will recognize a civilized being.

20:33 Pilot explains the prison ship The Pilot tells Crichton the Leviathan was a Peacekeeper prison ship for the criminally insane, ambushed by Scarrans and left drifting and starving with one prisoner, Kaarvok; the creatures aboard were its Peacekeepers.

27:30 D'Argo learns he is twinned Crichton plans with the Pilot to retake the ship and vent Kaarvok into space, while Kaarvok tells D'Argo he has twinned him: two D'Argos, equal and original.

36:03 Crichton taunts Kaarvok Crichton taunts Kaarvok, inviting him for coffee and promising to hit him with some "Starburst Supreme."

38:02 The Leviathan tries to starburst The Leviathan tries to starburst despite its control collar, a jump that would destroy the whole ship, but the dying ship is not strong enough.

40:01 Escape from the Leviathan Kaarvok catches Crichton, who is found dazed; the group finds Jool alive and escapes in the pod, and D'Argo later tells Crichton he saw another version of himself.

Air date, credits and where to watch

The episode can be watched on this page because the rights holder uploaded the full episode to the official Farscape YouTube channel on 3 May 2025.^[1] As of 20 September 2026 the upload ran 44 minutes and 12 seconds and had been viewed 29,499 times, on a channel of about 88.2 thousand subscribers.^[1] The upload carries YouTube's automatic English captions, which are the source of this page's account of what happens in the episode.^[1][4]

1. 1999-03-19 Farscape premieres on the Sci-Fi Channel as its first original North American series.^[3]
2. 2001-03-16 According to Wikipedia contributors, Season 3 of Farscape begins airing, per the episode list.^[2]
3. 2002-01-31 Season 3 of Farscape finishes its original run, per the episode list.^[2]
4. 2003-03-21 Farscape ends its four-season run on a cliffhanger after being canceled.^[3]
5. 2025-05-03 The full episode is uploaded to the official Farscape YouTube channel.^[1]
6. 2026-09-20 YouTube (Farscape) states that the upload runs 44 minutes 12 seconds and has 29,499 views, on a channel of roughly 88.2 thousand subscribers.^[1]