Farscape s03e09: Losing Time

Series

Farscape, season 3, episode 9^[2]

Running time

44 minutes 15 seconds^[1]

Chapters in the upload

Eleven named chapters, from "Mysterious disturbances" to "Recovery and departure"^[1]

Published by the rights holder

Full episode on the official Farscape YouTube channel, 24 May 2025^[1]

Summary

Losing Time is the ninth episode of season 3 of Farscape.^[2] It opens with John Crichton recording a video message to anyone back on Earth, warning them about the dangers he has come up against.^[4] When the recording stops and the rest of the crew gathers, they realize that roughly half an hour has vanished from all their memories.^[4]

What happens in "Losing Time"?

On Moya, Crichton films a personal log for anyone on Earth, describing the threats he has encountered and urging caution about contact with the alien races beyond the solar system.^[4] When he finishes, the rest of the crew finds him, and after a routine moment the entire group blacks out.^[4] On waking they discover that they have collectively lost about thirty minutes, with no memory of what happened during the gap.^[4]

The crew soon finds that an alien creature has seized control of Pilot, the symbiote joined to Moya, and is using his body to address them.^[4] The rider inside Pilot declares that one of them is the diseased rider it has been hunting.^[4]

The rights holder's upload divides the episode into eleven named chapters, beginning with "Mysterious disturbances" and ending with "Recovery and departure".^[1]

0:00 Losing Time The rights holder's upload of the full episode, from its opening to its closing.

Memorable quotes

“How do I know one of you is not infected? That this is not the rider's plan. It's not. Believe me, this plan is so bad. It has to be ours.”31:56

“So that the only plan we got? That's it.”36:58

“Everything. I found it. I found nothing. Scruffy. You missed it. You missed the whole thing. Game over.”42:40

In the episode

1:01 Waking Crichton about the cluster Someone wakes Crichton to report that Moya has finally completed a task related to a discovery.

5:10 Crichton reports bleeding Crichton tells the crew he saw a light pass through Moya and that he bled profusely without any visible wound.

8:33 Moya systems malfunction The crew notices their quarters and systems behaving strangely, including boiling chambers and floating water, after Crichton's second episode.

13:05 Pilot collapse and possession Pilot stops responding and appears unconscious, and a foreign entity speaks through him claiming to have entered his body.

14:31 Entity explains the rider The being in Pilot explains that a diseased energy rider escaped into one of the crew during the cluster transit and requests to taste each person.

19:00 Private questions to identify host The entity begins asking the crew deeply personal questions to determine which of them is harboring the diseased rider.

22:30 Jool taken for tasting Pilot carries Jool away to taste her, and the crew breaks into pairs to investigate the situation and rescue her.

27:00 Chiana found as the host Pilot locates the diseased rider and identifies Chiana as the one concealing it after she flees to the Starburst chamber.

33:01 Chiana freed from possession Pilot removes the diseased rider from Chiana, who collapses unconscious but is confirmed alive.

35:01 Entity refuses to leave The being in Pilot decides to keep controlling the ship and Pilot's body rather than return to its cluster.

36:32 Plan to purge the entity The crew devises a plan to redirect Starburst energy into Pilot's den in order to force the entity out and destroy it.

38:47 Pilot failing, entity panics The entity realizes that keeping Pilot's body is killing it and threatens to vent Moya's chambers before deciding to transfer into the ship itself.

41:00 Aftermath and cracked ship Pilot wakes free of the entity and finds Moya functioning but damaged, while the crew regroups and jokes about the ordeal.

42:31 Peacekeepers demand answers Scorpius reappears on a viewscreen and demands that Crichton explain everything he knows about wormholes.

Air date, credits and where to watch

Within the season, Losing Time sits between the eighth and tenth episodes and is a single installment rather than part of a two-parter.^[2] The full episode can be watched on this page because the rights holder published it on its own YouTube channel on 24 May 2025; the upload runs about forty-four minutes, split into those eleven named chapters.^[1]