"Crais, come in." "This is Aeryn." "Pilot, there's no answer from Crais." "Nor is Moya getting any answer from Talyn." "Aeryn, what can you see?" "He's been hit hard." "Crais." "Where's Talyn?" "I can barely sense him." "He is alive, but unresponsive." "Moya is supplying nutrients." "Talyn destroyed one Prowler but their attack was merely a diversion." "Peacekeepers..." "They want Talyn back." "A Vigilante with an immobilizer pulse." "What attacked Talyn was a Retrieval Squad." "You do know, John, that if we can revive Talyn, we have to Starburst away immediately and we can't go back." "There is something I deeply wish to share with you." "Wake up, Aeryn." "I'm your mother." "I came to tell you something." "You were conceived in love." "Our love." "We wanted you." "My mother." "Yes." "The Retrieval Squad." "She is somehow part of it." "The Squad is under the command of Senior Officer Xhalax Sun." "They're out of the bionisphere and Moya's sensing a Peacekeeper scan." "Talyn, Starburst immediately." "Talyn's done it." "He's escaped." "There will be no contact with Moya until the threat of the Retrieval Squad is resolved." "They are hoping that my mother's presence will divide my loyalties." "But I will not let them get Talyn back." "Even if it means I have to kill her." "And now on Farscape..." "Kama-nak, kama-nak, kama-nak..." "Kama-nak, kama-nak, kama-nak..." "Kama-nak, kama-nak, kama-nak..." "Rygel!" "Oh..." "I may be small, but allow me to remind you:" "that only serves to put me at castration level!" "With them on the other side of this very thin bulkhead." "A bit noisy, were they?" "She was bad enough, but Crichton!" "He was louder than she was." "He actually sounded like he was exerting himself." "What kind of a male is he anyway?" "Oh, they're between bouts." "Give them a few microts." "Hang on." "There's another!" "Oh, God." "You were louder than that, believe it or not." "How much longer?" "How much longer what?" "Does Talyn have to stay on board this planet?" "Oh well, the heavy gravity's letting him sleep." "Mm-hmm." "Stark said the vegetation has restorative power, so it's our one..." "Hmm?" "quick-stop chance to get him back to full fighting strength." "I suggest you all get up here immediately." "Talyn's senses have picked up another ship entering the planet's atmosphere." "Dangerously close." "Damn." "Friend or foe?" "Friend or foe?" "Friend or.." "Talyn's laboring to discern that." "If it's a Retrieval Squad, are we going to be able to blast our way out of here?" "Talyn has powered down to stasis level on all systems to facilitating the recuperation process." "We all agreed to take that chance." "So your answer is no." "We can't move." "Friend or foe?" "Friend or..." " Will you shut the frell up!" "Of course it's a foe!" "We have no friends!" "Talk to us." "What do you got?" "Talyn has identified it as the Vigilante, the Peacekeeper ship pursuing us." "We've got to do something." "There's nothing we can do." "Crichton, you always have a plan." "Or sometimes." "How close?" " It has just landed." "It's your mother who's running the frelling Retrieval Squad." "Maybe we can use that." "Yo!" "Not now, Rygel." "Not now?" "!" "They're here, Crichton, on the planet." "They're going to be knocking down that door at any microt." "And our ship is sound asleep." "Xhalax." "Heavy gravity." "Two... two and a half times what my species is used to." "How is your wound?" "I will earn my share." "Good news." "Your shares have just increased." "My name is John Crichton..." "I'm lost... an astronaut." "I got shot through a wormhole..." "In some distant part of the universe..." "I'm trying to stay alive..." "Aboard this ship..." "This living ship..." "Of escaped prisoners." "My friends." "If you can hear me..." "Beware." "If I make it back..." "Will they follow?" "If I open the door..." "Are you ready?" "Earth is unprepared..." "Helpless, for the nightmares I've seen." "Or should I stay..." "Protect my home..." "Not show them..." "You exist..." "But then you will never know the wonders I've seen." "Decoys?" "This is an awfully big ship." "You really, really, really think the three of you..." "Stark, if you have any other ideas, we'll be thrilled to hear 'em before we go out." "The Peacekeeper ship set down some distance from here." "Clearly the planet's vegetation is masking Talyn's whereabouts, as we were hoping." "That's not gonna last forever." "We've gotta get these guys away from Talyn, give him a chance to recuperate." "Then we got a shot." "Maybe." "Talyn's restoration is nearly complete." "We need only buy him a little more time." "What about me?" "Hmm?" "What about me?" "Why can't I go out?" "I agree." "I am the logical choice to stay here with Talyn." "Logical, yes." "But it ain't gonna happen, boys." "Listen to me." "They're here to take Talyn." "We can't let them anywhere near him when he's vulnerable like this." "Crichton, Crais and I will go down." "You will stay here and keep him calm." "Wake up, Aeryn." "Ahh!" "I've been watching this." "The night your mother came and saw you." " My name is Xhalax Sun." "I'm your mother." " Rygel!" "What are you doing?" "!" "She sounds like she likes you." "Maybe we can use that to..." "This is Aeryn's stuff." "Keep your hands off and your nose out of other people's business." "Well, er, what are we supposed to do when you're out there and dear old mother comes blasting in?" "Buckwheat, we're going to keep the Retrieval Squad away and you're going to keep your hands off Aeryn's stuff." "Is that clear?" "I don't give a ropey dren about heavy gravity." "Our targets are near." "Keep moving." "How many missions have you been on?" "Six." "Nine." "Nine and out, right?" "This is your last mission as a mercenary." "You complete this one and you can buy your freedom." "You have a mate?" "Offspring?" "Yes." " Nice." "It'd be a frelling shame if you and your mate here screwed up and you were to start your mission count back at zero." "So frell the gravity." "Cinch up your mivonks and keep moving." "Pulse Rifles." "Definitely Peacekeeper." "This way." "What the hell's wrong with this gun?" "I don't know." "Maybe chakan mist is ruining the pulse deploy." "Well, they're either after us or not." "We've left a trail Stevie Wonder could follow." "Oh, wow." "Wait." "What?" "Oarusk fruit." "Remind me not to put that on my Cocoa Puffs." "Oh, stop that incessant humming." "When you stop that hiccuping." "I hiccup when I'm nervous." "Well, I hum when I'm nervous." "A hiccup is involuntary you pellish venker!" "Humming isn't!" "Rygel." "What?" "Vines from outside growing inside." "Fresh trail, that way!" "Indigenous?" "No." "Sebacean." "Okay, welcome to the butthole of the universe." "Very close." "Three point vector." "Are you up to this?" "We are ready." "This can't be good." "It can't be bad." "It's the same vegetation that's helping to heal Talyn." "It's rooted to the planet." "How's Talyn supposed to take off with this stuff laced through him?" "Once Talyn's back to full strength, I'm sure he'll be able to tear himself away." "Easily." "Come on." "Pull!" "How far have we gone?" "Not quite one full metra." "One more metra, we should circle back." "Right." "Oh..." "What you got?" "That way." "There!" "Cover me." "Aeryn?" "!" "John?" "Aeryn?" "!" "John." "Damn." "Move and you die." "Where is he?" "Are you Xhalax..." "Are you Xhalax Sun?" "Where is he?" "Stop!" "Nice to see you again, Mother." "Aeryn?" "!" "Aeryn?" " Crichton!" "Crichton!" " Stop making noise or they'll find us." "I've been hit." "Oh hell, that's ugly." "I got to find Aeryn." "Crichton, don't you leave me here." "The Retrieval Squad." "They are using Colartas." "They're using what?" "Expert trackers." "You leave me here bleeding, they will find me and kill me." "And?" "Are you shot?" "No." "The gravity." "One of my hearts, it has burst." "Can you move?" "Won't slow you down." "I can still track." "Have you seen Xhalax?" "No." "I can locate her." "No." "But she might be wounded." "We pursue and retrieve our target." "That is our mission." "We don't get paid for finding Xhalax." "Move." "What are you doing?" " You want to bleed to death?" "What do you think?" " Then shut up." "This might sting a little." "Okay, maybe more than a little." "This should slow the bleeding." "Stop any bone from working its way out, at least temporarily." "You knew who I was." "Who are you?" "I'm Aeryn." "Aeryn Sun." "I'm your daughter." "If you are my daughter, you are a Peacekeeper." "I'm not a Peacekeeper anymore." "Then you are with Crais." "Where the hezmana have you been?" " On the bridge." "Comfortable up there?" " Listen..." "'Cause while you've been frotzing around," "I've been trying to keep this dren from taking over..." "Rygel, shut up!" "Talyn, he's almost healed." "What?" "Completely?" "It's a... yes..." "Well, can we blast ourselves free of this yotz?" "Soon." "If... if we can keep these under control, then I think Talyn will be strong enough to break free." "But what if the others aren't back by then?" "They're up against a Peacekeeper Retrieval Squad out there." "Don't delude yourself, fahrbot." "They're probably never coming back." "What do you smell?" "Two of them." "One is unknown to me." "The other is a... a Sebacean." "Wounded." "At least with this gravity, the Colartas will be in more trouble than... we are." "That's a comfort." "Get up." "Get up!" "We got to get out of here." "Aeryn had the positioning device." "So she'll be able to find her way back to Talyn." "If she's still alive." "She is still alive." "She is alive." "Where are you taking me?" "Back to the gunship." "Which I named Talyn, by the way." "Yes, I thought you'd find that amusing." "Naming it after Daddy?" "It's not amusing." "It's sentimental and weak." "Is that why you're sparing me?" "Because I'm your Mummy?" "No." "Because with that wound, out here, you will die." "Alive, you're potential leverage." "Regulation Field Op Procedure insists you terminate all hostile personnel on point of contact." "Eliminate the threat." "And when I'm dead, you can name your Prowler after me." "Oh yes, that's very funny." "Well, I no long follow Regulation Field Op Procedures, and I know it's not by chance that you ended up out here on this assignment." "High Command knew I was out here with Talyn and Crais." "They probably thought, "Send her mother."" "Or perhaps you even volunteered for the pleasure." "Did you?" "Thought, you know, things go wrong, we end up face to face, perhaps the daughter will flinch." "I'm not flinching." "We have no idea where we are going." "We could be going around in circles." "We're not going in circles, nimrod, because we've never been here before." "We're completely lost." "Oh, God!" "I hate mazes." "Oh, my first girlfriend, Julie, she loved 'em." "Oh, boy, did she. "Hey, Johnny, let's go in the mirror maze together, huh?"" "Hey, Jules!" "Is this makin' you horny?" "Our size and weight will give us a slight advantage over the Colartas." "But our sweat and blood will continue to lead them right to us." "Shut up." " You shut up." "No, you shut up." "I've got an idea." "What are you doing?" "Here, smell that." "Oh!" "Oh!" "Geez!" "If this doesn't cover our scent, or kill us, I don't know what will." "Camol!" "Yep, that's good." "There you go." "Spread it around." "Don't forget to cover your private bits." "How much..." "longer..." "till Talyn is fully healed?" "Look, I'm still not sure we should leave." "But..." "We're leaving." "Soon as Talyn's ready we're leaving whether they're here or not." "You got that?" "Rygel, the hero." "Aeryn, I always knew you'd make it back." "The others aren't as capable as you." "Not as strong." "Not nearly..." " Shut up." "Ah... this... this is your mother?" "Aren't you going to introduce us?" "No." "What's the news on Crichton and Crais?" "No news." "You're the first back." "Hmm, no scent." "How is that possible?" "Body heat." "This way." "Here." "Crais." "Crais!" "All right, come on, John." "Come on, man." "Concentrate." "Find Aeryn, get the hell out of here alive." "Oh, poor baby." "Poor, poor, Johnny." "Now is not a good time, Scorpy." "Go away." "On the contrary." "You summoned me." "You know what?" "You are really becoming annoying." "Go away!" "But your subconscious did and that's where I reside, remember?" "This point." "It needs to be sharp, but not so spindly that it is weak." "As long as you're here." "These pina colada things chasing us." "Are they everything Crais has cracked them up to be?" "Oh, yes." "In that, at least, Crais has been completely forthright." "Where has he not been forthright?" "As far as I could tell, Talyn's systems are almost back to normal." "Then it's time to wake him up and get aloft." "We use Talyn's senses to locate Crichton and Crais." "Talyn, activate the intruder..." "Let us out of here, you snarking dellot!" "Let us out!" "Ah, you murderous little beast." "You're going to be dead meat." "Dead meat, dead meat, dead meat." "Oh, you really do have three stomachs." "And the smallest little heart I've ever seen." "Help... me." "Please, Stark." "Help... me." "This is a remarkable vessel." "High Command could never have anticipated that their hybrid genetic would evolve so successfully." "What are you doing?" "Can't fire the ship up while he still has the capacity for independent thought." "You're severing his higher functions?" "After which, I can fly him home manually." "Techs are standing by to bring him back to life, once he's got a Control Collar on." "Talyn is not like other Leviathans." "He will die before accepting a Control Collar." "My mission is to subdue the Leviathan hybrid for easy transport." "Then track and deliver the second target." "Captains are the elite." "The most trusted jarheads in all the Peacekeeper ranks." "'Cause, you make Captain, you're on the A-list, for all the top parties, all the heavy-duty crap that the Peacekeepers sure as hell don't want floating free in the universe." "Crichton, listen to me." "You know, I always wondered why a swinging cat like you would be way out here in the boondocks." "Why you wanted so bad to be Talyn's prom date and then suddenly... it all came very clear to me." "You need us." "You knew we wouldn't lift a finger to help you, but we would do anything to protect Talyn." "The Peacekeepers, they're not only after Talyn," "they're after you." "From the moment you set foot on Moya, you knew that this day was coming." "And you kept us as allies when they came gunning'." "That's not true." "That's not the only reason I wanted help you." "Crichton, you can't leave me here like this." "Yes, I can." "What are you going to do?" "If you're what the Retrieval Squad wants, brother, this is their lucky day." "Hey, boys!" "Can you smell him now?" "!" "Oh, pina coladas!" " Crichton!" "No!" "Come back!" "Crichton!" "Crichton!" "Even in his dormant state, he still struggles against me." "Don't do this." "He won't struggle when I've finished crippling him." "My entire life, on every assignment, every transport ship," "I scanned the soldiers, looking for a face I'd only ever seen once." "And now finally seeing you, I feel nothing but shame." "Officer Sun, do you actually believe I care what you think?" "Your sentiment disgusts me." "I have not wasted a microt of my life thinking about you." "You're ashamed of me?" "You, a traitor?" "An enemy to everything you were bred for?" "The Peacekeepers made me the enemy that I am." "Look at what you are doing." "You are butchering this magnificent creature in its sleep." "When it wakes, it will be a slave and there is no guarantee it will survive the procedure." "You are pathetic." "You are not my daughter." "I am." "You made me very aware of that the night you came to me when I was a child and you told me what you'd done." "Which, may I remind you, was not regulation." "I never came to you." "You only dreamt it." "Oh well, for many cycles I believed that." "But you see, I now have a vid recording, which I would be happy to show you if you'd like to see it." "Or are you ashamed of your sentiment?" "Yes I am, and I paid for it." "My superior officers knew I visited you that night." "They interrogated me and I professed my... attraction for a certain Peacekeeper officer." "My father." "Yes." "Talyn." "He was older than I was." "No longer as effective in battle." "But my superiors didn't want to lose me." "So, they gave me a chance to redeem myself." "What did you do to redeem yourself?" "How did you redeem yourself?" "By killing your father." "I found the scent again." "Ah..." "At last." "Wait." "This could be a trap." "The other might still be near." "Do you smell him?" "No." "Captain Bialar Crais." "Or should I say, former Captain Crais?" "Do you have any idea how many Inquisitors want you back in High Command?" "Our orders are to take you in alive, but half alive is still..." "Wait!" "There's..." "I smell something." "Yes." "Hey, hey, Crais!" "Couldn't have done it without ya." "Why didn't you tell me?" "Needed your fear, homeboy." "I needed the sweat." "I've served my purpose as your lure." "Now untie me." "You don't get it, do you?" "Ain't no way, son." "You stuck the knife in one time too many." "What, are you just going to leave me like this?" "Well, you earned it." "If you're going to execute me, execute me." "Kill me." "But don't leave me here to die!" "You lied to us!" "You betrayed us and you used us!" "I used all my assets to stay alive, and those assets were you." "You think of your own survival now." "What if Aeryn is dead?" "She's not." "What if she is?" "How are you going to command Talyn?" "How are you going to get off this planet without me?" "And what if Aeryn isn't back at Talyn when you get there?" "What are you going to do then?" "What about Rygel." "Is he dead?" "He died for several microts, but I managed to get his little heart beating again." "Then I sewed the wound closed with the vines." "The restorative vines." "But..." "I'm no diagnosan." "I don't know what else to do." "She doesn't know it yet, but Talyn is almost recovered." "All we have to do is wait till he wakes up." "He's not going to wake up." "Aeryn." "Wake up, Aeryn." "Aeryn..." "My name is Xhalax Sun." "The night you've so conveniently forgotten." "I'm your mother." "You mustn't reveal to anyone that I was here." "Do you understand?" "I came to tell you something." "Aeryn, your life was not an accident." "You cared enough then to risk everything, to meet the child that you had conceived." "You can't have burned that love away completely." "Talyn, that's your father's name." "He and I chose to have you." "You were conceived in love." "Our love." "I am that child." "I am part of you." "I am part of Talyn." "I wanted you to know this." "Peacekeeper way isn't the only way." "It's not too late for you." "It makes you special." "We wanted you." "No!" "This is dead history!" "Your father is dead!" "And you... you will face a Peacekeeper Tribunal, on a charge of high treason." "Rygel!" "I've been filleted." "The restorative vines." "They're working!" "Rygel, come over here now and untie us!" "Get over there?" "I need bed rest for at least the next 50 arns!" "Oh!" "Oh!" "Have you seen these so-called stitches?" "Who did this to me?" "I did." "Oh, great." "A one-eyed hingmot with no 3-D vision." "Oh!" "Oh!" "How many of my vital organs did you puncture?" "!" "I saved your life!" "Saved my life!" "Look!" "You sewed this to me!" "Rygel..." "My robes!" "You sewed my robes to my chest!" "Get over here, now!" "Is this thing working?" "It had better be." "We'll never find Talyn without it." "Oh, for frell's sake, Rygel." "Use two hands." "Two hands." "I'm going as fast as I can!" "My robes are stitched inside my chest cavity." "You are so ungrateful." "And I'm trying to keep my guts from spilling out all over this frelling floor!" "Right." "See if you can wake Talyn." "If he's up to it, when I get back, we're going." "Come on." "Come on!" "C- come on!" "We've been here." "That's old faithful." "We must be near Talyn." "Aeryn?" "I would take you back, attempt to redeem you if it was possible." "But your corruption is too advanced!" "My corruption began the moment I was conceived!" "No!" "Watch the teeth!" "Don't you see my independence comes from you anyway?" "I grew up wanting to be just like a woman I'd only seen once." "You are a traitor!" "I am the part of you that wanted to be a rebel, the part of you that knew deep down inside what was right." " Shut up!" "You've resisted Peacekeeper doctrine before." "Shut up!" "Why can't you do it again now?" "You are an aberration!" "I am your child!" "Right, John, get out of the way." "Let her do it." "Let her shoot me!" "No, Aeryn, don't kill her!" "We have to." " You can't." "There's been too much killing!" "No." "We let her live, she comes, she hunts us down again." "Aeryn, you should not be the one to do this!" "She can't do it!" "She's afraid." "Aeryn, please." "Put the gun away." "You're wrong." "Aeryn is right." "We must not let Xhalax live." "Officer Sun knows Peacekeeper regulations." "If we don't kill Xhalax, she will come after us again." "Aeryn is not going to be the one to kill her mother!" "You want her dead?" "Fine, you do it!" "As you wish." "Somebody must do it." "Go." "Go now." "You must not witness this." "Coward!" "She can't kill me." "I am right, aren't I?" "We let you live, you come and you find us again." "What, do you expect me to lie?" "To beg for my life?" "Crais is right." "I will hunt you down and I will kill you." "Goodbye, Mother." "Aeryn, you have to go." "Go on." "Do it." "Do it." "No." "Your recovery is truly a miracle." "If I don't die of hekpus from these threads in my chest!" "Don't move!" "Let me see!" "That's done it." "Does it look all right?" "You're... you're as handsome as you ever were." "And, all things considered, you know, Rygel, you're lucky just to be alive again." "Alive again?" "Yes." "For a while there, you were dead." "No!" "Yes." "And when I joined with you, to bring you back, I met with Zhaan." "Zhaan?" "Yes." "That's why you stitched the frelling tunic to my chest." "You were busy hallucinating." "She looked contented." "She whispered to me." "Kala..." "Kalash atir..." "Kalash atir maz." "What?" "It is a prayer of guardianship." "It means she is watching over us." "Kala..." "Kalash atir..." "Kalash atir maz." "Mmm." "How is he?" "Crais is attempting to splice his neural engrams with Talyn's." "And if he can, then Talyn will be able to navigate on his own once again and we can get some sleep." "Or not." "You don't have to wait up for me if you don't want to." "No, I don't mind." "It is all we can do." "Yeah." "It's just a large part of Crais's psyche will now reside in Talyn." "It's the only way to bring Talyn back to life." "My..." "Xhalax was my last connection to the Peacekeepers." "All my ties to them are now completely severed." "I know."