Previously on Farscape (voice of
Scorpius)...
Scene One: from "Unrealized Reality",
John and Einstein are standing on an iceberg. Einstein: "Every
wormhole system has millions of exits... each to a distinct time and
place."
Scene Two: from "Unrealized Reality",
John travels down a wormhole.
Scene Three: from "Unrealized Reality",
John: "Einstein, what the hell is goin on here?" Aeryn/Chiana:
"Zhaan and Aeryn are out there under a flag of truce."
D'Argo/Jool, Noranti/Rygel and Rygel/D'Argo are all nearby.
There are flashes of light from several
explosions.
Scene Four: from "Unrealized
Reality", Sikozu/Stark is staring into a brilliant
light. Sikozu/Stark: "Katratzi"
John, a trickle of blood running down
from his forehead, shoots Sikozu/Stark. She cries out and
crumples.
Scene Five: from "Promises", John: "You
will never get the wormhole tech from me." Scorpius
sneers.
Scene Six: from "Twice Shy", John and
Aeryn face each other in a corridor on Moya. John: "Scorpius
is here... looking for the key to what is inside my head. He
will use you, and the baby..."
Scene Seven: from "Bringing Home The
Beacon", Sikozu: "We need a sensor distorter for our ship..." She is
talking to two male aliens. "... to fool long range
scans."
Scene Eight: from "Bringing Home The
Beacon", inside the dead Leviathan settlement, a female Scarran
appears. Scarran: "Gezzah!" Sikozu whispers: "A
Scarran." There is another Scarran with her, and two Charrids
following her.
Scene Nine: from "Bringing Home the
Beacon", Aeryn tells Sikozu: "If I'm not back at the pod in half and
arn, you go without me." Sikozu: "What?" Aeryn:
"Go."
Scene Ten: from "Bringing Home the
Beacon", Aeryn fires her rifle and hits the Scarran soldier in the
left side of the chest. The Scarran growls
quietly.
Scene Eleven: from "Bringing Home the
Beacon", A Scarran warship, its red lights glowing, is following
Moya through space. Pilot: "The Scarran warship is still in
pursuit."
Scene Twelve: from "Bringing Home the
Beacon", John whispers: "What about the..." He makes a
cradle with his arms and rocks them. John: "... Baby?
What about the baby?" Aeryn looks at him, confused. She
shrugs: "What?"
Scene Thirteen: from "Bringing Home the
Beacon", John holds his pulse pistol pointed at Aeryn's head.
John: "Where's Aeryn?" He shoots her in the face. Half
of her face melts away, revealing bubbling plastics
underneath. The other half blinks its eye. Sikozu: "A
bioloid."
Scene Fourteen: from "Bringing Home the
Beacon", the Aeryn bioloid, half of its face melted, lies dead on
the floor.
Scene Fifteen: from "Bringing Home the
Beacon", Scorpius lies flat on his back on his bunk.
John looks down at him: "I don't care about the things you care
about. Peacekeepers rule the Scarrans. The Scarrans rule
the Peacekeepers. I care about one thing. Help me get
her, and I will give you wormholes." Scorpius turns his head
towards John.
And now, on
Farscape...
PROLOGUE
An unfamiliar ship flies through
space...
Aeryn: "There was one... guard. I
don't... remember her face. She never... told me her
name."
She is inside some kind of cell.
The walls and bars are made of irregularly shaped metal
pieces.
Aeryn: "She told me a legend about...
how Sebaceans once had a god called... " She thinks.
"Djancaz-bru. Six worlds prayed to her. They... built
her temples, conquered planets and yet, one day she still...
rose up and destroyed all six worlds."
She is sitting on the floor, her wrists
in chains.
"And when the last warrior was dying,
he... he said: "We gave you everything. Why did you destroy
us?" And, she looked down upon him, and she whispered...
"
She swallows and licks her lips.
"Because I can."
Moya is flying through space.
Inside...
Scorpius follows John through a
corridor.
Scorpius: "Aeryn could be
dead."
John: "The Scarrans will not kill
her. They want to use her to find me."
Scorpius: "The Scarrans will mind-rape
her until she has no allegiance to you."
John interrupts: "I'll find her before
then."
Scorpius: "She will not be able to
resist for long. I know this..."
John: "Stop. I'll find
her."
Scorpius: "I just want to make you aware
of the improbability of what you propose."
John: "I am aware. Shut
up!"
Scorpius: "You have a
plan?"
John walks through a doorway.
Scorpius follows him.
John: "Yes, and don't interrupt before I
finish, no matter how stupid it sounds."
Scorpius breathes...
"John..."
John holds up a hand: "I said, do not
interrupt." He goes to a console and presses a
control.
John: "When I met Einstein, I blipped to
bizarro Moya. Same Leviathan, but different. The Stark
there uttered... 'Katratzi'."
Scorpius: "I know
that."
John turns his head and gives Scorpius
'the stare'. Scorpius shuts his mouth.
John: "I thought it was
gobbledy-gook. But then, Sikozu heard the same word when Aeryn
was being kidnapped."
Scorpius: "I know that
too."
John walks away from the console and
goes and sits on the edge of a table, putting his foot up on the
bench.
Scorpius: "You think this 'Katratzi'...
is the Scarran base they'll be taking her."
John: "Right. But, you do not know
where it is, do you?"
Scorpius: "No. You know
that."
John: "Right again. So, I figure,
if bizarro Stark knows the name of the base, he might know its
location. That's it. Best I got. You got any
better ideas? I listen."
Scorpius: "If I help with this
insanity... and we do get Aeryn back..." He takes a step
closer to John. "... you will tell me all you know about
wormholes?"
John turns his head
away.
Scorpius follows John with his eyes:
"Every equation. Every formula."
John turns his head back to face
Scorpius: " Everything."
Scorpius grabs John's hand. He
takes his finger and rips it along John's, making a cut. John
jerks and grimaces. Blood begins to drip from John's
finger. Scorpius holds it up and opens his mouth. He
lets a drop fall onto his tongue. He wraps his tongue around
John's finger and draws it into his mouth, sucking the blood.
John watches him do this. Scorpius pulls John's finger back
out of his mouth and lowers it. He hisses.
John: "What, are we in the
mob?"
Scorpius inhales. Keeping his eyes
trained on John, he rips his own finger open and holds it up.
Clear fluid drips from his thumb.
Scorpius: "Your
turn."
John: "Nosferontu."
Scorpius stares at John, and John stares
back, while the blood drips from Scorpius'
wound.
John: "First instinct is always
right."
Scorpius: "Scarran blood
vow."
John: "You hate everything
Scarran."
Scorpius: "I will help... if you
taste."
John rolls his eyes. He looks up
at the clear fluid dripping from Scorpius' thumb. He opens his
mouth and holds his tongue out so that a drop of Scorpius' blood
falls on it. He pulls his tongue quickly back into his
mouth.
Still staring intently at John, Scorpius
plunges his thumb into his mouth and sucks on it. He smiles
slightly.
In her cell, Aeryn whispers: "Look,
Djancaz-bru. I know I'm not the sort of person who usually
does this sort of thing, so I'm not quite sure what I'm supposed to
be saying... except that I really... need your help. I need
you to send me some sort of sign that he's coming for me. Can
you do that?"
The cell door opens and Aeryn quickly
averts her eyes.
A Scarran enters, followed by a
humanoid.
Scarran: "I've given you time to
consider. Are you ready to answer?"
Aeryn: "Yes." She crawls around,
on her knees, so that she is facing the Scarran. She grunts
and gets to her feet. Her wrists are still chained to the
floor. She takes a deep breath.
Aeryn: "Stiinga-tuk. Wait, did I
pronounce that correctly? Let me try that again.
Stiinga-took. That's better."
Scarran: "I gave you a chance!" He
fires his heat weapon at Aeryn, knocking her back against the
wall. "Where is Crichton?"
Aeryn gasps: "I don't know!
I..."
Scarran: "Stop resisting. Where is
he?"
Aeryn gasps as the heat wave stays on
her face.
END OF PROLOGUE
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ACT ONE
The Scarran holds his heat ray on
Aeryn's face.
Aeryn gasps: "He... he's on
Moya."
The female humanoid who entered with the
Scarran is holding some kind of instrument and looking at
it.
Female: "Six hundred telliks and
rising. If you don't stop, you'll kill
her."
Scarran: "I'm using no more force than
usual. This won't harm her."
The female looks at her instrument which
has lights that are blinking.
Scarran: "What do you know about
Crichton's wormhole research?"
Female: "Six hundred and
twenty."
Aeryn sounds as though her mouth is half
asleep: "I don't know anything."
The heat wave distorts her face so that
only her eyes are showing.
Aeryn: "He didn't tell me
anything."
Female: "Stop!"
The Scarran hesitates, then terminates
the ray. Aeryn grunts and slides down the wall,
unconscious. The Scarran walks over and stares down at
her.
Scarran: "What's the matter with this
one? Is she weak, or is she faking?"
Female: "She's not
faking."
Scarran: "Well, when she wakes, convince
her to tell me all that she knows if she wants to live, or I will
start again." He turns and strides out of the cell, leaving
the humanoid female behind.
John walks down a corridor in Moya,
followed by D'Argo and Chiana.
D'Argo: "You're going to go to the
variant Moya?"
John: "Yep."
Chiana: "But you could end up on Earth
again... mess up everything."
John: "No... I got this hum in my head
like a whale."
Chiana: "A whale? Whattza
whale?"
John: "You know what a fish
is?"
Chiana: "Fish."
John: "Think big fish with
sonar."
D'Argo: "John, I think you should have a
rest first."
John: "D, I got a hum in my head.
I'm gonna follow it."
Chiana: "Oh, you got somethin in
there... but it's not a brain."
John: "Einstein said I can get back to
the places I've been to before. It's like a homing
beacon. I can make it."
Chiana: "You can't go with
fek-face. He'll screw you, then he'll betray
you."
They walk into a
bay.
Scorpius: "So little trust,
Nebari." He was already in the bay when they
entered.
Chiana walks beside Scorpius: "What's
going on? Why're you going with him?"
Scorpius: "John and I have an
agreement."
John walks over to his module and leans
over into the cockpit.
D'Argo: "What
agreement?"
Scorpius: "The details are
confidential."
D'Argo: "John...
don't."
John stops working inside the module and
turns around: "Guys, I know what I'm doing is stupid, but it's out
of my hands. I got to save Aeryn... you know that. Just
get us close to the wormhole. If we don't come back... "
He looks at Chiana who is staring at him. "Right." He
turns back to the module. His face ripples, almost as if time
slowed.
Aeryn is seated on some sort of
chair. Her arms are secured straight out to her sides.
Her legs are secured similarly, at the ankles. Her eyes open
and close. The cell door opens behind her and the female
humanoid comes in.
Female: "Feeling
better?"
Aeryn: "Critical heat
delirium."
Female: "Hmm... I almost couldn't get
your temperature down in time. I thought Peacekeepers were
supposed to be battle strengthened. Why did his heat probe
almost kill you?" She slowly circles the chair, watching
Aeryn.
Aeryn: "I... " She swallows
painfully. "I'm tired. Just go
away."
Female, whispering: "Wish I could.
Listen, that fenik will kill you unless you give him a reason not
to. I've seen it happen. You'll be just another D.I.T...
"Died In Transit." All right. Don't listen. I'm
just trying to save your life."
Aeryn: "Are you really
Sebacean?"
Female: "Yes."
Aeryn: "Does it make it easier... to
make the others do your dirty work and you take the coward's
choice?"
Female, continuing to circle Aeryn in
the chair: "Listen. I've heard all that dren before.
Usually from people like you... chained to a cell. Look at
me... I'm not. You know why? Because I figured out a
long time ago... Peacekeepers, Scarrans... what difference does it
matter who rules? It won't be me. All I'm going to do is
survive. I suggest... you should do the same." She stops
and Aeryn turns her head to look at her. "I'll tell Captain
Jenek you're ready for another interrogation."
The cell door opens and the female
Sebacean leaves. It closes behind her.
Aeryn breathes quickly,
shuddering.
John's module hangs in
space.
John comms: "Pilot, thank Moya for us
and stay well clear. You guys have come far
enough."
Pilot comms: "Crichton! Moya's
senses indicate the wormhole is destabilizing."
John: "Yah, it's not too good.
Grasshopper, you still up for this?"
Scorpius is sitting behind John, in the
module.
Scorpius: "I was just musing. If
you miss your intended target we could change the future. Or
the past. Create a world devoid of Peacekeepers... and
Scarrans. Would you like that, John?"
John closes his eyes: "Clear the
mechanism." He opens his eyes and flips a couple of switches:
"Focus." The module beeps.
John comms: "Guys... we'll see you
around."
Chiana comms: "Good luck, Crichton...
and come back." She turns to look at
D'Argo.
The module takes off with a 'whooshing'
noise and flies across the top of the wormhole. It turns and
heads downwards, into the vortex. It begins to spin as it
enters the mouth of the wormhole. Inside, John and Scorpius
spin too. John keeps his eyes closed.
John: "Left..."
The module spins off in the opposite
direction.
John: "... and left
again."
It changes course
again.
John: "No... damn,
right!"
The module swings
wildly.
Scorpius: "I thought you knew where you
were going."
John: "Shut up, Grasshopper. I'm
trying to concentrate." "Left"
The module switches direction suddenly,
again.
John: "Up there. That should be
it."
The module spins to a stop, with a
screeching sound. It spins in the opposite
direction.
John: "And... we... are
here."
The module shoots out of the wormhole,
into normal space. It beeps. John flips some switches as
the module sways back and forth.
Scorpius: "Where exactly is
here
?"
On board the Scarran vessel, Captain
Jenek and the female Sebacean walk together down a
corridor.
Captain Jenek: "The signal from her
bioloid stopped before our Dreadnaught could locate their
Leviathan."
Female: "How did they detect it so
quickly?"
Captain Jenek: "That is the first
question I will ask the Sebacean."
Female: "Captain, there is something...
about her. Her reaction to your heat probe was so severe... I
was..."
Captain Jenek: "Nurse, you seem
confused. I don't care if she dies. Her usefully is most
likely already completed."
Nurse: "I know but... give me an
arn. I have an idea how she still might be useful to
us."
Captain Jenek: "One arn... then she
answers or dies."
He turns a corner and walks off.
The nurse slows her pace.
Aeryn's cell door opens. The nurse
walks in quickly.
Nurse: "Something to make you
sleep." She walks over to Aeryn and flips up the bottom of her
shirt.
Aeryn is still bound onto the
chair.
Aeryn: "I don't need any
help."
Nurse: "Orders." She has an
instrument in her hand.
Aeryn: "No, I don't want it. Stay
away from me. Get away from me and don't
touch..."
The nurse hits her in the
face.
Aeryn gasps.
Nurse: "It'll only be more painful if
you fight."
Aeryn grunts.
The nurse pushes the prongs of the
instrument into Aeryn's abdomen.
Aeryn: "Get it out of
me!"
The nurse continues to draw fluid from
her body.
Aeryn grunts: "Wait a minute... you're
not giving me something. You're taking. What... are you
doing?"
The nurse looks up at her, then back at
the instrument she is still drawing with. She pulls the probe
out of Aeryn.
Aeryn looks at her: "What have you
done?"
John is laying down under the console of
the module, working on something with a tool. The module is
spinning slowly in place.
John: "Some kind of crap has frozen up
in the fluid drives. We're not goin anywhere unless I can...
hey... flip that switch again."
Scorpius reaches over and flips a
switch. A motor shuts off.
Scorpius: "Ironic, wouldn't it be... if
we were to die here together?"
John: "Yah, we're a regular Romeo and
Juliet. Damn this... spinning makes me feel like I'm drinkin
Mezcal. You got somethin like Mezcal? Drink the drink,
eat the worm? I can see you eatin a whole plateful of
worms. Maybe not." He continues to work underneath the
console.
They continue to
spin.
John: "Just for the record... if you'd
gotten the information and were able to control wormholes, what
would you have done with it?"
Scorpius: "Taken over as much of the
Universe as possible... found your home planet and destroyed
it."
John: "That's not
funny."
Scorpius: "No. No, I would use the
wormholes... as a deterrent against any future Scarran
attack."
John: "Alright, strap yourself in.
We could be in for a little jolt."
He levers himself back into the
cockpit. He starts to push some switches.
John: "That stuff should be melted by
now."
A motor whirrs and
stops.
John: "Oh, come on, baby." He
flips one switch back and forth. The lights on the console
come back on. "This should work."
The engine begins to make a quiet
noise. Suddenly, John and Scorpius are flung back in their
seats as the engine kicks in with a jolt and a burst of flame.
The module turns and flies back into the
wormhole.
John holds his eyes shut:
"Left..." The module turns. "... again." And it
turns again. "Gotta go." They continue to twist and turn
until there is an explosion and the module flies out of the
wormhole.
Scorpius: "Is that the Moya we're
looking for?"
In front of them, a Leviathan hangs in
space.
John: "Better be... my head's ringing
like a fire-bell."
Aeryn is still strapped in the
chair. The Scarran Captain has his heat probe held on her
face.
Captain Jenek: "How did you know we
planned to kidnap Grayza?"
Aeryn gasps for breath:
"I..."
Jenek: "Again! How did you
know?"
Aeryn, gasping: "Accident." Her
arms jerk as the heat continues to hit her.
The nurse hurries in and walks behind
the chair: "Captain Jenek, stop."
Jenek: "The Sebacean is
dissembling. She will..."
Nurse: "No! I know why she's
reacting like this. Stop!"
Jenek: "Do not
interfere."
Nurse, whispering: "She is with
child."
Jenek stops the heat and turns to the
nurse.
Nurse: "Scarran heat probe will kill a
pregnant Sebacean."
Jenek: "With child? Well, she
was... close to Crichton, was she not?"
Nurse: "Yes."
Sikozu runs along behind D'Argo, trying
to catch up to him.
D'Argo: "I couldn't have stopped
him."
Sikozu: "You should have. Aeryn is
dead. I know Scarrans. She is dead by
now.
D'Argo walks onto Command and goes to a
console. Sikozu follows him.
D'Argo: "We are not
leaving."
Outside the viewscreen, the wormhole is
still visible.
Sikozu: "Grayza knows the location of
this wormhole. D'Argo!"
He walks away from her and goes to
another console with Sikozu right behind. Rygel sits at this
console.
Sikozu: "She put the Skreeth on Moya
when we were last here. Please..."
Rygel: "Listen to her, Captain... she's
right. Grayza knows Crichton used this wormhole as a path to
get back to Earth. She knows he'll come back
here."
D'Argo: "And I thought you were finally
convinced Crichton's wormholes would get you
home."
Rygel sighs.
D'Argo: "We're staying another
arn." He walks back to the first console.
D'Argo: "Pilot! Get Moya to do a
long-point, all range scan. I don't care if it's a gas cloud
or an asteroid field, I want to know the microt she senses
something."
Pilot: "Setting scans
now."
Banks of lights pass blearily overhead
as Aeryn is wheeled somewhere. She is barely conscious.
She opens her eyes and tries to focus them by
blinking.
Captain Jenek: "Can you retrieve
incumbent knowledge from fetal DNA?"
The nurse is pushing Aeryn down a
corridor: "Not here, but the med labs on Katratzi might be able
to."
Aeryn struggles to sit up against her
bonds: "What have you done? What did you say to
him?"
The nurse leans forwards and whispers:
"I've saved your life."
Jenek: "You realize what this could
mean? If this is Crichton's child, we could learn all he knows
about wormholes from this fetal DNA."
Nurse: "Yes."
Aeryn pulls and squirms against the
straps that hold her onto the gurney with sides.
Aeryn: "Get me out of here." She
leans as far forward as she can and screams: "Get me the frell
out! Get me out!"
END OF ACT ONE
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ACT TWO
The Scarran ship flies through
space.
Aeryn is bound on a different
chair/table in a room with at least one other prisoner. She is
still lying on her back, but she is no longer wearing
black.
Aeryn: "Djancaz-bru... I'm going to say
this again because I don't think you heard me last time. Just
get a message to him. Let him know where I am so he can find
me."
Another female prisoner, laying to
Aeryn's right, speaks up: "I didn't think Peacekeepers had
gods. I thought they believed in the Warrior Code - "battle
and die" and all that dren."
Aeryn jumps when she speaks. She
opens her eyes and looks around her. There are bright lights
above her and various pieces of equipment around her. The
prisoner who spoke seems to be a female of a humanoid type.
She has a very thick neck, with lizard like protrusions on either
side.
A female prisoner on Aeryn's left
speaks: "Is there a Peacekeeper here? Can she help
us?"
First prisoner: "She can't even help
herself. She's praying."
The Sebacean nurse comes in and walks
over to Aeryn.
Nurse: "Whose child is it? Captain
Jenek will force it from you. He believes that if he can find
the human's child, the Scarrans will reward him. Right now,
he's dreaming of palaces and virgins."
Aeryn: "I'm very happy for
him."
Nurse: "I warn you... he won't kill
you. But unless you tell him what he wants, he'll make you
wish you were dead."
Aeryn: "I have dozens of embryos inside
me. I recreated with so many people."
Nurse: "No. Just one. Whose
is it?"
Aeryn: "No, really. "PK Tralk
Girl", that's what they used to call me."
Nurse: "Talk to the other women
here. They'll tell you. We can keep you drugged and
asleep. Or, we can make things... hard and ugly... worse than
you can imagine."
The nurse turns and walks slowly out of
the room. As she leaves, the lights dim. Aeryn heaves a
sigh and shudders.
The variant Moya is hanging near a gas
cloud.
John and Scorpius walk down a corridor
that seems to ripple as they pass. They appear to ripple
to.
John: "Every wormhole has millions of
exits to different times and places which are complete and
unending."
Scorpius: "So in this reality everyone
on Moya has become someone they weren't before?"
John: "Like they went... into a
blender."
They reach a junction and John
cautiously looks around. The walls appear to ripple again and
there is a roaring sound.
Scorpius: "Why?" He follows John
as he starts down a different corridor.
John: "With these wormholes, anything is
possible. Somewhere the Cubs are winning the World
Series. Don't ask."
The walls ripple again and the ship
shakes.
Scorpius: "Did you feel
that?"
John: "Better hurry. We got an arn
before Crais overruns this place and slaughters
everybody."
They stop and look into the
galley. Sikozu/Stark is busily making something and
Noranti/Rygel is stuffing food into his mouth.
Scorpius whispers: "Stark?
Rygel?"
John: "Mm-hmm. It's a weird
Universe. I didn't invent it."
In the prison
"hospital"...
First prisoner: "Genetic
incubation. They find something interesting about us... see if
they can produce an offspring they can use. They've bred me
six times. Three of them died before term. Three of
them... I don't know where they are."
Aeryn: "So, what's interesting about
you?"
First prisoner: "The organic food on my
planet grows a metal skin. I can dissolve it with
saliva."
Aeryn glances at the wires encasing her
arms: "Why don't you spit on these and get us out of
here?"
First prisoner laughs: "Can't do
that. Only thin metal."
Aeryn: "Right."
First prisoner: "Well, that's why
they're breeding me. To see if the little gnink in here can
destroy weapons grade metal."
Aeryn: "And you just happen to be awake
right now to talk to me?"
First prisoner: "No. I palm the
dren they give me to sleep." She opens her palm, inside the
wires. There are several pills in it. She whispers:
"I've saved up enough so I can kill myself whenever I
want."
Aeryn smiles and turns her face
away.
First prisoner: "You don't believe a
word I'm saying. You think I'm working for that bitch
nurse."
Aeryn: "Well... ?"
First prisoner: "They don't need me to
control you. You can't beat them. They travel us around
on frelled-up freighters like this and no one ever knows exactly
where we are."
Tears run down Aeryn's
face.
First prisoner: "No one can save
us and we can't escape. I know. I've tried for
cycles. Then I gave up. But I see... you still think
someone's coming. You should talk to me. In here, talk's
all you've got."
Aeryn looks away, working her jaw,
staring up at the ceiling.
John drags Sikozu/Stark down a corridor
by her/his arm. The corridor shimmers.
Sikozu/Stark
whimpers.
John: "I heard you say it...
Katratzi!"
Sikozu/Stark: "I don't know,
Crichton!"
John: "She did! She said
it!" He slams her/him face down on a table with a clank.
"She said it when Chiana was killed."
Sikozu/Stark: "Chiana's
dead?"
John: "No, no, no, no. Chiana's
not dead."
Scorpius: "Would you like
me
to take over the interrogation?"
John and Sikozu/Stark, in unison: "Go
away!"
John: "Stark!"
Sikozu/Stark: "Does Zhaan
know..."
John: "Shut up! I heard you
say a Scarran word. Katra..."
Scorpius:
"Katratzi."
John: "Katratzee. I think it's a
military base. Do you know the location?"
Sikozu/Stark: "Military base?
No."
John: "You said it when you were
crossing someone over... when you were in that trance
state..."
Sikozu/Stark: "No. I never have
any recollections when I'm in the stykera state." She/he
shakes her head.
Scorpius: "But how could you speak in
the Scarran tongue."
Sikozu/Stark grunts and pulls away from
John. She/he backs away from them: "Once I... I must have
crossed over a Scarran. They tell me things." She/he
backs into a barrel and grabs hold of it.
Scorpius: "And now you have no memory of
it."
Sikozu/Stark: "No. Only when I'm
in the trance does the knowledge come flooding back to
me."
Scorpius turns and starts to walk out,
past John. They are both rippling.
John: "Where are you
going?"
Scorpius points to Sikozu/Stark: "Keep
him here. I'll be right back."
He leaves. Sikozu/ Stark
sighs. John turns and looks at her/him.
Captain Jenek and the nurse stand on
either side of Aeryn. Above her, some kind of instrument with
a light inside it hangs from the ceiling. There is a noise and
a projection appears, in the air above Aeryn.
Nurse: "It is a remarkable reproductive
structure. Watch. The Sebacean egg is fertilized.
It splits with life. It splits again, then
stops."
The projection shows an egg dividing,
twice.
Captain Jenek: "How does that
happen?"
Nurse: "The ovum secretes a fluid that
keeps the pregnancy in stasis. Literally freezes the explosion
of life. She can store this proto-fetus for up to seven cycles
before triggering gestation."
The projection
disappears.
She picks up a large injection gun that
has a vial of bluish fluid attached to it.
Captain Jenek: "And that won't hurt the
embryo?"
Nurse: "No. This will just pry the
truth out of her."
Aeryn: "No, don't use that. I
won't lie to you. I'll just tell you what you want to
know."
Nurse: "You wouldn't lie to
me?"
Aeryn shakes her head:
"No."
The nurse puts the injection gun against
Aeryn's arm and pushes the prongs into it. She shoots the
fluid into her. Aeryn grimaces and gasps. The nurse
finishes and sets the injection gun aside.
Aeryn: "Yes, of course I'd lie to you,
you stupid bitch."
Captain Jenek
growls.
Nurse: "Aeryn... whose child is inside
you?"
Aeryn: "Yours." She gasps
again.
Nurse: "
Whose
child?"
Aeryn: "I don't
know."
Jenek: "Is it John
Crichton's?"
Aeryn: "I... uh..."
Jenek leans over her: "Is it
his?"
Aeryn: "I don't kn...
know."
She gasps. Jenek
growls.
Aeryn breathes: "I don't... there was
another man."
Jenek: "Another?"
Aeryn: "Mm."
There is a flash of
light...
Aeryn sees herself, kneeling behind
Velorek. It is like the negative of a photograph. She
rubs his shoulders. There is another flash and she sees
herself bending over him and kissing his mouth.
Aeryn: "Velorek."
There is a flash and the picture
changes, black to white, white to black and she sees Velorek leaning
over her.
Jenek: "This Velorek... where is he
now?"
Aeryn: "He's... he's
dead."
Jenek: "How did he
die?"
There is a flash...
Velorek is being dragged away by
Peacekeeper soldiers.
Velorek: "What
charge?"
Aeryn: "High Command executed him for
treason because... I betrayed him."
Jenek: "The man who conceived your
child?"
Aeryn: "I reported
him."
Jenek: "She's lying! The serum
isn't working! GIve her more."
The nurse puts the gun against Aeryn's
arm.
Aeryn: "Mm. I'm not lying.
I'm just not a very nice... " She groans and clenches her
teeth as the nurse injects more of the serum. There are tears
coming from the edges of her eyes.
Aeryn: "I, uh...
uh..."
Jenek leans over her again: "This
Velorek. Is he the father of your child?"
Aeryn: "No." Her eyes
close.
Jenek: "Wake up. Wake...
up!" He backhands Aeryn's face, but she still doesn't
respond.
Jenek: "Wake her
up."
Nurse: "I can't. Not until some of
the serum wears off."
Jenek turns his heat probe on the
nurse. She gasps.
Jenek sends his thoughts to the nurse:
"Are you working for her?"
He can hear the nurse's thoughts in
reply: "No. Of course not."
He stops the probe: "Your mind seems
uncompromised." He turns to look at the first prisoner: "What
about hers? How is her embryo coming
along?"
Nurse: "I'm afraid her initial DNA scan
shows no enhanced ability to the embryo."
Jenek: "Then I will kill
it."
First prisoner: "No. It's too
early. No!"
Aeryn jerks awake. Her eyes close
immediately.
First prisoner: "It's too early.
Your tests can't be accurate."
Nurse: "They're
accurate."
Aeryn's eyes open
again.
Jenek: "And I will watch it die."
He turns his heat probe on the prisoner's abdomen. It glows
red.
Prisoner: "No! No! It's too
early! No!"
There is an infant curled up inside her
that begins to squirm. It curls tighter and its limbs
contract. Finally it stops moving.
Aeryn looks and sees it. She
flinches, then closes her eyes.
The first prisoner screams continuously:
"No! No! No!"
Jenek's heat probe flashes then
stops. The prisoner stops screaming and
cries.
Jenek looks over at Aeryn: "Unless I get
answers that please me... you will be next."
Aeryn looks at him, dry
eyed.
END OF ACT TWO
__________________________________________________________________________
ACT THREE
Onboard the variant
Moya...
Noranti/Rygel: "Let go of me! Who
are you?"
She/he protests as Scorpius pushes
her/him into the bay.
Noranti/Rygel: "Crichton... what is
happening?"
Scorpius whispers: "Dominar...
quiet." He pushes Noranti/Rygel away and she/he staggers
forward with a grunt. Sikzou/Stark watches in
alarm.
Noranti/Rygel grunts: "Crichton, who is
this tralk?"
Scorpius: "Now... You can channel
past journeys when you cross a soul over?"
Sikozu/Stark: "Yes." She/he
nods.
Scorpius nods. He takes one step
to the side and reaches over to take John's pulse pistol out of his
holster. He brings the gun up and fires once at Noranti/Rygel,
hitting her/him in the chest. Noranti/Rygel cries out and
falls to the floor.
Sikozu/Stark claps her/his hands over
her/his mouth and screams.
John lunges for Scorpius and grabs his
arm.
John: "What're you
doing?"
Scorpius: "Now cross her
over."
Sikozu/Stark continues to scream through
her/his hands.
John: "You cannot just shoot
people!"
Scorpius: "They'll be dead in an
arn. You said so yourself. We have no time to negotiate,
now... cross... her... over!" He points the gun at
Sikozu/Stark. John grabs his arm, trying to force the gun
down.
Sikozu/Stark: "No! I can't!
I can't! I can't!"
Scorpius: "Why
not?!"
Sikozu/Stark: "Because I have to love
the soul! I have to care about where it goes to cross it
over!"
John lets go of Scorpius and lunges
towards Sikozu/Stark: "What do you mean, love the soul? You
never had to love the soul before."
Sikozu/Stark: "I've always had to love
the soul."
John glances back towards Scorpius:
"Different Stark... different rules." He turns back to
Sikozu/Stark: "So, what happens if you don't love the soul?
You won't cross it over?"
Sikozu/Stark: "No. It's not a
question of "won't". I can't. When they die they... they
just go. Nothing happens."
John looks at her/him and at the corpse
of Noranti/Rygel. He walks over to
Scorpius.
John: "Whoops." He walks
off.
On board the Scarran
freighter...
The first prisoner is
crying.
Aeryn: "Are you in
pain?"
First prisoner: "What do you care?
I'm just a Scarran spy and you're a
Peacekeeper."
Aeryn: "No, I'm not a
Peacekeeper."
First prisoner sighs: "That's the third
one they've terminated. I saw it on the scan. It must
have been malformed or... The three that survived... they were
beautiful. Healthy."
Aeryn: "And you've had six...
pregnancies?"
First prisoner: "They'll wait awhile...
then they'll fertilize me again... unless I've got the guts to...
" She closed her eyes and swallows. "Have you ever had a
child?"
Aeryn: "No."
First prisoner:
"Never?"
Aeryn: "Well, soldiers seldom do, unless
they're placed on a breeding roster. In any case, it's not the
same as being a mother, is it? That's why I vowed I'd never
have one that way."
First prisoner: "And
now?"
Aeryn: "And now, protecting this child
will probably end my life."
First prisoner whispers: "There is
another way. To make sure they never get it. I've
hoarded enough sleep pills for the both of us. But I've never
been brave enough to end it myself." She cries and shakes her
head: "Coward."
Aeryn: "What's your
name?"
First prisoner:
"Morrock."
Aeryn: "Well Morrock, when someone comes
to get me, they can save you too."
Morrock sighs.
Scorpius follows John down a rippling
corridor on the variant Moya.
Scorpius: "Who does Stark
love?"
John: "You cannot just shoot
people!"
Scorpius: "I find your priorities
odd. We are in a hurry and these deformities are preordained
to die soon... who does Stark love?!"
John comes to the end of the corridor
and looks around. There is a wall with a grill on it that
doesn't look familiar.
Scorpius: "Just because you do not have
the resolution..."
John turns and walks back past Scorpius:
"I got more than enough resolution the last time I was here and
sometimes, Scorpy, I do not like the way you do
things!"
Scorpius growls softer and follows John
back the way they came.
Outside the main viewscreen on Moya's
Command, the wormhole swirls. D'Argo and Sikozu stand watching
it.
Pilot: "I've been comming them every
thirty microts. Nothing."
Rygel is behind them: "Will his module
even be able to make a reentry through
that
?"
Pilot: "I don't know. Moya's
scans indicate the wormhole's stability has decreased another twelve
percent."
Sikozu walks over to D'Argo: "D'Argo,
you know what we should do."
D'Argo: "Stop hammering
me."
Sikozu: "Grayza is no fool. We
will die if we stay here much longer."
D'Argo: "I'm not leaving Crichton!
We're giving him another chance."
Sikozu: "How much
longer?"
D'Argo: "Look, I don't
know!"
Chiana: "Back... off...
psycho."
Sikozu turns to look at her: "No, we
should vote. We wake up Noranti and the six of us
vote."
D'Argo hangs his head and shakes
it.
Sikozu: "Because Crichton is safe!
But we will die if Grayza finds us here! Majority
rules."
D'Argo: "Not yet it doesn't."
Sikozu takes a deep breath.
D'Argo: "I'm the Captain. I'm not
willing to make that decision."
Pilot: "I'm... afraid you might have
to."
Chiana: "What's the matter,
Pilot?"
Pilot: "Moya's long range scan has just
picked up another vessel heading this way."
D'Argo: "Is it
military?"
Pilot: "I can't tell
yet."
D'Argo and Sikozu both hurry to
consoles.
Captain Jenek: "Any match on the embryo
DNA?"
Nurse: "Nothing. It's a pattern
the memory banks have never catalogued so it could be half
human. We have no sample of Crichton's
DNA."
Aeryn: "If I tell
you?"
Nurse: "Your pain will
end."
Aeryn: "When I was off Moya, I had
another job."
There is a flash...
A brilliant white light shows Aeryn in a
tightly form-fitting dress, sitting and laughing with some
men. The images are all stark. In black and
white.
Aeryn: "Assassinations,
subversion. Whatever I was ordered to do."
Aeryn brings up a gun and shoots the
laughing men. Blood sprays out of them in fountains and they
collapse. Aeryn looks at them, hard faced.
Aeryn: "There was a man named
Lechna."
There is another seated man, with curly
hair. Aeryn and Lechna walk towards each other in front of a
round window. They are smiling. They begin to
kiss.
Aeryn: "He was my contact... found me
all my assignments. But he was also my lover and I have tried
to suppress it until now to protect him..."
Aeryn and Lechna continue to
kiss.
There are tears running down both sides
of Aeryn's face.
Aeryn: "... but I don't want the drugs
anymore. It is most likely his
conception."
Jenek: "This man... what world is he
from?"
Aeryn sighs: "He's from a place called
Vendrall. It's a small planet off most
charts."
Nurse: "Have you heard of
it?"
Jenek: "Yes. It's in the Callus
Nebula."
Nurse: "That's a long way from
here. Perhaps that's why the DNA isn't in our database.
I might cross-check the genetic similarities from the same
Nebula."
Aeryn watches the nurse as she starts to
work on something.
John and Scorpius hurry down a rippling
corridor. They have Aeryn/Chiana with them. Her hands
are bound in front of her and there is a metallic gag over her
mouth.
John: "We're gonna do this my way with
Stark... not yours!"
Scorpius: "You haven't got the
resolution to do what's necessary."
John: "You can stop already with the
resolution." John stops suddenly.
D'Argo/Jool stands in front of them,
down the corrior. He/she is holding a
rifle.
D'Argo/Jool: "Crichton! What are
you doing with Chiana?"
John: "That is
Jool."
Aeryn/Chiana whimpers behind her
gag.
John: "Jool, just let us
pass."
D'Argo/Jool: "
What
are you
doing
with
Pip
?" He/she has his/her hand on his/her
hip.
Scorpius whispers: "Shoot
him!"
John: "Technically, it's a
she."
Scorpius: "Shoot
it
!"
John whispers: "Let me handle
this."
D'Argo/Jool: "Where are you taking
Chiana?"
John: "Jool, let us
pass."
D'Argo/Jool: "Stay back!" He/she
fires the rifle at the corridor ceiling near
John.
Scorpius hisses: "Shoot
it!"
D'Argo/Jool shoots the rifle several
more times, each time missing John, Aeryn/Chiana and Scorpius, but
coming closer. John ducks.
John: "Damn it,
Jool!"
Scorpius: "Shoot
it!"
John pulls his pistol and fires, hitting
D'Argo/ Jool in the side. He/She yells and falls backwards to
the floor.
Scorpius snarls.
John: "Are you
satisfied?"
Scorpius: "No. I don't like the
way you do things either." He pushes Aeryn/Chiana and they
walk past John. "Very messy."
John follows them. He pauses by
D'Argo/Jool's body and looks at it before turning away and going
past it, down the corridor.
The nurse injects more fluid into
Aeryn's arm. Aeryn grimaces.
Aeryn: "No, don't!"
Jenek: "You lied!"
Aeryn cries out, then drops back onto
the table.
Jenek: "We found record of Vendrall
DNA. Your embryo is not the product of one of Vendrall's
sons." He paces around Aeryn's head.
Aeryn: "Well, Lechna lied to
me!"
Jenek bends over her: "There is no
Lechna."
Aeryn: "There is
Lechna!"
Morrock: "Leave her
alone!"
Jenek: "Give her
more!"
Nurse: "I've doubled the
strength."
Aeryn: "No, please!"
Jenek: "Again!"
Morrock: "Stop it! She's telling
the truth!"
Aeryn is crying.
Jenek: "Again!"
Aeryn: "No, please
don't!"
The nurse screws up her face and injects
Aeryn again. Aeryn screams: "No!"
Morrock: "You'll kill the
child!"
Jenek leans over Aeryn: "Is John
Crichton the father of your child?"
Aeryn sobs: "I've already told
you. It's Lechna's. Not Crichton's. How many times
do I have to tell you? I knew Lechna before I went onto
Moya. I was on Moya to watch Crichton. And, as soon as I
left, I went straight back to Lechna." She cries, sobs shaking
her shoulders: "I have never... ever loved John Crichton. I've
never loved him."
Jenek touches her face: "You lie.
Tell the truth."
Aeryn: "When I... " She sobs
again.
Jenek: "Yes?"
Aeryn: "When I left Moya...
"
Flash...
There is a negative image of a
sophisticatd Aeryn and a laughing man.
Flash...
The image changes to the
positive...
There is a man wearing many necklaces
sits on a stool, laughing.
Another flash, and another. Two
more men, both laughing.
Flash...
Aeryn brings up a gun and begins to
shoot. She hits one man with the gun and snaps another one's
neck. She hits a man repeatedly in the face with her
elbow. She walks away from the dead men, towards a seated
Lechna.
Aeryn: "... ter... terminal soldiers...
"
Flash...
Lechna is seated.
Aeryn: "Lechna ..."
Flash...
A negative image of Lechna and Aeryn
starting to kiss.
Aeryn: "I forgot all about
Crichton. It was... "
Flash...
Aeryn and Lechna
embrace...
Aeryn: "I completely forgot about
Crichton. I forgot all about him."
Flash...
Aeryn and Lechna laugh and
kiss.
Jenek exhales.
Aeryn lies on the table with tears
streaming from both eyes.
END OF ACT THREE
__________________________________________________________________________
ACT FOUR
Onboard Moya...
Pilot: "D'Argo. It's a long way
off, but the vessel approaching seems to be a Command
Carrier."
Sikozu: "We've done all Crichton could
ask of us. We've stayed here too long. We must starburst
now." She walks over and stands by Chiana.
Chiana: "No... no. What if... what
if we initiate the engine signature change that I bought off
Rekka? Like we did before."
Rygel: "Are you fahrbot? Turn Moya
into a Scarran freighter? Peacekeepers are approaching.
They'll attack anything Scarran."
Chiana: "We won't let them get that
close. Look, if they long-range scan us, they'll move off,
because we're not Moya. It's worth a
shot."
D'Argo nods.
Pilot: "I need a decision,
Captain. In thirty microts we'll be in scanning range of the
Command Carrier."
D'Argo: "Okay, you wanted a vote.
Do we starburst or do we initiate engine signature
change?"
Sikozu: "Starburst."
Rygel: "Starburst."
Chiana: "Stay."
D'Argo: "Pilot?"
Pilot: "Moya and I say...
stay."
Sikozu closes her eyes. So does
Rygel.
D'Argo: "Okay, we're staying.
Inititate the signature change."
On the variant
Moya...
Scorpius: "Given these differences, are
you sure this will work?"
John: "It's what happened before.
Pip got killed. Stark channeled the Scarran while he was
crossing her over."
Scorpius and John are standing across
the bay, looking at Aeryn/Chiana and Sikozu/Stark. They are
sitting on the floor with their backs to some crates and barrels,
near the corpse of Noranti/Rygel.
Scorpius: "You or
me?"
John: "I'll do it." He walks
slowly into the bay.
Aeryn/Chiana: "Hey, Crichton.
Untie me. You know... I know I... always tie up people I
like." She looks down at her hands.
Sikozu/Stark shakes her/his head.
She/he is quivering: "If you kill her, I... I won't help you.
I won't cross her over."
John crouches in front of them: "Yes you
will."
Aeryn/Chiana: "What is he talking
about? What is he talking about?"
Sikozu/Stark turns towards Aeryn/Chiana,
then looks down at the floor.
John: "Look... I know this doesn't make
any sense... but you're gonna die in half an arn and there's nothing
I can do to stop that."
Aeryn/Chiana: "What? What do you
mean?"
Sikozu/Stark stares up at
John.
Aeryn/Chiana: "I'm not gonna
die."
John: "Yes, you are." He stands
back up.
Aeryn/Crichton: "Listen, Crichton.
Are you in some kind of trouble? Who is this fek? Is he
making you do this? If you untie me, I can help you. I
always do."
John pulls his pistol and points it at
Aeryn/Chiana. She draws a breath. Sikozu/Stark watches
with her/his mouth open, her/his lips quivering.
Scorpius walks over to stand right
behind John. He whispers: "It is not
Aeryn."
John: "Looks a lot like
her."
Aeryn/Chiana: "Okay... the joke's
over. Okay? I, uh... I was stupid to take it this
seriously... cause it's a joke. Right? You ha... you
have to stop because... because you can't kill me. You... you
can't."
John stares down his pistol into
Aeryn/Chiana's face. She shakes her head and sniffs
loudly.
John's voice breaks: "No. No I
can't."
He lowers the pistol. Aeryn/Chiana
sighs.
Scorpius: "I can." He pulls up the
pistol, still in John's hand, and fires it, hitting
Aeryn/Chiana. John yells and Sikozu/Stark screams.
Aeryn/Chiana gasps and pants.
Scorpius: "Now cross her
over."
John yells again and hits Scorpius in
the face, knocking him backwards. He turns back to stare at
Aeryn/Chiana. A tear runs down his face.
Scorpius works his jaw as Aeryn/Chiana
and Sikozu/Stark both gasp and cry. Aeryn/Chiana's eyes get
big. Sikozu/Stark turns towards her and reaches for her
face. Aeryn/Chiana looks up into John's face, then turns to
look at Sikozu/Stark. Sikozu/Stark glances back at John, then
back at Aeryn/Chiana whose eyes are closing.
Captain Jenek and the nurse stand on
either side of Aeryn as she lies on the table, her arms and legs
encased in wires.
Aeryn gasps and gags as she speaks:
"Well, I don't know if it's Crichton's...
child."
Jenek: "The frell with your drugs.
They're not working."
He turns his heat probe on to Aeryn's
abdomen.
Nurse: "No. You'll kill
her!"
Aeryn gasps and
coughs.
Jenek: "Who is the
father?"
Aeryn chokes. Foam comes out of
the corner of her mouth: "On Vendrall I met a... a man...
"
Flash...
A man laughs loudly. Aeryn knees a
man and hits another. She hits a man in the face with her
elbow and head-butts another. She kicks one of the fallen men
in the face. She goes over to the seated Lechna, grabs him by
his lapels and pulls him to his feet.
A negative image of Aeryn, her arm
wrapped around man's neck, leaning in to kiss him. He has
short hair. The couple pivots and the image changes from
negative to positive. Aeryn looks into John's
face.
Aeryn has more foam coming from her
lips: "There is no Lechna..."
Aeryn leans into John and they
kiss.
Aeryn gags on the foam: "I made him
up."
Aeryn smiles at John and they
kiss.
Flash...
Aeryn: "Just
Crichton..."
Flash...
The image of John and Aeryn kissing is
flooded with a brilliant white light.
Flash...
The image returns to normal, in color
rather than black and white. They both smile as they touch
noses...
Aeryn: "Only, ever... Crichton.
Just him."
Aeryn's eyes seem to unfocus as she
stares off into the distance. Jenek and the nurse watch
her.
Aeryn/Chiana lies on her side, her eyes
closed.
Sikozu/Stark kneels beside her and
chants: "Todye awkhel nervrusk. Kine ausamagaah,
ausamagaa." She/he reaches up and raises the edge of her/his
mask. A golden glow falls from her/his face onto
Aeryn/Chiana's face.
Scorpius sits down loudly on a barrel:
"Hasn't she said it yet?"
John: "Be quiet. I can't
hear."
Sikozu/Stark: "Ausimaa kilay ti
partreee. Kilay ti partree katratzee."
John: "Katratzi. That's it,
Stark. That's the name of the base. Katratzi.
Where is it?"
Sikozu/Stark continues to hold the edge
of her/his mask up so the golden light falls onto
Aeryn/Chiana.
Sikozu/Stark: "Seat of Scarran
power. Small. It's fortified. It's
dangerous. Diguises its presence... by mirroring the orbit of
one of the moons of Trilask."
Scorpius:
"Trilask..."
Sikozu/Stark continues to chant:
"Trilask katratzee..."
Scorpius: "Yes... I know that
planet."
Scorpius sighs and stands up, stretching
his arms.
Sikozu/Stark chants: "Trilast
katratzee..."
Scorpius: "John... we can
go."
John continues to look at the face of
Aeryn/Chiana. He starts to get up and reaches out to touch her
hair.
Scorpius sighs in
exasperation.
Sikozu/Stark breaks off her/his chant
and looks up at John. The mask is back over her/his
face. John looks at her/him for a moment, then gets the rest
of the way to his feet. He walks out of the bay.
Scorpius sighs again, then turns and follows
him.
The first prisoner, Morrock, is out of
her restrainst and stands beside Aeryn's head.
Morrock whispers: "Peacekeeper, wake
up." She touches Aeryn's arm. Aeryn's arms are out of
the restraints as well, lying crossed on her
stomach.
Aeryn jerks and moves her arms: "How did
you...?"
Morrock: "I watched the sequence
codes." She takes Aeryn's hand and drops some pills into her
palm. She holds her own palm cupped, showing the pills she is
still holding.
Morrock: "Are you
sure?"
Aeryn looks down at the pills in her
hand. She nods and moves her fingers.
Morrock takes a pill out of her palm:
"The same time, then."
They watch each other closely as they
each take a pill out of their palm and put it in their
mouth.
Morrock swallows: "Thank
you."
Aeryn: "What for?"
Morrock: "For doing this with
me."
They both put a second pill in their
mouths.
Aeryn: "I don't want to be their test
stallik."
Morrock: "No... no. Neither do
I."
They both continue to put pills in their
mouths.
Aeryn: "Anyway... what other choice do I
have?"
Morrock: "But your child. Aren't
you afraid?"
Aeryn: "I'd rather be dead than let them
have it."
Morrock: "Is it really his? The
man you loved?"
Aeryn sighs: "Does this really make you
tired?"
Morrock: "At first, but
then..."
Aeryn smiles: "You know, I had such...
incredible dreams for my child. It's impossible not to.
How she was going to change the world. How she was going to
look after me when I was old. They were
foolish."
Morrock: "Not so foolish. I had
the same dreams. Is it his? Is it Crichton's
child?"
Aeryn smiles. She gestures with
her finger: "Come here."
Morrock leans closer to Aeryn.
Aeryn reaches towards her with her finger and smiles warmly.
She runs her finger down Morrock's cheek and whispers: "Did you
really have a child?"
Morrock: "I told you, I... had six
pregnancies."
Aeryn nods, touching her on the cheek
again.
Morrock: "Only three of them
survived.
Aeryn lunges and grabs Morrock by the
throat. Morrock gasps.
Aeryn: "I want the truth from you.
I know that these pills won't kill me. I know... that you're
their spy. So I want to know the truth. Have you even
had
one
chld? Have you even given birth to one child? The
truth." Aeryn keeps increasing the pressure on Morrock's
throat as she talks.
Morrock gasps: "No."
Aeryn snaps Morrock's neck with a loud
crack. Morrock gasps as she strangles.
Aeryn: "Good." She lets go and
Morrock drops to the floor. "Then I orphan no
one."
Aeryn tosses the pills from her palm
across the room. She gasps and spits the pills from her mouth
as far as she can.
END OF ACT FOUR
__________________________________________________________________________
EPILOGUE
John's module spits fire as it flies
across space.
John comms: "We're back. Open the
hangar doors. And we know where that Scarran base
is."
D'Argo: "No time, John. There's a
Command Carrier on the way. We've got you in the docking web
and we're about to starburst."
John flips a row of switches on the side
of his module: "Got it."
D'Argo: "Okay, we'll go as slow as we
can, but you better buckle down in there."
Pilot: "Starting starburst countdown
grid."
A blue glow starts from the junction of
Moya's tails and travels up her body.
Scorpius: "Why is nothing ever easy with
you?"
John: "I wish I
knew."
D'Argo: "Hold on, John.
Pilot. Starburst... ... now."
Pilot presses a control and starburst
flashes along the length of Moya and she disappears in a circle of
light.
Captain Jenek: "We've set a course for
Katratzi."
Nurse: "They've been informed of your
condition and there is a surgeon on hand."
The cell door closes behind them as they
leave.
Aeryn is on her hands and knees, on the
floor of her cell. Her eyes flash.
Aeryn: "Now... Djancaz-bru... you
haven't listened and you haven't helped. And, I'm running out
of time. So I'm gonna forget about you. I am now willing
to make a deal with anyone. With any
thing
to save my
child. Not because I can... but because I have to."
Aeryn continues to stare out of the cell
for a microt, then she bows her head.
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