Previously, on Farscape (voice of
Aeryn):
Scene One: from "Bringing Home the Beacon",
D'Argo: "We're not gonna give up on her, John."
Scene Two: from "Prayer", Captain Jenek hits
Aeryn in the face with his heat probe, knocking her against her cell
wall. His nurse stands beside him, reading an instrument.
Jenek: "I gave you a chance. Where is Crichton?" Aeryn gasps
from the heat: "I don't know."
Scene Three: from "A Constellation of Doubt",
John: "I'm gonna need your help, mister Scarran half-breed. Aeryn...
for wormholes."
Scene Four: from "Prayer", Scorpius: "I will
help... if you taste." John sticks out his tongue and catches a drop
of Scorpius' clear blood on it. Scorpius takes his bleeding thumb
and sticks it in his mouth.
Scene Five: from "Prayer", Nurse: "I know why
she's reacting like this. Stop!" Captain Jenek: "Do not
interfer." Nurse: "She's with child." Captain Jenek stops his
probe. Nurse: "A Scarran heat probe will kill the pregnant
Sebacean." Aeryn spasms and jerks on the chair where she is
bound.
Scene Six: from "Prayer", the nurse injects
something into Aeryn's arm. Aeryn grits her teeth. Nurse:
"Whose child is inside you?" Jenek: "Is it John Crichton's?"
Aeryn replies groggily: "I don't know." Jenek hits her in the
face.
Scene Seven: from "Prayer", Aeryn, bound hand
and foot, is being wheeled down a corridor by the nurse. Captain
Jenek follows them. Captain Jenek: "If this is Crichton's
child..." Aeryn gasps and strains to look behind her. Jenek:
"... we could learn all he knows about wormholes from his fetal
DNA." Aeryn jerks and pulls against the restraints. Aeryn:
"Get me out! Out!"
And now, on Farscape...
PROLOGUE
Moya approaches something resembling a space
station.
Pilot: "The Scarran border station has given
us permission to dock. Moya senses three other vessels
present. One is our own transport pod."
John and Chiana stand looking out the forward
viewscreen as Moya docks with the station.
Chiana: "That means Sikozu made it
okay."
John: "Getting here is the easy
part."
Chiana: "She'll be fine. The Scarrans
will just think she's another Kalish bureaucrat."
John: "Yah, I'm supposed to be a
Peacekeeper. I love waiting to see how things go
south."
He is wearing a Peacekeeper
uniform.
Scorpius walks onto Command, behind
them.
Scorpius: "All vessels enroute to Katratzi
must stop for inspection and quarantine. The procedure takes five
solar days. Any vessel lacking the proper security clearance beacon
will be destroyed on sight."
John: "That's very
reassuring."
Chiana walks over to John and puts her hand on
the back of his neck. She rests her chin on his
shoulder.
Chiana: "We... will find her. We'll get
Aeryn back... no matter what."
Pilot: "Docking
completed."
Scorpius: "Permit staton personnel to board,
but monitor them."
Pilot: "I understand, Captain
Wentrask."
Chiana: "Wentrask?"
Scorpius: "We must assume that all comms
transmissions are being intercepted."
Chiana: "But our comms are
secure."
John: "Let's just pretend they
aren't."
A strange looking DRD with a dorsal fin scoots
past Scorpius. A Charrid walks by carrying a
rifle.
A man speaks: "Captain Wentrask? I am
Dr. Trayso Talnell, Chief Medical Officer." He is an older man with
short, red hair, with sideburns and is wearing a gold colored jump
suit.
Scorpius: "Yes, yes, yes. Another Kalish
functionary. Are these necessary?"
Dr Talnell: "Your entire vessel must be
checked for contraband and contaminants."
Scorpius: "We have neither
aboard."
Dr Talnell: "I should hope not." He
turns and looks pointedly at John who is standing nearby,
watching.
Dr Talnell: "A... um,
Peacekeeper?"
Scorpius: "How remarkably
perceptive."
Dr Talnell: "How do you come to
have
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Peacekeeper aboard?"
Scorpius: "What gave you the impression I
answer to you?"
Dr Talnell: "With due respect, Captain, you
will either respond to my inquiries or you will be denied entry into
Scarran space. Understood?"
Scorpius walks over to Talnell and speaks
softly: "The Peacekeeper is a spy for the Scarrans. Also on board we
have a Nebari and a Hynerian. They are spies as well. The
hierarchy... will not look kindly on a Kalish who obstructs their
delivery. Understood?"
Dr Talnell nods slightly.
John calls from across the bay: "Do you have
anything to eat on board the station?"
Dr Talnell: "Refreshments may be obtained in
the station commons."
John starts to leave the bay, walking past Dr
Talnell.
Dr Talnell: "Be aware that no weapons are
permitted on the station and... you will be checked."
John stops and takes his pulse pistol out of
the holster.
Dr Talnell: "Our sentinels are programmed to
shoot and kill any armed visitors."
John walks over to table and puts his pistol
in a tool box. He closes the lid and talks to the DRD "1812" who is
sitting on the table.
John: "Keep an eye on
that."
1812 squeaks in reply. John glances at
Dr Talnell and walks out of the bay.
Sikozu is sitting closely facing a young
Kalish man. He is wearing a gold jumpsuit with a gold vest.
There are other people nearby and voices can be heard
murmuring.
Sikozu: "All the visitors you get... all the
fantastic technology you get to work with..."
Chiana: "Looks like she's found a new
friend."
Rygel: "One of her own
kind."
He is sitting near Chiana, at a table with a
bench.
Chiana: "Oh... and not too bad looking at
that."
Rygel: "Sikozu thinks with her head, not her
kuzitza."
Chiana: "Yah. That's her
problem."
Rygel: "We
were
smart to send her ahead. The Kalish are
definitely running things round here."
John walks into the commons and glances at
Sikozu and the young Kalish.
Scorpius comes over to their table and puts a
hand on Rygel's shoulder: "The Kalish are a conquered species. They
serve the Scarrans in order to survive."
Rygel: "You mean they're
collaborators."
John walks behind a pillar and watches
Sikozu.
Young Kalish: "... Diplomatic missions
throughout Tormented Space. You must lead an interesting
life."
Sikozu: "I suppose so. I'm getting tired
of the incessant travel though. I envy
you
your stable position
here."
Young Kalish: "Running the station isn't
stable... it's boring." He reaches out and touches Sikozu's
hand.
Sikozu: "Karohm, your work isn't boring in the
slightest."
John wanders around the area, appearing not to
be watching.
Karohm: "Maybe we should trade jobs."
She touches his nose.
Karohm: "I must get back. Meet me
later."
Sikozu: "In a while."
Karohm gets up and walks away. Sikozu
stands up and wanders over to some vending machines along the wall.
John is standing next to them. Sikozu places her hand flat against a
lite up outline of a hand. The machine beeps.
John whispers: "Got anything to tell
me?"
Sikozu: "Aeryn is here."
The machine drops down a bowl of
something. Sikozu picks it up.
John: "Say that again."
Sikozu: "Aeryn is here."
John: "Where?"
Sikozu: "In the Scarran freighter. The
Scarran freighter has finished its time in quarantine and is leaving in
half an arn." She walks away without looking at John. He
watches her go.
Aeryn is lying flat on her back on a sort of
bed with curled metal sides. She is wearing a yellow bodysuit.
The nurse is standing up next to the bed.
Nurse: "This won't harm the baby. But it
will keep you docile."
She injects something in Aeryn's
arm.
Aeryn looks at her with a worried face, nearly
crying.
Nurse: "You see, I could make things so much
easier for you. If only you'd trust me."
Aeryn watches her, then closes her
eyes.
END OF PROLOGUE
___________________________________________________________________________
ACT ONE
Chiana: "Half an arn. What can we do in
half an arn?"
She is sitting at a table in the station
commons, with John, Rygel and Scorpius.
John: "Grab our guns and we kick in some
doors."
Scorpius: "We wouldn't even pass through this
station. The Scarran sentinels are programmed... to kill any
non-station personnel carrying weapons."
John: "We have a hole card. D'Argo and
Noranti are hanging back in LoLah."
Scorpius: "If D'Argo's ship attacked a Scarran
freighter... a fleet of Scarran warships would instantly be dispatched
after us."
Rygel: "Besides, the freighter has Aeryn as a
hostage."
Scorpius: "We have a far greater chance here
than at any Scarran military base."
Rygel: "Hence we need to keep that freighter
here
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enough to come up with a plan. Pass me all that
food."
John: "It's a hell of a time to be eating,
Rygel."
Rygel: "I have an idea. Get me
more."
Chiana taps him on the shoulder and gets
up.
Captain Jenek comes into the commons, followed
by a Charrid. The Charrid has long, stringy hair and a patch over
one eye.
Jenek: "The freighter will be clear to depart
within a quarter arn." He snorts. "Time enough for a
refreshment."
They sit down at a table. A woman who
had been sitting nearby immediately gets up and
leaves.
John sees them enter: "A Scarran captain...
with a Charrid sidekick just like Sikozu said."
Scorpius looks at Captain Jenek for a microt,
then stands up.
The station loudspeaker broadcasts an
announcement.
Charrid: "Charg dufont
duresnet."
Jenek: "Many weaknesses." He sees
Scorpius approaching and stands up.
Scorpius: "Povek
natrenko."
Jenek: "Povek."
Scorpius: "May we speak."
Jenek glances towards the Charrid: "Leave
us."
The Charrid stands up. He snarls quietly
but moves away. Jenek and Scorpius sit down.
Scorpius leans towards Jenek: "Now listen
carefully. My name is Captain Wentrask. My mission... demands
absolute secrecy. My proof code is zenark devra zenark
prida."
Jenek growls, then laughs: "Ministry of
Dissimulation? Well, don't worry, Captain. You have little to
fear from me. I have no interest in spies and their... intricate
games. I am Jenek and command a freighter. You have your
mission and I have mine."
Scorpius: "So, as it should be." He gets
up, folds his hands and walks away.
Rygel, watching from the table,
belches.
The Charrid walks back over to Captain
Jenek. He growls softly.
Charrid: "A half-breed."
Jenek: "Of no concern to us. Ready the
ship to leave."
They walk out and John stares after
them.
Aeryn is lying down, her head on a red
pillow. She opens her eyes, blearily. She frowns, then opens
them wider. A shadow looms over her. She looks up and sees
John leaning over the bed.
He looks at her and smiles: "It's
time."
His voice seems to echo.
John: "You're doing good."
Aeryn smiles at him. She blinks her eyes
and puts her hand ontop of his. He has his hand on her greatly
enlarged belly and is gently rubbing it. Aeryn runs her fingers over
his hand and reaches up to touch his face.
John: "You're doin great."
Aeryn rubs his chin with her thumb. John
smiles and backs away from her hand.
Aeryn continues to stretch her hand towards
where she sees John retreating. Her arm is bound at the wrist and
she reaches through bars.
Aeryn: "Mmm!" She waves her arm through
the bars on the medical bed where she is tied. She starts to
cry.
Nurse: "Why do you keep on struggling?
You know it won't do you any good."
Aeryn cries: "Mmm." She hits her hand on
her stomach.
Nurse: "Must I keep sedating you? Must
you keep making things difficult for yourself?"
Aeryn cries, the tears running from the
corners of her eyes. She looks at where the vision of John had
stood.
Nurse: "There's no point in fighting.
You know that."
Aeryn puts her head back and cries harder:
"Mmm." She shakes from sobbing.
Rygel continues to stuff food in his
mouth. John stands up and pulls it away from
him.
John: "That's enough. You're gonna bust
a gut."
Rygel: "That's enough all right. Give me
a microt."
He belches.
Chiana whispers: "The
Sebacean."
The nurse from Jenek's ship walks past their
table.
Rygel burps again.
John whispers: "From the freighter.
Sikozu thinks she's a nurse."
The nurse walks over to the vending machine
and places her palm on the lighted hand imprint.
Chiana: "Not good. It's another person
you're got to fool."
She takes something out of the machine and
shakes it as she walks back towards the crew's table.
Rygel: "This will be convincing. Stand
back." He makes more noises.
John and Chiana back away.
John (loudly): "Hey... you all
right?"
The nurse turns around to
look.
Rygel groans and gasps: "Don't feel
well."
He groans some more.
The station doctor joins the nurse in
watching.
Rygel spews green vomit in a giant
stream. Some splashes as far as the nurse.
He gags.
Dr Talnell walks towards the table: "What's
the matter with him?"
John: "Maybe it's your lousy
food."
Chiana walks over and puts her hands on
Rygel's shoulders.
Rygel speaks groggily: "Yes. I'm sure of
it."
Dr Talnell: "Have you ever had an emesis of
this severity before?"
Rygel: "Just once, but they cured
it."
Dr Talnell: "And, what was the
cause?"
Rygel: "A touch of
dermafollica."
Dr Talnell: "That's a highly contagious
disease."
Rygel: "Oh, don't worry. They said it
was dormant."
Dr Talnell: "We're in lockdown until further
notice. Anchor all vessels to their docking
ports."
The nurse hurries out of the
commons.
Rygel is lying in some kind of medical
room. He is covered with a shiny blanket. There is an
observation window beside his bed. Through it, he can see Dr Talnell
and Captain Jenek. Also, the young man who was talking to Sikozu is
standing at a large control panel. She is sitting next to
him.
Captain Jenek: "No... you can't keep us
here."
Dr Talnell: "Uh... I can, and uh... I must,
uh... under the quarantine policy of, uh... your
hierarchy."
Captain Jenek looks through the obsevation
window at Rygel. He turns back to Talnell.
Jenek: "Have you any evidence the Hynerian's
condition poses a risk?"
Dr Talnell: "No, but I must err on the side of
caution. I'm unfamiliar with Hynerian Dermafollica. However,
I, uh... have asked the medical database at Simstef for
information."
Karohm: "They're transmitting it
now."
Jenek takes the top off a dish that is sitting
on Dr Talnell's desk. He reaches into it and takes out a red stringy
thing, which he eats.
Karohm: "I've also sent out a request for all
vessels in the sector for doctors or healers with any knowledge of the
disease."
Dr Talnell: "That's not procedure, but, uh...
under the circumstances, it's a very good idea."
Jenek continues to eat red things from
Talnell's desk.
Karohm turns to Sikozu: "Thanks for suggesting
it."
In the station commons, Chiana stands talking
to a young Kalish man.
Chiana: "I don't know why everyone's afraid of
a few germs."
Young man: "Yah, me neither." He holds
up a drinking mug: "This'll kill them."
He laughs and they move towards a table.
Chiana is drinking from a squeeze tube.
Chiana: "Mmm! These'll kill
anything!" She laughs.
Noranti walks into the commons, followed by
D'Argo. A door opens and Dr Talnell comes out.
Dr Talnell: "Greetings! I'm Trayso
Talnell, Chief Medical Officer. Thank you for
coming."
Noranti: "Utu-Noranti Pralatong, Alleviator
and Healer. And this... is my personal
assistant."
She turns to D'Argo: "You may stay here if you
choose."
D'Argo takes a bag from his shoulder and hands
it to Noranti: "Yes, Healer."
D'Argo walks away. Noranti and Talnell
head towards the medical bay.
Dr Talnell: "A Luxan
assistant?"
Noranti: "Oh, yes. Luxans make fine
pilots, exceptional bodyguards and superlative lovers." She
chuckles.
They walk into the stations command
room. Rygel is watching through the observation
window.
As they enter, Karohm walks over to Talnell
and hands him something.
Karohn: "Data from
Stimstef."
Dr Talnell: "Thank you."
Noranti looks at Rygel and holds her finger up
against her lips: "Shhh."
Rgyel groans. He lays back on the
pillow.
Dr Talnell walks over to Noranti. He is
holding up a film and reading it.
Dr Talnell: "Apparently we've brought you here
for nothing... Healer. This isn't Dermafollica at
all."
Noranti: Oh, it's too soon to tell, I'd
say."
Dr Talnell: "Uh... per this report, he should
have exhibited signs of skin sloughing by now."
Noranti: "May I see that?"
Dr Talnell hands the film to Noranti and she
looks at it.
Noranti: "Yes... well, you see, Dermafollica
is very difficult to diagnose. The bacteria that causes the virus is
effectively undetectable."
Dr Talnell: "Yes, but none of the other
symptoms are present. Hence, unless anything else manifests itself
in, say... ohh, an arn, I can safely lift lockdown."
Noranti: "I'm going to examine the
patient."
She hurries off.
Inside the med bay, Noranti crushes some
greens in her hand. Rygel sits on the bed and moans. Noranti
spits on the greens in her hand. Watching from the observation
window, Dr Talnell winces.
Noranti: "And you're sure that what you had
was Dermafollica?"
Rygel: "Yes. I barely survived.
Four of my wives didn't."
Noranti: "Here." She holds the wad of
greens out to Rygel.
He gasps: "No. Mmm!"
Noranti grabs his ear and twists it...
hard.
Rygel: "Ow!"
Dr Talnell flinches.
Noranti shoves the wad of greens into his
mouth and holds it shut.
Noranti: "Swallow."
Dr Talnell nods and
smiles.
Rygel gulps: "Was that absolutely
essential?"
Noranti whispers:
"Absolutely."
Rygel: "Ugh."
Chiana is sitting across from the young Kalish
man, in the commons.
Chiana: "So tell me, do you wannta get outta
here?"
Noranti walks into the commons, past
them.
Young man: "Well, it's getting late now.
Maybe we should find someplace where we can calm down. Get
comfortable."
Chiana: "Got a
suggestion?"
Noranti walks over to D'Argo. He is
staring off towards Chiana and her young man.
D'Argo: "What news,
Healer?"
Noranti: "None yet. We'll just have to
wait."
Young man: "Maybe you'd like to go out and see
my ship."
Chiana: "Is it a very big ship?" She
laughs.
Young man: "Size isn't as important as speed
and maneuverability."
Chiana: "Oh yah? Well, that's what they
all say."
He has his hand on her knee. He takes
her hand.
Young man: "Come with me and I'll prove
it."
They start to stand up. D'Argo walks up behind
the young man.
D'Argo: "Excuse me. Hey, Nebari
girl. How about I buy you a drink?"
Young man: "Umm... I was here
first."
D'Argo looks down at him: "Your
point?"
The young Kalish closes his mouth. He
lets go of Chiana's hand and stands up. D'Argo sniffs. He
walks away.
D'Argo smiles. He sits down in the young
man's spot. Chiana swings her knees out of the way so he can get in,
then puts them back, touching his. She leans forward and so does
D'Argo, until their foreheads meet. They sit there, foreheads
touching. Chiana smiles.
D'Argo whispers: "Much better. Rygel's
scam seems to be working."
Chiana reaches out and strokes his braids: "So
you know."
D'Argo: "One of the voices on the medical
distress transmision was Sikozu's, so we played
along."
Chiana: "Smart Luxan."
They touch noses.
Dr Talnell: "It seems your caution was
justified. His skin
is
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sloughing."
Rygel groans and scratches his chin
repeatedly. Dr Talnell scratches his head. He pulls something
off of it and looks at it.
Dr Talnell: "The lockdown will remain in
effect."
Rygel jerks and gasps and continues to
scratch.
Scorpius: "How contagious is this
disease?"
Noranti: "It can infect non-Hynerians and
those it does infect it kills without warning."
John: "Frell that. I'm gonna lock myself
in an airlock."
Noranti: "I'm afraid it's far too late for
that. This virus is so pervasive that... everyone on this station or
any vessels docked to it has already been exposed."
Chiana: "So what do we
do?"
Noranti: "I can attempt to concoct a
cure. However, my ship is understocked. I need herbs,
medications, healing potions."
Captain Jenek growls
softly.
Noranti: "Do you have any sort of medical
supplies? I mean, even a simple remedy kit wil
do."
Captain Jenek: "No. No one may board my
vessel."
Scorpius: "I have a facility on board my
Leviathan. I offer it for your use. Escort
her."
Chiana and John stand up.
Noranti: "Thank you." She leaves with
John and Chiana.
John: "That was a nice job, Granny. You
scammed 'em."
They walk through the
station.
Noranti: "I couldn't scam
Trayso."
Chiana: "But you did. He believes
Rygel's sick."
Noranti: "That's because I made Rygel
sick."
Chiana: "No, you made him look
sick."
Noranti: "No, I
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made
him sick."
John: "With what?"
Noranti: "Dermafollica. The virus is
dormant in his system. I merely reactivated it."
John: "Can you deactivate
it?"
Noranti: "I hope so."
Chiana: "And, what if you
can't?"
Noranti: "He dies."
She continues to walk briskly ahead.
John and Chiana stop and stare after her.
END OF ACT ONE
___________________________________________________________________________
ACT TWO
John and Chiana follow Noranti into her lab on
Moya.
Chiana: "Are you tekked? What are you
trying to do, what? Kill Rygel?"
Noranti: "No. He won't die. I can
make a cure." She hurries over to her work
bench.
John: "You sure about
that?"
Noranti: "I'm almost
certain."
John: "How long has Rygel
got?"
Noranti: "Plenty of time, if I'm not
disturbed." She sets some empty bowls on the bench and turns to take
some bottles off a shelf.
John: "Is this bug
contagious?"
Noranti: "Some varieties can
be."
John: "Hm uh. What about this
variety?"
Noranti: "I'll fix it."
Chiana: "You've already fixed it!
You've... you've infected us with the frelling Hynerian
plague!"
Noranti: "Not infected... exposed.
Anyway, you can't get it."
Chiana: "I can't?"
Noranti: "Nebari are immune, as are
Scarrans."
John: "And Sebaceans?"
Noranti looks down at her bench. She
breaks some of her herbs with a cracking sound.
John: "Are Sebaceans
immune?"
Noranti: "No." She walks quickly to
another shelf.
John closes his eyes and looks
down.
Chiana follows Noranti: "You'll kill Aeryn
even before we get a chance to save her!"
Noranti looks into Chiana's eyes: "Don't you
say that! Don't you dare say that! I
will
fix this!" She walks over and looks at
John: "You wanted a plague, I gave you one. Without real symptoms,
the lockdown is lifted, Aeryn is on her way to the Scarran base and you...
are frelled. Now, I did what I had to do. I suggest you do the
same."
Captain Jenek grabs Dr Talnell's arm and
pushes him.
Jenek: "You don't understand. I have a
patient I
must
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protect."
Dr Talnell: "Your passenger has already been
exposed, as have we all."
Jenek: "But the facilities on Katratzi are
much more likely to have a cure."
Dr Talnell: "Oh, so you'd expose them as
well, would you?"
Jenek: "Scarrans are immune to this
disease."
Dr Talnell: "But Kalish aren't. I won't
be held responsible for loosing a virus that could prove catastrophic to
my own people. Your vessel isn't leaving,
Captain."
Jenek growls softly.
Karohm comes over to Dr
Talnell.
Karohm: "The Healer has requested that we
allow the patient to be moved aboard the Leviathan. Easier to take
tissue samples that way."
Jenek: "What? Release the Hynerian from
isolation?"
Dr Talnell: "Given the pervasiveness of the
virus, isolation is pointless. See to it."
Karohm nods and leaves.
Rygel is lying on a table in Noranti's lab, on
board Moya. She kneels beside a shelf, gathering
ingredients.
Rygel: "What in the frelling yotz where you
thinking, you madwoman? You're a plague... a withered, three-eyed,
bad-smelling pestilence!"
Noranti continues to mix ingredients: "You can
shout at me later."
Rygel: "I'll be dead
later!"
Noranti: "You'll be dead sooner if I don't
devise a remedy. The more you yell... the more you distract
me." She smells some ingredients.
Scorpius follows John through
Moya.
Scorpius: "Noranti's is the only possible
course, John."
John: "And what has it bought
us?"
Scorpius: "Time!"
John: "And what are we doing with that
time? Can't answer that? Right. That's why someone's got
to get on that freighter."
John stops and opens a metal case,
loudly.
Scorpius: "Sikozu is working on it. If
she could access schematics of the freighter..."
John interrupts: "Schematics are not going to
give us Aeryn's location, her condition, or tell us how many guards there
are. Someone has got to go in."
Scorpius: "You don't possibly believe that
Captain Jenek will give you a tour?"
John: "Grasshopper! You aim too high and
Jenek is not the only one with access."
John, in his Peacekeeper uniform, strolls into
the station commons. He walks over to a vending machine and presses
a button. The machine beeps and dispenses something to him.
The nurse from the freighter is sitting at a table nearby,
alone.
John: "Hey!"
The nurse turns around to look at
him.
John: "Sebacean?"
Nurse: "What?"
John: "You're Sebacean,
right?"
John: "Ha. Can't remember the last time
I saw a Sebacean woman." He starts to walk towards her table.
"It's got to be at least half a cycle."
Nurse: "So?"
John sits down at the table, across from the
nurse: "So... that's a long time without companionship." He leans
his elbows on the table and looks at the nurse: "I don't do
aliens."
Nurse: "Well, I don't
do
Peacekeepers, so why waste your
time?"
John holds up a flat, rhomboid shaped object
and puts it between his teeth.
Nurse: "What's that?"
John (speaking past the object that is
dangling from his teeth): "This is something for a special friend."
He takes the vial out of his teeth and leans closer to the nurse.
"It's the Sebacean cure for Hynerian Dermafollica."
Nurse: "Or a vial of
dust."
John: "You're a medical worker, right? I
could let you analyze it... but as you say, why waste your time?" He
stands up and starts to walk away.
Nurse: "Where'd you get
that?"
John stops walking and turns back towards her:
"I don't kiss and tell but you can be sure you're not gettin it anywhere
else."
Nurse: "Hynerian Dermafollica rarely infects
Sebaceans."
John: "But when it does, you're dead before
you know it. I hate odds like that... don't
you?"
Nurse: "So... what do you want for
it?"
John: "I just want to share." He puts
the vial back between his teeth.
John and the nurse walk through the
station. One of the station DRD's with the fin zooms over to
them. A guard cocks a weapon and calls out: "No admittance,
Peacekeeper."
The nurse puts her hand on John's arm: "He's
with me."
The door opens and John and the nurse walk
onto the freighter, past two Charrid guards. John keeps his eyes on
the guards as they walk past, pirouetting to look behind himself and
backing in the doorway. The door closes behind
them.
They walk into a room.
Nurse: "Give me a microt." She goes into
another room.
John looks around, standing where she left
him: "So this is your med bay?"
Nurse: "Mm hmm."
John walks over to one of the beds with the
rounded slats for sides. He sits on it and bounces, making it
squeak.
John: "Spare bunks."
He rocks the frame so that it clanks
loudly.
The nurse walks over to him and holds out her
hand.
Nurse: "Fun later. Cure
now."
John holds up the vial and she takes it from
him.
Nurse: "It's a dehydrated concentrate, is it
not?"
John: "Right. Dilute it ten to one,
saline. There's enough there for both of us."
Nurse: "No more?"
He gets up and starts to look around the
bay.
John: "No. Why?"
Nurse: "Another Sebacean needs
treatment."
John looks past some equipment and spots
Aeryn, tied to her bunk.
John whispers: "You
bastard."
The nurse works at a table, dilluting the
material from the vial. John finds a metal tool on a table and picks
it up.
John: "It's too bad for them." He
hurries over to the nurse and hits her on the head with the metal
tool. She falls down, unconscious. John drops the tool on the
floor and hurries over to Aeryn. He kneels down next to
her.
John: "Aeryn, wake up."
Aeryn moans and waves her arms, pushing him
away.
John: "Stop. Hold still. Ho...
Hold still. I need to... I need to unbind this. No, it's
me. I'm real. Aeryn! Shh!"
Aeryn moans and struggles, putting her arms up
to shield her face. She whimpers and cries. John tries to
shush her and attempts to untie her wrist restraints.
The Charrid who was with Jenek in the station
comes up behind John: "Leave her alone." He holds a gun on
John.
John stops what he's doing, without
moving.
John: "Don't do anything stupid. Scarran
hierarchy paid good crindars for me. They wouldn't want their
package delivered damaged."
Aeryn continues to whimper and cry, waving her
arms repeatedly over her face, while keeping her eyes
closed.
John stands up and turns around
suddenly. The Charrid hits him in the face and knocks him
down. He leans over Aeryn to look at her face.
John is on his knees, next to a bench. A
Scarran heat probe has him transfixed and he screams.
The nurse sits on the bench, near John.
The Charrid stands directly behind him. Captain Jenek stands in
front of him, holding him in his heat probe.
Nurse: "He claimed it was a cure for Hynerian
Dermafollica."
Jenek: "But was it
genuine?"
John gasps: "No... it's a
fake."
Jenek: "Why the
deception?"
John: "Cause... horny." He laughs and
gasps at the same time. "I am... looking for a Sebacean
woman."
Nurse: "You attacked me and attempted to
release one of the patients."
John gags: "No offense, but she's sexier than
you."
Jenek: "What would you have done had you
gotten her?"
John: "Taken her back to my ship... frelled
her... made babies."
John gags again and Jenek
hisses.
Scorpius walks into the
room.
Scorpius: "Jenek! What are you doing to
my Peacekeeper?"
Jenek releases the heat probe and John slumps
to the floor.
Jenek: "Your Peacekeeper was aboard my ship...
attempting to recreate."
Scorpius: "Is that true?"
John: "Yah. More or
less."
Scorpius turns back towards Jenek: "If you'll
excuse us... I will deal with him."
Jenek growls, quietly. Scorpius walks
over to him.
Scorpius: "I said... I will deal with
him."
Jenek continues to stare a Scorpius for a
microt. Then, he growls and motions for the others to follow
him. They leave the room.
John moves slightly: "Ahh. That's a hell
of a thing." He groans.
Scorpius goes over to the bench and sits close
to John.
Scorpius: "John... how did you lie to Jenek's
heat probe? Was it... Katoya's training?"
John laughs: "Ha! Nah, I told him the
truth. Just not the whole truth." He grunts and slings his arm
over to use the bench as a prop. He pushes himself up onto his
knees.
John: "Aeryn's in there. We gotta get
her out."
Scorpius: "Sikozu is gathering information
which will help us put together a rescue plan. We will free Officer
Sun."
John grunts and puts his hands on Scorpius'
shoulders. He uses him as a lever to pry himself to his feet and
walks away.
Sikozu carries some film sheets over to the
console where Karohm is working.
Sikozu: "The Rosrob Center sent us all their
data on Dermafollica, but it isn't much."
Karohm: "And I still can't get a response from
the Diagnosans on Coldjen." He slaps the console.
"Frell!" He wraps his arms around his chest and turns away from
Sikozu.
Sikozu: "Why don't you take a rest
interval? I can monitor communications for you."
Karohm glances back at
her.
Noranti props Rygel up and holds something to
his lips.
Noranti: "This... will boost your Hynerian
antibodies and cleanse
you
color=#ffffff> of the
disease. Open."
Rygel opens his mouth and Noranti pushes the
medicine into his mouth. Rygel gasps but closes his mouth and
swallows loudly.
Noranti: "Unfortunately, it won't cure anyone
other
color=#ffffff> than a
Hynerian."
Rygel: "And that's a problem? I mean...
uh... has anyone else contracted the sickness?"
Noranti: "No, not as yet."
Rygel: "Ahh."
Noranti: "And they may not. But there's
always a chance."
She hurries back to her workbench and starts
mixing things.
Rygel groans: "Mmm mm. Ahh.
Mmm mm." He falls backwards, onto the table, with a
thump.
Noranti turns to look at him: "Rygel?"
She walks over and picks up his wrist. She moves it around and it
flops back, totally limp.
Noranti: "Rygel!"
END OF ACT TWO
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ACT THREE
Chiana wanders into the station commons.
She spots the young Kalish man she had talked to before and jumps up onto
a table near where he is sitting, his head down on his
hands.
Chiana: "Hey. Hey, you with the big
ship."
The young man coughs without raising his
head. Chiana goes over to him.
Chiana: "Hey, you okay?"
Dr Talnell looks out through a large
window.
Dr Talnell: "We may have another victim.
Come on."
Karohm follows him out into the commons,
leaving Sikozu in the control room.
Chiana: "Somebody? Somebody call the
healer."
She turns the young man's face over and it is
covered with blotches. A nearby woman shrieks. People begin to
hurry out of the area.
Chiana: "Hey, what're you doing? Don't
run away. Get..."
The young man gags and spit runs out of his
mouth.
Chiana holds his forehead: "It's okay.
It's all right. It's okay. We're... we're gonna get the
healer."
The young man gags again.
Rygel is lying on his back, scratching the
peeling skin on his chin.
Noranti is mixing some
ingredients.
Dr Talnell: "Dermafollica has proven fatal to
a Kalish traveler. Captain Jenek requests your presence aboard his
vessel."
Noranti: "No, no, no, no. I must find...
this remedy. He may come here if he chooses."
Dr Talnell: "No. He wants
you
color=#ffffff> to go
to him." He points.
Scorpius acosts Captain Jenek on the
station.
Scorpius: "The healer needs more resources
than are available to make a cure. If there's anything aboard your
vessel that would assist..." Jenek walks away and Scorpius follows
him.
Scorpius: "You must realize we have a common
problem. We both have cargo that needs
protecting."
Dr Talnell appears in the doorway and holds up
a finger to get Jenek's attention.
Jenek: "I'll solve my own problems." He
walks away from Scorpius, over to Dr Talnell.
Scorpius sighs and sits down on a
bench.
On board Moya...
Sikozu has a projection of the station on a
table on Command.
Sikozu: "The Scarran freighter is not only
docked to the station, but it is tied to its power grid as well.
From station control, I can force a power surge that will disrupt the
circuits of both the station and the freighter."
D'Argo: "That'll knock out the lights, the
alarms and those ugly Scarran DRD's."
Chiana: "For how long?"
Sikozu: "Only until emergency overrides
activate... maybe thirty microts."
D'Argo: "Okay... once we rescued Aeryn, we've
got to get Moya off that station."
Sikozu: Yes, I think I've worked out how to
bypass the docking locks."
Chiana: "You think? What were you doing
with Karohm all this time?"
John: "What about the window stickers this
joint's supposed to give out?"
D'Argo: "Security beacons. We'll need
some."
Sikozu: "If we rescue
Aeryn..."
Chiana: "Don't say...
'if'."
Sikozu: "I'm sorry. Yes.
When
color=#ffffff> we
rescue Aeryn, we simply starburst away from Scarran
space."
D'Argo: "What if we starburst deeper into
Scarran space?"
John: "Or if the freighter takes off with
Aeryn?"
Sikozu: "If the freighter escapes, then we
abandon all hope."
John: "We abandon all hope of leading long and
prosperous lives and we follow the freighter."
Sikozu sighs.
John: "She's still
learning."
He gets up and leaves Command, followed by
D'Argo.
Aeryn lies on her bunk, asleep or
unconscious.
Noranti comes into the freighter's medical
bay.
Noranti: "You don't have to use force. I
want to find a cure as much as you do."
Dr Talnell: "You
will
find a cure and we will have it
first."
Captain Jenek and his Charrid guard follow
Noranti and Dr Talnell into the med bay.
Jenek: "Nurse! Assist them. Nurse,
didn't you..."
The nurse is laying with her head down.
Jenek pulls her head back. Her eyes are open and staring and her
face is covered in blotches. Jenek lets go of her and she falls
forward, limp.
Jenek: "Check the
patient."
Noranti: "I'll do it." She hurries over
to Aeryn and puts her hand around her throat. Aeryn gasps and
struggles.
Noranti: "Save your strength. Don't try
to speak."
Dr Talnell comes over to Aeryn's bed and looks
down at her. Aeryn opens her eyes but they roll back into her
head.
Noranti: "She doesn't appear to be
infected."
Jenek: "Neither was my nurse. If she's
infected, can you cure her?"
Noranti: "I think I can, given
time."
Jenek: "The female is pregnant. Her
fetus must be saved. Is there a suitable recipient for a
transplant?"
Noranti: "What? No! Anyway, it
wouldn't do any good. All the females here are equally at risk from
this disease."
Dr Talnell: "What about the Nebari girl?
Nebari are immune."
Captain Jenek turns to his Charrid Lieutenant:
"Go to the Leviathan and bring back the Nebari."
Charrid: "We can't take our weapons through
the station."
Jenek: "Then take a transport pod and board
from the outside."
The Charrid hurries out.
Aeryn opens her eyes, trying to focus on
Noranti.
Noranti: "Hush now.
Hush."
Chiana walks rapidly down a corridor on
Moya. The Charrid Lieutenant suddenly appears in front of
her.
Chiana: "Hey. Get out of my way,
fek-face." She walks around him and he grabs her arm, pulling her
back. He slings her onto the floor of the corridor. Chiana
gets to her feet, pulling her gun. She points it at the Charrid,
then senses another coming up behind her and turns and points that
way. The second Charrid knocks the gun out of her hand and grabs her
hair. Chiana cries out and kicks the Charrid. He falls and she
kicks him in the face. The Lieutenant shakes his head and stalks
over to his fallen comrade: "Get up."
Chiana gets to another Charrid and kicks him
twice, then hits him. He falls and Chiana runs past. The
Lieutenant strides past him as well: "Get up!"
Chiana runs until she slips and slides on the
floor. She gets up quickly and runs again, followed by the
Charrids.
The Charrids come onto
Command.
Lieutenant: "Guard the door." He looks
around the room. He goes over by one of the consoles. Chiana
drops from the ceiling with a yell and attacks him. She kicks and
hits one of the Charrids until he is on the floor. She kicks the
Lieutenant, but he grabs her by the hair and holds on.
Chiana: "Get your frelling hands off
me!"
Sikozu: "They took Chiana by force and you
just let them?"
Pilot: "I was unaware until it was too late to
prevent it."
Scorpius: "Recriminations can wait. We
must act. Are you ready?"
Aeryn gasps and jerks as the Scarran puts his
gauntleted hand on her head.
Jenek: "As the doctor said, save your
strength." He walks away, past Noranti. She rushes to hold
Aeryn.
Aeryn gasps: "Oh... we can't let them."
She looks at Noranti.
Noranti: "It won't happen. I won't let
it happen. They can't do it without Chiana and they won't find
her."
Chiana squeals as two Charrids drag her into
the room.
Lieutenant: "Bring her."
Jenek: "Prepare for the
procedure."
Chiana sees Aeryn, as she is dragged past her:
"What the frell's going on?"
Dr Talnell walks towards Chiana: "I'll sedate
her."
Noranti cries: "No!" and flings herself
on Talnell's back.
Chiana: "No!"
The Charrid Lieutenant pulls Noranti off Dr
Talnell's back. He injects something into
Chiana.
Noranti: "No, stop. Stop! This is
wrong! This patient has been drugged. She is weak. She
may die from this procedure."
Aeryn struggles, frantically tossing her head
back and forth.
Chiana is placed on one of the beds and her
arms and legs are secured with the wire restraints.
Jenek: "I don't care. My only concern is
for the safety of the fetus. Trayso!"
Chiana whispers: "Please."
Aeryn continues to struggle. Dr Talnell
comes over to her.
Jenek points at Aeryn:
"Proceed."
Dr Talnell: "Hold still."
Aeryn struggles: "No.
No."
Metal arms come out from under the bed.
They have sharp points on them. They curve upwards and down, ramming
their points into Aeryn's sides. She opens her mouth wide and
screams!
Chiana and Noranti both see this happen.
Chiana is bound on the other bed and Noranti is being held by the Charrid
Lieutenant.
Aeryn stops screaming and her eyes
close.
END OF ACT THREE
___________________________________________________________________________
ACT FOUR
Aeryn is being held down by metal ribs which
enter her body at the sides. Noranti puts an injection devise on
Aeryn's shoulder. Dr Talnell reaches out and stops
her.
Dr Talnell: "What are you giving
her?"
Noranti: "Something to ease the
pain."
Dr Talnell: "She doesn't need
anesthetizing. Give it to the Nebari girl
instead."
Noranti: "No, I won't! This is the
patient who needs anesthe..."
Dr Talnell signals to the Charrid Lieutenant
who comes over and grabs hold of Noranti's arms from
behind.
Noranti: "... you're not going to
cut..." She grunts as the Charrid pulls her away from Aeryn.
Dr Talnell pushes himself in next to Aeryn. He is holding a
scapel. He takes the injection devise from Noranti. He follows
Noranti and the Charrid over to Chiana.
Chiana: "Get that thing frelling away from
me!"
Dr Talnell leans over her.
Chiana spits in his face.
Dr Talnell: "Very strong. She'll make an
excellent host."
He injections Chiana in the
arm.
Jenek: "She had better. If the fetus
dies, so will the both of you."
Chiana swallows and gasps.
Karohm calls over the loudspeaker: "Captain
Jenek. Captain Wentrask is in the station commons. He demands
an urgent word, sir."
Jenek: "Does he? Very well." He
walks around Chiana.
Jenek: "Ralnahk."
The Charrid Lieutenant grunts and follows
Jenek.
Chiana continues to look blearily at Dr
Talnell.
Captain Jenek: "What do you want,
Wentrask?"
He sits down at a table in the commons.
Scorpius joins him. He sits down right beside Jenek and leans
towards him, talking quietly.
Scorpius: "I require... your
cooperation."
Jenek: "But you can't compel
it."
Scorpius: "Jenek... I know that your prisoner
is the Peacekeeper Aeryn Sun and that you are taking her to Katratzi for
Minister Ahkna. I also know that if my mission fails, your mission
becomes irrelevant, as do you."
Jenek: "Continue."
Sikozu sneaks into the stations control room,
looking around carefully. There is no one in the room, but the
control consoles beep and blink. She looks through the observation
window, then crosses over to the controls. She presses several
buttons.
Karohm walks into the control room, holding a
gun pointed at Sikozu.
Karohm: "Step back." He walks slowly
towards her.
Sikozu gasps.
Sikozu: "I... was just checking to see if some
more med..."
Karohm interrupts her: "Someone's been
downloading the station codes and schematics. It had to be you...
but I'm disappointed."
Noranti and Dr Talnell stand facing each
other, between Aeryn and Chiana. Dr Talnell is rubbing his hands
together.
Noranti: "You know this can't succeed.
We'll kill them both and the fetus as well."
Dr Talnell: "No choice but to
try!"
John picks up his rifle off a table.
"1812" is sitting on the table too. D'Argo stands behind him,
holding his qualta rifle up in the air.
John: "What the hell is taking so long?
The lights should be out by now." He checks the action on the
rifle.
Dr Talnell: "The procedure's success depends
upon the swift transfer of the fetus. Therefore, we should open both
subjects simultaneously." He picks up two scapels from a
table.
D'Argo sets his qualta
down.
D'Argo: "I'll go check it
out."
John: "Right."
Sikozu faces Karohm. She takes a couple
of steps towards him.
Sikozu: "Listen to me, Karohm. Two,
possibly three females are being held against their will on the Scarran
freighter."
Karohm moves the gun to point more directly at
Sikozu: "Halt."
Dr Talnell stands beside Chiana. Noranti
stands beside Aeryn.
Dr Talnell: "Prepare to begin." He
glances back at Noranti. She stands holding the scapel over Aeryn
and rolls her eyes. She gasps.
Sikozu: "They pose the Scarrans no
threat. Their imprisonment is completely
unjust."
Karohm: "I believe you."
Sikozu: "Then will you help
me?"
Karohm laughs: "Of course not. I'm going
to lock you up."
D'Argo's tongue lashes out and hits Karohm in
the neck. He falls to the floor with a thud.
D'Argo: "How wrong was he?" He walks
over to Sikozu: "Okay... now can you do what you said you were gonna
do?"
Sikozu nods and turns back to the control
console.
Noranti: "Dr Trayso..." She steps
backwards, away from Aeryn and touches Dr Talnell's arm. "... in my
opinion this patient's body is overstressed. Therefore, the fetus
will be debilitated. I think... we should let her regain her
equilibrium before we begin the procedure."
Dr Talnell interrupts her: "We don't have
time."
Scorpius: "What you fail to realize is... that
Ahkna's only interest in your prisoner is as a means to the possible
information that John Crichton possesses. Now my Peacekeeper
defector can give you John Crichton himself. Now which mission... do
you think is more vital?"
Sikozu presses a control and the station's
console beeps.
Sikozu: "All right. That's unlocked the
docking ports on Moya, on your ship and my transport
pod."
D'Argo opens a storage hatch and takes out
several items wrapped in plastic.
Sikozu: "Now for the power
grid..."
D'Argo holds up the items: "Are these the
security beacons?"
Sikozu glances at them:
"Yes."
Metal clamps detach themselves from Moya's
nose and swing back towards the station.
Noranti: "There are three lives here and I
will not..."
Dr Talnell interrupts her: "Dr Pralatong, I
beg you!"
The lights suddenly go
out.
John: "Show time." He hurries out with
his rifle, grabbing a lantern on his way by.
Scorpius and Jenek look around. Jenek
growls.
John hurries through the station with his
rifle, using his lantern. The station loudspeaker broadcasts:
"Praloch frenek. Praloch frenek." It continues giving orders
in Scarran. There is some emergency lighting in the corridors near
the Scarran freighter. When John gets close enough to see the
Charrid guards, he shoots one.
Dr Talnell comms: "Karohm, what's going
on?"
A Charrid grabs Noranti and pulls her away
from the Doctor.
Charrid: "Stand here."
John turns on his lantern and shines it on the
Charrid. The Charrid turns towards John, shoots and misses, but John
shoots him and he falls to the floor.
Noranti: "Ohh!" She ducks down behind a
table.
Dr Talnell scoots over by Aeryn, holding up
his scapel.
Dr Talnell: "Stop! I'll kill her!
I'll cut her throat!"
John trains his lantern on Talnell's
face.
Noranti: "He wouldn't dare. If the baby
dies, Jenek'll burn him dead, so shoot."
Dr Talnell: "I'll do it. I'll kill
her."
John: "Kalish are supposed to be smart.
Who do you think I believe?"
Dr Talnell stands up straight. He holds
his hands up in the air and backs away from Aeryn.
Dr Talnell: "All right. Shoot
me."
John shoots and Talnell cries out. He
staggers sideways and falls over a table, knocking it and himself to the
floor with a crash. John sets his lantern down and jumps down the
stairs into the med bay. He goes to stand by Aeryn. Noranti
joins him.
Noranti: "You should have killed
him."
John: "My body count's already too
high." He looks at Aeryn, lying quiet and still. He gently
touches her on the cheek with his gloved hand.
Noranti: "The release is over here.
Ready?"
John looks away, then looks back at Aeryn: "Do
it."
Noranti presses on the side of the
table. The metal ribs retract with a whoosing noise and Aeryn takes
a sudden breath.
The Charrid Lieutenant finds Scorpius and
Jenek.
Jenek: "Check the ship."
He hurries off.
Scorpius: "Yes, I must check
mine."
Jenek clamps a hand on Scorpius' shoulder:
"No. You stay here."
In the corridor, the station loudspeaker
continues to broadcast in Scarran. The Charrid comes up to the guard
that John shot, lying on the floor. He checks him, looks around and
growls.
D'Argo: "Are you done?"
Sikozu: "Almost." She deliberately turns
her back on D'Argo. "If I jam the docking port controls, the
freighter won't be able to break free and follow us." She holds her
hand in the air, slightly over a large, round control. Waves of heat
come down from her hand and flames shoot out of the control, melting
it. Sikozu gasps.
D'Argo: "How'd you do
that?"
Sikozu: "I... it was nothing." She
gasps: "I... I merely cross-coupled the emergency by-pass
conduits.... let's go. Quickly! Emergency power will come on
any microt!"
She hurries out of the control room and D'Argo
follows her.
John hurries off the freighter, carrying Aeryn
in his arms. Noranti is right behind him, with Chiana. The
Charrid Lieutenant suddenly appears in front of them, holding a rifle
pointed at them.
Charrid: "Stop! Drop the
weapon."
Chiana gasps as Noranti puts her down to set
down her gun.
Charrid: "Turn off that
light."
John: "Granny, do what he
says!"
Noranti bends down to turn off the
lantern.
Charrid: "Back to our
vessel."
John: "You work for the Scarran,
right?"
Charrid: "Yes. Why?"
John: "Security is tight for visitors so you
shouldn't be carrying."
Charrid: "Carrying what?"
The lights come back on in the station.
From behind the Charrid, a Scarran DRD starts firing at him. Noranti
and Chiana duck behind a wall as a second DRD starts shooting. The
Charrid collapses to his knees. John quickly walks past him,
carrying Aeryn.
John: "A gun."
D'Argo and Sikozu hurry over to Noranti and
Chiana.
Noranti: "D'Argo, please! Please help
her."
D'Argo bends down and picks up Chiana.
Sikozu hurries past.
Jenek and Scorpius are sitting at a table near
the vending machines.
Jenek: "Ralnaht, report."
Jenek looks at Scorpius and growls.
Scorpius stands up and hits Jenek in the face twice. Jenek's head
jerks back. Scorpius hits him again and Jenek stands up with a
roar. He pushes Scorpius in the chest, flinging him across the
room. He lands on a piece of furniture with a
grunt.
John hurries into Moya's docking bay, carrying
Aeryn. D'Argo follows, carrying Chiana.
Chiana: "I'm fine. You can put me
down... at least for now."
D'Argo comms: "Pilot! What's our
status?"
Pilot: "Moya is free of the docking
collar."
D'Argo: "Reactivate all starburst
systems."
Pilot: "Done."
Jenek slams Scorpius, face first into a
wall. Scorpius turns, backhanding Jenek. Jenek grabs his arm
and Scorpius hits him with his other hand. He grabs Jenek by the
chin, forcing his head back. Jenek grabs Scorpius and forces him
over a table. He turns his heat probe on the back of Scorpius'
head.
Jenek: "Who are you, and what is your
mission?"
Scorpius spits and vomits onto the
table. He falls backwards, onto the floor.
A transport pod and D'Argo's ship, Lo'Lah
float out of the station, following Moya.
Sikozu hurries onto Command, followed by
D'Argo and Chiana.
Sikozu comms: "Pilot? Any communication
from Scorpius?"
Pilot: "No. Nor is he responding to the
comms. Lo'Lah and our transport pod have also been released from
their ports."
D'Argo: "Okay, well bring them aboard with the
docking web."
Sikozu: "What about
Scorpius?"
Chiana: "What about him?"
Sikozu: "Well, he might've been
captured..."
Chiana: "Or killed."
D'Argo: "We can only wish. Pilot,
starburst as soon as you can."
Sikozu: "Oh, no." She walks away from
D'Argo, towards the door. Chiana leaves her console and steps in
front of her.
Chiana: "We
are
leaving." She makes a fist and hits
Sikozu square in the face, knocking her out.
Pilot: "Preparing for
starburst.
Sikozu falls to the floor.
Chiana: "Why doesn't she ever
listen?"
John carries Aeryn through a door and gently
lays her down on a bed as the door closes behind them. He reaches
over her to pull up a blanket. Aeryn jerks and shudders. She
raises up and tries to scoot away.
John: "It's all right. Aeryn! It's
all right."
She holds herself on her elbows, staring at
him wide-eyed and panting.
John nods at her: "You're here."
Aeryn holds herself stiff as he reaches down
and covers up her legs. She begins to cry.
Aeryn: "Is this real?"
John smiles down at her: "It's real.
You're on Moya."
Aeryn keeps her eyes glued to his face, tears
running from the corners.
John: "You're safe."
Aeryn breathes in a shuddering whisper: "What
about the baby?"
John: "The baby's fine." He smiles and
touches her hair with his hand. He whispers: "Everything's gonna be
okay. Sleep."
Aeryn lowers her head back slowly, the tears
still streaking down her face. John touches her forehead and starts
to get up.
Aeryn breathes: "Stay."
John looks at her and opens his mouth to say
something. He closes it and sinks back to his knees. Aeryn
reaches out with her hand and touches his face. He turns his mouth
and kisses her palm. He looks into her face and her eyes gently
close.
END OF ACT FOUR
___________________________________________________________________________
EPILOGUE
Rygel is sitting up on a table in Noranti's
lab. Noranti leans towards him and pulls some dead skin gently from
his face.
Noranti: "You don't look as
bad."
Rygel: "I'm fine. Thanks for asking. You
nearly killed me."
Noranti takes hold of a large piece of loose
skin.
Noranti: "No I didn't."
Rygel: "Ahh."
Noranti: "But I did kill others. By my
actions... I have taken innocent lives."
Rygel: "Welcome to Moya. In my time as
Dominar, some of my actions resulted in the deaths of the
undeserving. Even when the cause is just, it's a hard thing to
accept."
Noranti: "I must seek
forgiveness..."
Rygel: "Mmm..."
Noranti: "... from the Divine
Eternal."
Rygel: "I can't help you there, but I can
extend you my forgiveness."
Rygel holds out his hand. Noranti looks
at it. She takes it in hers and squeezes it.
Aeryn is lying on the bed, with John
half-sitting, half-leaning on the floor beside her. She has her arm
extended with her hand on his head, gently feeling his hair as he
sleeps. She watches his face and smiles. John's eyes begin to
move beneath his lids, as though he were dreaming.
John: "No!" He screams and twists away
from Aeryn's hand.
There is a flash...
A heavy old door opens onto a scene from an
old movie. Everything is in black and white and there are grainy
film lines over it. There are several candelabra on stands, with the
candles lit. There is an antique coffin sitting on a stand in the
middle of the room. An organ plays eerie music and a white mist
rises from the floor. The lid of the coffin creaks open and Harvey
sits up in it. He has extremely long fingernails which he taps
against each other.
John appears at the foot of the coffin dressed
in a dark suit, as for a funeral.
John: "Harvey? You're not
dead."
Harvey whispers: "Of course not. I am
the... undead."
John: "It's not funny. The
son-of-a-bitch said he took you out of my head."
Harvey speaks with a "transylvanian" accent:
"Scorpius, he upgraded me to... Harvey two point oh. One of my many
improvements... utter loyalty to Scorpius." Harvey
sniffs.
John: "That's not an
improvement."
Harvey: "Oh, but it is. His course is
the correct one... eliminate Scarran threat." He clicks his
fingernails together loudly.
John: "You know I don't give a damn about his
agenda."
Harvey: "You must... go back for
him."
John walks over to the coffin and takes hold
of the lid.
John: "Go back to sleep before I drive a stake
through your heart."
Harvey lies back in the
coffin.
John shuts the lid and starts to walk
away.
Harvey yells something muffled from inside the
closed coffin.
Harvey: "He knows everything you know,
John."
John turns around: "What did you
say?"
Harvey: "I said, Scorpius knows everything you
know, John."
John reaches for the coffin lid and reopens
it: "What... did you say?"
Harvey half sits up: "I said, Scorpius knows
everything you know."
John: "Meaning what?"
Harvey: "Another new feature. Scorpius
can hear me. Well... I've been sharing the contents of your head
with him... memories, thoughts, dreams... wormhole
technology..."
John: "No... you're lying." He turns and
walks away.
Harvey: "... and eventually they will torture
the information out of him and everything they all
wanted to know about wormholes will be
theirs... courtesy of John Crichton."
John looks away, shaking his
head.
He turns around and slams the coffin lid shut:
"Leave me alone!"
There is a flash, like old film
burning...
John opens his eyes. He twists his head
around.
John: "No!"
Aeryn reaches for him with her
hand.
Aeryn: "Hey..."
She touches his chin.
Aeryn: "Hey... it's all
right."
She holds his chin and rubs
it.
Harvey: "You have to go back for
Scorpius. Tell her John, tell her! You must rescue
Scorpius. Tell her!"
TO BE CONTINUED...
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