Eat Me

Farscape Episode Review

In which there are two Johns.

What Happened

The transport pod is toasted, probably because of something Jool did, forcing John, D'Argo, Chiana and Jool to take refuge on an ancient Leviathan with a control collar. D'Argo fears Peacekeepers, but the place seems deserted, so he and John go in search of spare parts. The Pilot that John finds is not in the best health: the zombie-creatures on the ship are eating him, one arm at a time. D'Argo, meanwhile, runs into a odd little green man, who covers him in a giant plastic bubble, then sucks his brains out.

The Pilot says that this ship was a prison for the criminally insane. When they were ambushed by the Scarrans, the only prisoner, a nutso named Kaarvok, escaped. The Hungry Hungry Hippies were once all his Peacekeeper guards.

Kaarvok dodgeballs Chiana, creating a clone of her. He sucks the brains of Chiana #1, while Chiana #2 runs. Sated, he goes to see a chained-up D'Argo. Kaarvok's feeling lonely, but the using the twinning process too often leads to zombies, so he's decided to try building a "family" the old fashioned way. He leaves D'Argo a female and wanders off. Chiana finds D'Argo and frees him, then goes back to repair the pod while D'Argo looks for John.

John tries to take back control of the Leviathan, but Kaarvok isn't having that and kills the Pilot. They fight; John wins and hands Kaarvok over to the zombies. Just as John and D'Argo leave, however, Kaarvok fires one last dodgeball at John and twins him. The ship breaks apart, but the transport pod, with both Johns onboard, flies away to safety.

Back on Moya, who has found a desperately wounded Crais and Talyn, the Johns try to sort things out with a vigorous game of rock, paper, scissors...

What We Learned

• This place is bad voodoo.
• The ship is oozing pus.
• Jool's mother and father told her that she could do anything.
• He's got the smoke on the water.
• Kaarvok wishes they wouldn't talk about him behind his back.
• Once you've been twinned thirty or forty times, you're not much good for conversation.
• Not that D'Argo is very witty right now.
• Stark suspects that now is not the right moment to abscond.
• John can arrange his own death.

What Did I Think?

All this effort, just to make another John? Chiana was a bit more hysterical than I would have expected.