Hot to Katratzi, pt 2

Farscape Episode Review

In which Crichton crashes the party.

What Happened

Crichton walks into the peace negotiations between the Scarrans and Peacekeepers, offering to sell his wormhole services to the highest bidder. While he yanks Grayza's chain, D'Argo and Sikozu work behind the scenes to ignite a war between the Scarran allies, the Charrids, and Sikozu's people, the Kalish, to cover their escape. Scorpius invites Scarran Ahkna to kill him; he'll take his secrets to the grave. Not really, she replies, and shows him Stark standing in the shadows. He still remembers the two years he spent with in Scorpius' Aurora chair and will be happy to capture Scorpius' soul and all his knowledge as he dies.

The Scarrans try to force John to hand over the wormhole knowledge, but he has strapped himself to a nuclear device. If his heart stops, the bomb goes off. Sikozu locates a cavern only the Charrids are supposed to have access to and gives the information to John and Aeryn. When they are caught inside, the Charrids blame the Kalish for stealing the codes and tensions rise.

Minister Ahkna is on thin ice as it is, so when John demands that Scorpius be handed over to him, the Emperor Scarran seems to consider it. The Emperor confronts Scorpius, who announces that he's served the Scarrans for ten cycles as a spy. Allow him access to Crichton and Scorpius will separate the human from his bomb and hand him over.

Grayza offers a pardon for Moya's crew from the Supreme Council, but on the condition that no wormhole knowledge ever be shared with the Scarrans. Scorpius swears to John that he told the Scarrans nothing. Reassured, they collect Scorpius and start their escape. The riot erupts on cue, but just as they reach D'Argo's ship, Scorpius knocks John to the ground...

What We Learned

• There's a fairly fine line between madness and genius.
• Geniuses make plans.
• Ahkna lacks imagination.
• Scarran mivanks are not external.
• Sikozu is a bionoid.
• Mommy doesn't know Braca is Scorpius' boy.
• John is insane.
• They didn't need no stinking codes.
• First rule of piss-poor planning, have an exit ready before your entrance.

Best Lines

John: "It is beer o'clock, where the hell is my riot?"

What Did I Think?

I loved John crashing in to deliver his ultimatums.