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D'Argo grunts, then gets up and exits with his Qualta blade at ready and looks around the hanger. There is a flashlite mounted on the underside of the Qualta blade. Chiana and Jool follow D'Argo down from the pod. Chiana has a pulse rifle with mounted light.

They continue looking cautiously around. Suddenly, an "alien" creature jumps on the back of D'Argos head. Jool begins to scream.

John: "Right, we find it, we might stand a chance, and that means a scavenger hunt in that direction." John stands up and points towards the door that leads out of the hanger.

Chiana: "There aren't any. I already looked. No transport pods. Not a single piece of escape craft. It's like everybody who could leave, has left."

D'Argo: "It's a bit late to worry about that. Let's just get what we need for the transport pod and get the frell outta here."

John hears it start to move and yells "D'Argo!" as he runs back towards it. They both push on the door, trying to stop it from closing, to no avail.

John: "Alright, we know the layout, right? Okay, narium coils, three-K wire gotta be on tiers three and four. Either that or we head straight for Pilot."

John: "Abbott and Costello in the House of Horror. You know, we should talk to the Pilot. He could tell us where to find all the stuff we need."

D'Argo: "Uh! Crichton." He stops and kicks open a small hatch. There is a clanking sound and a cloud of dust flies up. "in here."

John: "And what if we're dying? What if we've been exposed to some radiation or some virus that's gonna mutate us into The Night of the Living Dead?"

Jool is standing outside the transport pod. Something falls from the ceiling and lands near her, on the floor. It makes a metallic, clanking sound.

There is a machine sound and we see some kind of device with nine small buttons of which six are lit up blue and one longer red button. A hand appears and pushes one of the buttons. The hanger door swings open.

Chiana leaves Jool alone in the hanger. Jools gasps as the door swings shut behind Chiana. Chiana stops to look back at the sound of the door closing. On the other side, Jool looks around her, eyes wide in panic.

We see the control device again, but now we see that it is attached to the right arm of a wierd looking, humanoid alien. Part of his brain is exposed. He stands alone and seems to be listening to something we can't hear. There are several lit candles illuminating the area.

D'Argo, still searching, enters a room. Looking around, he finds an external Gyro sensor lying on some other junk. He looks at it and tosses it to the floor. In the distance, he can hear angry sounding voices. He raises his Qualta rifle and continues on.

John enters a room with his pulse pistol held out in front of him. He sees the pilot. Alien creatures are scrambling all over it, making unintelligible noises, and several of its arms are missing.

When he speaks, the alien creatures run away. John walks over to the pilot's console. As John approaches, the pilot begins to quiver and make noises. John holds up his hand, to show he means the pilot no harm. He continues to approach and then climbs up onto the pilot's console.

She hears the screeching coming from behind her. She whirls around and catches sight of a creature running through a cross corridor. Chiana shoots at it and backs away. When turns back around, she finds herself in a room with barrels piled everywhere and many feral-type humanoid creatures. There is a small fire burning on the floor. One of the creatures approaches her.

There are several more of the creatures who are now intent on Chiana. One of them is gnawing from some kind of a leg bone and dropping bits of meat onto the floor. Another of the creatures rushes her and Chiana smashes it in the face with the rifle as well. Chiana is now bouncing on the balls of her feet and breathing loudly through her nose. She keeps the rifle trained on the creatures.

There is a group of creatures coming towards her. The one in front is holding a knife. There are some more who are behind her. Chiana keeps turning her head, trying to watch both directions at once. She keeps moving down the corridor, trying to get past the creatures that are behind her.

D'Argo is hurrying down a corridor. He can hear the echoes of Chiana screaming his name. (Chiana: "D'Argooooo! D'Argo!")

Chiana is still standing, facing the group of creatures. One of them rushes her and grabs the rifle barrel. She shoots it but it continues to hold onto the barrel. Chiana shoots it again and attempts to fling it around to get it to let go. As the rifle comes around, she fires it and shoots another creature. Chiana slings the gun in the opposite direction, the alien going with it, and she shoots yet another of them. Finally, she lifts one leg and pushes the creature away from her gun barrel. She catches her breath, throws back her head, and lets out a war whoop!

He is looking up and down the corridors, trying to find Chiana. When he turns back the way he was going, the wierd alien appears in front of him.

D'Argo looks at Kaarvok and he looks back at D'Argo. Suddenly, Kaarvok shoots something from his arm which surrounds D'Argo like a cocoon.

John is running down a corridor. He stops at a junction, looks around and pulls out his pistol. He starts slowly towards a room.

John turns to watch them pass, from behind some barrels. He sees two of the creatures dragging an inert D'Argo between them. John jumps out from between the barrels, gun pointed.

As she runs, one of the creatures lunges at her with a rebel yell. She shoots it while it is in midair and gets down as it flies over her head and lands on the corridor floor.

John continues to struggle with the creature that is on his back as D'Argo is being dragged away. John throws the creature off and starts forward only to have another of the creatures attack him from the side. John punches the alien, but gets turned around.

Kaarvok uses it to drill into D'Argo's brain while John and Chiana are struggling with one of the creatures. They both end up lying on the floor. As they get up to their knees, they see Kaarvok pulling the drill back out of D'Argo's brain. He then sticks the drill into a hole in the side of his own head, obviously enjoying it. Kaarvok walks away and the other creatures start towards D'Argo.

Chiana goes nuts. She screams: "Nooo!" and starts shooting at the alien creatures. The aliens run off, following Kaarvok. Chiana continues to shoot after them, screaming. Finally, she stops shooting. John runs to her, grabs and holds her. They both go over to where D'Argo is lying on the floor. Chiana kneels beside him and shakes him, but there is no response.

Inside is a mess. The door to command is half open and Aeryn is visible in the corridor outside command. She is carrying an instrument which she holds up and reads.

D'Argo's feet are being dragged down a corridor. John grunts. Chiana is walking along beside the body, holding his hand.

John: "I'm sure there's a bunch of Oricans around here. Damn it! We should have stuck together. I wanted us to stick together but he, we... both of us, we were too stubborn..."

They see a couple of aliens pulling off parts of the ship and eating them. There are sounds like electrical circuits frying.

He bends down to grab hold of the cloth D'Argo is lying on and he and Chiana begin to hurry away down the corridor. Some of the alien creatures watch them go.

Jool is standing on the transport pod steps, holding a pulse rifle. She hears alien groans and voices. She starts to climb down the pod steps.

Jool: "Okay. Okay. I can do this, I can. I can do anything. That's what my father told me. That's what my mother told me, and I've never doubted them before. (screams and jumps a little, while walking further into the hanger). (whimpering) Maybe once or twice. But I shouldn't doubt them. I should believe in them. And I should... believe in my...(shrieks)!" She backs up against a wall. "Oh, I'd don't think this is right. I shouldn't be here. I'm a civilized being. There's got to be someone here who recognizes that. I just need to find them." Gingerly, she inches away from the wall. "Hello? Hello?"

In the Pilot's den...the Pilot is making distressed noises. John and Chiana have dragged D'Argo's body through the door.

John: "Yeah, yeah, yeah. I get it. I...I, you know, I get it. I come forward, you scream. I move back, etc., etc., etc. Pilot, I'm over it. You're gonna help me. You're gonna give me something and you're gonna give it to me now!"

Chiana: "The criminally insane. (sniffs) The criminally insane! We fix the transport pod, we get outa here. We got three K wire. It's a start at least. (still sniffing).

John: "He controls the whole ship, Chiana. He's got the maintenance bay. He's got the doors. He's got the windows. He's got the smoke on the water!"

Pilot: "Peacekeeper convoy. Ambush convoy. Scarrans ambushed we...drifting...not to starburst. Not to go...nowhere to go. No one helps. We...starve."

While the Pilot is speaking, Chiana gently wraps the blanket around D'Argo's body. She closes her eyes and begins to pray while lifting a vial over his body.

Together they push D'Argo off the edge of pilot's den. The body falls as they watch, flaming, into the depths of the ship. Chiana leans back in John's arms, her eyes closed.

John: "What about all this other vermin we're seein? The hungry, hungry hippies?" John hands the pulse rifle to Chiana and climbs closer to the Pilot.

The chamber door opens. There is a whoosing sound and things begin to fly across the room. John and Chiana are pulled backwards off Pilot's console.

He hits John, knocking him down. He grabs Chiana by the hair and flings her aside. John gets up and Kaarvok backhands him again, this time knocking him flat on his face on the floor.

A sort of web forms around her. It looks like a bubble with veins, floating in the air. It splits down the middle and breaks. Two Chianas fall against the chamber door, grunting. Kaarvok looks from one to the other. They see each other and both begin to scream.

The second Chiana stops momentarily and looks back at her double being held by Kaarvok. She runs back towards them and stops, her hand reaching out towards her "other."

Rygel: "We can fix that." Rygel flies over and grabs the transponder off of the back of Crais' neck. Crais' head slumps forwards and a noise is heard from Talyn.

Rygel: "Listen you bartantik bitch! Talyn's supposedly the meanest deadliest all-time yave-of-the-yuvo fighter-ship but somebody ... something beat the yotz out of him. And when they come back to finish him off, we'll be here with him. Unarmed."

He walks over to one of the closed doors and bangs on it. When it does not open, he staggers away, wrapping a length of wire around his hand.

He stops by a doorway that is better lit and goes to check it out. There are some faint noises. As he looks into the room, he can hear some aliens and he spots a group ofthem further in the room.

Chiana runs whimpering into a room. A couple of the aliens run away when they see her, and she hides behind a storage container, talking to herself.

Chiana: "Okay. Okay. Come... come... Okay. Okay. Two Chianas. Two. She...she...and I'm me...yah. I'm me. mmm. She..she...she was just a clone. A clone, so I'm... I'm the real me."

John: "D'Argo's dead. Chiana's dead. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, I can feel it! That sick hammer-whore son-of-a-bitch he's gonna to be sipping my brains thru a sippy straw and it ain't making me feel comfortable. Now see, I head for the transport pod and he runs me down like a sick lizard or... we take back control."

Kaarvok walks down a dark corridor to a cell door. It opens as he approaches. There is a roaring noise from inside the cell.

Kaarvok: "Not the word clone, please. I doubled you. I...twinned you. Two D'Argos, equal and original. And tasty. I've never twinned a luxan before."

Chiana is alone in a room. She is pawing through some junk, tossing everything she finds out, behind her. She falls backwards onto the floor and pulls up her top to look at her wounded belly.

She stops when she finds something. She looks over to where an external Gyro sensor is laying on a hatch. She jumps up and over to it and puts a second sensor down beside it. She picks them both up, one in each hand and laughs.

Kaarvok: "The Xarai I call them. Private joke. I once had a tame vangern called Xarai. As you can see, once you've been twinned thirty, forty times, you're not much good for conversation. Not that you're especially witty right now."

Kaarvok steps closer to D'Argo, to speak to him: "D'Argo... you know how painful it is. I'm willing to spare you the pain of a whole half cycle, as long as you breed for me."

Kaarvok pulls on the chain and a white haired alien female comes into the cell on all fours. Her hands are tied together at the wrists. (She looks like Carol Kane on a really bad hair day!) She is grunting and growling and whining.

There is a loud noise and lights flash on in the ship. The cell door moves slightly, back and forth and the lights continue to flash.

John: "Pilot! Don't give up here. You're all I've got, you understand that? I need you, big boy, and you need me. Come on." John hits Pilot with a gentle punch to the jaw and then climbs back down below the console.

John hurries up the ladder and finds the Pilot slumped over, a harpoon sticking out of the side of his head. There are brains leaking out, all over the harpoon.

Aeryn walks over to look menacingly down at Rygel: "If you try anything when I am gone, whatever you have in the place of mivonks, and where ever they are, they will be gone when I get back."

Jool is on the stairs to the transport pod, holding the pulse rifle and shaking. She can hear alien noises, almost like a jungle and keeps looking around trying to see where they are coming from.

John is trying to run the ship from the console. He still has the three-K wire wrapped around his right hand and is pushing down on the large, pad-like controls with it.

John (talking to himself): "Come on, damnit John. Remember the sequence. You know the sequence. Remember the damn sequence. You know what you're doin here. Come on."

Alone in a corridor, Chiana is hurrying along. She comes to a junction and spots Kaarvok coming. She darts behind a storage container to hide until Kaarvok passes by, followed by several of his creatures. Once they have gone, Chiana comes out of hiding and heads off the way Kaarvok had come from.

John: "Hey Kaarvok!" It's just you and me now. What do you say we meet for some coffee or somethin? I'm sure we've got lots of stuff we could talk about. We'll cook you up something special, K-man. It's gonna take a little while. We're gonna hit you with some Starburst Soopreme!

All the while he has been talking, John has been climbing around on the console, pressing various controls. He ends, standing on the main console, in front of the dead Pilot.

Chiana continues down the corridor, staying as close to the wall as possible. She hears some noises and looks to see where they're coming from. She hurries towards the sounds.

Belima has now licked her way down his body until she is not longer visible, but she can be heard making noises from somewhere below D'Argo's belt. Chiana hurries into the room and goes to a cupboard, which she opens.

Belima is still "down below" squealing and D'Argo's eyes are round like saucers. He looks down at Belima, then back up at Chiana: "Oh..."

She carries the qualta blade over towards the cell. She looks down at Belima but she points the blade up and shoots off one of D'Argo's chains. His right hand and arm drop down, after being held up in the air.

Jool is sitting on the stairs of the transport pod with the pulse rifle held against her chin, pointing upwards. She is crying and shivering.

Jool shoots the rifle just as Chiana comes into the bay. Jool misses herself and hits the ceiling instead. The shot ricochets of the ceiling and walls, causing Chiana to duck to avoid being hit.

Kaarvok comes after John on the pilot's console. John runs towards him and tries to kick him. Kaarvok grabs him by the leg and pulls him down.

The Xarai are huddled off to the side of the pilot's console, watching John and Kaarvok fight. Kaarvok throws John down onto the console again. He releases the sticker from his gauntlet and lunges towards John's head. John reaches up and grabs his arm and stops him.

Kaarvok: "Others will come. More and more of you will come...to me...my family...my farmland...my...my perfect, perfect dish."

He makes a huge effort and manages to get out from under Kaarvok. He pushes the sticker into the rotten console where it sticks. John quickly rolls away and jumps off the console. He looks over at the Xarai.

Kaarvok slings a Xarai off his back as his device lights up and shoots. Traces of smoke follow John as he races across the den.

Jool's mouth falls open, as does D'Argo's. They stare at the second John. He looks up, towards the pod steps and sees the first John standing there, looking back at him.

D'Argo is sitting beside her, at the other console. One of the Crichtons comes and stands next to D'Argo. He looks at the other Crichton, who is sitting down, across from them

D'Argo: "I keep telling myself that but then, this Crichton... and Kaarvok, he said they created two equal and originals."

John #1 and #2 are sitting across from each other at a table, but not really looking at each other. They are playing Rock-Paper-Scissors against each other, over and over and over again. Their movements and facial expressions are identical.

Camera turns back to the Johns again (still playing R-P-S, still choosing the identical item each time). John(s) hears the voice of Kaarvok.