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Scene One: from "Fractures", Moya is flying through space. John addresses the crew: "I don't see another option." switches to...

Scene Two: from "Into the Lion's Den, Part One", outside shot of Scorpius' Command Carrier and the many smaller vessels surrounding it. Switches back to...

Scene Three: from "Fractures", John addressing the crew. John: "Scorpius has the knowledge from my brain, and I'm not going to let him shaft the Universe with it." Aeryn stands there implacably, listening. John: "I'm going to stop Scorpius."

Scene Four: from "Into the Lion's Den, Part One", John and Aeryn enter the Command Carrier. Scorpius spreads his arms wide and says: "Welcome. I grant you John, and your companions, full diplomatic rights, immunities and courtesies whilst aboard this vessel." A long red carpet is visible, lined on either side with armed Peacekeepers. As Scorpius is speaking John, Aeryn and Crais are seen walking down the carpet. As he passes, Crais makes eye contact with a female Peacekeeper.

Scene Five: from "I-Yensch, You-Yensch", Lt. Braca sets two I-Yensch bracelets on a table. Scorpius: "Those wearing the bracelets will feel each other's pain." Braca, who is wearing a bracelet, puts the other on D'Argo's wrist.

Scene Six: from "I-Yensch, You-Yensch", Rygel headbutts the top of Lt. Braca's head. Braca and D'Argo both cry out and recoil. They turn away and both hit their heads on the wall and fall to the floor. Rygel: "And if one is killed?" Scorpius: "Both will be dead."

Scene Seven: from "Into the Lion's Den, Part One", While walking together towards Scorpius, John says to Aeryn: "Let's test the jewelry." Aeryn takes his thumb and twists it viciously, causing John's knees to buckle and him to cry out in pain. At the head of the carpet, Scorpius also cries out and grabs his own hand. The Peacekeepers nearest him bring their weapons instantly to bear on John.

Scene Eight: from "Into the Lion's Den, Part One", Scorpius tells John: "The rift between us is finally bridged." He holds his hand out to John.

Scene Nine: from "Into the Lion's Den, Part One", Lt. Loral tells Crais: "Scorpius stole your command. I knew he squeezed you out of power." Crais: "What else do you know?" Lt. Loral grabs Crais and they begin to kiss.

Scene Ten: from "Into the Lion's Den, Part One", Henta tells Aeryn: "You could have come back." Aeryn: "I didn't want to come back."

Scene Eleven: from "Into the Lion's Den, Part One", Talyn is entering the hangar bay aboard the Command Carrier. Lt. Braca, Lt. Loral and Crais are among the Peacekeepers watching him. Lt. Loral: "He is magnificant." Crais: "He's harmless. His weapons have been deactivated." Lt. Loral hands Braca an instrument: "That ship's biologics are on minimal auto-support. All his other systems are dead."

Scene Twelve: from "Into the Lion's Den, Part One", John and Co-Kura Strappa are looking at a translucent computer screen. John: "These are design specs, right?" Co-Kura: "To create an external field stabilizes a wormhole before entry."

Scene Thirteen: from "Into the Lion's Den, Part One", Commandant Grayza tells Scorpius: "Your project has cost us dearly ... and yielded nothing."

Scene Fourteen: from "Into the Lion's Den, Part One", Scorpius joins John in the lab. He puts his hand on top of John's head and says: "The equations we need are in here." John pushes his hand away and jumps up: "Don't touch me!"

Scene Fifteen: from "Into the Lion's Den, Part One", Scorpius holds John's head, smashed against the table top: "You give me what I want, or I swear, I will keep you alive, so that you can witness your homeworld's destruction."

In Scorpius' quarters, he slams and holds John's face against the top of the table where a projection of planet Earth is visible.

Scorpius: "Look at it! You listen to me, John. I don't care about your homeworld... your entire species. Live... die... means nothing to me. What interests me is that they... matter... to...
you!"

Scorpius: "I... have run... out... of... time!" He hauls John upright by his collar. The projection of the earth disappears.

Scorpius: "That Commandant bitch will return here anytime. I... must be able to report success or... she's going to scrap my wormhole project and soon the Scarrans will... rule... half... this... galaxy!"

Scorpius screams! He picks John up and flings him up the steps. John lands on his back near Scorpius' communications console. Scorpius comes and kneels over him.

John makes a fake kiss at Scorpius who taps him on the cheek. Scorpius stands up and starts to walk out of the room. John hits the back of his head against the floor as hard as he can, twice, until he hears Scorpius' grunt of pain.

John: "No. Scorpius is in Captain Queeg mode. Somebody stole his strawberries and he's not gonna let his pet project die."

John: "All right folks. Gather round. New deal. This whole Commandant Grayza strong arm routine... changes everything."

John: "Absolutely, but it might not be nasty enough to put a spike into Scorpy's wormhole project once and for all."

John looks at the group: "Are we all on the same page here? We came to permanently sabotague Scorpy's project. Now, I've been trying to kill it from the inside, but we have run out of time. We have one... option left. Only one.... we blow up the Command Carrier."

John: "All of Scorpy's data is on this ship. He's retro'ed the entire damed hull into a repeated necessary to stablize a wormhole. This boat is the Peacekeeper wormhole project."

John: "It's armed to the teeth. We can blow the munitions store. Or, we can stick a banana in the tailpipe. I do not care how we do it, but we do it."

John: "Is this not what we came here to do?" John looks at each of the group in turn. "Crais. You commanded this ship. Can we destroy it?"

Crais shakes his head: "It's possible. I'll need to see the specs on any modifications Scorpius' made, and any redistribution of power and fuel since I was in command."

John: "Good. We have a start and... we will find a way to get the people off. Guys. We can do this. And we have to try."

Rygel: "I did see what the Scarrans were able to do. Even if by some... (he laughs) wild miracle, I manage to regain my throne, I won't hold it for long if the Peacekeepers have this technology. I know what horrible destruction wormholes can wreak. Nobody should wield such power... nobody."

The scene switches to black and white and we see the canvas topped truck with John and Harvey seated on crates, beside it, playing a game of chess. A lighted lantern sits on another crate, beside them. There are flashes of light and the sound of gunfire and mortar shells. "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again" plays plaintively in the background.

Harvey: "This is all very pleasant John, but, ahh... shouldn't we be working? Or at least, well, pretending to work."

Harvey: "Huh? Oh, would Scorpius actually attack earth? If you fail in delivering the wormhole answers. Pffh." He sees something and reaches across the chessboard to make a move. After he does, he laughs.

Harvey: "Would he set out on a 60 cycle mission... to destroy an insignificant planet. Huh! Though I wouldn't over-underestimate Scorpius' resolve for retribution, John."

Harvey: "Hey! Took your hand off!" He gestures at the board. John takes his hand back and Harvey picks up a checkerpiece and starts jumping John's pieces. Another shell hits nearby and the light flares. John and Harvey are now playing a hand of cards.

Harvey happily grabs it up: "Uh huh. Yes! So, tell me John. If you do develop wormhole trap, and gain the ability to return home, would you really destroy that information?"

Harvey: "Go fish! Ah hah!" He throws his arms up in the air and jumps up just as another shell lands nearby. "Hurrah!" He looks around, nervously and gingerly sits back down.

Co-Kura Strappa: "Crichton? Crichton? Crichton, you're no longer writing on the tablet." He puts a hand on John's shoulder.

John continues to draw on his hand. The blue light shines on his face and on the weird symbols. John turns his hand this way and that, looking at them.

John continues to stare, fascinated, at his hand. "I can do this." He looks into the computer screen and sees a wormhole forming there.

Lt. Loral is with Crais, in his quarters. She walks over to him and kneels down in front of him, looking up into his face.

Lt. Loral: "Disarming him was the final step towards his resurrection. Your experience with Talyn... will be invaluable... to making that happen. We must get you back aboard Talyn."

Lt. Loral stands up and puts her hand on the back of Crais' head: "We don't know that." She trails her hand down the line of his jaw.

Lt. Braca: "Sir." He is followed two armed and helmeted Peacekeepers who have Crais held between them, his hands secured behind his back.

Braca whispers to Scorpius: "Talk to Crais." Scorpius nods and Braca gestures to the soldiers. They bring Crais forward, into Scorpius' quarters, and up to the bottom of the steps.

Crais, as the soldiers attempt to drag him away: "I demand that I suffer no repercussions for any of my actions during exile. I demand assurances that the Leviathan hybrid will be resurrected, that I will be leader of that project, working along side of Lt. Loral." The soldiers have him nearly to the door.

Crais: "If you delineate my requests in an Executive Order, signed while you were still in command of this vessel, High Command must honor it, no matter what dishonor you may endure."

Crais looks up and shakes his head. He begins to walk towards Scorpius as he talks: "Scorpius. Crichton has no intention of helping you." Crais circles around behind Scorpius: "He has determined that there is only one way to stop you and your experiments with finality." Crais leans in towards Scorpius' ear: "He is conspiring with some of Moya's crew, to destroy... this Command Carrier."

Aeryn walks down a corridor and enters an planetary terrain reconstruction area of the ship. She glances around at the different groups of Peacekeepers and stops near a statue. She hears a child's voice... crying.

Child: "Help! Let me go!" There is a young Peacekeeper girl lying on the ground under a tree. Two young boys are holding her, with one of them poised to hit her.

Aeryn: "Huum. All right." She takes a squeeze bottle out of carrier on the girls belt and squeezes some liquid from it onto a cut on the girl's palm. "Well, this may sting a little. When I was your age, do you have any idea how many times I was ambushed when I wasn't ready?" The girl doesn't answer, just looks at her. "Let me see." She holds out her hand and begins to count by holding out fingers on one hand, then the other. She gets to ten, then flashes all her fingers again, and again. From behind them....

Henta reaches over and takes the girl's injured hand in hers. She looks at Aeryn, then back at the girl. She pulls back a riding crop like stick and strikes the girl's bleeding palm. Both the girl and Aeryn winch, but neither makes a sound.

Aeryn: "There's so much you don't know, Henta." Henta stops for a moment, then continues away. Aeryn turns back and sees Crais approaching.

Jool comes out of a side corridor and joins them: "Great. Let's get the information, get it to Crichton and get the frell outta here."

D'Argo turns around to face forwards down the corridor... and finds himself face-to-face with some Peacekeeper soldiers. He turns around, and there are more soldiers right behind the group. The others glance behind them. Their faces fall.

Co-Kura: "The equations... they're flowing from you like a Multeran Soltin." (John is writing continuously on his hand.) "This is wonderful, Crichton." Co-Kura hurries off, making happy, whimpering noises.

Scorpius enters through an archway near John: "It seems your subconscious has blossomed. Despite yourself... you are delivering the secrets that will allow me to succeed. But, ah... no more distractions John. Your plot against this ship has failed. Your friends... are in custody."

John glances over in time to see Crais enter, between two Peacekeeper soldiers. Suddenly, John jumps up from his chair and hurls himself at Crais, bringing him down to the floor. As he pulls back to strike him, the soldiers grab his arms and pull him away, screaming...

Scorpius releases John as do the soldiers. He sits on the step glaring down at Crais who is still lying on the floor.

Chiana: "They're Peacekeepers Jool. They're not into justice. They're into enforcement." She walks over to D'Argo who is sitting on the floor. She touches his knee and gets down on the floor beside him. "Hey. Come on. We've been in worse scrapes than this."

D'Argo: "I was a Peacekeeper prisoner for eight cycles. And I think that I spent every, single solar day trying to escape."

John: "You wanted to see me?" Aeryn stands up. John spots Crais and starts towards him. Aeryn moves between them and puts her hands on John's chest.

Crais: "No, Crichton, I did not. I needed the distraction, so that Scorpius would believe that the plot against him had failed. I kept Aeryn safe, because I need her."

Crais: "All that I have cared for have gone. My parents taken away from me, my brother dead. So now, I live... I plan... I do... all in the service of my own interests. In that, I believe I am not unique in the Universe."

Crais: "Despite all of this, I understand the power of the technology..." He stands up and turns to face John. "...that Scorpius is attempting to harness. I understand the horror that will wash over this galaxy if... anyone wields this weapon. And, last of all, I now know that I am the only individual capable of stopping him."

John: "Giving the crew time to abandon ship." Aeryn nods. John moves in very close to her and looks her in the eye: "Tell me... you believe this."

Crais: "You don't. Starburst in a confined space, where the energy can't dissipate, will be the hero's death that Talyn deserves."

John calls after him: "Crais!" Crais stops walking and turns back towards John. John looks at Aeryn once again: "I'll get you one." He turns and leaves in the opposite direction.

John comes into a corridor. There are Peacekeepers walking through it, past and around him. The public address system is making announcements. John pauses, thinking.

Still looking thoughtful, John enters a hangar and walks over to a prowler. He stands by it for a few microts, then pats it twice on the nose and walks quickly into the lab.

John comes back to him, taking off his glove. He holds the hand he has been writing on under Co-Kura Strappa's nose, waving it back and forth.

John: "You smell this? Wormholes." He holds his thumb and forefinger together. "We are
this close. But you gotta get Scorpy to call off the watchdogs."

Lt. Loral looks at all the various Peacekeepers that are around them in the corridor. She takes Crais' arm and leads him into a corner.

Crais looks over her head, at the crowd in the corridor: "Loral. If you suspect anything, you must report it. Do not be disloyal... to Scorpius in any way." He steps past her, back into the mainstream of the corridor.

Crais: "Tell Scorpius it's not going to work. Next time he sends someone to spy on me... send someone I care about!" Crais stalks away.

Co-Kura Strappa is in a hangar bay with some Peacekeepers. They are looking at the module, checking it out. He comms: "Crichton. Crichton? We must hurry. Scorpius said we must not stay on Moya long."

Pilot: "Moya understands. She says it is best this way. Talyn was always destined for a violent end. This then, at least, will be a noble one." John nods. "We... may never see any of you again."

John reaches up and feels the edge of Pilot's head: "Pilot. Just be ready to starburst if you don't see us haulin' ass toward ya."

John rest his forehead on Pilot's shell, his eyes closed. After a few microts, he opens his eyes and leaves the den. Pilot watches him go.

He is standing next to the Farscape One module. John in standing inside it. There are Peacekeepers busy making modifications to it.

John holds up his left hand with the thumb and little finger held down where Scorpius can't see them: "Read the middle finger, Scorpy. I have a thought, forming in my head, as to why this primitive ship, with no shielding, allows me to survive wormholes. I'm gonna check it out." He sits down in the cockpit.

John: "Yes. I could die. If I don't kick this project in the ass before Commandant Cleavage gets back, she's gonna execute me anyway, right?"

John: "What? You worried if I turn to silly putty, so do you?" Scorpius continues to look at him. "Why don't you come with me? Come on, Grasshopper. Come with me. You spent your life in search of wormholes. Let me introduce you to one, up close and personal." Scorpius continues to think for a microt. "Unless, of course, you're too scared."

The Farscape One module flies out of the Command Carrier and manuevers around the throng of support vessels, heading towards a wormhole that is visible, a short distance away.

Back on board the Command Carrier, several Peacekeepers are looking upwards, watching monitors giving out sensor data from the module. They can hear John's voice over a loud-speaker: "We are approaching optimal attitude."

The module is flying near the mouth of a large wormhole. John comms: "Entering the wormhole in ten microts, on my mark."

Aboard the Command Carrier, Crais walks alone down a corridor. There are Peacekeepers all around him, but they are all standing still, listening to the conversation between John and Co-Kura that is being broadcast over the P.A. Crais moves silently amongst them, pausing now and then, appearing to also be listening.

On the Command Carrier, everyone seems to be listening to the transmission. The prowler pilots and soldiers in the hangar are all standing, staring towards the lab. However, when Crais enters the room and attempts to walk past a prowler, the Peacekeepers spring into action immediately. The Peacekeeper that kept Crais away from Talyn previously stops him again.

Peacekeeper: "You may not know it Sir, but my orders have been changed by Scorpius himself. He said if you tried to board the hybrid again, I was authorized to shoot to kill."

Co-Kura: "Sensor readings, they're all in the danger zone. Do you read me? Crichton? Commander Crichton, do you read me? Do you read me?" There is no answer.

Co-Kura: "Can you read me? Crichton?" He turns to the technicians who are standing at terminals and screams: "Get me readings! Are either of them still alive?"

He holds up his hand, showing the Peacekeeper the grenade he has been holding in his palm. There is a red light on the top of the grenade that is blinking. The Peacekeeper does not react before Crais tosses the grenade onto the floor behind him and it explodes among the soldiers. There is quite a bit of smoke from the grenade. While the soldiers are milling around, confused, Crais engages the one in command as Aeryn swings down on a rope and lands on a couple of soldiers. Crais knocks out a couple more with a rifle butt and suddenly he and Aeryn are the only ones left standing.

Aeryn reaches out and puts her hand on the side of Crais' face: "Now you go." She taps him lightly and turns. Crais watches as she leaves, then he heads towards Talyn.

Co-Kura comms: "The wormhole appears to be experiencing wave fluctuations. I... I strongly recomend that you fly clear and return to the carrier."

He sighs: "No need to be afraid. Talyn, the firing mechanism on your cannon... was taken from you... by the Peacekeepers. (Talyn makes a responding noise and the bridge lights begin to come up.) The rest... have been captured. And Moya... Moya will soon be enslaved..." (Talyn reacts quite loudly to this.) Crais: "...unless... we do something. Something radical. You and I... together."

John: "You haven't got your wormhole legs yet. Don't worry. First time is the worst." John gives Scorpius a friendly slap on the shoulder and walks away. As Scorpius stands there, leaning against the module, Crais' voice booms out over the loud-speaker.

Scorpius stops in his tracks on hearing this. He turns... slowly, until he is facing John who is on the other side of the glass, in the lab, sitting on a desk and watching him.

Lt. Braca is staring at the instrument he holds in his hand: "The hybrid's building to maximum power, inside the hangar."

Crais: "The last time I left... this ship... my ship... I did so under a veil of secrecy. You forced that situation. You took away my command. You stole my life from me. Well this time Scorpius... I am not leaving quietly."

In the hangar, Talyn begins to fly up from the docking bay. The wind drives the Peacekeepers that are in the bay backwards. The whole carrier begins to shake. In Scorpius' quarters, Lt. Braca is forced to grab a wall for support. Scorpius looks towards John again, seeing that he is still sitting, calmly watching.

Scorpius walks over to the lab window and leans against it: "Somebody get that traitor off that ship!" He makes a growling noise.

Scorpius turns away from John and sees Co-Kura. He growls at him, causing Co-Kura to cry out in alarm and sink to his knees. Scorpius shoulders him aside and strides out of the lab.

Talyn is floating above the bay, writhing with building energy. Inside, on the bridge, Crais stands. The internal lights are full on now.

Talyn brings the tips of his tails together and a bright light builds, both inside and out. It travels down the length of his body and he goes forward, bursting through the wall of the Command Carrier. Debris flies everywhere and Peacekeepers are thrown about. In Crais' quarters, Lt. Braca falls onto the desk. Co-Kura Strappa falls and John is thrown backwards on the desk he is sitting on. In the holding cell, the prisoners yell out. Rygel, face to the bars, smiles and laughs. John goes immediately to check on his module. The loud speaker begins sounding "Emergency. Emergency."

All over the ship, Peacekeepers are screaming and running in all directions. From outside the Command Carrier, flames can be seen in several places as well as smaller vessels fleeing. Escape pods begin to fly from it, faster and faster.

D'Argo cries out: "Ahh!" and Jool screams again. Rygel cries out: "Ahh! Ahh!" There is a blast of flame and the upper bars drop some more, then even more. D'Argo is trapped between them and the door. So are Chiana, Rygel and Jool.