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Scene One: from "We're So Screwed, Part One: Fetal Attraction", John hurries into Moya's hangar bay, carrying Aeryn in his arms. D'Argo follows him, carrying Chiana. He sets Chiana down on her feet, just inside the door.

Scene Two: from "We're So Screwed, Part One: Fetal Attraction", Sikozu is on Moya's Command. Sikozu: "What about Scorpius?" Chiana: "What about him?" Sikozu: "Well, he might've been captured."

Scene Three: from "We're So Screwed, Part One: Fetal Attraction", Captain Jenek grabs Scorpius by the back of the neck and slams him down onto a table.

Scene Four: from "We're So Screwed, Part One: Fetal Attraction", John enters a "black and white" movie with an antique coffin lit by candelabrae. John is wearing a black suit and tie. John: "Harvey!" Harvey sits up in the coffin, clicking his long fingernails together. Harvey: "You must go back for him."

Scene Five: from "We're So Screwed, Part Two: Hot To Katratzi", D'Argo's ship, Lo'Lah, flies towards a broken looking planet. There is a Scarran freighter and a Peacekeeper Command Carrier flying nearby. Aeryn: "We're going to walk into the most heavily guarded base in the Scarran empire, start a civil war and walk out with Scorpius. What part of that do you not understand?"

Scene Six: from "We're So Screwed, Part Two: Hot To Katratzi", Scarran Emperor Staleek: "Why shouldn't I have you seized, right now?" John touches the device at his waist: "Well, maybe this." Emperor Staleek: "A fission bomb." John: "My heart stops, we all go boom." Kalish Secretary Vakali: "He's crazy!" Aeryn: "Isn't it fun?" John: "What am I offered for all the powers of the Universe?"

Scene Seven: from "We're So Screwed, Part Two: Hot To Katratzi", Grayza: "Give us wormhole weapons and everyone will be safe." John and Aeryn stand across from her, on her Command Carrier.

Scene Eight: from "We're So Screwed, Part Two: Hot To Katratzi", War Minister Ahkna: "Have you got anything to offer or is all this just an elaborate bluff?" John sits on a table on Katratzi, with Aeryn standing behind him. The Emperor and War Minister stand facing them. John: "You don't believe that I can control wormholes?"

Scene Nine: from "We're So Screwed, Part Two: Hot To Katratzi", John and Aeryn walk down a flight of stairs, into a room full of flowers. Voice of Sikozu: "An entire cavern just to grow the flowers they eat? Why?"

Scene Ten: from "We're So Screwed, Part Two: Hot To Katratzi", Stark holds up his mask and the light from his face shines onto Scorpius who is imprisoned in a torture device. Scorpius is screaming. Stark: "I'm going to capture your soul."

Scene Eleven: from "We're So Screwed, Part Two: Hot To Katratzi", Noranti: "Scorpius can't possibly hold out much longer!" John comms: "Rygel?" Rygel is with the Charrids. Rygel: "The Scarrans will never make you rich."

Scene Twelve: from "We're So Screwed, Part Two: Hot To Katratzi", Sikozu asks: "How much hatred exists here, between the Charrids and the Kalish?"

Scene Fourteen: from "We're So Screwed, Part Two: Hot To Katratzi", The Charrid Officer, Rahzaro: "I will not be humiliated by you, Vakali." He hits Secretary Vakali in the face. Kalish run up pillars and walls, firing at Charrids. The Charrids fire back.

Scene Fifteen: from "We're So Screwed, Part Two: Hot To Katratzi", The Emperor grabs Scorpius: "Will you betray me?" Scorpius gasps: "I have served you for ten cycles as a spy."

Scene Sixteen: from "We're So Screwed, Part Two: Hot To Katratzi", Aeryn and John bring Scorpius to Lo'Lah which is guarded by two Charrid soldiers. Aeryn: "Don't fire or you'll detonate the bomb." Scorpius stands up and hits Aeryn in the face with the back of his arm. He swings around and hits John in the stomach with his fist. Scorpius holds John face downwards on the floor. John: "You stupid son-of-a-bitch!"

Aeryn's boots lie just within John's line of sight. She remains on the floor where she landed after Scorpius hit her.

Staleek: "Minister Ahkna's forces have done a superb job in quelling the unrest. A duty to which I'm sure she's eager to return."

The Emperor takes a step closer to the two men and hits Scorpius in the face, knocking him off John. Scorpius cries out and falls over backwards. John immediately sits up, rubbing his nose.

Staleek: "You'll be delighted to hear my guards were able to secure the rest of your crew as well. Coincidentally as they were also nearing exits. Like yourselves, I'm sure they were simply trying to avoid... any entanglement in violence."

John: "Temporarily. Grayza called with another offer. But you had a riot goin on... we didn't want to bother you. We decided to take our own car."

Staleek nods: "I'm glad you didn't. Base defenses have been placed on highest alert. Any non-Scarran vessels will automatically be targeted and destroyed."

Captain Jenek stands beside Lo'Lah. He comms: "Emperor. The craft is an Eradicator, Topratkin design. We've gained entry and neutralized its systems. Sentinels are now securing the starcharts and the vector logs."

Staleek comms back from his quarters: "Leave no trace when you've completed. I don't want them to know what we know."

Scorpius stands in front of a table, leaning on his hands. Noranti, D'Argo, Sikozu, Chiana and Rygel are all behind him.

Aeryn: "Stealth is no longer an option. Does Lo'Lah have enough firepower to blast us out?" She walks over to D'Argo.

Ahkna walks the rest of the way into the room, from the doorway: "Oh, let me enlighten you. Grayza doesn't frighten me. Her Command Carrier doesn't frighten me. Your bomb doesn't frighten me..." She reaches out and runs her finger over the top of the bomb. John backs up until he is standing against the table.

Ahkna backhands John, hard and he falls backwards onto the table, with a thud. A Scarran guard steps in Aeryn's way as she tries to go to him. Ahkna climbs up onto the table and leans over John. She feels the bomb.

Inside the base, the loudspeaker broadcasts an announcement. 1812, the DRD, whirls along the floor of a room. John walks up to the doorway and enters the room.

Scorpius follows John into the room. John walks over to a table. He stands beside it and takes his gun out of the holster. He cocks it, holds it up, showing it to Scorpius and lays it gently down on the table.

John: "Listen up, Grasshopper. I finally have a plan that works. It's simple. We get in, we break bread... we see the sights, we grab you, we get out. And now you're gonna throw flowers at me?"

A "zippo" cigarette lighter is stuck and a flame begins to burn. Two hands cup a cigarette and light it. John is sitting at a desk. He is wearing dark pants and tie and a white shirt. There is a styrofoam coffee cup on the desk and he has the cigarette in his mouth. Harvey is seated across from him. Over his black leather mask, he is wearing a knitted cap. John closes the cigarette lighter and looks at the burning cigarette in his hand. He puts it down.

John reaches across the desk and cuffs Harvey, knocking the styrofoam coffee cup he is drinking from out of his mouth.

Harvey laughs: "The number one secret in the whole Scarran Empire. Huh! Even the Charrids and the Kalish haven't figured its real deal."

Scorpius: "That's right. Crystherium growth requires very specific and rare conditions. The Scarrans... can only propel their power forward from these very few locations."

Harvey has another cup of coffee. He takes it away from his mouth: "Cause they need 'em... Scarrans... simplistic, brutish creatures."

Scorpius: "Though Stark provided many details, I was unable to learn of Katratzi's location.
You... rescued him... prior to that breakthrough."

Scorpius: "No you're not. You were taking too long with the wormholes, John. Reality... provides opportunity. I needed some way to hurt the Scarrans... now."

John: "You know, you're not... you... you... you're not..." He taps himself on the forehead. "... makin any sense. You... you... you take the knowledge from my head and then you tell me that you give it to him... what, s...so I'm gonna rescue him?"

Scorpius: "Harvey? Oh, that is clever." Scorpius smiles slightly, then his face changes. "We had a deal. I help you rescue Aeryn Sun from the Scarrans, you give me wormholes."

Harvey: "And now you get on your highhorse. We had a deal! Hey! Ya took a bribe. Ya banked the cut, but when the heat's on... you're just another dumb copper doin his job. Unbelievable!"

Harvey: "Hey... look at these little beauties!" He reaches into a box of jelly donuts that is now sitting on the desk and digs his gloved fingers into one. He holds it up in front of his face, admiring it. John stands up and knocks the donut out of Harvey's hand.

Harvey: "Hey, he's right you know." He stands up and leans over the desk towards John. "We're brothers from different sides of an imaginary line. Good, bad, bad good. Your side, my side, my side..."

Scorpius: "I will attempt to accomplish the task myself. However, rest assured... mine is now the only path off Katratzi."

Braca turns to a guard standing at the door: "Wait for her here." He turns and walks away. Aeryn turns back and walks into the medical area.

Grayza: "All that astonishing wormhole knowledge and still you will not share it with us. You came in here big and bold, dancing on tabletops. And look at you now... begging for scraps."

John: "I may be jammed... possibly dead... but I am not begging. You can get that fantasy out of your head." He turns his head and looks at her. He immediately looks away.

Grayza: "You are so self-righteous! I have used all my skills... all my resources... for one perfect chance at peace. And because of you... it is gone... and I am... " She bites her lip.

Lo'Lah is in a hangar bay. There are Scarran soldiers guarding her. The base loudspeaker broadcasts and announcement.

Chiana: " All right. Well, let's get the others. Blast our way outta here." She runs an instrument over the ceiling by walking on the control console.

Chiana: "Well, the defenses were up, right?" She continues to work on the ceiling. Lo'Lah makes low beeping noises.

D'Argo: "No. I don't know what they've done. Maybe frelled with the weapons. Planted a homing beacon... or a bomb."

Scorpius: "Sikozu may not be able to provide elevator access, therefore we need to locate someone who can. Stark."

Scorpius: "Stark would never torture me. Emperor Staleek replaced the real Stark with a bioloid... to fool Ahkna into believing he was real."

John steps into the room and talks loudly: "Or we could try the banzai approach." He walks past Ahkna into the room. "Or we could just follow Scorpy's plan." He turns around and sees Ahkna. He swings his legs over a table to get away from her.

John: "You understand I know nothing about Scarran politics. But I'm... guessing that that means that they fire him and you get his job."

Aeryn watches Ahkna. She walks over to her and looks straight into her face. Ahkna inclines her head and smiles. She walks around Aeryn and leaves. She chuckles as she goes.

Jenek: "Emperor... about Crichton's bomb. In under a quarter of an arn we will have computed the final code. With it, this will disarm the detonator."

The elevator doors open and a Charrid soldier gets out. Sikozu and the bioloid turn their backs towards the elevator until the Charrid has gone past them.

Bioloid: "There's a master keychip that overrides all codes. It'll run the elevator and give you complete access to the system's schematics."

John has the bomb in his hands. On the side of it, he has written "Hi There." He appears to be writing on the other side.

John stops writing and looks at Aeryn. The bomb ticks away, like a wind-up clock. Suddenly, the bomb whirrs and stops.

Scorpius stands beside Sikozu as she works at the elevator control console. Sparks shoot out of it. John and Aeryn run up to them. The station loudspeaker broadcasts short commands.

The elevator doors open and it's occupants look surprised. John hits the Kalish male, Aeryn hits the Charrid." They immediately start to drag them out of the elevator.

Rapid gunfire rings out. Shots hit the bioloid in the back. He cries out and falls. The crew returns fire. Sikozu screams. Several Scarrans begin firing into the elevator. The doors close and the firing stops.

Sikozu turns to the control console. A hologram appears above it, showing a diagram. The controls make a trilling noise.

Scorpius: "Take us to the bottom of the Chrystherium cavern." He turns to look at John: "The shaft ends there. It means they will not be able to reach us in another car. It also means... Sikozu has time to activate the drill."

A Scarran guard watches a Kalish working on the elevator controls Ahkna stands close by. It crackles and shoots out sparks.

Grayza turns and Braca walks over to her: "... sensors detect weapons fire within the base... and communication intercepts indicate... Scarran forces are in pursuit of Crichton with orders to kill."

He, Aeryn and D'Argo exit the doors with their weapons out and pointed. Scorpius walks by Chiana and follows them. Chiana starts to follow them too.

Sikozu: "That was not me." She sticks her head in the door and hollers: "They're trying to override the override!"

D'Argo takes a few steps closer to the elevator: "Okay, Lo'Lah should be functional by now. Start the drills. Get us to the surface. I'll signal Lo'Lah and then we go!"

Scorpius walks to the top of the stairs and then starts down into the room full of flowers. Across the chamber is the giant, "Matriarch Crystherium" plant. A beam of light falls on it. Scorpius stares at it: "We must destroy them."

Scorpius: "The mother plant is the key. It fertilizes the others. Kill it, and no new Crystherium can grow here." He hurries down into the plants. Aeryn follows more slowly, as does John. Scorpius picks the blossom off one of the plants. He looks at it, then drops it. He brings up his "Charrid style" rifle, aiming it at the Matriarch across the chamber. He fires, but a force-field around the Matriarch deflects the shot. He fires again and again, with the same results.

Scorpius: "Stark didn't know about it. Stark didn't know about it! This must be a new addition by the Scarrans." He voice takes on an "out-of-control" quality and he stalks through the plants towards the Matriarch.

D'Argo presses the door open, beneath Chiana. She manages to jump free, into the elevator. She drops to the floor with a groan and a thud. D'Argo grunts again and puts his feet on either side of the door, blocking it open.

Sikzou falls backwards out of the elevator, between his legs. D'Argo removes his hands from the doors and jumps backwards as the door slams shut.

Scorpius stands on the platform by the Crystherium Matriarch. He touches the force field that surrounds the plant and it glows red and crackles. Scorpius pulls his hand back.

John puts his hand to his forehead: "Wh... I can't believe it. I left a nuclear bomb in an elevator." He holds the bridge of his nose.

Sikozu: "No. There is a way. I am not like normal Kalish. There are others like me. We are part of a resistance movement dedicated to overthrowing Scarran domination."

On the elevator, the front Scarran sniffs twice. He turns and looks at the soldier in the corner. The other two Scarrans look at him too.

Sikozu: "We are... genetically engineered to kill Scarrans by emitting an intense radiation that specifically destroys their heat-producing gland."

Sikozu: "If the Scarrans were to learn there are others engineered like myself, they would kill millions of innocents to root us out."

The Scarran all prime their weapons and face towards the door. The doors open and the Scarran Leader walks from the back of the elevator and gets out first. John's bomb is still laying on the floor of the elevator where he left it.

Sikozu holds her arms out to her sides. She begins to rise in the air and gives off a rose colored glow. It shimmers out from her in waves. The Scarran Leader hisses and points his weapon at her. The glow becomes more intense and shoots out from her body. The Scarrans gag and cry out. John turns his face and covers his eyes. Scorpius puts his head down. The Scarran soldiers start collapsing. One falls face first off the stairs. Sikozu continues to hang in the air, emitting radiation for several microts after the last Scarran has fallen. Finally, she collapses as well.