Farscape Season 1, Vol. 6 – Till the Blood Runs Clear/Rhapsody in Blue

“Til the Blood Runs Clear “: While out studying solar flares in his module, Crichton unexpectedly creates a wormhole. Aeryn manages to pull the module away before they’re sucked in. They are forced to land at the Dambada Depot where they discover a Wanted Beacon offering a reward for the return of Zhaan, D’Argo, and Rygel. When confronted by two vicious Bloodtrackers determined to get the reward, Crichton and Aeryn must also impersonate bounty hunters. The situation gets even more complicated when D’Argo comes down to the planet and is captured by the Bloodtrackers…

“Rhapsody in Blue”: The crew wakes to find Moya has StarBurst on her own accord to answer the distress call of another Leviathan. But the call was merely a psychic ruse by a stranded Delvian sect who needs Zhaan’s powers to heal their leader, Tahleen, from madness. Crichton and the rest of the crew are helpless as they become victims of the sect’s mystical powers, as Tahleen attempts to steal Zhaan’s soul!The blood in question in “Till the Blood Runs Clear” belongs to the warrior D’Argo, and it starts to flow when he’s captured by a pair of feral Bloodtrackers, mercenaries who look as lovely as their name would suggest. The obsessed Peacekeeper Captain Crais has put a bounty on the heads of D’Argo, Zhaan, and Rygel, which Crichton and Aeryn discover when they set down on a desert planet for repairs but neglect to tell their shipmates.

“Rhapsody in Blue” takes Moya and her crew to a remote Delvian outpost, where the head priestess has lured Zhaan to help her keep her madness in check, or so she says. There’s something more sinister going on in this power grab, and it has something to do with Zhaan’s dark, criminal past. The crew is paralyzed in self-pity and Crichton is on the verge of an emotional breakdown, but Zhaan’s torment as her past comes flooding back gives this episode its punch. –Sean Axmaker