John Crichton (Ben Browder) insists he won’t get fooled again when he seems to be back on Earth, and nothing ever happened. But everyone seems to be there, D’Argo (Anthony Simcoe), Aeryn (Claudia Black), Chiana (Gigi Edgley), Rygel (voiced by Jonathan Hardy) and Zhaan (Virginia Hey).

Lurking around the edges is Scorpius (Wayne Pygram) who is trying to warn John about the delusions he’s living through.

Written by Richard Manning, this episode first debuted on 18 August, 2000.

Knowing something is wrong, but unable to find a way out, Crichton seems to be descending into madness. Even encountering Crais (Lani John Tupu), his father, Jack (Kent McCord) seems to cause a deeper descent, including an almost heartbreaking encounter with his dead mother.

Scorpius reveals what is going on. Well, the Scorpius implant, a neural chip, in John’s mind anyway. Scorpius is trying to get him out. It seems Crichton has been captured by Scarrans and is being tortured, being mentally broken for the wormhole technology in his head.

Now that Crichton is aware of Scorpius or Harvey, he’ll see him all the time. But what good will that do if Crichton can’t get away.

It’s funny, bizarre, sometimes a little sexy, and a little heartbreaking as you know that the longer it lasts the worse things are going for Crichton. But with some guidance from Scorpy, maybe Crichton can figure out an escape.

And from here on out, the series is never the same again. Crichton is in bad shape.

The Locket, coming on the heels of Won’t Get Fooled Again is a bit of a letdown.

Written by Justin Monjo, this episode first aired on 25 August, 2000.

John and Aeryn find themselves trapped on a planet that is held in a temporal distortion. They spend an entire life together while Moya, trapped in a nearby orbit only has hours pass.

Aboard Moya, Stark (Paul Goddard) returns and has word on D’Argo’s son. There is also some static developing in the D’Argo/Chiana relationship.

All of this plays out as Stark tries to help the crew find a way to recover Crichton and Aeryn, and get out of the temporal mist that seems to have them caught forever.

It’s kind of fun, especially once everyone realizes it’s not the planet that’s trapped, but Moya. And there’s some nice stuff with Stark and Zhaan remembering what happened, though no one else does.

And that last shot is rather poignant, but it’s just not as much a ride as the previous episode was and consequently feels a little disappointing. Though I do like the romance between Aeryn and John, and, of course, now we have to worry about Chi and D’Argo.

And the horrible realization that the crew have to save D’Argo’s son before he’s sold into slavery.