Twice Shy

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“Twice Shy”
Farscape episode
Talikaa
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 14
Guest stars	Raelee Hill (Sikozu); Melissa Jaffer (Noranti); Paula Arundell (Talikaa); Chris Pitman (Trader); Duncan Young
Written by	David Peckinpah
Directed by	Kate Woods
Production no.	10414
Original airdate	January 24, 2002
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This article is about an episode of the science fiction television series Farscape. For the platinum record by the band Great White, see ...Twice Shy.

"Twice Shy" is an episode from the fourth season of the American television series Farscape, written by David Peckinpah and directed by Kate Woods.

1 Synopsis
2 Guest stars
3 Production Notes
4 External links

[edit] Synopsis

Aeryn found out at the end of the previous episode that John had been using the drug lakka so he would not care about Aeryn. As this episode begins, Aeryn is furious at him as a result. The Moyans are arrayed to meet some traders who have maps to Tormented Space that they need. They also offer to sell the Moyans a young woman who they have been using to be their sexual slave. Chiana freaks out since she was so recently raped, and demands the Moyans buy her, and they do.

But shortly after the arrival of the enigmatic young woman, Talikaa, the Moyans all start acting strangely: John acts goofy and happy-go-lucky, ignoring reality in favor of what he wants to be true; Aeryn acts cold and angry, the perfect Peacekeeper. John tries to convince Aeryn to forgive him the lakka usage, but Aeryn is cold and menacing, without any interest in John, though John keeps insisting she loves him. Chiana acts very sexual, coming on to Talikaa, Aeryn, and John, but John refuses, with Scorpius overhearing John tell Chiana how much he loves Aeryn. Meanwhile, D'Argo is very angry, Rygel is very greedy, and Scorpius' Scarran half begins to take over, to his shame. Then, the Moyans start being attacked one by one--it turns out Talikaa is a spider-like creature that can disguise itself as a woman. It enhances the strongest traits in a person, then feeds on them. As it feeds on each Moyan, they lose these strongest traits, meaning that John becomes despairing; D'Argo becomes weak and unaggressive; Aeryn becomes afraid and unfocused; Rygel becomes unconcerned about money; and Chiana loses her sexual mojo. They now must try to find a way to get their lost traits back, which are being stored somewhere by Talikaa. John expresses regret that he thought he and Aeryn might have eventually solved their differences, but now they never will because they're all going to die. However, they do manage to defeat Talikaa and all end up eating spider soup made by Noranti. All of their weaknesses laid bare, Aeryn finally confronts John and he tells her he's been taking the lakka because Aeryn is his one weakness--the key to getting wormhole knowledge from him, and Scorpius will use her and the baby against him if he were to find out; he's been using the coms to spy on them. Their differences finally resolved, John and Aeryn steal a momentary kiss.