Won't Get Fooled Again (Farscape episode)

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“Won't Get Fooled Again”
Farscape episode
"Earth"
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 15
Guest stars	Kent McCord (Jack Crichton); Wayne Pygram (Scorpius); Lani Tupu (Bialar Crais); Carmen Duncan (Leslie Crichton); Murray Bartlett (DK); Thomas Holesgrove (Grath the Scarran)
Written by	Richard Manning
Directed by	Rowan Woods
Production no.	10214
Original airdate	August 18, 2000
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"Won't Get Fooled Again" is an episode from the second season of the American television series Farscape, written by Richard Manning and directed by Rowan Woods.

1 Synopsis
2 Guest stars
3 Production Notes
4 External links

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

After a short montage of the disastrous last minutes of his module experiment from the Premiere episode, Crichton wakes up on a medical examination table on earth. A nurse explains to him that his module experiment did not go well, and he was injured in the crash. John's father Jack comes in, and John attacks him, swearing that he won't get fooled again by the Ancients, who had tricked him with another earth simulation in the Season One episode A Human Reaction. Crichton then goes from scene to scene, repeatedly trying to expose what he is experiencing as a delusio or a hologram , but with no luck. Things become stranger and stranger, with Zhaan playing the role of a psychiatrist he sees, D'Argo acting completely out of character as a arrogant new IASA astronaut, Rygel being in charge of the space program, Chiana being an astronaut groupie, Crais a policeman wearing red pumps, and Scorpius and Pilot playing drums in a band in a bar. A second "Scorpius" also appears, only he actually talks and acts like the original Scorpius. He attempts to corner and talk to John, but John repeatedly brushes him off, convinced that Scorpius is the cause of his predicament to begin with.

John begins to lose it when he encounters his dead mother. Eventually John confronts the second "Scorpius", who explains that he is actually a "personality clone" produced by a chip that Scorpius put in John's brain while he was in the Aurora chair, designed to extract wormhole information from John's brain without John being aware of it. John dubs him Harvey, after the imaginary white rabbit of the Jimmy Stewart movie of the same name. Harvey explains that John has been captured by Scarrans on a commerce planet, as they want to know why the Peacekeepers are interested in him. They are currently inducing these hallucinations to break John mentally, after which they will be able to get any information from him that they want. Harvey tries to explain how John can escape, but is forced away.

The hallucinations become wilder and more disturbing, and eventually, John collapses and finds himself in a small room with a Scarran who is leaving notes that John is dead. John kills the Scarran, and Harvey explains that he had to stop John's heart momentarily so the Scarran would think he was dead. John vows to get Harvey out of his head, but as he says this, he contorts, and then forgets entirely about Harvey's existence, while Harvey tenderly says he will remain with John, keeping him safe.