With his wormhole research stalling and his situation desperate, Scorpius inserts the original ‘neurochip’ into his own brain. He hopes to make contact with the clone of John’s personality that spilled into the chip when it was in Crichton’s brain. When they meet, Scorpius shows the ‘Crichton Clone’ his terrible, brutal upbringing at the hands of the Scarrans, hoping to persuade him to decode the wormhole equations. Meanwhile, a defecting Peacekeeper scientist offers the real Crichton the secret of wormhole travel in exchange for Moya.

Synopsis

Finally we get the back story for Scorpius. It’s not pretty, but then again, neither is he.

The defector does surprisingly seem to be on the level, unfortunately the information she has to sell turns out not to be as useful as she’d hoped and the liquefaction that previous test pilots had suffered was only delayed by her modifications.

For a few moments it seems possible that the Crichton neural Clone might have been swayed by Scorpius’ tale of woe but no, he says that the secret isn’t his to give. Scorpius does get a little information out of the exercise, a few short sequences, which may help the research, but nothing like the complete answer he was aiming for.

The chip is destroyed in the process and the Crichton Clone along with it.