History Recap / FarscapeS02E03TakingTheStone

%%* HypocriticalHumor

* LeapOfFaith: The titular "Taking the Stone" ritual is a literal leap of faith off a cliff and hoping that the sonic barrier catches you before you hit the stone at the bottom.

* AncientTomb

* DueToTheDead

* EverybodyMustGetStoned

* FantasticDrug

* GraveRobbing

* HypocriticalHumor

* LeapOfFaith
* ManlyTears

* {{Mordor}}

* NotNowKiddo: Crichton's initial dismissal of a clearly-distraught Chiana, which initiates the plot.

* {{Poltergeist}}
* PowerTattoo
* PseudoCrisis

* RussianRoulette: Three Mornas get you high. The other gets you dead.

* TeenageWasteland

* TheApunkalypse: the Clan's culture and dress-sense owe a great deal to this stereotype, although they're much more peaceful than is usual.

* BizarreAlienBiology: when Clan women become pregnant, their abdomens become transparent to reveal the fetus inside.

* HollywoodHealing: at the beginning, Chiana inflicts quite a large cut on her belly to remove the life disc implant and check that it's defunct. The cut vanishes practically in the next shot, with no sign of her doing anything to treat it.

* KnifeOutline: After several incidents of poltergeist activity around his stolen goods, Rygel ends up huddled in a corner, trying to reassure himself that Zhaan and D'Argo are just trying to scare him into getting rid of his haul... and then a small box of bejewelled needles begin to shift towards him. Rygel's already halfway through his promises to get the stuff back down to the planet when the needles fling themselves at him, leaving a neat outline around his head.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: technically two forms of "magic", but it's unclear whether the paranormal events surrounding the stolen grave goods are the result of angry spirits of the dead, or Zhaan using her psychic powers to teach Rygel a lesson about grave-robbing.

* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: averted. When the "sonic net" catches people, they are shown to slow gradually and bounce back up a short way.

* ParentalSubstitute: Lampshaded during one of Crichton's finger-wagging attempts to get Chiana back on the ship. Getting nowhere, he glances over at mom -- I mean, Aeryn and grouses, "Feel free to jump in at any time!" Aeryn takes the softer approach, saying that it's Chiana's life to do as she pleases.
* PercussiveTherapy: As Chiana is mourning over he lost brother, a curious DRD zips up next to her, trilling inquiringly. Enraged by her grief, Chiana brings a fist down on the poor DRD, smashing it to reveal wires and green goo. Aww...

* ScreamingBirth: the Clan member Vyna has a philosophical discussion with Crichton in the course of one.
* SmarterThanYouLook: Crichton hoists the drugged-up Chiana over his shoulders just as Aeryn walks in and asks what the hell he think he's doing. Incredulous, Crichton points out that Aeryn is the "pinup girl for frontal assault!" and he can't believe she's not dragging Chiana back herself. Aeryn calmly explains that Chiana will just find another way to kill herself, and keeping her against her will is not the solution. Crichton, now deflated, rests Chiana down on a bed and asks when Aeryn got so "insightful."

* TitleDrop: Invoked by Molna. Constantly.

* HeyYouHaymaker: After an argument with Molnon at the end of the story, Crichton calls him to stop and says, "Please, just wait --" Exasperated, Molon turns around, whereupon Crichton sucker-punches him to the ground. Shaking his fist in pain, he quips, "[[BondOneLiner Why does it always end in tears?]]" and walks away.

* HoldYourHippogriffs: When Aeryn realizes Chiana just boosted her Prowler, she yells, "That little ''tralk''!" We can safety assume [[CaptainObvious this is a disparaging term]], like "trollop" or "bitch". Later on the Royal Cemetery Planet, Chiana taunts Crichton about his affection for her, saying that she is his tralk "only in your dreams!"

An implant in Chiana's body, a "life disc" that can connect two people across vast distances, reveals to her that her brother Nerri has died. When Crichton dismisses her attempts to talk to him about it, she flees ''Moya'' for a nearby planet, a cemetary world where the bodies of royalty from throughout the region are interred. When Crichton and Aeryn follow her, they discover that she has taken up with the Clan, the living inhabitants of the planet, the forgotten descendants of the tomb-building slaves, who were abandoned there when there was no remaining space for tombs.

* KnifeOutline: After several incidents of poltergeist activity around his stolen goods, Rygel ends up huddled in a corner, trying to reassure himself that Zhaan and D'Argo are just trying to scare him into getting rid of his haul... and then a small box of bejewelled needles begin to shift towards him. Rygel's aready halfway through his promises to get the stuff back down to the planet when the needles fling themselves at him, leaving a neat outline around his head.

* AbuseMistake: Type A. When Crichton first finds Chiana, she's hung upside down from the ceiling of a tomb and apparently suffering some kind of sonic torture. When he holds the Clan at gunpoint and releases her, it turns out to be an extreme sport that she was rather enjoying.

* [[DeadLittleSister Dead Big Brother]]: [[spoiler: (not really)]]

* AlcoholIsPoison: Crichton reacts this way when he finds the heavily-pregnant Vyna drinking something out of a bottle.

* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis

* WholePlotReference: Deliberate similarities to the ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Miri".