A Paddac beacon wired to Moya's neural system activates as a result of the removal of her control collar in the previous episode, transmitting location signals to any nearby Peacekeeper ship.

Then, Crichton, Aeryn and D'Argo search the planet for a Leviathan anaesthetic ("clorium") to help ease Moya's pain during the surgical removal of the beacon.

He is discovered by another two of the planet's locals: a nine-year-old boy named Fostro, and his mother Lyneea, a scientist who has spent much of her life searching for extraterrestrials.

But he finally succeeds in freeing Moya from the beacon just as Crichton and D'Argo return with the clorium; Lyneea gazes in wonder from the steps of her house as she watches the alien ship slowly rise into the skies and take off from her planet.

According to Anthony Simcoe, doing the prosthetics for the Fostro character was difficult because Australia (where Farscape was filmed) limits the number of hours that child actors can work each day.

In reality, the script called for D'Argo to grab a bird from the air and kill it, but the production ran out of money for that effect, so Anthony Simcoe ad libbed that gesture instead.

"[2] A BBC reviewer felt that "I, E.T" was "an excellent reversal of all the usual alien contact stories," with "John Crichton in the place of the little green men.