Somewhere in the galaxy, a man is being held in captivity.
Back on Lucy, Dutch and D’avin begin their spar training, marked by a move
D’avin learned from his mother. In the meantime, they discuss their complex
relationship made even more complicated by Alvis. Dutch reminds him that Alvis
is back at the monastery learning more about the Scarback history on Arkyn, but
D’avin adds that Alvis would be the simple choice. Before they go further, they
are interrupted by a transmission from Turin. He informs them that he has found
the location of the transmission: Prodigy, a school for gifted Westerly
children. He has secured the group a warrant in escorting three children out of
Westerly but warns them of doing anything too far from the warrant’s request.
Since one of the first stops is in Old Town, Dutch remarks that they could use
the time to pick up John, who should have secured Pawter by now.
The two enter the Royale where they interrupt a live
performance. There, they request Pree’s help to search for the remaining
parent. Pree introduces them to his new assistant named Sabine who recognizes
the man as a local miner and the Prodigy program. She also remarks that Prodigy
is among the only good shot that the Company gives for Westerly citizens. They
receive the location back east in the tenements and also ask for Pawter and
John’s whereabouts. Pree informs them that Pawter escaped Jelco by planting a
bomb in his chest and has since been captured. John is on the path to save her.
John tracks down Pawter’s location to a tent settlement in
the middle of the desert. From there, he discovers that Pawter is about to be sold
to a local gang. Her only way out is to win an arm wrestling match with the
female leader. Against odds, Pawter manages to win and makes her way to John. Secretly,
she reveals to John that she won by a covert nerve pinch designed to numb the
area. Unfortunately, this is overheard by the woman, who now demands the doctor
as her son’s wife. John fires back at the gang and provides the distraction for
the two to escape.
Making their way to the tenements, Dutch discusses John’s
relationship with Pawter to D’avin. Dutch remains concerned that John’s
involvement with Pawter could prove to be dangerous, but D’avin is more
optimistic about John’s consideration for others. He defends John’s compassion
and advises Dutch not to do anything to stop it.
D'avin: You lead, I shoot, Johnny gives a shit.
Pawter walks on her own in the desert until she is stopped
by John in his vehicle. He questions why she was so quick to leave when her
Qreshi blood protected her in Westerly. Pawter then reveals her own plan upon
discovering the Company’s latest plan. She hands him the input of data that
includes records of the Company’s plans for walls all over Westerly. Neither
Pawter nor John understand what the Company could want with the walls, but
Pawter is determined to save the towns in danger, starting with the community
from which they just escaped. John still offers to help her, despite the Killjoys’
vow to remain neutral.
Dutch and D’avin find the house of their last escort, a boy
named Jake. However, Jake’s father is more adamant that his son remains in Old
Town. He reveals that Jake’s older brother Olin had already been taken by
Prodigy three years ago and never returned. Jake, however, wants to go to
Prodigy for the chance to see his brother, but his father is skeptical on the
real reason why. When Jake’s father slams him back, D’avin fights the man down,
ordering him to hand the kid for the warrant. Jake goes with Dutch, but his
father questions that, after the loss of his son to the school and his wife to
the bomb, how much more will the Company take from them.
The Killjoys gather the three children on Lucy. Right away,
John tells D’avin to keep Jake in order as he seems to be less intelligent than
the other two girls. Jake confides in D’avin how nervous he is about seeing his
brother again. D’avin reassures him that brothers will always be glad see each
other, using himself and John as examples. John agrees, even though D’avin has
stabbed him in the back.
John then moves to speak with Dutch on the cockpit. She
quickly asks how long he believes Pawter will be onboard their ship. John
reminds her that he didn’t say anything about her bringing Alvis. Dutch allows
John to keep an eye on Pawter but warns him against anything that could
jeopardize their plan to find Khlyen’s connection to what happened on Arkyn. Lucy
then makes the announcement that they are approaching Prodigy. John gives Dutch
and D’avin devices that will be able to detect the transmission from Red 17.
When the group enters Prodigy, they are surprised to find
the facility completely empty. The Killjoys cautiously guard the children as
they search the grounds. Suddenly, an announcement for the school blares on the
screen bearing the face of Delle Seyah Kendry who appears to run Prodigy. With
Delle Seyah in charge of the school and the students missing, the groups split
up to look for answers.
Dutch and John search through an empty classroom only to
find containment pods. Without knowing why a class would need containment pods
for schooling, the two carefully examine the pods and find them empty. They are
then interrupted by Delle Seyah and her guard. She demands to know what happened
to the children since she claims she was not responsible for their
disappearance. Dutch and John reply that they don’t know but then notice a ring
of blood near the door. Delle Seyah activates a lockdown on Lucy to prevent
them from leaving until they discover what happened.
After showing the warrant, Delle Seyah is more confused
remarking that the current class is supposed to continue for another six
months. Moreover, they’ve detected an additional ship within the perimeters
just twelve minutes before Lucy arrived, hinting that someone else is plotting
against Prodigy. Delle Seyah brings up the most likely suspect: Malta Chambers,
the children’s guardian who has worked there for eighteen years. Moreover,
footage from the room has been stolen, and the station blocks any life form
scans. Delle Seyah then confronts on what Dutch really wants.
D’avin works with Delle Seyah’s guard in the search while
guarding the children. The guard pokes fun at the Killjoy’s occupation,
remarking how he himself was rejected by the RAC. In the meantime, all he is
doing now is looking for missing children. Jake reacts badly to the news that
his brother is missing and runs away from the group. D’avin quickly follows.
John and Pawter examine the pods to determine when the kids were
taken. While they work, Pawter describes her own experiences with Delle Seyah.
Since they were part of the Nine, they grew up together but also tortured each
other. Delle Seyah once dyed Pawter’s skin, and Pawter retaliated by adding a
chemical to her shampoo, making the woman’s hair fall out. The two open the pod
to find pipes in the machine. Pawter remarks that they must have been
neurofeeding the children in their sleep.
Pawter: Chemistry's a bitch, and so am I!
D’avin catches up to Jake after finding his bag filled with
rocks from his home. He then finds a pendant from the Nova scouts in the bag
and confides in Jake that he too was a Nova scout as a kid. Jake remarks that
his father thinks that the scouts are suck-ups leading the two to bond over
their asshole dads. D’avin promises that they will find his brother. Suddenly,
D’avin spots a woman down the halls. Before he can catch her, she seems to
disappear. He alerts Dutch and Delle Seyah that he may have spotted someone.
Delle Seyah tells her guard to hold his position, but he, instead, runs out to
find Malta Chambers. Chambers bellows out that she knows what they’ve been
doing to the kids. The guard rushes to her only to be caught in an electrical
field. He is shocked to death as the feed is lost. D’avin locates the rest of
the kids on Lucy as they move back to the group.
In examining the pod, Pawter then discovers a mess beneath
the surface of the pod. From the evidence, she believes she found the missing
kids: they never left the pod.
The team regroups for Pawter to confirm that the guard is
dead. Dutch orders Delle Seyah to evacuate the place, but Delle Seyah refuses
to leave until Chambers is captured. Pawter confronts Delle Seyah on
neurofeeding the children, an act that is illegal. Delle Seyah clarifies that
it is not called neurofeeding anymore, and the children come out as experts in
their fields. Pawter just adds that they’ve been using Westerly kids since the
Company considers them expendable. Just then, the screen reignites with the
image of Malta Chambers. She desires revenge for what happened to the children
and demands that Delle Seyah come to Level 9 alone as retribution. John
questions why she wants revenge when she was the one who murdered the kids in
the first place, but Dutch insists that Delle Seyah goes for the purpose of
using her as bait. Delle Seyah refuses, but Dutch fires a blast into the
woman’s leg to force her compliance.
John rigs up a couple of motion sensors to track Chambers in
the area. D’avin then notices Jake mourning the loss of his brother likely lost
in the pod. He reassures the boy that Olin was probably asleep when it
happened, so he felt no fear. D’avin promises that they will find whoever was
responsible, but Jake responds that they’d promise they’d find his brother.
Jake runs from D’avin.
They follow through the plan by having Delle Seyah walking
towards Level 9. While she is walking, Delle Seyah once again questions what
Dutch is here to do. Dutch reveals that they were after a transmission that was
transferred to the school. Delle Seyah admits that the transmission from Khlyen
is earlier than expected, revealing that she has been communicating with Khlyen
for a while. Even more curiously, the transmission was detected in a different
location: the room with the kids. In an instant, Delle Seyah is confronted by
Chambers who seems to have avoided the sensors. In desperation, Dutch rushes at
Chambers, moving right through her. John discovers that Chambers has been a
holographic image the whole time. With that knowledge, the children could be in
danger.
D’avin discovers the communications link to be down as a
result of a recent hacking. Suddenly, the kids walk out of the ship, claiming
that there was an announcement to meet at the loading bay. Before D’vain can
force them back to the ship, a small machine comes and shocks him to
unconsciousness.
John locates Pawter in the pod room and tries to evacuate
her. However, she reveals another discovery. In her analysis, she found
Chambers’ DNA mixed in with the children. She couldn’t have been threatening
Delle Seyah because she was dead the whole time. More importantly, Pawter
notices that one child was missing: Jake’s brother Olin who arrives to take
back his brother.
The Killjoys regroup to wake up D’avin. One of the kids
realize that Olin had used a higher frequency on the announcements so only the
children could hear him. Even worse, Olin has shut down the life support
system, draining their air supply. The group splits up with Dutch and Delle
Seyah moving to restore life support, D’avin and Pawter attempting to save the
remaining children, and John trying to save Jake and Olin who have taken Lucy.
Jake tries to reason with his brother and his plan to leave
the others to die. Olin reminds him that the others were Killjoys. They can’t
possible care about them. Without warning, Olin then has flashes of what looks
like Arkyn, though he doesn’t understand what he sees. Regardless, he reminds
him that he promised to come back for his brother, and now they’ll leave
together.
Delle Seyah: I guess Daddy likes me best.
As Dutch and Delle Seyah move to the controls panel with
less air, Delle Seyah decides to play a game of two lies and a truth with
little time left. One, she drinks the blood of the innocent. Two, she loves
Dutch’s hair. Three, the Prodigy program is actually a human seed back program
to preserve Qreshi culture. Dutch remarks that there is only two reasons to
preserve culture: winter or war. Without Khlyen’s transmission, they have no
knowing of which one it is.
On the air lock, John meets up with Jake, who escaped the
ship. He asks the Killjoy for help since his brother keeps seeing things and
acting strange. With Jake’s help, John assures him he will save his brother.
Near the pods, D’avin and Pawter preserve the kids since the
pods still contain life support. D’avin worries about the possibility of
vaporizing the kids, but Pawter reminds him that it was only because of the
massive data surge. D’avin then pieces that the data surge occurred at the same
time as the transmission from Red 17. He realizes where the transmission went:
inside Olin’s head.
John and Jake confront Olin before he can rewire Lucy. Olin
shouts at his brother for betraying him in a way that could send him back to
the Company. John reveals the truth of what happened. Chambers did not kill the
kids but was likely attempting to rescue them after the data surge. When she
opened the pod to save Olin, he pushed her into a pod, vaporizing her. His
revenge is otherwise meaningless. Nevertheless, Olin threatens to blow up the
ship.
With only twenty percent of the air supply left, D’avin
advises Pawter to get into the remaining pod, but Pawter refuses to move.
Instead, she takes the time to remark that his brother John is a good man. D’avin
agrees, though adds that John snores like an old man.
Dutch and Delle Seyah make their way to the control panel.
Dutch is forced to carry Delle Seyah as their life support very nearly runs
out. She quickly asks Delle Seyah how to reactivate the systems when Delle
Seyah responds by kissing the other woman. In her nearly last breath, Delle
Seyah reveals that the system can be reactivated using her DNA. Dutch uses
Delle Seyah’s breath to reactivate life support.
John finally brings up to Olin that he would be a terrible
older brother to Jake if he is willing to blow up the ship than be there for
him. John reveals that the Jake with them is only a hologram, proving that they
were protecting Jake all along. Olin then relents, feeling that he does not
want to appear as threatening to his own brother.
D’avin offers his thanks to John for talking down Olin
himself. John responds that he was defending his girl: Lucy. D’avin then teases John over his clear
feelings for Pawter.
Meanwhile, Delle Seyah confronts Dutch over keeping Jake and
Olin when the information inside Olin’s brain was meant for her. Dutch fires
back that if she were to take Olin back to her home, word would get out among
the Qreshi people. Dutch then responds with her own game of two lies and a truth.
Olin would be safer in her hands, any information found will be shared with
Delle Seyah, and she actually didn’t hate the kiss. Delle Seyah then allows
Dutch to keep the children but warns Dutch that from now on, they are allies.
On Leith, the group leave the brothers at the monastery in
the hands of Alvis. Alvis assures their well-being, but Dutch secretly advises
him to continue to mine for any information that came from the transmission. Alvis
then tells Dutch that, while the code from the monk’s skin is an old language,
they have managed to work through the writing. However, they have discovered
that the code is encrypted and requires a key for translation.
Level 6 Notes
- This is Delle Seyah Kendry's first appearance in season two.
- John refers to the time that D'avin stabbed him from the episode "Kiss Kiss, Bye Bye." It was indeed in the front.
- Did anyone catch the secret look that D'avin gave Sabine at the Royale?
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