After awakening Kai incorrectly, Kai punctures Stanley's heart. Seeking assistance they arrive at MedStat, a large medical space hospital. The staff are more then willing to help. But their true plan becomes clear, as they wish to take The Lexx and seek fortune.
Two planets, Liber and Leester, long ago destroyed each other in a ratings war. The crew discover a small, automated planetoid that is still producing TV programs. Stan is captured on the planet and forced to take part in various shows, and when he consistently fails he is demoted to increasingly less dignified positions. Eventually, it is discovered that when contestants fail, they are decapitated and their heads are kept alive to be part of the studio audience for all eternity.
Kai leads the crew back to the light zone to retrieve an insect larva from the remains of the cluster. The crew then goes to meet Mantrid, the former Supreme Biovizier for The Divine Order, convince him to extract protoblood from the insect larva. Mantrid plans to use the insect's transference organ to transfer himself into a new machine body. Mantrid's assistant transfers Mantrid's essence from his dying body to the machine body. The crew return to Lexx and destroy it, but Mantrid's machine escapes.
Stan needs release and returns to an old haunt for pleasure. Unknown to him and the crew, The Heretic Worlds have been searching for Stanley, to put him on trial for the destruction of 100 Heretic Worlds. A chief prosecutor comes about, but has her own secret intentions for wanting to execute Stanley.
His Divine Shadow rules The Cluster with dark powers and an impenetrable bureaucracy. As fate would have it, four unlikely heroes are thrown together to wreak havoc on The Cluster: Zev, a love-slave; 790, a Zev-obsessed robot head; Kai, a cold-blooded assassin; and Stanley H. Tweedle, a bumbling Class 4 Security Guard.
The crew of the Lexx get a distress signal from a crashed ship. Stanley Tweedle refuses to go down to investigate, but Lyekka insists that she needs food, and if she doesn't get it she'll be forced to eat the crew. Lyekka wants to eat whatever survivors are down on the surface, but Xev understandably has some moral qualms about this. Once inside the crashed ship, they find jars containing still-beating hearts.
The Golleans, a family of cannibal rednecks, has stowed away in the Lexx. After a night of passion with Sissy Gollean, Stanley Tweedle is caught by the jealous Pa Gollean, who plans to kill Stan until Sissy convinces him to let them get married instead. Pa agrees, and then forces Stan to steer the ship to Vermal so Pa can get revenge on the remaining inhabitants.
In the hopes of extending Kai's life, Zev decides they should go to the original home of the Brunnen-G. The only thing they find when they get there are holographic messages left by the "Poet Man".
A group of restless and none-too-intelligent teens comes aboard the Lexx, and one of them accidentally reprograms Kai to become a psychotic killing machine. Kai then sets to work systematically murdering each of the teens, taking an uncharacterist delight in violence. Finally, after all the kids are dead, Stan manages to reprogram Kai to his usual, sedate self.
Out of energy, the Lexx is forced to land on a planet to replenish its energy supply. Believing Kai to be dead, they bury him. What they discover on their way back to the ship is a building full of insane people.
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