Kit (now named Norb) runs across a giant Candy House Satellite. Suddenly, its consumed by Mantrid Drones, who then begin to chase Norb. Norb barely escapes by ejecting as his Charger is overrun by drones. Lexx and the crew hear his distress call in space and pick him up. Once inside he acts different and suddenly his body comes apart to reveal 5 Mantrid Drones. In the process, Norb/Drones kill 790. He also delivers a message "Let the contest begin" from Mantrid. Kai and Xev use Kai's protoblood and a protein regenerator to bring 790 back. The Drones begin to "eat" Lexx and make more drones. The Lexx must reverse its partical drive to save itself.
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.
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.
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.
The crew travel to a space brothel, Luvliner. Negotiations break down when Schlemmi finds out the Lexx crew has no money, but are allowed in free of charge.
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.
When Stanley Tweedle becomes gravely ill, the crew of the Lexx take him to the planet Ruuma. There they encounter a ghastly family: the father, Roada, is a scheming sleaze; the mother, Hidea, is a shrew; the daughter, Lomea, is a surly goth teen. Ruuma has the power to bring the dead back to a kind of shambling life, and the many corpses of His Divine Shadow's earlier bodies reside here, constantly trying to break in and devour the family. It was Roada's job to look after the bodies when the Cluster was still in operation, but now he's losing control of the situation and it seems the family won't survive long.
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.
A sinister, alien creature comes aboard the Lexx and possesses the ship's hapless captain, Stanley Tweedle. The ship's robot, 790, attempts to alert the crew that something is wrong with Stan, but by now they've all gotten so used to 790 abusing Stan that nobody takes 790's warnings about Stan seriously. The Web tells the story in a relatively straightforward manner, while The Net fills in the background material, explaining various plot threads and introducing others.
Comments