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489 – Starhunter Redux – The Man Who Sold the World
Dante and the gang’s latest target, Novak. A man who is one bad hombre, or so we’re told. But has he also got a valuable secret?
Kenneth and Eugene discuss The Man Who Sold the World.
Episode Synopsis:
On Pluto, a bounty hunter confronts Mr. Kavon, he accuses him of being Dr. Novak, a wanted criminal, when he insists on a DNA scan to verify his identity, Belle, Kavon’s beautiful assistant, offers him cocktails, then shoots him dead with a gun concealed under the serving tray.
Aboard the Trans-Utopian, Percy is complaining about the food, and her homework, which she hasn’t been doing, but all the witty banter is interrupted by Rudolfo, who’s got a job for them. Every bounty hunter in the system is after Novak, who they all know is Kavon and that he’s living a high profile life as a metal supplier. Dante and team are ordered to get there quickly and take the prisoner.
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There’s going to be a convenient plot complication though, every 28,000 years the Older Anomaly mucks about with Pluto and, by the most staggering of coincidences, the Trans-Utopian will only have 12-18 hours to get in and get out before the never-yet-observed-in-the-recorded-history-of-mankind anomaly hits Pluto.
Lucretia spends her travel time reviewing a Orchard briefing on the history of Callisto and the evil Dr. Novak who performed thousands of unethical and horrific experiments on the population before the Callistan rebels and the Lunar and Martian Alliances teamed up and overthrew the government of Callisto.
They arrive at Pluto and Lucretia is particularly gung-ho to bring Novak to justice. She was part of the troops that liberated an Callistan concentration camp and has seen the horrors firsthand.
Dante tries a clever ruse and pretends to be a metal buyer to gain access to the environment bubble on Pluto. Kavon lets him in, but it is the work of a few seconds to check the computer information and realize that the Trans-Utopian isn’t an ore carrier and that Dante is lying. He sends his goon, Rusty, to kill them, and his hostile AI program, Billy Ray, to disable the Trans-Utopian.
On the Trans-Utopian, Percy dances amongst the broken parts and bric-a-brac of the ship, when Billy Ray arrives. Caravaggio notices, but seemingly does nothing about it for a while, then when he does, he fails and Billy Ray takes over and starts destroying the ship.
Percy sulks about it and asks Billy Ray to leave. He doesn’t.
On Pluto, Rusty proves to be incompetent at his job as goon and is soon dispensed with, but not in any way incapacitated or restrained, by Dante and Lucretia.
Kavon sends Belle to kill them, and in a remarkably surprising moment of competence, Dante and Lucretia overcome her, too. This time retraining her, but she is soon set free by Rusty, who I previously mentioned was not restrained.
Confronting Kavon, they force him to take a DNA test to prove he’s Novak. He isn’t. But he sure talks like he is. They decide to take him back to the Trans-Utopian to run a full DNA test on him, although it is unknown to them that Percy is still sulking on the bridge while Billy Ray pilots the ship into the Older Anomaly.
On the surface, Belle and Rusty stage a rescue attempt. Rusty is killed, then Lucretia is taken hostage, then she escapes and recaptures Kavon. Dante threatens to kill him but Lucretia is especially keen to take him alive, in fact, the wants him to show her something – and they return to his lair.
Dante strikes up a friendship with Belle, shortly after Kavon inexplicably dumps her and headed off with Lucretia. Alright, friendship isn’t quite the right the word for it. Dante assumes that a women spurned is on his side. She says she isn’t, but he treats her like she is anyway. A little human kindness and compassion goes a long way.
We can dispense with the literally coyness now, Kavon really is Novak and he was conducting his experiments in an effort to unlock the Divinity Cluster. Dante and belle shows up, then Belle goes to get cocktails. She shoots Novak with the gun that she keeps under the drinks tray, and she gets killed by the bounty hunters.
They escape without the body.
Meanwhile, Caravaggio, who has spent most of the episode trapped inside a Nintendo GameBoy, asks Percy to turn on his anti-virus program, which she begrudgingly does, and Billy Ray is expunged just in time to come back and pick up Dante and Lucretia.
As they leave, everyone has a little time for a soliloquy.
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Dante and the gang’s latest target, Novak. A man who is one bad hombre, or so we’re told. But has he also got a valuable secret?
Kenneth and Eugene discuss The Man Who Sold the World.
Episode Synopsis:
On Pluto, a bounty hunter confronts Mr. Kavon, he accuses him of being Dr. Novak, a wanted criminal, when he insists on a DNA scan to verify his identity, Belle, Kavon’s beautiful assistant, offers him cocktails, then shoots him dead with a gun concealed under the serving tray.
Aboard the Trans-Utopian, Percy is complaining about the food, and her homework, which she hasn’t been doing, but all the witty banter is interrupted by Rudolfo, who’s got a job for them. Every bounty hunter in the system is after Novak, who they all know is Kavon and that he’s living a high profile life as a metal supplier. Dante and team are ordered to get there quickly and take the prisoner.
[expand title=”More…” swaptitle=”Less” tag=”strong”]
There’s going to be a convenient plot complication though, every 28,000 years the Older Anomaly mucks about with Pluto and, by the most staggering of coincidences, the Trans-Utopian will only have 12-18 hours to get in and get out before the never-yet-observed-in-the-recorded-history-of-mankind anomaly hits Pluto.
Lucretia spends her travel time reviewing a Orchard briefing on the history of Callisto and the evil Dr. Novak who performed thousands of unethical and horrific experiments on the population before the Callistan rebels and the Lunar and Martian Alliances teamed up and overthrew the government of Callisto.
They arrive at Pluto and Lucretia is particularly gung-ho to bring Novak to justice. She was part of the troops that liberated an Callistan concentration camp and has seen the horrors firsthand.
Dante tries a clever ruse and pretends to be a metal buyer to gain access to the environment bubble on Pluto. Kavon lets him in, but it is the work of a few seconds to check the computer information and realize that the Trans-Utopian isn’t an ore carrier and that Dante is lying. He sends his goon, Rusty, to kill them, and his hostile AI program, Billy Ray, to disable the Trans-Utopian.
On the Trans-Utopian, Percy dances amongst the broken parts and bric-a-brac of the ship, when Billy Ray arrives. Caravaggio notices, but seemingly does nothing about it for a while, then when he does, he fails and Billy Ray takes over and starts destroying the ship.
Percy sulks about it and asks Billy Ray to leave. He doesn’t.
On Pluto, Rusty proves to be incompetent at his job as goon and is soon dispensed with, but not in any way incapacitated or restrained, by Dante and Lucretia.
Kavon sends Belle to kill them, and in a remarkably surprising moment of competence, Dante and Lucretia overcome her, too. This time retraining her, but she is soon set free by Rusty, who I previously mentioned was not restrained.
Confronting Kavon, they force him to take a DNA test to prove he’s Novak. He isn’t. But he sure talks like he is. They decide to take him back to the Trans-Utopian to run a full DNA test on him, although it is unknown to them that Percy is still sulking on the bridge while Billy Ray pilots the ship into the Older Anomaly.
On the surface, Belle and Rusty stage a rescue attempt. Rusty is killed, then Lucretia is taken hostage, then she escapes and recaptures Kavon. Dante threatens to kill him but Lucretia is especially keen to take him alive, in fact, the wants him to show her something – and they return to his lair.
Dante strikes up a friendship with Belle, shortly after Kavon inexplicably dumps her and headed off with Lucretia. Alright, friendship isn’t quite the right the word for it. Dante assumes that a women spurned is on his side. She says she isn’t, but he treats her like she is anyway. A little human kindness and compassion goes a long way.
We can dispense with the literally coyness now, Kavon really is Novak and he was conducting his experiments in an effort to unlock the Divinity Cluster. Dante and belle shows up, then Belle goes to get cocktails. She shoots Novak with the gun that she keeps under the drinks tray, and she gets killed by the bounty hunters.
They escape without the body.
Meanwhile, Caravaggio, who has spent most of the episode trapped inside a Nintendo GameBoy, asks Percy to turn on his anti-virus program, which she begrudgingly does, and Billy Ray is expunged just in time to come back and pick up Dante and Lucretia.
As they leave, everyone has a little time for a soliloquy.
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