The Raiders are after children again, this time a young boy who has been experimented on by the Orchard.

Kenneth and Eugene discuss Frozen – the episode of Starhunter Redux, not the Disney movie.

Synopsis:

Dr. Devin dreams of white corridors, surgical tables, sinister suited medics and a young boy, Ryan, strapped to the table. As he calls out to the boy, everyone turns and laughs at him with slightly pointy teeth. He awakes in the waiting room of a facility with white corridors, surgical tables, sinister suited medics where his son, Ryan, is strapped to a surgical table.

He is told that he will not be given access to the facility, which he deems not surprising, and that he is banned from all their facilities. “Please sign these papers and leave.” He agrees. It’s all very amicable.

However, the facility’s HR polices and practices are sadly lacking, for Dr. Devin walks out, unescorted and then, once out of sight, goes into the restricted areas, murders one of the sinister surgical medics at his son’s surgical table, takes the boy and leaves. Later, on the shuttle, he has a chat with his dead wife, who is standing there.

On the Trans Utopia, Dante and Lucretia have just imprisoned their old friend Etienne for art theft. He’s playing it straight this time, that is he’s sexually attracted to Lucretia and is trying to get some alone time with her – if you know what I mean. Lucretia is… not interested.

The Trans Utopia picks up a mayday from Devin’s stolen shuttle. It’s being chased by six raiders. They head to the rescue. While en route Etienne escapes, looking for alcohol and Lucretia.

They rescue the pair, but in minutes the raiders arrive and corner them. They want the boy.

Dante tries to barter for information about his son, Travis. They consider his offer. Why do they want the boy so much? He sends Lucretia to ask Devin why.

She doesn’t actually ask him that, but instead hears the story of why they’re on the run. Ryan had a congenital brain disorder, one shared with his mother that proved fatal to her. The Orchard financed Devin’s work into finding a cure, which apparently worked, but gave the boy the ability – while asleep – to, unknowingly and without direction or intent – cause other people to see images of dead people. Dead people who can only say basically what the living person thinks they would say… so really sort of a third-person projection of their own thoughts.

The Orchard wants to use this as a weapon… somehow. All this information about the organization she and her father work for causes her to forget to ask why the raiders are after the boy. (Although, we we do discover it, it doesn’t matter at all.)

Now everyone on the ship starts to see dead people. Lucretia sees her mother, Dante sees his son, Percy sees… herself. Hmmm, this could finally be an interesting wrinkle in Percy’s story. Maybe she’s dead and all a figment of Dante’s twisted, broken mind.

Lucretia tries to contact her father with no success.

The raiders don’t give Dante any info, and they decide to board the Trans Utopia. The first wave is repelled, but the second wave will be lethal. Everyone on board, the crew, Etienne, Devin and Ryan prepare to fight back, when suddenly, Ryan walks out and gives himself up to the raiders. Despite their ferocious track record and Dante’s certainty that the Raiders will destroy them once they have the boy, they apparently don’t because we never see them again.

Also, it wasn’t Ryan, it was apparently an illusion he manifested.

Etienne, it seems, is an Orchard courier and was there to deliver a new communicator to Lucretia because it was feared her old one was compromised, so she lets him go… I think. But he must agree to report back that the boy escaped. Dante takes Devin and Ryan to Titan. Also, Lucretia has something important to tell Dante…. But he doesn’t want to listen.