Percy is finally right where we knew she’d end up: jail.  Will Dante try to get her out?

Synopsis:

Dante is giving Percy some much needed time away from the ship by allowing her to come along on a routine prisoner pickup.  What fun!  Dante really is in the running for Uncle of the Year.  There’s even more fun because Rex, a rival bounty hunter, is there to ambush them under the pretext of poaching his prisoner.  Its a Who’s the baddest bounty hunter bad off as each side takes turns getting the upper hand on each other until Percy shoots of them.  For the record, she does shoot one of Rex’s crew and immediately, the Oberon police, who have been waiting patiently off screen for their cue, step in and arrest her.

Oberon justice is not just swift, its corrupt to the core.  Percy is taken to the Nereid prison, the worst prison in the known universe – and that’s saying a lot.

The Oberon justice system works as follows:  Police arrest and sentence people, no courts required.  All police and prisoner officials can be bribed.  It’s a system that works for them and keeps everyone happy, except the prisoners.

Dante’s attempts to bribe someone to let Percy out fail because Rex has already bribed them and so she makes Dante an offer he can’t refuse.  She’ll let Percy out of the maximum security Nereid prison, if Dante will just break into that exact same Nereid prison and break out a prisoner, her brother Goran.

Backed into a corner, and against Lucretia’s advice, but with her support, Dante poses as a prisoner and gets in and close to Goran.

Meanwhile Percy is getting a taste of life with the mean girls from high schools is like, when they’re not being taken out and raped by the guards.  She concocts a plan to escape, which is reasonably successful until it isn’t.

Dante is cozying up to Goran and convincing him to escape with him, when he finally agrees the plan goes into action.  Lucretia comes back with a cockamamie story about Dante having highly contagious hepatitis, and then bribing the prisoner commander to let him he taken for medical research.  Goran pretends to be infected, too, and with the promise of another bribe, he’s sent with Lucretia, too.

At the meet up with Rex, Percy is turned over and, when it’s obvious she’s going to double-cross Dante again, the corrupt police arrive and arrest Rex and gang, because Dante has effectively bribed them with information that Goran has millions in hidden loot, which they presumably will somehow now get.

It’s a happy family once again eating food that may or may not be worse than prison food.

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