Dark and Stormy Night!

The production team’s Bulwer-Lytton aspirations are finally laid bare for all to see!  Dante meet Darius, can he help him find his son?  Will he live to do so?

Kenneth and Eugene discuss Dark and Stormy Night.

Episode Synopsis

In the aftermath of the previous escapade, Dante and Lucretia have a long-overdue conversation – but not before Lucretia has a few nightmares.  She tells Dante the truth – or at least a filtered version of it through her own guilt.

No, she was never put on the ship to help with security, she was put there by the Orchard and her father Darius to gather information about the Divinity Cluster and occasionally, the Orchard would run a job through Rudolfo to them that dovetailed with an Orchard interest.

She was never there to spy on Dante and Percy and never did, it was all about gathering info about the Divinity Cluster.  She realizes that she’s been used by her father.

A shuttle from the Orchard arrives with one person aboard: Darius.

He gives an explanation and an impassioned pitch to Dante.  The Divinity Cluster is the most significant potential step forward for humanity.  Some in the Orchard want to understand and control it, others to destroy it.  Eccleston was their foremost researcher on the Divinity Cluster, and he escaped into another dimension, but may be coming back.  Every weird thing you’ve encountered is likely the Divinity Cluster manifesting itself in different ways.  Help me find Eccleston, Dante.

The Raiders – they want the Divinity Cluster, too. And Darius will turn over all information the Orchard has on the Raiders to Dante to help him find his son, Travis.

There’s one other thing:  Eccleston was the foremost scientist working on the Divinity Cluster, but he was building upon the earlier works of a brilliant scientist named Penny Montana, Dante’s late wife.

Dante and Lucretia seem to agree.  Afterwards, she shows Dante that she trusts him by revealing a hidden tool of Eccleston’s that she kept back from her father.  She admits she can never fully trust her dad every again.

On his way back, Darius seems satisfied that they will lead him right to “the boy,” just before his ship explodes, presumably killing him.