It’s laugh-a-minute slapstick comedy as Dante gets his crotch rubbed by his new boss’ wife.  Does the team of the Trans-Utopian have what it takes to be part of the Super Max corporate team?  Kenneth and Eugene discuss Super Max.

Episode Synopsis:

Before they can discuss Dante’s prospects they are called back to the ship by an alert.  There are unauthorized intruders on the ship.

Not really, though, it’s just the ship’s new owner, Max, and his work crew, who are installing new equipment on the ship.  

“New Owner?”  This is the first Dante’s heard of it and he’s not happy.

Max, owner of the Super Max corporation, has bought the ship from Rudolfo and is converting it into a space prison barge.  Of course, there’s a place in the corporate structure for Dante and Lucretia, if they want it.  They do not, but a quick check with Rudolfo and review of the legal records proves that it is true.  The Trans-Utopian is now owned by Super Max.

Dante feels that he still has six months on his lease and they decide to take the ship and leave.  That doesn’t go well because this isn’t the 1880s and you can’t just leave space dock without proper clearances.

Dante and Lucretia hatch a difference plan, they decide to take Max up on his offer and join the Super Max team.  They even find a place for Percy, doing janitorial work.  In reality, under Dante’s plan, Percy has finally been put to work at the one thing she has proven an unfailing genius for: sabotaging the ship.  Super Max has a strict margin for profit that must be met and Dante hopes to bankrupt the company.

There’s just one more complication, Zelda, that woman with the hots for Dante from the beginning of the episode.  She’s Max’s wife, of course, and when she comes aboard, she really likes the look of Dante in a uniform.  Almost as much, she makes abundantly clear, as she’d like him out of the uniform.

They make way for the prisoner transfer station.

A celebratory diner that evening with the four of them is uncomfortable.  Not only are Zelda and Max constantly sniping at one another, Dante’s got a foot in his crotch.  He gets Lucretia to pretend to be “a couple” with him in the hopes of dissuading Zelda.  Why on Earth would he think that a woman openly trying to seduce him in front of her husband would care if he has a Plus One?

Lucretia has received word from the Orchard.  Super Max is over-extended financially.  They can’t afford any delays or cost overruns.

Percy’s genius for destruction shines, as she sabotages the reactor and they must return to Reno Seven for expensive repairs and delays.  While they’re there, Dante pads the repair bill even more.

Zelda puts a proposition to Dante.  Get rid of my husband and I’ll buy you this ship.  He asks her if she knew that Super Max (and therefore Max) was nearly bankrupt.  She didn’t know and she doesn’t believe.  Well, maybe a little.

Lucretia gets the Orchard to pressure Super Max’s bank to call in all the loans that are in arrears.  Pressure is mounting on Max, but, as they say, pressure makes diamonds.

Underway once more, more of Percy’s sabotage kicks in.  The security system starts to fail, causing the automatic prison security doors to fail.  With this failure, they don’t meet the requirements for handling prisoners and cannot take their contracted allotment.  Max ignores this presses ahead.  They just use manual security and won’t tell the prison authorities.

Zelda puts the hard move on Dante and, as he tries to resist her charms, Max comes storming in.  Zelda changes her tune immediately and accuses Dante of attempted rape.  Max has him locked up.  And Lucretia, too, just because.

Zelda wants more, she wants Dante dead.  If Max were more of a man, he’d kill Dante for what he tried to do to her.  And so he does; having one of his minions throw a gas canister into the lock up area so that Dante and Lucretia will die.

Zelda is appalled!  You idiot!  You’re not REALLY supposed to kill them.  Luckily, Percy arrives in time and gets them out.  They storm the bridge and rest control of the Trans-Utopian from its rightful owner and head merrily on their way back to Reno Seven.