Two lovers, two bounty hunters, two ex-Raiders… one of them is Travis Montana.  None of it is Shakespeare.

Kenneth and Eugene discuss Star Crossed.

Episode Synopsis

The Dakota Clan, lead by Dakota 79, is buying a Thorium weapon.  Of course there’s no honor amongst thieves and so the sellers try to double cross the buyers and the buyers are just fine with that because they wanted them dead as a message anyway.

Jupiter Federation calls in Travis Montana for a bounty job.  Bring in Dakota 79 on parking tickets to help prevent a major clan war between the Dakotas and the Verruns.  It’s quite a generous bounty and Travis accepts… and then bothers to get the agreement of the others.

They go undercover as weapons experts in an effort to get close to Dakota79.  They do really well, getting past background checks, technical checks, even loyalty checks, they just stumble on one thing.  Travis’ old seemingly unconsummated old-flame from yet another clan is now Dakota79’s main squeeze, and she knows he’s not a weapons expert…. But she doesn’t give him away.  She’s no longer with her clan, and their love is no longer forbidden.  Also, she’s a bounty hunter, too, they could split the fee.

Unfortunately, evidence is mounting that Travis Montana really is from the Montana family.  He’s failed the stupidity test.  He and his… friend… are yakking about their history, and their subterfuge, and their jobs, and they’re plans, they’ve failed to consider that the paranoid Dakota79 might just have had a recording device in Travis’ cell all along.  Which there was, and they’re rumbled, but… 2.5 seconds later they’ve apprehended Dakota79 and off they go back to the Trans-Utopian.

Just one thing, during this little junket, it’s come to light that Rudolfo has been secretly communicating with a bounty hunter broker who specializes in recovering runaway raiders and while Rudolfo doesn’t outright tell him that they have a runaway raider onboard, he says enough for the broker to come calling with bounty hunter in tow, and after an armed standoff, the armed bounty hunter escapes into the ship.

Travis, Callie and… friend… arrive and after a minute or so, the bounty hunter is killed by Rudolfo.

And, and Travis’ friend of course tried to double-cross him and take Dakota79 and the Thorium for herself.  That fails, so she leaves, hopefully never to return, but sadly, I doubt that.