Episode Synopsis

Marcus and Callie have been duped into a team-building exercise by Travis.  It doesn’t work.  There’s no Marcus or Callie in Team Marcus and Callie.

While not team building they encounter Taryn, an old friend of Marcus.  Long ago, on the mean city streets, they were vagabond, drug-addicts, doing whatever needed to be done to survive or get their next fix.  Marcus got out of that by becoming an apprentice Raider.  Taryn, not so much.

Screaming for help and pursued by two blood-soaked medics, Marcus rushes to her aid, and Callie rushes to his, sending the medics packing.

On the ship, Caravaggio determines that Taryn has been subjected to Retropathic Genetic Hybridization – her genes have been tampered with to turn her into a freak-show sex-toy by the villainous and almost mythical Father Abode.

Everyone is outraged!  Something ought to be done to hunt down the disgusting criminal that did this!  But not unless we can find someone to pay us to do it.  Thems the rules.

Luckily, Taryn’s father is a rich man and he agrees to pay them a bunch to… track down the fiend, I think.  Not to bring her home, because there’s no point in that, she’s just going to turn into a half-human, half-porcupine (or something) sex toy any minute now… or die.  

No, they must track down elusive Father Abode, collect the data concerning the specific Retropathc Genetic Hybridization that’s been done to Taryn so that it can be reversed.  Also, they must work with the two cops who’ve been on the case and turned up nothing. (It’s unclear which case they were on, the missing persons case, or the Father Abode case.)

Although they’ve got their full cooperation, they are of no help whatsoever.

Oh, and one other condition: Marcus can’t work on the case.  Taryn’s father doesn’t like him.

So, he scarpers off in a huff to find Father Abode first.  He gets in touch with an old contact of his on the streets – Lumpy:  A drug dealer and procurer for Father Abode.  That doesn’t go well, but Travis and Callie pull his butt out of the fire.

With Lumpy their prisoner, Travis pretends to be a “buyer” of Father Abode’s services.  With special Martian military tech implanted in his body, he is taken to Father Abode, who is a woman.

Meanwhile those useless cops… not so useless after all.  They work for Father Abode, and they take Callie and Rudolfo prisoner.  Rudolfo bribes them and they’re set free.  They’ve already finked on Travis though, so he’s being converted into a sex toy, too.

Callie and Rudolfo arrive in time and save him, capture Father Abode, get the genetic alteration information, reverse the process, and everyone is happy.

Except, apparently, the crooked cops are getting away with a third of Travis’ bounty and Father Abode was actually just an unstable clone, which dies. The real Father Abode is still loose.