Callie has been shot. Kenneth and Eugene discuss.

Episode Synopsis

Travis and Callie are setting up to take in a smuggler named Strasser, but things go south when he recognizes Callie and shoots her.  She’s in a bad way and Travis doesn’t take her to the nearest ER, he takes her back to the ancient Trans-Utopian’s medical bay, where they put her in an obsolete and malfunctioning cryro pod.

It’s bad… she’s done for.  Massive organ damage of a kind that neither artificial nor donor replacements will do.  

It’s worse, Strasser is really desperate to kill them all, attacking the Trans-Utopian while still docked to Clarke Station.  They escape, but they do significant damage to Clarke Station.

Between the age and the attack, Callie’s crypto pod will last maybe a day.  Luckily, she’s from a rich family, and she’ll probably have a “blank” – a brainless body clone rich people have in case they need an organ.  Off to mars they go!

Travis meets Janus Larkadia, Callie’s father.  “Thanks, but, there’s nothing I can do.  Callie never had a blank made.”

Janus isn’t being truthful though, there is a Callie blank, he’s just no longer in possession of it.  He used it as collateral for a loan when times were tough, now they’re foreclosing.  There might be an alternative arrangement, saws the man holding the loan.

Travis discovers the deception and returns to see Janus.  Meanwhile Strasser is also on Mars and is taking an interest in Callie’s blank.  He threatens Callie’s mom.  He shoots at Travis, but only Travis gets arrested by the Martian police.

Janus may no longer have any money, but no one knows that, so he still has pull with the police.  They let Travis loose and let him look through the police files to identify Strasser.

He’s former Citadel Squad, the group Callie brought down – along with her career.  He’s playing dead under this assumed name and he doesn’t want to be found out.

Janus, meanwhile, is selling his live organs to pay for Callie’s.  Rudolfo has followed him and interrupts him before he goes under the saw, much to his consternation.  Strasser arrives, Travis arrives, fights happen, Travis wins.

Travis then goes to the man holding the loan on Callie’s blank and threatens him with almost death if he doesn’t forgive the loan, perform the operation for free and, presumably, not turn Travis over to the authorities.

Callie is just fine and her dad is pleased she’s finding her way in the world.  But, not point in telling her that, and they leave things at chilly animosity.  The end.