The Divinity Cluster rears its ugly head once more, and like night follows day, so does The Orchard.  This time their subject is the human guinea pig, Travis Montana.  Kenneth and Eugene discuss The Prisoner.

Episode Synopsis

Travis is being a grumpy puss, and the events that make him a grumpy puss haven’t even happened yet.  The Trans-Utopian has arrived at Clarke Station to pick up Jane Doe, an amnesiac psychiatric patient, for transport to Ganymede.  Callie is not happy with this, although it’s unclear why.  Cattle is cattle in the meat-moving business.  

In the hallway, Travis is bumped into by Tristian Catchpole, an arrogant, smug-looking guy dressed to play the Star Child on Galactica 1980.  Catchpole senses a disturbance in the Force.

Travis and Callie get a bonus passenger in the form of Dr. Alora Kir, who must accompany the harmless patient.  The harmless patient almost immediately suffers some form of flashback and witnesses Travis shoot someone in a life-or-death fight back when he was a Raider.  She grabs his gun and tries to kill him.

Callie should be happy, at least they’re transporting a dangerous criminal now.

At the Orchard – correction, the New and Improved Orchard, now with 50% fewer people with a conscience – they’re pushing ahead with the Divinity Cluster because… “hyperspace.”  Tristian is the first person to activate 3 of the 4 Divinity Cluster Genes successfully naturally.  His job, find the others who are naturally activating and convert them to the Dark Side of the Force.  The New Orchard’s goal is… “hyperspace.”  It’s always good to have a laser-focused Vision Statement.

On the Trans-Utopian, everyone agrees that Travis is being a grumpy puss, and everyone tries to talk with him about it – even Percy. Travis doesn’t want to talk about it.  Whatever it is.

But he’s fascinated with the prisoner because, somehow, she seems to know him, but he knows not from where.  Again she tries to kill him, but this time, she puts a little Divinity in his Cluster when she tries to strangle him.

The psychiatrist says maybe you should try to talk to her but when he does, they jaunt off on a Divinity Cluster trip down memory lane, where they witness/relive Travis’ fight with David, who was Jane’s husband, but now she’s known as Maria because she’s got her memory back.

Alora who witnessed the whole thing calls to tell her boss about the breakthrough in the patient and mention the mind-bending-dimensional hijinks she just witnessed.  Pity her boss in the New and Improved Orchard.

Travis demands from Percy to know what she knows about the Divinity Cluster.  She tells him.  She tells him that he’s the unintended lab rat of his mother’s Divinity Cluster experiments on herself, and that’s about all she knows.

The New and Improved Orchard arrives and try to take the ship.  Tristian comes aboard, whisks Travis off to a planet 400 light years away, and tries to seduce him to the Dark Side.  He refuses, and, well, that’s pretty much it.  The New and Improved Orchard ship leaves, and they deliver Maria, formerly Jane Doe, to Ganymede, but not before she and Travis have a little heart-to-heart, which maybe makes Travis jump out of grumpy puss mode.

Back at the New and Improved Orchard, Tristian explains about Travis: “The Force is strong in this one. He will make a powerful ally.”