The LEXX is dying of malnutrition, so Stan, Xev and Kai return to Earth hoping to catch a lift on Dr Longbore's ship. Meanwhile, Prince, finding out that the ship is deserted and believing Bunny to have the Key, instructs Priest to return the three of them to space to make their escape.

It sounds like there's a lot going on in this episode, but what it actually accomplishes is merely resetting the series. By the end of the story, the LEXX is back up to full power again, Prince is being taken away, Priest and Bunny are headed for Earth and Stan is captain again with the Key intact. Now, admittedly this is what we've been waiting for for a while, but it's going to make if difficult to stretch out another seven episodes when the LEXX crew can just clear off now and do whatever they like. The alien probe menace seems to have become irrelevant, Prince isn't really much threat as a TV screen ordering Priest around and the ship is healthy again.

Leaving aside the issue of what next, though, the LEXX's munching of Holland is marvellous to behold in a lovely little special effect, not to mention the way once again Paul Donovan and company are going out of their way to piss people off. Last episode it was the suggestion that all British people are gay and lairs, now they're making a point by destroying Canada's capital city and letting the LEXX eat Holland. Marvellous.

Meanwhile there's Dr Longbore. After all the build-up at the start of the season, the return visit to him doesn't really seem very worthwhile. Rather than having a major role to play, it seems Longbore just wants girls' panties to sniff and a chance to get off the Earth when it is destroyed. It seems his plotline is now over, although who knows what will happen to the Noah, his vessel?

Prince is wonderful as usual, I like the concept of there being only one person who can bring Bunny to the peak of sexual ecstasy and it certainly isn't Stan, and it's good to see things back the way they should be. There's even a couple of nice moments with 790, who's devastated when everyone leaves him alone on the LEXX, and of course a chance to hear the LEXX in chatty mode again. It's still a lot of talking, a lot of misdirection and not a lot of actual plotting going on here, though, it's just hidden fairly well.

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