When Kai is unthawed the wrong way, the dead man inadvertantly reverts to his programmed state and perforates Stan's heart. The crew head for Terminal, a medical space port, but when they arrive the doctors seem more interested in Zev than Stan.
This is more the LEXX we're used to: visceral, unpleasant and putting the crew in mortal jeopardy. It's fun to see how the crew get around their lack of money (they just blow up planets until people agree to help them), and there's also plenty of fun in 790's dislike of Stan during this episode, when the robot head is really wishing he'd die. This is one reason why LEXX has a different air to other SF shows; the crew are a strange mismash who don't really get on, but need each other.
This story is also the episode which writes out Zev, and she goes in glorious fashion, saving her love from further death. It's quite a touching scene as she goes, and only in LEXX would one of the characters scoop up her gooey remains to take to a place of burial. 790's overwrought state is also funny to watch.
It's difficult to pinpoint exactly why I liked this story; maybe it's just that it comes together well, contains some great effects and has some good comic lines. It's not perfect LEXX, but it comes pretty close.
****
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