Stan is dead, Kai is sinking through to the centre of Water and Xev and 790 are searching for both of them. Meanwhile, Stan has washed up on a beach where Prince and another version of himself are awaiting to judge him.
If you haven’t worked out what’s going on (and Stan actually telling the audience last episode was a big clue), this is the giveaway. Fire is Hell and Water is Heaven. All the people the crew have seen who look familiar are people who died in the Dark Zone and have gone to the afterlife. Somehow the LEXX has stumbled onto the physical location of the two worlds, with the result that Stan, Kai and Xev are the first three still living people (bar Kai, naturally) to arrive there. Now Stan has died, he must face judgement and be consigned to one of the twin planets.
It starts off rather well with Stan and Prince, with Nigel Bennett giving great value as he is allowed to reveal just who he is at last. Sinister yet reasonable, he makes a great villain, especially as Stan judges his own actions and finds himself guilty of bad things, sentencing himself to an afterlife on Fire being tortured over and over again. The problem is that to judge Stan we have to sit through a series of clips from past episodes. If there’d been some kind of trial by jury or something it might have been better, but this once again seems like a desperate attempt to fill a gap in the story.
Meanwhile, Kai’s journey through Water is an eye-opener with great effects as we see all the people waiting to be reincarnated for their enjoyment on the planet. Sadly, Kai isn’t brought back to life, but this is cleverly explained by the fact that his ‘living’ version is already on Water, enjoying an afterlife for good deeds during his life. Elsewhere, Xev has found Stan’s body and she and 790 go fishing for Kai. Not really very vital to the plot, but it does give us some more great 790 dialogue.
Overall then, too much filler again, but at least things have come to a head.
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