Possessed by remnants of His Shadow, Kai convinces Stanley to return to the ruins of Cluster in the Light universe to search for more protoblood. They find insect larva, but it is dormant and can't produce protoblood. So Kai insists on taking it to Mantrid, an infamous scientist that might be able to revive it.

Xev demand they investigate an abandoned world, still transmitting TV signals. The computer host offers them parts in different TV shows, though they had better get good ratings or they'll end up canceled...

Xev starts quite a commotion when the Lexx lands on a planet inhabited only an order of monks, none of whom have ever seen a woman before...

Norb is found floating alone in space, nearly out of oxygen he is taken aboard. To their horror, it turns out he has been modified by Mantrid, and releases a handful of drones who begin tearing the ship apart, building new copies of themselves.

When 790 reluctantly reveals that Xev has a built-in expiry date that's soon up, the Lexx heads to the planet Woz where the only remaining love-slave transformation device is.