As Harper and Rev continue to work toward making Andromeda flight-worthy, they discuss the ‘hired gun’ who’s skulking about, angry that he missed Dylan in the recent skeet shoot. His name is Tyr Anasazi, a well-reputed mercenary who is amongst the best at what he does. If there were an employee of the month for his vocation, Tyr’d kill to get it every month.... litterally.
Dylan first runs into the only woman on Tyr’s gun club. it turns out she’s actually a cyborg whose combat skills appear to have been paired with Olympic gymnastics training as she tosses Dylan all over the deck. Trance decides to wait until the Cyborg is knocked out before she runs and jumps down a rabbit hole to a lower deck, and evades Dylan catching him.
Next, Tyr and two of his lackeys stumble across Dylan’s Basketball hoop, where the good captain offers to teach them how to play, but they decide they’re actually football fans, and try shooting Dylan full of holes. Ahhh, but you can’t pull one over on ol’ Dylan, he set up a hologram of himself so he could get shot at. A big knock-down, drag out fight ensues, and Dylan blows up some more of Tyr’s weapons cache, then takes another of his goons captive.
So what’s Captain Hunt doing with the baddies he collects? He’s sticking them in the fridge for safe keeping! Too bad they were already spoiled........
Gerentex and the crew of the Maru are all on the command deck and the rat-faced boy is getting really annoyed that Tyr can’t seem to stop Captain Hunt. Trance suggests that Gerentex should just leave and let Dylan keep his oversize toy> Gerentex doesn’t like this suggestion, and decides to fire her... no, wait, got that wrong, fire AT her, yep! that’s it, and Trance lies dead on the deck.
Well, As Tyr continues to lose his people,. it becomes increasingly clear that Gerentex isn’t going to get his High Guard ship after all, so he decides to steal the Eureka Maru, with Harper aboard, and use that little ship to nudge the Andromeda back into the Black Hole. ‘WAH! If he can’t have it, no one can!’ Talk about spoiled brats. I’d have hated to see him as a kid!
Dylan finds Beka and the others in the medical bay, trying to figure out what to do now that Gerentex has run off in Beka’s ship. Dylan offers them the opportunity to help him get his ship out of the Black Hole, and he has a surprise for them all. Trance may have been dead, but she’s feeling much better now.
Okay, so how DOES one get a ship out of a black hole when the engines aren’t up to snuff, and you’re in a downward spiral? Well, you try to blow up the Black Hole, of course! But what could possibly do that? Nova Bombs! Nasty not-so-little gravitational Boom-Booms that are designed to destroy suns, but which might just be effective against a black hole if enough of them are used. Oh, like 40 of them (And it JUST so happens Rommie's got about 40 of them... fo figure!)
Dylan gives the authorization codes to Tyr, Beka, and Trance, and Rev takes up yet another bridge station, aned they all fire the pea-shooters-o-doom into the Black Hole. Gerentex and Harper are watching all this activity from a safe distance, and it suddenly dawns on the Rat-meister what Dylan’s up to. he turns the Maru around and starts making a run for it, as the Black Hole reacts with the missles and becomes a 'White Hole', or a mini-big-bang in the universe! Andromeda is now running under her own power, and is trying to make a break for it as well.
Both ships succeed in transiting to the Rollercoaster Ride designed by someone on crack we all call Slipstream.
Once they’re safe, Beka turns to Dylan and asks him if he can help her get her own ship back. Well, ya gotta admire the awkwardness of the request, and for all intents and purposes Dylan could and should have said 'ha ha ha ha......NO!'. But our captain isn’t like that, and he says ‘let’s make a deal’.
We catch up with Gerentex as Harper’s reading him a bill for services rendered. Gerentex is complaining about how this search for the Big Bad Warship cost him millions, and Just as he’s about to threaten Harper for insisting on his pay, Dylan and the Maru crew come to the rescue!. Naturally Gerentex is going to put up a struggle, which only results in his lackeys getting beat up, or spat on by Rev. It should be pointed out that Magog spit is not only messy, it paralyzes folk temporarily.
Beka gets her ship back and then Dylan says ‘remember my deal?’ all I want is ten minutes of your time. I KNEW IT! I just KNEW it! Dylan is actually an Agway Pyramid-selling scheme salesperson! And all this was a set up for another seminar to get more people to enter into the buying scheme!
Harper is invited to stop by Medical where Rommie gives him something to clear up a rash he’s been itching at all throughout the past two episodes. Good thing too! If not treated, he would have wound up litterally scratching himself to death.
So, Dylan’s sales pitch: He wants to bring back the Commonwealth! He needs them to be his crew. Well, isn’t THAT a quirky twist of fate?!? The Maru gang agree, even if they think Dylan’s a loonie for his plan. Even Tyr signs on to join this unlikely crew, because Dylan knows just how to sweet-talk the Niet into tagging along.
So begins a new adventure, the Andromeda has a new crew. The mission lay ahead of them. Tune in Next week to see where it takes them.....
