"Many thousands of years ago, we were defeated by humans, in the great Insect Wars." "Our human enemies thought, they destroyed all insects, but I escaped to live on." "I hid myself by burrowing deep into a small planetoid, and there I waited." "Nothing but silicon." "Another complete waste of time." "They're all a complete waste of time as far as I'm concerned, but they does the paying, so we does the drilling." "I wish something interesting would happen, just this once." "Just something a little bit out of the ordinary." "OK, Rockhound, on the way down." "I think I might have found myself something interesting here." "Not typically geological..." "Could be a sign of life." "What do you mean, a sign of life?" "I don't know, but I'm curious to find out more." "Return home now, and we'll use the finger probe." "Rockhound, we sometimes follow the rules, remember?" "Come home and we'll go remote." "Sorry, it's been too long since my brain was put to use." "I'm getting" " I'm getting a very weird feeling." "There's too much electrical action, I'm outta here..." "Hey, Rockhound, we're getting some interference." "Are you all right?" "Rockhound, we do not hear you." "I passed my essence, my soul, my intelligence, my everything into a human host." "Rockhound, please talk to us." "Sorry." "I was asleep, but I'm heading for the top now." "All the way." "Here I go." "As the last surviving insect," "I knew that I would never be able to defeat the humans, but if I possessed a human body," "I thought perhaps I could use humans to defeat themselves." "I became His Divine Shadow, the most powerful ruler in the two universes." "My power over humanity grew, as I passed my essence down through generation after generation of human hosts." "My insect body also grew in strength, fed by human flesh, fed by human flesh gathered from 20,000 unsuspecting planets, all unknowingly enslaved to their enemy." "But my order was destroyed by Kai, the last of the Brunnen G." "My prematurely reborn body was killed by the Lexx, the most powerful weapon of destruction ever built." "Kai crushed the brain of my last human host, but he did not kill me, as I still live on." "But he does not know that I live - through him." "I've been thinking." "Lexx - there are all kinds of planets." "There are planets with nice scenery, planets with happy law-abiding citizens, and planets with good rulers, and planets with intellectuals, and planets with women who are... you know - open-minded." "That's the kind of planet I want you to help me find." "Understand?" "No, Stan" " I do not understand" "OK, OK, how about, er, women who are available, does that mean anything to you?" "No, it does not" "OK, how about, er, frisky, loose, low moral standards, and..." "Oh disgust!" "Oh horror!" "It touches my beloved!" "Zev, it's Kai, he's up on his own." "Kai." "You've reanimated yourself?" "Yes." "I am experiencing an unfamiliar sense of motivation." "That is a sign of life." "You are not alive, are you?" "No." "I am still dead." "I am motivated to find more protoblood." "I thought the stuff we brought back from the Cluster, was supposed to last you for ages." "The protoblood we have now will last me for a few days at best." "Then why are you walking around wasting it?" "I must be animated, to find a new supply." "Protoblood came from the gigashadow." "It may be possible to extract some from its offspring, if we can locate one." "What offspring?" "One of the Insect larvae on the underside of the gigashadow, may have come loose when you destroyed the Cluster." "But that was back in the Light Universe, this is the Dark Zone, and we can't go back, because the fractal core was destroyed, so how could we go, even if we wanted to?" "Don't look at me, dead man in black." "I also feel no motivation - except to jam circuits with creamy love pudding number one." "Direct question, number 790:" "do you know any way we can get back into the Light Zone?" "Answer!" "The fractal core was simply a point where the three physical dimensions of both universes intersect." "It does not have to by definition be the only such point of intersection." "I calculate that other pathways are in theory possible, but the risk to your angelic life would be" "I know the way." "The mass of this neutron star is very close to the balance, required to connect the two universes." "Very close?" "Yes." "First we will let ourselves be drawn into the star's gravitational pull." "After that, and prior to the Lexx's molecular collapse, there is a point when we must adjust the mass of the neutron star, using Lexx's weapon." "Well, how do we find this point?" "790 will calculate it." "With an unacceptable margin of error." "What is the margin of error?" "Between 7 and 84% - 17 times out of 20." "I am turning the Lexx around right now." "No." "Doesn't giving Kai a chance to live mean anything to you," "Stanley Tweedle?" "Well, yes, of course - but he's already been around for 2000 years longer than he should, and I want to live longer than the next few minutes, and if we don't turn the Lexx around, like right now," "then I'm not 100% sure that I will." "20 times out of 20!" "Stanley" " I will do it with you, if you take the Lexx back into the Light Zone." "Oh disgust!" "Zev, nothing is worth sinking that low." "Quiet, 790" "You can have me, naked." "My smooth moist skin pressed tightly against yours pressed tightly against yours..." "Warming you up, heating you up, raising your temperature, until you are ready to explode..." "Don't you want me wrapped around you Stanley?" "Squeezing you, riding you like a big boy, until..." "I am now inside the gravitational pull of the black star." "Lexx, I'm commanding you to turn around at once, immediately, right now!" "Too late, Stanley" "The black star is much stronger than I am." "We are going faster and faster toward it." "Why didn't you tell me we were getting so close?" "Why are you putting Zev in danger?" "Zev's wish is my command." "Lexx, please, I'm begging you!" "I am sorry Stanley." "It's too late." "I cannot go back." "This better be the best sex of my life... this better be the best sex in the history of the two universes!" "I have obligation whatsoever." "I'm a witness." "You attempted to pull the Lexx back before the deal was completed." "You!" ".." "Kai, how come you're suddenly so all motivated to find protoblood?" "I thought you were dead, I thought you didn't experience motivation." "Something must have come over me... 5, 4, 3, 2, 1..." "Fire, Lexx, fire now, give it everything you got!" ".." "You better be on the button...!" "I will always do my best for Zev." "I'm alive!" "This is a good thing, this is definitely excellent!" "That's a matter of perspective..." "Lexx - where are we?" "We are in a big space, Stan." "We are in the Light Universe, security guard class 4." "It's just rocks and Cluster chunks, millions of 'em!" ".." "Do not underestimate the ability of the insects to survive in difficult circumstances." "But how will we even see one, I mean, there's so much stuff out there" "I suggest that we go out and take a closer look." "It will take time to complete a thorough search." "We must begin immediately." "You're just Mister Initiative these days, aren't ya?" "Coming, Stanley?" "No." "Absolutely not." "Completely, totally stupid." "I'm gonna be sick." "The idea of bringing this insect, that is dedicated to destroying all humanity, onboard the Lexx makes me completely ill." "And I've got a right to say that, because if you wanna be technical about it," "I am the only one on this entire bug ship, that is 100% human." "You don't find it beautiful, Stanley?" "No!" "Strangely, I find it has an attractive quality." "It was His Shadow, and insect, who destroyed your people." "who destroyed your people." "You should hate it, Kai" "True, but perhaps that is also why I am drawn to it." "You're drawn to it because you need protoblood." "I do not normally respond to need." "Well, I do, I respond directly to need, and I need to see this larva fired right back out into space!" "and then blasted by the Lexx." "And if you don't respond to need - what exactly are we doing here?" "I want us to be here." "I do not know why I feel this need." "I cannot explain it." "You are beginning to scare me, and this thing totally scares me." "Do not fear this larva." "It is at best dormant, ready to contain life" "What do you mean, at best?" "It could be dead, I cannot tell." "It is not a functioning life form, as you are, or Stanley is." "It cannot live without the insect essence being passed to it, and the last carrier of the insect essence was the gigashadow, which we destroyed." "No, Zev." "Why not?" "I mean, how else are we going to find protoblood, unless we cut it apart?" "I'm not against cutting it into bits, the smaller the better." "It may produce protoblood if it is dormant." "It certainly will not if it is dead." "I must spend some time examining it." "Oh boy..." "First Kai experiences motivation, and now he wants to be alone with the insect." "Don't you think he's acting weird?" "No - just more alive." "No!" "Not more alive." "More weird." "Something's gotten into him..." "I agree Kai's behaviour is clearly inconsistent." "I suggest that he returns to cryostasis, and we eject the insect into space." "I'm worried, Zev - and you should be too." "We are concerned about you, Kai." "Mantrid." "Mantrid?" "If anyone can help us obtain protoblood from this larva, it is Mantrid." "Well, who is Mantrid?" "He was once the Divine Order's greatest Bio-Vizier." "No man ever had a more insatiable hunger for knowledge and experience." "A brilliant scientist, and a truly dangerous human being, so dangerous he was imprisoned by the Divine Order." "How can we find him?" "I know where he is." "Oh no..." "Take everything I own." "Take my jewels, take my gold, take my life!" "Should snake venom swell your limbs to bursting, should spider poison cause your brain to explode, should your bodily fluids slowly drain out through pustulent sores, none of this is enough." "You deserve worse, far, far worse," "Yes, yes, but please, please, I cannot wait." "Kill me, kill me now" "How many have suffered because of you?" "I must not be allowed to live." "I've done such awful things!" "such terrible things!" "So many little boys..." "So many beautiful little children," "I couldn't stop myself." "I must not live another minute!" "So many innocent lambs." "You define vile!" "Please do it quickly." "End my life" "Did you hear me, you pathetic old castratu?" "You are the definition of vile." "Please, do it quickly." "End my life!" "That's why I like you." "But for your sins, the greatest suffering" "I can impose is to let you continue to live your truly unfortunate life your truly unfortunate life." "Then I will kill myself." "I don't think so, you putrid sack of decaying flesh." "You're far too much of a coward." "Mantrid, this is Kai, last of the Brunnen G." "Mantrid, this is Kai, last of the Brunnen G." "I have come to free you." "What do you seek, last of the Brunnen G?" "We want your help, Mantrid." "Want - what a strange word for a dead man to say." "But I'm no help to anyone." "Except yourself." "So cruel, last of the Brunnen G and so accurate." "And how can you help me?" "We have the Lexx." "We can transport you wherever you desire to go." "Hello?" "I'm Zev." "Interesting place you have here." "A love slave," "with a personality." "How peculiar" "And I am Kai" "I know who you are." "You were killed by His Divine Shadow 2000 years ago, and your body was used by him as a weapon of assassination ever since, and you should still be dead." "I am, but I have recovered my own memory, as well as the memories of many thousands of others His Shadow killed." "How peculiar, times two..." "I'm Mantrid." "As you can see, time has not been kind to me." "This is my assistant, Vigo" "So, you have found a descendant of the insects from the Insect Wars." "Why do you want protoblood?" "So he can live." "I didn't ask you!" "I want protoblood so that I can live." "You want to live?" "How peculiar, times three." "I'll help you with your problem, and in exchange you will give me the Lexx." "No, you will help us and we will take you wherever you want to go." "He cannot live without protoblood." "If you don't give me the Lexx, I'll not help you." "If you do not help us, on our terms, I will kill you." "Then it seems that I must accept your terms." "I envy it, because the insects could transfer their consciousness from one physical form to another." "Not something we humans have ever been able to master." "Is it still alive?" "What do you mean by alive?" "Well, capable of waking up and killing people." "I don't know what the word alive really means." "Kai has no heartbeat, he doesn't breathe, much of his brain doesn't function, so he cannot think as we can, and yet he's showing some unusual signs of life." "Look at me - am I alive?" "This drone - is it alive?" "It has a brain with switches and connections just like us." "It can process information much faster than any human." "Build Mantrid a hammer to smash yourself into useless bits." "Now smash yourself..." "I am living." "It is a machine." "But if a machine is given the will to live, then perhaps it should be considered alive." "The boundary between nonlife and life is not clear to me." "And to answer your question, the insect is neither alive nor dead." "It's dormant, and to extract protoblood," "I must wake it, at least partially." "To be properly alive, these insects must have their vital insect essence passed to them." "Without it, they are like a computer without a programme, a human without a soul." "As it is, this one shouldn't be dangerous..." "Mantrid is a brilliant man." "not a good man, but a brilliant, brilliant man!" "If he cannot solve your problem, your problem cannot be solved." "Please, sit." "this should ease the pain of your visit here." "Thank you, but I do not have a stomach." "All the more for the lady." "What's that?" "A vessel Mantrid's been working on." "An escape vessel?" "No - more a vessel for his thoughts." "I must work." "You - must enjoy" "Mmm, this is tasty." "Stan - can you hear me?" "Zev?" "We have to wait while Mantrid wakes up the insect, but don't worry I think he knows what he's doing." "Just hang in for a little while longer, OK?" "There it is, and it's beautiful." "The transduction organ," "I believe essential to transfer the insect consciousness from one body to the next." "An organ only they possess..." "So what are you going to do with it?" "I'm going to remove it, but it won't do me any good unless it's working, so I guess I am going to have to wake this beastie up." "But the insects are man's greatest enemies, they are " "This insect will just be technically awake, without the insect essence, normally provided by its parent." "It will simply do nothing." "They're gonna wake up the insect, and they expect me to stay up here waiting for them." "It's out of the question!" "Tweedle - you give carbon molecules a bad name." "We should take the Lexx and go ourselves." "We've been trapped here for so long, and " "Don't you realise what an incredible gift this is, you ridiculous excuse for a man?" "For years I've been decaying in this stifling prison, struggling to find a way to maintain my life, with your incessant blithering my only distraction." "Soon I would have been nothing, Lexx or no Lexx!" ".." "I'm in a very good mood!" "Kai?" "Careful, careful..." "Mantrid, Mantrid, please stop" "Vigo, remove your hands..." "No, I " "I have only one chance, and I must be quick." "No, I, I don't want you to do this" "Remove your hands!" "I don't want to be alone." "When I die you will be alone." "I will die then too." "Don't be a fool." "Mantrid, I cannot live without you." "You're being sentimental, my friend." "Mantrid, please!" "Vigo" " I like you." "I've enjoyed some of the time I've spent with you." "But I don't love you." "I don't love anyone." "Goodbye, Vigo, goodbye." "Eminently forgettable pathetic little man." "Mantrid!" "Mantrid!" "Kai." "Kai" "We have to get away from here." "The insect essence was inside me." "I was not setting my own agenda." "Remove the blue organ from the insect and bring it to me." "Come on" "Vigo" "Kai did this." "Kai fired the brace through your jar." "I should have known." "He was acting very peculiar for a dead assassin." "I will do the transfer." "It's too late." "I'm dying." "You don't know how - how - how to do it." "I've been watching you." "I've been learning." "Goodbye, you silly old fool." "Yes, I'm a fool, a fool, I'm a fool..." "If the insect lives, it could be the end for all mankind." "We must tell Stanley to destroy the planet." "Do we have time to leave?" "I do not think so." "Stanley, are you there?" "Zev?" "Destroy the planet, now!" "Don't even think about it, Tweedle." "Don't think about us - blow it up" "Lexx" "Yes, Stan?" "The rest of humanity is nothing." "Only Zev matters." "Stanley, the insect is alive." "Destroy the planet." "The insect has taken my strength, but it will return." "This planet should already have been destroyed!" "Stanley?" "Stanley?" "It is looking at you." "It does not see me, as I am cold." "Run!" "Yeah, ha ha!" "Mantrid" " Mantrid, please, tell me what to do." "I was not aware of it, but when I destroyed His Shadow's brain," "I received an added bonus - some of the insect's essence." "The correct survival strategy for it." "So you were a Divine Shadow?" "Not completely, but I achieved His Shadow's agenda." "I created a new living insect." "Oh that's great, that is just great!" "Hurry Stanley." "We must return to the Lexx, we must destroy the insect." "Yes, yes, yes, back to the Lexx." "Thank you, Mantrid." "Thank you for saving my life." "I am alive." "Mantrid?" "Yes it is, my friend." "Mantrid, is that really you?" "You brought the head to me, so I am Mantrid, but you also brought a very important part of the insect to me, so I am also an insect." "or maybe a machine,I don't know, a fusion, a new life form... no matter" " I exist." "I am." "And not surprisingly I feel the insect's instinctive desire to kill all humans." "starting with you, my friend." "No, no, Mantrid, I love you!" "I now grant you the wish you have so often begged for." "Goodbye, Vigo." "Oh, crescendo of delight at Zev's return!" "I'm back too" "Quick, Stan" "Lexx - destroy that planet immediately." "As you command, Stan" "Ah - yes!" "We did it, we killed it!" "We must be certain." "We blew up the whole planet." "We must be certain." "There" "Look!" "I think that's what we're looking for." "Looks like there won't be another Insect War." "Excellent observation - for a retard." "But we did not find protoblood for Kai." "I have sufficient protoblood." "But you said that " "I lied." "The insect essence was controlling me." "I have sufficient protoblood." "Hey" " I want you to know that former assistant deputy backup courier, and now captain of the Lexx, Stanley H Tweedle, just saved humanity!" "Spare me!" "Yeah" "Be cool - get it?" "What do you say we try to find ourselves a half decent planet for a change." "Somewhere with good looking women " "Good looking men." "With my head on their shoulders!" "Yeah, we'll get right on that." "Let's go!" "Bars"