Welcome back to the Raza! We’ve got two episodes airing tonight, so let’s just jump right in! Here’s what happened in Dark Matter: Wish I’d Spaced You When I Had the Chance
“There’s nothing more disrespectful than killing an opponent with a dirty blade.” | Episode 11 opens on the crew of the Raza picking up supplies at a station on a planet. Two (Melissa O’Neil), Four (Alex Mallari, Jr.), and Nyx (Melanie Liburd) are drinking at a bar while they wait for Three (Anthony Lemke) and Five (Jodelle Ferland) to finish shopping at a market. Five tricks Three into trying an incredibly sour fruit, and while Three is arguing with the merchant about paying, a man walks into him and angrily tells him to watch where he’s going. While Three is distracted, the man’s partner steals Five’s bag and runs off with it. Five takes off after him, and soon finds herself in an abandoned alley. One of the men sprays her with knockout gas, and she collapses. They load Five into the back of a covered truck and drive off. Another man (Dalmar Abuzeid) watches them from behind his truck.
A red-haired girl spies on Two, Four, and Nyx, who are playing a game at the bar. We then see her confirming their identities to a man with pictures of them.
In the market, Three is asking people if they’ve seen Five, and the man who watched Five being kidnapped runs up. He tells Three that he knows who the men were, and that they probably took Five back to their cabin. Three can’t get in touch with Two, Four, or Nyx, so he jumps in the man’s truck and heads off to rescue Five.
Six (Roger Cross) is doing guard duty on the Raza with Android (Zoie Palmer). Android tells him that she’s noticed that he is more at ease and less stressed, and Six tells her that he’s decided not to worry about things he can’t change, like other people’s opinions. Android points out that he has been given complete access to the Raza and its systems, which indicates that the crew trusts him. Six says that they don’t trust him enough to let him roam the station on the planet, instead leaving him on the ship. An alarm goes off, and Android tells Six that the Raza has intercepted a subspace alarm from the planet’s surface. The station has enacted silent lockdown procedures, and sent an encoded transmission to the Galactic Authority headquarters.
Three and the man helping him arrive at the other men’s cabin. The man tells Three that the other men are the Danker brothers, and they’re bad news. He thinks that he and Three should return to the station to get backup. Three says that would take too much time, and that Five is alone and defenseless in the cabin.
“What are you gonna do, spoon me to death?” | We see Five in the cabin, brandishing a large spoon at three of the Danker brothers, who are laughing uproariously. One of them gets too close to her, and she stabs him in the temple with the spoon handle. It doesn’t seem to do much damage, and he pulls the spoon out of his head and starts toward her. The brother who seems to be in charge orders the spoon-head not to “damage the merchandise.” He then sprays Five with the knockout gas again.
In the truck, Three asks the man how many brothers there are. He tells Three that there are five in all, but some of them are probably out hunting. Three tells him to wait in the truck while he gets Five, but once Three is skulking through the trees toward the cabin, the man drives away in a panic.
We see a room with transfer pods in it. Three people get out of them and suit up in protective gear, joining a larger group of people already outside the room. One of the people is Chief Inspector Kierken (Chris Holden-Ried), who saw the crew of the Raza escape from Hyperion-8 and vowed to see each of them face trial.
At the bar, Two calls Five and Three on the coms, but can’t reach them. The bartender tells them that coms are down station-wide, as part of a silent security protocol. She assures them that they have nothing to worry about, as the GA are on their way.
Three is making his way to the cabin, when he almost steps into a trip wire. He looks around, then starts to step over it. He hesitates, pulling his leg back, and pokes around with a stick under the pine needles he was about to step on. Looks like these brothers aren’t the hospitable sort, because Three finds a giant claw trap.
Two, Four, and Nyx leave the bar. They find the room with the transfer pods, and shut them down. They then decide to make sure the Marauder is secure, because if the GA gets to it before they do, they’ll be trapped.
Meanwhile, one of the Danker brothers is returning to the cabin with a rifle and some pheasants. He sees Three creeping around, so he sets the birds down and stalks him. Three leads him right into the claw trap he found earlier, and knocks him out.
“Cleaning lady’s gonna have a fit, huh?” | Inside the cabin, the brothers discuss their plans for Five. The brother who she stabbed with the spoon says they should rent her to the miners, and when they’re done with her, sell her organs to the harvesters and her flesh to the meat traders. And after that, he wants to make a jacket out of her skin, and stuff and mount her face on the wall. Not the forgiving type, clearly. Just then, Three kicks the door down. He shoots two of the brothers with the shotgun he took from the one outside, and knocks the third out with the butt of the gun. He shakes Five awake, and grabs some of the brothers’ guns and ammo.
Two, Four, and Nyx don the extra uniforms they find in the transfer room, which luckily include masks, and almost make it past the other guards. However, one gets suspicious and pulls Two’s mask off. She makes short work of them with her new knives, and the trio continues toward the Marauder.
Three finds the keys to the brothers’ truck. Since Five is still dizzy from the knockout gas, he tells her he’ll bring the truck up to the door. He opens the door to go outside and there’s the fifth brother standing there. They both grab for their guns, we hear a gunshot and—
Six paces on the Raza. Android tells him what’s happened with the GA, and that the crew members are still at large. Six has the idea to go down using the pods they used to break into Alycia Reynaud’s office, but Android tells him that she is under strict orders not to allow him off the ship. Six convinces Android that he is trustworthy, and that he wouldn’t technically be leaving the ship. Android tells him that if her faith in him proves to be misplaced, she has identified his physical weaknesses to target. Then, they find that the Marauder is approaching the Raza.
“Disinfect it, don’t get it drunk!” | Finally, we see what happened in the shootout. The fifth brother is lying on the porch, dead, and Three has been shot through the top of his chest. The bullet went all the way through, but he’s bleeding out, so he has Five cauterize the wound.
Kierken is asking people on the station about Three and Five. The man who abandoned Three tells him what happened with the Danker brothers.
“Explosions, shooting, and screaming—who else would it be?” | On the Raza, the crew discusses what to do about Three and Five. Android says that the GA knows about Two, Four, and Nyx escaping, but they haven’t caught Three or Five yet. Six tells them that the nearest GA ship is sure to be on its way, and they need to get Three and Five back on board the Raza before they get there. They decide to go down to the station with guns and create a big commotion to draw Three and Five out. As the Marauder prepares to leave, Android tells them that they won’t need to use their old plan, as the GA has tracked Three and Five to a rural dwelling.
“You look terrible. You’re all sweaty and pale—more than usual, anyway.” | Five tells Three she’ll drive back to the station for help, but Three snatches the keys and says that he’s driving. They walk out the door and find the house surrounded by the GA. No one was looking their way, so they duck down behind the porch railing and manage to sneak off.
Kierken inspects the bodies in the house and reenacts what happened. He decides that Three and Five would have headed northwest, and would be circling around to the station. He tells his men that they’ll go after them on foot.
Five is worried about Three’s condition, but he refuses to stop and rest. She wants to go get help without him, because he’s bleeding again and slowing down, but he doesn’t want her to, because he’s worried about her getting hurt. He tells her that he recognized Kierken, and knows that he’s after them. They stumble on for a ways, but Three collapses again. He tells Five to go on without him. He claims he won’t be captured, and she just has to draw them away from him. But Five knows he’s lying, and tells him that she’s not ready to lose another friend.
“I wish I’d spaced you when I had the chance.” | Three decides to give Five the White Fang treatment, and says that he’s not her friend. He says he doesn’t care about her, and thinks she’s a brat and a burden to the ship. Five begins to cry, and Three needles her some more. But Five tells him that she’s crying because she knows what he’s trying to do. Three gives up the game, and tells her again that she has to go. He says that staying with him won’t do either of them any good. Five finally agrees to leave.
Kierken and his men near Three, who shoots at them from behind a boulder. Kierken tells his men that he wants Three alive, and as Three is frantically trying to reload his pistol, they surround him. Kierken takes Three’s pistol, and begins interrogating him. He wants to know about the events leading up to the detonation of the white hole bomb in episode 1×11. The Raza crew and Wexler’s gang had stolen the device from Traugott Corp and delivered it to a Mikkei Combine research planet, which had then been destroyed by the device. Kierken says that an intergalactic war is coming, and that they may be able to stop it if Three cooperates. He also tells Three that even if he doesn’t talk, he’ll get the truth from Emily Kolburn, aka Five. But Three can help keep Five from facing multiple life sentences, or even execution, for her part in destroying the planet.
In the meantime, Five has snuck into the back of a GA truck, where she has found a missile launcher.
The Marauder is still flying back and forth over the forest, looking for Three and Five. They fly directly over where Three is being interrogated, and Kierken radios his men, asking if their missile launcher is ready. They confirm that it is, and Kierken tells Three that he can save Five and everyone on the shuttle if he talks. So he does. He says that he was the only one on the crew of the Raza who was involved, and that he worked with Wexler’s crew. After Three finishes talking, Kierken tells his men to shoot the Marauder down. Just as the one with the missile launcher is pulling the trigger, Five fires the one she found. The blast knocks the men around Three down, and clears an area for the Marauder to land. While Kierken’s men are dazed, Three gets Kierken’s gun, and orders the men to drop their guns. Kierken is a clone, but if he gets killed, all the memories he made will be lost. Just then, the rest of the crew of the Raza shows up, and disarms Kierken’s men. Three shoots the device Kierken was recording the interrogation with, but leaves his clone alive.
On the Raza, Three is resting in the med bay, and Five brings him some oatmeal. Three says he doesn’t want her going all “soft and sweet” on him now, just because of what happened on the planet, and Five assures him that she won’t. Three takes a bite of the oatmeal and immediately spits it out. Five innocently tells him that she put some of the sour fruit from the station in it, and walks away, leaving Three laughing (and groaning a little).
“What if the others on board aren’t into this idea of us being intergalactic cops?” | Two finds Six watching the news. He tells her that there are uprisings in the outer colonies, and says that this might be an opportunity to make real change. He suggests letting the corporations and the GA weaken each other until the Raza crew can step in and finish them all off. Two asks what would happen to the civilians who rely on the authorities to keep them safe. Six says that the people could choose their own leaders and police themselves. And if they encounter problems too big for them, the Raza can step in and fix things. Two starts to warm up to the idea, and Six tells her that being a big power in a power vacuum will have its perks.
In bed with Nyx, Four dreams some flashes of memories. He gets up and takes the flash drive with his neural imprint on it to Android, asking for her help in regaining Ishida Ryo’s memories.
I guess Milo wasn’t the only one who believed there would be a war coming! What do you think of Six’s idea to become intergalactic cops? And how will Four’s memories change him? Join me here for episode 2×12 right after this, at 11pm on Syfy.
Dark Matter airs Fridays at 10pm on Syfy.
