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Season 2
LEXX 2.1: "Mantrid"
Kai convinces the crew to return to the Light Universe through a black hole to obtain more protoblood from any possible remaining larva left after the destruction of the Giga Shadow. Unknown to the crew, Kai is acting under the influence of the remaining essence of his Divine Shadow.
A dormant larva is found but in order to extract protoblood Kai needs the help of Mantrid. Mantrid is an evil scientist who worked for his Divine Shadow. A great Biovizier for the order who has cheated death by his own devices. Mantrid is now nothing more than an animated head. Mantrid has his own plans for the insect larva, he wants to use the insects transduction organ to transfer his life essence and extend his own life.
Mantrid is stopped by Kai and Mantrid's incompetent assistant attempts to finish the procedure but bungles the job. The result is a fusing of his Shadow's essence, Mantrid's soul and a machine. A new and terrible life form is born into the universe.
LEXX 2.2: "Terminal"
Stan wakes Kai from his cryo-pod incorrectly and Kai emerges confused and immediately impales Stan through the heart with his weapon. Dying, Stan transfers the living "key" to the Lexx to Xev. They find a drifting Medical Satellite, "Med Stat Medical Terminal", and plead for them to save Stan. Having no money they are denied services. Angry, Xev uses the Lexx to destroy a nearby moon in the hopes of persuading them otherwise.
Realizing the potential of the Lexx, the medical facility welcomes them and saves Stan's life. But Med Stat is run by evil Doctors who have their own plans for the Lexx. They drug Xev, torture her and then slowly bring her to the point of death hoping to release the key to the Lexx.
Meanwhile the evil geniuses try to find a way to kill the unkillable Kai. As the human side of Xez approaches the point of death the cluster lizard part of her emerges and she breaks free of her restraints killing her captives. She rushes to the room where Kai is being destroyed at the molecular level by a plasma beam. She saves Kai but in the process is destroyed by the plasma beam herself.
Xez's remains, an organic goo, is retrieved by Kai and taken back by to the Lexx. This is the last episode to feature Eva Habermann as Xev.
LEXX 2.3: "Lyekka"
Drifting plant spores penetrate the Lexx, invade Stan's dreams and create a girl from his memories, Lyekka. In the form of Stan's dream girl, Lyekka the alien plant life makes a home on the Lexx.
Meanwhile, pioneering astronauts from the planet Potataho hope to make first contact. The astronauts encounter the Lexx and are brought on board. They introduce themselves as peaceful explorers and offer them a potato as a symbol of their planet. As Stan tries to explain to them what the Lexx is, he accidentally destroys a nearby planet and the astronauts space capsule.
Lyekka sees the astronauts as a delicious meal. She offers them each a moment of fulfilled dreams before she devours them. As a gift to the crew of the Lexx, Lyekka takes the organic remains of Xev and reanimates it into a likeness of the living Xev. This is the first appearance of Xenia Seeberg as Xev.
LEXX 2.4: "Luvliner"
The Lexx runs across a sex satellite brothel called The Luvliner. Stan and Xev board the Luvliner looking for a little action and find the place is long past its prime. The brothel's manager offers them one on the house while he secretly contacts a sadistic killer to help him steal the Lexx. They board the Lexx, taking Stan and Xev captive with them and eject Kai's body toward a nearby star.
LEXX 2.5: "Lafftrak"
Two planets long ago destroyed each other apparently in a war over television show ratings, each accusing the other of faking their TV ratings. All that remains is an automated space station called TV World that continues to create and broadcast television sitcoms. Xev and Stan visit the planetoid and become trapped as guest stars in the production of sitcoms. Their experience quickly turns into a nightmare as they learn they must continually get laughs and high ratings otherwise they are canceled from prime time and have to suffer humiliation in a day time program. If they cannot get high ratings in day time television then they are forced to play in "specialty show" where their heads are cut off live on TV and then kept alive artificially to be used forever as part of the studio audience.
LEXX 2.6: "Stan's Trial"
Stan searches for the Celes Pleasure Transport, a place he visited long ago before being forced to serve in the Divine Order of His Shadow. Stan used to be an assistant deputy backup courier for the Astral-B Heretics, carrying secret information hidden inside a tooth. At the time Stan had no money to barter with, instead he was given access to the Pleasure Transport in exchange for information about the Astral-B Heretics.
Stan unwittingly led His Divine Shadow to the heretics and information gathered subsequently resulted in the destruction of more than 100 of the reformed planets by His Shadow and the death of over 685 billion people. Now Stan has become known as the Arch Traitor Stanley Tweedle and is captured in a sting operation on the Celes Pleasure Transport. Stan is now the victim of a rigged trial.
LEXX 2.7: "Love Grows"
A team of long-haul space truckers consisting of two sex starved men and one cold abrasive woman are transporting hazardous waste materials, category 13 experimental gene drugs. An accident in space results in contamination of their control cab by a dangerous gas which causes their sex organs to change gender. The Lexx consumes the space truckers as a snack and now Stan and Xev are exposed to the gender changing gas. In a twist of role reversal now Xev knows what it is like to have male hormones and needs and likewise Stan knows what it is like to have female hormones and needs. Stan finally gets to fulfill his fantasy of having sex with Xev but it is not quite what he had in mind.
LEXX 2.8: "White Trash"
Hidden within the vast confines of the Lexx is a group of stowaways, a backwards hillbilly-type family of low moral turpitude. The father of the family, Pa Gollean, forces Stan to take them to their home planet Vermal. While en route, Pa's daughter Sissy seduces Stan and when her father finds out he threatens to kill Stan unless he marries Sissy. They arrive on Vermal just in time for "The Party" an incestuous orgy held regularly that keeps the gene pool shallow. While on Vermal, Norb, Pa's adopted son clearly from a deeper gene pool, repairs his true father's spaceship the Charger with the help of Kai. The Charger crash landed on Vermal long ago and now Norb wants to escape on it.
LEXX 2.9: "791"
Lyekka awakes from her pod and is very hungry, they must find a planet with food quickly before she eats the crew of the Lexx. They follow a distress signal coming from a lifeless planet and take Lyekka down in the hopes there are survivors on the planet she can eat. Within a derelict spaceship they find an inactive cyborg with a human body and a robot head that has been ripped off. The body of the cyborg is still functional and is clearly of a healthy virile male. 790 transplants his head onto the body in the hopes of fulfilling his fantasies with Xev. In this form he now calls himself 791. The transplant goes awry and now 791 is a homosexual menace. As Kai and Xev explore the rest of the ship they discover survivors on the ship, prisoners kept alive within organic pods.
LEXX 2.10: "Wake the Dead"
A group of teenagers steal one their father's transport, put themselves under cryo sleep for a space journey and then program their ship to wake them in two days. Due to their incompetence they are left drifting in space, asleep until the Lexx comes across them 287 years later. They bring along with them a stash of party drugs and soon they are "partying like stink". Being teenagers, they have a penchant for slasher stories involving sadistic killers and foolish teens. Under the influence, they re-program Kai and soon they are living their own teenage slasher story as Kai starts to murder each one of them in psycho-like fashion.
LEXX 2.11: "Nook"
The Lexx lands on a primitive water planet named Nook with only one tiny island inhabited by nothing but a small group of farmers. Kai quickly notices there are no women at all on Nook just men. The inhabitants refer to their visitors as three men and Kai tries to explain to them that one of them is a woman. The men worship the planet as "Father Nook" who has provided them with all they need to live their unchanging perfect life of harmony. Kai learns that the key to their perfect life is their choice to not concern themselves with the past or with knowledge. As Xev tries to seduce one of the brothers their leader puts an immediate stop to it. Xev sees the population of Nook as a challenge. The leader of the brotherhood sees the presence of the female Xev as the end to their perfect life of harmony and so accesses ancient knowledge to destroy Nook.
LEXX 2.12: "Norb"
The Lexx gets a distress call from Norb, the boy who escaped from the planet Vermal in the previous episode "White Trash". They find him without his spaceship floating in space in just his spacesuit. Clearly something is wrong with Norb and at first they attribute this to being alone in space for such a long time. Norb sabotages 790 and they soon learn that Norb is long dead and all that remains is a replica of Norb created by the Mantrid drones. Through Norb, Mantrid gives the crew of the Lexx a message - "let the contest begin". The Lexx is in danger of destruction as the Mantrid drones multiply and start consuming the Lexx. Mantrid contacts the Lexx and informs the crew of his purpose to destroy all human kind but will save them for last.
LEXX 2.13: "Twilight"
Stan is dying of an unknown disease so Xev broadcasts an emergency help message into deep space. The message is picked up by the inhabitants of the planet Ruuma. All that remains of Ruuma is a bickering hateful family, long tired of each other, who were given charge over a bunch of animated zombies of His Divine Shadow's Order. The Zombies are all that remain of His Divine Shadow's host bodies once their brains were removed. The brainless bodies are kept alive by the natural healing properties which emanate from within the planet. Now that the Divine Order has collapsed, the stranded family is desperate to leave Ruuma. The healing properties of Ruuma have a strange effect on Kai and turn him into a raving lunatic.
LEXX 2.14: "Patches in the Sky"
Feeling a little down in the dumps, Stan decides to blow up a planet to lift his spirits. He blows up a mining planet but not before the automated administrator mentions a device called the Narco-Lounger in an attempt to gain favor with Stan. The Narco-Lounger is a machine that lets people enter and live in their dreams. The Lexx and crew head for Narco World to let Stan have a spin on the Narco-Lounger. Upon arrival the operator of Narco World informs them of the "patches in the sky", whole galaxies disappearing before their eyes. As Stan takes a ride on the Narco-Lounger he soon finds that his fears followed him in as well as his desires and soon he is living a nightmare. The patches in the sky turn out to be Mantrid drones, which are multiplying geometrically, consuming the universe.
LEXX 2.15: "Woz"
Robot head 790 informs the crew that all sex slaves like Xev were made with built in expiry dates and Xev will expire in 79 hours. 790 can change Xev's expiration date if they can find a Lusticon, a love slave transformation machine. They head to the planet Woz where 790 believes there may still be a prototype Lusticon.
A distant supply post of the Divine Order, Woz was sent a Lusticon to provide love slaves to the clerics. Since the collapse of the Divine Order, the social order on Woz has evolved into a bitter rivalry between two factions. One faction, ruled by The Dark Lady, believes that all women should be transformed into beautiful women. The other, ruled by The Wozzard, believes such transformations are evil aberrations of nature.
The Wozzard and The Dark Lady have been trying to kill each other for years. The Wozzard promises to save Xev if Kai first helps him kill the Dark Lady. The writers clearly had fun with this story as a bizarre twist on the "The Wizard of Oz".
LEXX 2.16: "The Web"
790 estimates the entire universe will be gone in 31 days, the entire mass of the universe converted into Mantrid drones. Stanley wants to escape the Light Universe and into the Dark Zone but since the mass of the Light Universe has been altered by Mantrid, the portals between the two universes no longer exist. Kai suggests they travel to the center of the universe, the point where the universe was born and where the principle of uncertainty is greatest. It is there they may have a chance to escape the Light Universe. While en route to the center of the universe, Lexx warns Stan that there is a giant web in front of them. Unable to turn in time, the Lexx is captured by a giant space spider. As the crew awakens after the impact they find Stanley and Lexx are not themselves.
LEXX 2.17: "The Net"
In an interesting twist of story telling this episode recounts the same story in the previous episode, "The Web", only from a slightly different external perspective. One wonders if this was a simple device to get two episodes out of one story. In any case, in this episode we learn that the strange behavior of Stanley and The Lexx were due to the effects of the space spider's venom and parasites coursing through their bodies. Kai was immune due to being dead and Xev was immune due to being half cluster lizard.
LEXX 2.18: "Brigadoom"
The closer to the center of the universe they get, the more uncertain events and the laws of physics become. The Lexx approaches what seems to be a floating theater in space, a phenomenon that exists outside of space and time. As they enter the theater, the players appear and break out into a musical chronicling the tragic fall of the Brunnen G.
Here we learn what happened to Kai's people as Kai and Xev join in the theaters production. This episode is a pleasant surprise to fans expecting science fiction themes and attests to the writers' imagination and boldness. And who knew that Kai and Xev could sing? As the production ends, the narrator asks the crew of the Lexx to join their little troupe, forever acting out a part , never living or dying.
The story of the Brunnen G inspires Stanley Tweedle to abandon their cowards end at the center of the universe and instead decides to meet Mantrid head on even if it is certain death.
LEXX 2.19: "Brizon"
In this episode we meet Brizon, His Shadow's "Supreme Bio-Vizier", an aging evil scientist who extends his life by borrowing the functionality of other peoples internal organs. Brizon escapes his planet just as Mantrid's drones consumes it and answers the Lexx's broadcast for help. Brizon was the teacher of Mantrid and at first appears to be the only hope of defeating Mantrid. He claims to be able to switch off all of Mantrid's drones but first they must allow him to plug into Xev's internal organs to save his life. With Brizon connected to Xev's internal organs, he switches off all of Mantrid's drones everywhere and then heads for Mantrid to destroy him. Brizon's plan is to replace Mantrid in the machine and live forever, but Mantrid has one trick left for Brizon.
LEXX 2.20: "End of the Universe"
With 64% of the universe's mass now converted into Mantrid drones, the crew of the Lexx have only 93 hours left before the entire universe is converted into drones, including themselves. In a desperate move, Stanley connects 790's robot head to a Mantrid drone and creates a superior drone. Xev orders 790 to construct more 790 drones to fight the Mantrid drones. The 790 drones prove themselves superior in battle against the Mantrid drones but are hopelessly outnumbered.
Unable to find the real Mantrid among the many decoys, Kai devises one last plan to destroy Mantrid. If they run to the center of the universe and can get all of Mantrid's drones to follow them the resulting gravitational forces due to too much of the universe's mass being located in one place will cause the universe to die in a big collapse that even Mantrid cannot control. As the Light Universe ends in a big collapse, the Lexx is propelled into the Dark Zone.
LEXX 2.1: "Mantrid"
Kai convinces the crew to return to the Light Universe through a black hole to obtain more protoblood from any possible remaining larva left after the destruction of the Giga Shadow. Unknown to the crew, Kai is acting under the influence of the remaining essence of his Divine Shadow.
A dormant larva is found but in order to extract protoblood Kai needs the help of Mantrid. Mantrid is an evil scientist who worked for his Divine Shadow. A great Biovizier for the order who has cheated death by his own devices. Mantrid is now nothing more than an animated head. Mantrid has his own plans for the insect larva, he wants to use the insects transduction organ to transfer his life essence and extend his own life.
Mantrid is stopped by Kai and Mantrid's incompetent assistant attempts to finish the procedure but bungles the job. The result is a fusing of his Shadow's essence, Mantrid's soul and a machine. A new and terrible life form is born into the universe.
LEXX 2.2: "Terminal"
Stan wakes Kai from his cryo-pod incorrectly and Kai emerges confused and immediately impales Stan through the heart with his weapon. Dying, Stan transfers the living "key" to the Lexx to Xev. They find a drifting Medical Satellite, "Med Stat Medical Terminal", and plead for them to save Stan. Having no money they are denied services. Angry, Xev uses the Lexx to destroy a nearby moon in the hopes of persuading them otherwise.
Realizing the potential of the Lexx, the medical facility welcomes them and saves Stan's life. But Med Stat is run by evil Doctors who have their own plans for the Lexx. They drug Xev, torture her and then slowly bring her to the point of death hoping to release the key to the Lexx.
Meanwhile the evil geniuses try to find a way to kill the unkillable Kai. As the human side of Xez approaches the point of death the cluster lizard part of her emerges and she breaks free of her restraints killing her captives. She rushes to the room where Kai is being destroyed at the molecular level by a plasma beam. She saves Kai but in the process is destroyed by the plasma beam herself.
Xez's remains, an organic goo, is retrieved by Kai and taken back by to the Lexx. This is the last episode to feature Eva Habermann as Xev.
LEXX 2.3: "Lyekka"
Drifting plant spores penetrate the Lexx, invade Stan's dreams and create a girl from his memories, Lyekka. In the form of Stan's dream girl, Lyekka the alien plant life makes a home on the Lexx.
Meanwhile, pioneering astronauts from the planet Potataho hope to make first contact. The astronauts encounter the Lexx and are brought on board. They introduce themselves as peaceful explorers and offer them a potato as a symbol of their planet. As Stan tries to explain to them what the Lexx is, he accidentally destroys a nearby planet and the astronauts space capsule.
Lyekka sees the astronauts as a delicious meal. She offers them each a moment of fulfilled dreams before she devours them. As a gift to the crew of the Lexx, Lyekka takes the organic remains of Xev and reanimates it into a likeness of the living Xev. This is the first appearance of Xenia Seeberg as Xev.
LEXX 2.4: "Luvliner"
The Lexx runs across a sex satellite brothel called The Luvliner. Stan and Xev board the Luvliner looking for a little action and find the place is long past its prime. The brothel's manager offers them one on the house while he secretly contacts a sadistic killer to help him steal the Lexx. They board the Lexx, taking Stan and Xev captive with them and eject Kai's body toward a nearby star.
LEXX 2.5: "Lafftrak"
Two planets long ago destroyed each other apparently in a war over television show ratings, each accusing the other of faking their TV ratings. All that remains is an automated space station called TV World that continues to create and broadcast television sitcoms. Xev and Stan visit the planetoid and become trapped as guest stars in the production of sitcoms. Their experience quickly turns into a nightmare as they learn they must continually get laughs and high ratings otherwise they are canceled from prime time and have to suffer humiliation in a day time program. If they cannot get high ratings in day time television then they are forced to play in "specialty show" where their heads are cut off live on TV and then kept alive artificially to be used forever as part of the studio audience.
LEXX 2.6: "Stan's Trial"
Stan searches for the Celes Pleasure Transport, a place he visited long ago before being forced to serve in the Divine Order of His Shadow. Stan used to be an assistant deputy backup courier for the Astral-B Heretics, carrying secret information hidden inside a tooth. At the time Stan had no money to barter with, instead he was given access to the Pleasure Transport in exchange for information about the Astral-B Heretics.
Stan unwittingly led His Divine Shadow to the heretics and information gathered subsequently resulted in the destruction of more than 100 of the reformed planets by His Shadow and the death of over 685 billion people. Now Stan has become known as the Arch Traitor Stanley Tweedle and is captured in a sting operation on the Celes Pleasure Transport. Stan is now the victim of a rigged trial.
LEXX 2.7: "Love Grows"
A team of long-haul space truckers consisting of two sex starved men and one cold abrasive woman are transporting hazardous waste materials, category 13 experimental gene drugs. An accident in space results in contamination of their control cab by a dangerous gas which causes their sex organs to change gender. The Lexx consumes the space truckers as a snack and now Stan and Xev are exposed to the gender changing gas. In a twist of role reversal now Xev knows what it is like to have male hormones and needs and likewise Stan knows what it is like to have female hormones and needs. Stan finally gets to fulfill his fantasy of having sex with Xev but it is not quite what he had in mind.
LEXX 2.8: "White Trash"
Hidden within the vast confines of the Lexx is a group of stowaways, a backwards hillbilly-type family of low moral turpitude. The father of the family, Pa Gollean, forces Stan to take them to their home planet Vermal. While en route, Pa's daughter Sissy seduces Stan and when her father finds out he threatens to kill Stan unless he marries Sissy. They arrive on Vermal just in time for "The Party" an incestuous orgy held regularly that keeps the gene pool shallow. While on Vermal, Norb, Pa's adopted son clearly from a deeper gene pool, repairs his true father's spaceship the Charger with the help of Kai. The Charger crash landed on Vermal long ago and now Norb wants to escape on it.
LEXX 2.9: "791"
Lyekka awakes from her pod and is very hungry, they must find a planet with food quickly before she eats the crew of the Lexx. They follow a distress signal coming from a lifeless planet and take Lyekka down in the hopes there are survivors on the planet she can eat. Within a derelict spaceship they find an inactive cyborg with a human body and a robot head that has been ripped off. The body of the cyborg is still functional and is clearly of a healthy virile male. 790 transplants his head onto the body in the hopes of fulfilling his fantasies with Xev. In this form he now calls himself 791. The transplant goes awry and now 791 is a homosexual menace. As Kai and Xev explore the rest of the ship they discover survivors on the ship, prisoners kept alive within organic pods.
LEXX 2.10: "Wake the Dead"
A group of teenagers steal one their father's transport, put themselves under cryo sleep for a space journey and then program their ship to wake them in two days. Due to their incompetence they are left drifting in space, asleep until the Lexx comes across them 287 years later. They bring along with them a stash of party drugs and soon they are "partying like stink". Being teenagers, they have a penchant for slasher stories involving sadistic killers and foolish teens. Under the influence, they re-program Kai and soon they are living their own teenage slasher story as Kai starts to murder each one of them in psycho-like fashion.
LEXX 2.11: "Nook"
The Lexx lands on a primitive water planet named Nook with only one tiny island inhabited by nothing but a small group of farmers. Kai quickly notices there are no women at all on Nook just men. The inhabitants refer to their visitors as three men and Kai tries to explain to them that one of them is a woman. The men worship the planet as "Father Nook" who has provided them with all they need to live their unchanging perfect life of harmony. Kai learns that the key to their perfect life is their choice to not concern themselves with the past or with knowledge. As Xev tries to seduce one of the brothers their leader puts an immediate stop to it. Xev sees the population of Nook as a challenge. The leader of the brotherhood sees the presence of the female Xev as the end to their perfect life of harmony and so accesses ancient knowledge to destroy Nook.
LEXX 2.12: "Norb"
The Lexx gets a distress call from Norb, the boy who escaped from the planet Vermal in the previous episode "White Trash". They find him without his spaceship floating in space in just his spacesuit. Clearly something is wrong with Norb and at first they attribute this to being alone in space for such a long time. Norb sabotages 790 and they soon learn that Norb is long dead and all that remains is a replica of Norb created by the Mantrid drones. Through Norb, Mantrid gives the crew of the Lexx a message - "let the contest begin". The Lexx is in danger of destruction as the Mantrid drones multiply and start consuming the Lexx. Mantrid contacts the Lexx and informs the crew of his purpose to destroy all human kind but will save them for last.
LEXX 2.13: "Twilight"
Stan is dying of an unknown disease so Xev broadcasts an emergency help message into deep space. The message is picked up by the inhabitants of the planet Ruuma. All that remains of Ruuma is a bickering hateful family, long tired of each other, who were given charge over a bunch of animated zombies of His Divine Shadow's Order. The Zombies are all that remain of His Divine Shadow's host bodies once their brains were removed. The brainless bodies are kept alive by the natural healing properties which emanate from within the planet. Now that the Divine Order has collapsed, the stranded family is desperate to leave Ruuma. The healing properties of Ruuma have a strange effect on Kai and turn him into a raving lunatic.
LEXX 2.14: "Patches in the Sky"
Feeling a little down in the dumps, Stan decides to blow up a planet to lift his spirits. He blows up a mining planet but not before the automated administrator mentions a device called the Narco-Lounger in an attempt to gain favor with Stan. The Narco-Lounger is a machine that lets people enter and live in their dreams. The Lexx and crew head for Narco World to let Stan have a spin on the Narco-Lounger. Upon arrival the operator of Narco World informs them of the "patches in the sky", whole galaxies disappearing before their eyes. As Stan takes a ride on the Narco-Lounger he soon finds that his fears followed him in as well as his desires and soon he is living a nightmare. The patches in the sky turn out to be Mantrid drones, which are multiplying geometrically, consuming the universe.
LEXX 2.15: "Woz"
Robot head 790 informs the crew that all sex slaves like Xev were made with built in expiry dates and Xev will expire in 79 hours. 790 can change Xev's expiration date if they can find a Lusticon, a love slave transformation machine. They head to the planet Woz where 790 believes there may still be a prototype Lusticon.
A distant supply post of the Divine Order, Woz was sent a Lusticon to provide love slaves to the clerics. Since the collapse of the Divine Order, the social order on Woz has evolved into a bitter rivalry between two factions. One faction, ruled by The Dark Lady, believes that all women should be transformed into beautiful women. The other, ruled by The Wozzard, believes such transformations are evil aberrations of nature.
The Wozzard and The Dark Lady have been trying to kill each other for years. The Wozzard promises to save Xev if Kai first helps him kill the Dark Lady. The writers clearly had fun with this story as a bizarre twist on the "The Wizard of Oz".
LEXX 2.16: "The Web"
790 estimates the entire universe will be gone in 31 days, the entire mass of the universe converted into Mantrid drones. Stanley wants to escape the Light Universe and into the Dark Zone but since the mass of the Light Universe has been altered by Mantrid, the portals between the two universes no longer exist. Kai suggests they travel to the center of the universe, the point where the universe was born and where the principle of uncertainty is greatest. It is there they may have a chance to escape the Light Universe. While en route to the center of the universe, Lexx warns Stan that there is a giant web in front of them. Unable to turn in time, the Lexx is captured by a giant space spider. As the crew awakens after the impact they find Stanley and Lexx are not themselves.
LEXX 2.17: "The Net"
In an interesting twist of story telling this episode recounts the same story in the previous episode, "The Web", only from a slightly different external perspective. One wonders if this was a simple device to get two episodes out of one story. In any case, in this episode we learn that the strange behavior of Stanley and The Lexx were due to the effects of the space spider's venom and parasites coursing through their bodies. Kai was immune due to being dead and Xev was immune due to being half cluster lizard.
LEXX 2.18: "Brigadoom"
The closer to the center of the universe they get, the more uncertain events and the laws of physics become. The Lexx approaches what seems to be a floating theater in space, a phenomenon that exists outside of space and time. As they enter the theater, the players appear and break out into a musical chronicling the tragic fall of the Brunnen G.
Here we learn what happened to Kai's people as Kai and Xev join in the theaters production. This episode is a pleasant surprise to fans expecting science fiction themes and attests to the writers' imagination and boldness. And who knew that Kai and Xev could sing? As the production ends, the narrator asks the crew of the Lexx to join their little troupe, forever acting out a part , never living or dying.
The story of the Brunnen G inspires Stanley Tweedle to abandon their cowards end at the center of the universe and instead decides to meet Mantrid head on even if it is certain death.
LEXX 2.19: "Brizon"
In this episode we meet Brizon, His Shadow's "Supreme Bio-Vizier", an aging evil scientist who extends his life by borrowing the functionality of other peoples internal organs. Brizon escapes his planet just as Mantrid's drones consumes it and answers the Lexx's broadcast for help. Brizon was the teacher of Mantrid and at first appears to be the only hope of defeating Mantrid. He claims to be able to switch off all of Mantrid's drones but first they must allow him to plug into Xev's internal organs to save his life. With Brizon connected to Xev's internal organs, he switches off all of Mantrid's drones everywhere and then heads for Mantrid to destroy him. Brizon's plan is to replace Mantrid in the machine and live forever, but Mantrid has one trick left for Brizon.
LEXX 2.20: "End of the Universe"
With 64% of the universe's mass now converted into Mantrid drones, the crew of the Lexx have only 93 hours left before the entire universe is converted into drones, including themselves. In a desperate move, Stanley connects 790's robot head to a Mantrid drone and creates a superior drone. Xev orders 790 to construct more 790 drones to fight the Mantrid drones. The 790 drones prove themselves superior in battle against the Mantrid drones but are hopelessly outnumbered.
Unable to find the real Mantrid among the many decoys, Kai devises one last plan to destroy Mantrid. If they run to the center of the universe and can get all of Mantrid's drones to follow them the resulting gravitational forces due to too much of the universe's mass being located in one place will cause the universe to die in a big collapse that even Mantrid cannot control. As the Light Universe ends in a big collapse, the Lexx is propelled into the Dark Zone.