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In this first episode, the crew encounters Mantrid, the former Bio-Vizier for His Divine Shadow. Mantrid claims he is able to provide the proto-blood necessary for Kai s continued existence; but Mantrid, of course, has an ulterior motive. Mantrid is a brilliant but dangerous character who undergoes a transformation that makes him the main antagonist for the season.

Waking Kai can be a dangerous business, as Stanley Tweedle finds out the hard way. He is mortally wounded and rushed to the Medsat Medical Terminal where Doctor Kazzan saves his life. But the Doctor and his cronies have their own visions of power and glory and try to steal the LEXX to realize their nefarious dreams. Zev manages to foil their plans but in so doing makes the ultimate sacrifice, and loses her life while saving Kai and the others.

The crew discovers an unusual stowaway on board: the sultry Lyekka. Lyekka is actually a strange form of carnivorous plant, whose main purpose is to feed. She makes a nasty first impression when she dines on some visiting astronauts, but eventually proves her worth to Stan, Kai and especially 790 when she places the remains of Zev into her chrysalis. A spectacular new Xev is regenerated much to the delight of the crew.

The randy crew picks up a signal from a bordello satellite and is soon on board, eager to satisfy their needs. But the satellite manager and his dangerous partner have needs of their own that spell trouble for Stan and Xev.

The crew land on a television planet where the name of the game is to put yourself into a variety of different shows in an attempt to secure good ratings. What they don t know is that failure to obtain these ratings means a one way trip to television hell: specialty channels where cast members have no chance of survival.

Stanley pays a return visit to the Celes pleasure transport. Lying in wait are agents who arrest him for his heinous crimes against the people of the 100 reform planets. He is found guilty and sentenced to death, but the evil prosecutor Jihana wants to take his punishment a step further

Mistaking a ship of space cowboys towing a cargo of mysterious substances for food, the Lexx swallows it. The lusty crew makes their way up Lexx s digestive tract to the bridge and into the eager arms of Xev. But the substance they were towing infects the ship and the consequences are startling.

A whole family of Hillbilly stow-aways is discovered on board, led by the ornery and unpredictable Pa . Shotgun weddings and old feuds a-plenty as our crew are reluctantly taken on a wild ride through the backwoods of the universe.

The crew receives a distress signal and soon find themselves in a crashed ship on an inhospitable planet. 790 is ecstatic to discover that the pilot of the unfortunate vessel is a cyborg who lost his head when the ship went down. 790 has always longed for a body and so claims this as his own. He is ready to fulfill his fantasies with Xev but his new body has more unorthodox appetites.

After floating in cryosleep for almost 300 years, five rowdy teenagers board the Lexx to carry on the party. But, someone is a party pooper in a deadly way!

The crew arrives on NOOK, a planet that consists of ocean and one single island. It is populated only by a religious order of men that have not seen a woman in 100 years. When they see Xev there is no turning back the clock.

The Lexx encounters a strange young boy, Norb, who lacks a certain vitality . That is because he is really composed of vicious drone arms. They shoot out of his body, multiply wildly and very nearly take over the Lexx. Our crew is dismayed to learn that they were sent by the man/machine Mantrid and represent the start of the game .

Finding Stanley unconscious on the bridge, the crew seek medical help on an ugly little planet, Ruuma. Once there, Stanley recovers, only to learn that Ruuma s life giving qualities also give life to the long dead bodies of former Divine Shadows.

The robot head, 791, confesses in tears that Xev has only 79 hours left before she automatically expires. To remedy this, they go to Woz, a planet that is known to have a version of the Lustikon machine, which can reset her clock. There they meet the Wuzzard, fight the Black Lady and learn that there s no place like home .

Stanley Tweedle goes for a ride on the Narcolounger where you can, for a small fee, enter your own dreams. But Stanley Tweedle s dream turns into a nightmare when he encounters the cannibal woman Giggerota. And Stanley gets stuck in his dream because the Narcolounger s operator, Gubby Mok, has observed that whole sections of the universe are disappearing, and this news has caused Gubby to go over the deep end.

As the Universe continues to disappear, the Lexx almost gets caught in a giant living net. It just barely escapes, but something is definitely wrong onboard. After a complex search the crew discover that they did not escape, but are still ensnared in the Web, which has control of the Lexx s brain. Eventually they do really escape and head for the centre of the universe, their only hope in a rapidly disappearing cosmos. And Xev, realizing that the end is near and little time is left, gets eyes for Stanley for the first time.

As the Universe continues to disappear, the Lexx almost gets caught in a giant living net. It just barely escapes, but something is definitely wrong onboard. But this time we see that the Lexx is actually still caught, that the Web creature has control over the Lexx and is also inside Stanley s brain. So when Xev gets eyes for Stanley she finds herself in a very dangerous situation. It s the same story as The Web, only completely different.

As the Lexx crew flee toward the centre of a disappearing universe, a theatre magically materializes before them. They learn that the floating building exists outside of time and space, and by staying in there, they can escape the universe s doom. In this theatre only one show plays-- a musical, the story of Kai, Last of the Brunnen G. But the crew, inspired by Kai s story-- choose not to stay and also not to run any more. They turn back to fight Mantrid, knowing that they will likely die, but at least now they will die well .

Responding to the crew s desperate pleas for help in the fight against Mantrid is Brizon, a Bio-Vizier for His Divine Shadow and Mantrid s former teacher. He offers his help but soon turns on the crew: he assumes control over Kai, attaches himself parasitically to Xev and essentially takes over the LEXX. His goals are not so much to destroy Mantrid as to replace him as the ruler of the universe; a goal he almost achieves.

Mantrid is converting the whole universe into drone arms. With Lyekka s help, our heroes almost kill Mantrid, but fail. He seems unstoppable. But Kai, Stan and Xev do trick Mantrid into shifting a vast mass of drone arms towards them for a final crushing blow. And this causes the whole universe to collapse-- the reverse of the big bang. The Lexx escapes, at it is squeezed into the parallel, dark universe. But Mantrid is on board.