Transcribed by Nik Taylor

Act I
Ext - Space, Norb's spaceship flying thru space, we see Norb, looking very much like a normal little boy, piloting the ship.  He comes upon a space station that looks as tho it's made out of candy (some kind of candy store?)
Norb: Cool.
Norb: Hey, big fat candy house, anybody over there?  This is space-pilot Norb requesting a pit stop
Norb: Talk to me
Music becomes sinister, the chanting from the beginning of the show, as the station changes in appearance, becomes darker, and is revealed to be Mantrid drones!  Norb turns around and runs as fast as he can, but he can't outrun the drones, he uses some surprisingly sophisticated evasive maneuvers, but fails.  Places his helmet on
Norb: Somebody help me, I'm being attacked!
Norb pulls out something that looks like one of those snow domes, there's an image of a man's head rotating in it
Norb: You gotta help me, Dad
Suddenly, a drone appears on the window, Norb drops the ball and reaches for an eject button, but the drone breaks in and grabs his arm, Norb fights against drone, and another drone grabs his other arm, then he head-butts the button and ejects from the ship, while the drones converge on the ship destroying it.

Ext - The Lexx from head-on, flies past the camera, so that we start to see some of the long part
Int - Stan in the bridge, which looks different than it did before, Stan is walking around the bridge
Stan: Lexx, sometimes, when I come onto the bridge, say, for instance, and things look different than they were before, meaning, things have changed
Lexx: Really, Stanley?
Stan (looks slightly frustrated at the Lexx's not understanding him, long pause): I meant that as a question, Lexx.  The question is: Why are things different?
Lexx: I'm still growing, Stanley
Stan (slight pause): Oh, oh, well, ju ---
Norb over radio: Please help <static, hard to make out what he's saying>
Stan: Can I hear that please, Lexx?
Lexx: As you command, Stan
Norb (very clear, now): Please help me, I'm drifting alone in space, and I'm low on air, would somebody out there please help me?
Stan walks off into a passageway, looking backwards as he goes

Ext - Norb is seen from behind, drifting in his escape chair, looking very emotionless, moth containing Xev and Kai pulls up; camera angle changes to show Norb from the front.  We can see that he's holding a large, white, sphere, about the size of a basketball, of unknown purpose; camera angle changes again to show close up of moth, Xev tries to get Norb's attention, Norb unresponsive, Xev puts on helmet and Kai looks as tho he's about to push some button or something, presumably opening the Moth, but we don't see them actually rescuing Norb, it cuts to the moth heading back to the Lexx

Int - Bridge, Stan sitting down in his chair, gets up to greet Norb
Stan: So, nice to see you again, Norb, isn't it?  You can take off your helmet
Xev reaches for the sphere in Norb's hands
Xev: Here, let me take this
Norb: Don't touch it!
Norb appears very strange
Xev: What is it?
Norb: It's mine
Xev: I can see that, but what is it, that thing that you have in your hand that's yours?
Norb: It's a picture of my father
Xev: Your pa?
Norb: It's a picture of my father
Xev: I see.  Well, you know, we don't want to take it away from you, it's okay, no problem, you can do whatever you want here.  We're your friends.
Stan approaches Norb, Norb backs off a step
Norb: It's a picture of my father!
Stan backs off with hands up
Kai: It is not an image of Pa
Xev: Well, then it must be your real father.  I bet he was handsome, just like you're going to be
Kai: There is no image
790: The little kid is clearly deranged, I suggest we spare ourselves any further unpleasantness by ejecting him back into space at once
Xev (snapping at 790): He's only a child!
790: Who will eventually grow into a man, who could then become a threat to the perfect love that I feel for you at all times!
Xev: Norb, you must be tired, why don't you lie down for a while in my bed, you'll feel better, hmm? (reaches her hand out as if to hold his hand) C'mon
Norb walks off ahead of Xev, close up on Kai, he seems to be suspicious of Norb

Int - Xev's bedroom
Xev (initially off-screen, comes on-screen during this line): And remember, Norb, we're your friends
Xev: Look, here we are
Norb still has the white sphere in his right hand, and the helmet in his left, Norb sits down on her bed
Xev: Now you need some rest, okay?
Xev reaches out to Norb, to touch his hair, but he shrinks away, Xev pulls back away from him
Xev: Okay, I'll leave you alone
Norb looks really dead here, Xev appears unsure of what to do, walks off.  Norb watches her walk away, then tosses the helmet back onto the bed, and holds the sphere in front of him and lets go, it floats and changes into the top half of a Mantrid drone!  He pulls out his left arm, and he uses his right arm to put it on the sphere, creating a Mantrid drone.  Then another arm, obviously the arm-part of a Mantrid drone, comes out

Act II
Int - Bridge, Xev is leaning on the wall, and Kai is standing in the background, Stan walks toward Xev
Stan: Xev, I admire you for your concern and all, but Norb is not the same little kid that we met before
Xev: No.  He's damaged goods
Stan: Definitely.  Kai, what do you think?
Kai: I do not think (pause) the way you think, I think.  But he is not the same little kid we met before.
Stan: What do you mean?
Kai: He seems to be more like me than he is like you
Stan: Are you saying, Norb is dead?
Kai: He lacks a certain ... vitality
Stan (to Xev): You know, that little kid is beginning to worry me.  Maybe 790 was right, maybe we should eject him back out into space
Xev (walks confrontationally to Stanley): Stanley, he's a boy, he was drifting in space for who knows how long.  What do you expect?  I don't think you know what it's like to be alone, really alone like that.  I do.
Stan: Maybe, Xev, but he is not like you, not in the slightest
Stan walks off, and camera zooms in on Xev

Int - Bridge, again.  790's now sitting in Stan's chair
790: A moment with Xev beats a moment with Stan.  Two moments with Xev beats one moment with Stan.  Three moments with Xev beats --
Norb comes up to 790 and pulls out a switchblade, which he then uses to attack the back of 790's head, pulling open a panel
790: Get your filthy, inbred fingers off me!  Hey!  Didn't you hear me?  Hey, what are you doing?!  Xev, help me!  Xeeev, help mee!!
Norb pulls out a tiny piece of brain tissue inside a plastic casing connected by wires to the rest of 790's computer brain
790 (while Norb is figuring out how to disconnect the little plastic cube): I demand that you bring me to Xev at once, or I will persuasively argue that you be returned from whence you came!  You may think that ----
Norb removes brain cube, and turns now-deactivated 790 towards him
Norb (in Mantrid drone voice): What is your name?
790 (in dead, emotionless, stereotypical "robot voice"): 790

Int - Xev's bedroom, empty, footsteps are heard as Stan, Xev, and Kai enter the room
Stan (while entering): Rest or no rest, I'm not comfortable about leaving him alone any more until we get some answers
They see Xev's bed empty
Xev: Norb!?
Stan lifts his hands as if to say "Oh, great, now what?", camera closes in on Norb's helmet

Int - The Bridge, Xev enters, followed by Stan and Kai, Xev looks over at Norb and 790
Xev: Norb!
Stan (to Norb): What happened to your arm?
Xev (to 790): 790, what happened to Norb's arm?  (no response from 790) 790, turn yourself on (still no response) Why are you shut off?  Is everything okay?  790, (picks up 790) why don't you answer my question?
790: You are not an authorized person
Xev: What's wrong with you?
790: You are not an authorized person
Kai (to Norb): Do you have anything to say to us?
Norb (in Mantrid drone voice): Yes.  Hello, humans.
Kai: What are you?
Norb: A message
Kai: From who?
Norb: Mantrid
Stan: Mantrid?
Stan and Xev both back off a step or two
Kai: And what is the message?
Norb: Let the Contest begin
Chanting music begins, Norb holds up 790's brain cube, and crushes it, Xev and Stan both look confused.  Norb is revealed to be 5 Mantrid drones, and comes apart, Xev and Stan both move back.  Kai shoots down all five, having to run after the fifth
Stan: YES!
Xev: Good work, Kai
Stan: And just like I thought, Norb wasn't Norb
Xev: Yeah, but, what did he mean by Mantrid?  Mantrid is dead, his planet was destroyed
Kai: His planet was destroyed, the Insect was destroyed, and Mantrid's body was destroyed, but something calling itself Mantrid still seems to definitely exist
Xev: And what do you think he meant by 'the Contest'?
Kai: I suspect that we shall find out
Stan: I think we just had the Contest, and it was a short one!  You shot down all the drones!
Kai: All the ones I could see, but remember, Norb had a sphere
Stan: And there was something weird going on with his arm.  (louder)  Lexx, can you see a Mantrid drone, a little one-armed thing flying around?
Lexx: I cannot see them now, Stanley, they are somewhere inside me.
Stan: Well, if you see it, I want you to tell me immediately.
Lexx: Yes, Stan
Kai picks up 790's brain cube
Kai: It's 790's brain cube
Stan: Brain cube?  What brain cube?
Kai: 790's piece of human brain
Stan: 790 was a robot, a mechanical device, a souped-up toaster.  What are you talking about?
Kai: 790-model robots have a tiny cube of human brain, a functional interface integrating a computer head and a human body (Xev picks up 790's brain cube from Kai's hand), if 790 had no living brain tissue, the falling-in-love part of the love-slave transformation intended for Zev would not've worked on him
Xev: Makes sense to me (returns brain cube to Kai)
Stan: How do you know that?
Kai: I have many memories
Xev: But why didn't 790 know that?
Kai: It was not necessary for 790 robots to know that to perform their required functions, therefore, such knowledge was not part of his programing.
Stan: But why didn't you tell him?
Kai: He never asked.  (takes 790 from Xev) We must hurry, we must use 790 to help us
Xev: 790 is ...
Kai: 790 as you knew him is gone, but the information that might help us is still contained in his databank
Stan: Useless robot-head
Xev (shoots Stan a withering look) ... gone  (she looks as tho she might start crying)
Kai (holding up 790's brain cube): This is the 790 who loved you
Walks off into passageway, camera focuses on Xev, very sad

Act III
Ext - Lexx from below
Int - Cryochamber, Kai is working with a machine containing blue liquid, the protein-regenerator, Xev is leaning on a cryochamber watching Kai, Stan is off-screen, walks on screen, while saying:
Stan: Why are you wasting your time on a dead robot-head when we have to find a drone?  (Xev shoots him another evil look) I'm sorry, Xev, but what I'm saying makes sense
Xev: Well, why don't you go find it, Stan?
Stan: Well, maybe if no one else will, I'll have to
Stan walks off
Int - passageway, Stan walking, drone flies past the camera, behind him, he turns around but misses it, another drone flies past him, he turns around again but misses it as well
Int - Cryochamber again, camera zoomed in on Kai's hand connecting 790's brain cube up to some machinery
Kai: Mantrid's drones are a variation of standard Cluster drones which should be very familiar to 790, exact knowledge of their construction may be the key to our being able to stop them
Xev: Them?
Kai: The Mantrid drones are builder drones, given the time and raw materials, they can construct almost anything.  Including more Mantrid drones.
Xev (looks back): Stanley?
Stan (off-camera): Yes?
Xev: Where are you, are you all right?
Stan (coming into the room): Yes.  I'm all right.  I'm gonna check out the bridge now
Xev (sarcastically): How unusually brave of you
Stan: Not brave, Xev, try worried
Xev: Don't be a hero
Stan: That, you can count on.
Kai sucks out some of his protoblood, and drops it on 790's brain cube
Int - Bridge, Stanley walking around very furtively
Int - Cryochamber, Kai is putting some of his protoblood into the protein-regenerator
Xev: Why your protoblood?
Kai: My protoblood is similar to the substance used to keep 790's nodule of brain tissue alive, only, better
Zoom out, 790 appears to be attached again to the tissue regenerator, Kai places the brain cube in a device, which is connected to 790; the device starts to glow as Xev watches it
Int - Bridge again, Stan is getting into his command chair, looking around
Stan (whisper): Lexx?  (slightly louder) Lexx?  We've gotta locate the Mantrid drone little one-armed things that fly around
Lexx (camera shows viewscreen with voice effects) You can count on me, Stanley.  You are my captain
Stan: You see anything yet, Lexx?
Lexx: No, Stanley, I do not see any Mantrid drone little one-armed things that fly around anywhere right now.  But, Stanley?
Stan: Yes, Lexx?
Lexx: I don't feel well, Stanley
Stan: What do you mean, Lexx?
Lexx: I think that the Mantrid drone little one-armed things that fly around are hurting me
Stan: What do you mean?
Lexx: I feel bad in certain places
Stan: What places?
Lexx: In the moth-breeding chamber, in my accelerator pipes, in six of my stomachs, in 117 passageways
Stan: Excuse me, Lexx, but there was only one drone, so how can it be possible that ---
Mantrid drone flies in front of the camera
Lexx: I can see a Mantrid drone little one-armed thing that flies around on the Bridge now, Stanley
Stan: So can I, Lexx, so can I
runs into the passageway
Stan: I found the drone, I found the drone!
Int - passageway, Stanley comes to a halt as he sees a whole bunch of drones, turns around and sees others, they corner him
Stan: Kai!  Kai, can you hear me?
Int - Cryochamber, Xev's watching the protein-regenerator repair 790's brain-cube, Kai reattaches the brain-cube to 790, 790's face comes back
Xev: 790?
790 (in a rather slow, strange, voice): Hello, there
Xev: 790
790: You're very ... attractive
Kai: 790, I have connected you to a protein regenerator, can you operate it?
790: It is part of my standard programming.  Your face is very ... special
Kai: The protein-regenerator contains your own brain tissue.  You must control it in order to restore your neurological functions
790: I do not have brain tissue
Kai: Yes, you do.  Not much, but you do have some
790: That's ... funny
Kai: Operate the regenerator now, 790
790: You're cute
Xev (grabbing hold of 790): Thank you, but please, 790, operate the machine, I want you back
790: You ...want me ... back?  That's ... nice
Xev (getting emotional): 790, operate the machine!
790: O .... kay
790's eyes are replaced by 1's and 0's, and a strange computer-like sound is made, brain cube begins to glow
Xev: That's it, 790.  You can do it!  (she is starting to cry a bit)
Int - Passageway, Stan is attacked by the Mantrid drones, he starts screaming

Act IV
Int - Cryochamber, Xev is intently watching the protein-regenerator
Xev: We haven't heard from Stanley in a while
Kai: No, we have not
Xev: Stanley?  Are you all right?
Stan's voice (exactly the same as in Act III): Yes, I'm all right
Xev: Well, don't go far
Stan's voice: That ...
Int - Passageway
Stan's voice (now Mantrid drone-ish): ... you can count on
Stan: Lexx!
Lexx: Yes, Stanley?
Stan: Tell Kai, in the Cryochamber, that Stanley is being attacked in the passageway
Lexx: As you command, Stanley
Int - Cryochamber
Lexx: Kai in the cryochamber, Stanley is being attacked in the passageway
Xev and Kai look at each other, then take off running into the passageway
Int - passageway, Kai blasts a bunch of Mantrid drones, as Stan covers his head with his hands, then the rest of the drones fly off, and Kai rescues Stan
Stan: Oh, thank you, Kai.  Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you
Xev: Woah, there were so many!
Stan: Lexx says they're all over the ship, they're in the accelerator tubes, they're in the moth breeding chamber, they're in hundreds of passageways, and they're hurting him, this is, this is
Kai: This would be the Contest
Stan: We gotta get outta here
Xev: To where?
Kai: We should find out what their agenda is
Starts walking off followed by Xev, Stan reluctantly follows
Stan: But, but ...
Int - Bridge, Kai walks on, followed by Xev and Stan
Lexx: I am feeling very, very bad, Stanley
Stan looks up and sees a whole bunch of Mantrid drones flying around the upper part of the bridge
Stan: So am I, Lexx, I think we all are
Kai: Ask what they are doing to him
Stan: What are they doing to ya, Lexx?
Lexx: They are eating me, Stan
Xev: Look!  (points up)
Stan: That explains where they all came from!
Camera zooms in, and we can see Mantrid drones building other Mantrid drones, and some Mantrid drones ripping pieces out of Lexx for raw materials (no sign of how they turn Lexx's flesh into metal and plastic)
Kai: They're using Lexx's raw material to make new versions of themselves.
Xev: How can we stop so many?
Kai: I do not know
Xev: I think we don't have much time
Starts running, Stan and Kai follow her, she runs into a moth, they get in and fly off
Int - Moth, Xev is on the right, piloting, Stan on her left and Kai in the back]
Kai: It is Mantrid's plan, he's sending his drones out into the universe to make new versions of themselves
Stan: Why?
Kai: It's part of his insect legacy to want to destroy all humankind, he is using his drones to pursue that goal
Ext - Moth flying thru some sort of tube
Int - Xev piloting moth
Ext - Moth reaches airlock, but Mantrid drones are already there destroying it
Int - Xev pulls on a control, and moth turns around, fleeing drones
Ext - moth fleeing drones thru various corridors
Int - Moth
Xev: Stan, tell Lexx to open his airlock and close it the instant we're thru
Stan: Lexx, open the airlock and close it the very instant we're thru
Lexx (a little slower than usual): As you command, Stanley
Ext - Moth flying towards airlock
Ext - Lexx, moth goes thru airlock, three drones follow
Int - Moth
Stan: Now what?
Drone attaches itself to window, Kai uses his wrist brace to destroy it, putting a small hole thru the window, which he covers with his left thumb
Int - Cryochamber, 790 looks around
From now on, in this exchange, I won't refer to scene changes if it's just between the cryochamber and the Moth
790 (back to his normal voice): Xev, Xev darling, Xev darling, where are you?  Oh, Xev, perfect sample of womankind, please do not be in trouble!
Lexx: 790?
790: Yes, you city-sized mass of marginally-cognative insect mush?
Lexx: Stanley asked me to say to you the words How we can stop the drones that are Mantrid drones?
790: Tell him he can stop them by placing them all around his body and commanding them to slash him into thousands of pieces, but in the slowest and most painful way possible.
Kai seems to be using his skin to seal the hole in the window
Lexx: 790 said the words "Tell him he can stop them by placing them around his body and commanding them to slash him into thousands of little pieces, but in the slowest and most painful way possible"
Xev (grinning): It's 790, he's back!
Stan: Yeah
Lexx: Stanley asked me to tell you that I am with Xev, but since Lexx only responds to me, and you only respond to Xev, we must communicate this way, and that only by listening to me can you help Xev
790: Oh, how do I know that the Security guard isn't trying to trick me, or perhaps you are?  No, that's not possible.

Act V
Ext - Moth flying between Lexx's eyes
Lexx: 790 asked me to say What is this piece of brain tissue that is connected to his casing?
Stan (smiling): Lexx, you can tell 790 that that teensy-weensy, unimportant, insignificant, particle of brain tissue is actually his, and he's had it all along (slight pause) and he didn't know it
790: My very own brain tissue?!  (laughs)  I'm alive!  I'm really alive!  Tell Stan to tell Xev that that explains my perfect human love, a love far superior to machine love ...
Lexx: ... A love that a security class 4 could only ever dream of
Stan: Lexx, you can tell 790 that he may be alive now, but it won't be for long, unless he gets with the program
790: The Mantrid drones are a variation of class 23 Cluster drones, version 2.03.  They have limited individual computational power, but can share data, which means the more of them you have, they more capable they become
Stan: I think I'm beginning to feel depressed right now ...
790: The drones, like myself, are largely composed of complex and precise electronic circuitry, but unlike me, (voice changes) they do not have a love-chunk of human brain (normal voice again), but like all complex and precise electronic devices, are capable of being damaged by high-power pulses of electromagnetic flux
Xev: What do you mean?
Stan: Lexx, say What do you mean?
Lexx: Stanley asked me to say What do you mean?
790: What I mean is that if the Lexx's main drive were to be reversed, the resulting collision of highly-accelerated particles with the Lexx itself would produce enough flux to fry every sensitive circuit onboard
Stan: But wouldn't that kill the Lexx, too?
790: I have never observed anything complex or precise in regard to the Lexx.
Stan: Can the Lexx actually do that, I, I mean, reverse his drive?
Lexx: 790 said (voice changes to a sickly sound) said the words <unintelligible noises> (normal voice again) Sorry, Stanley, I am not well, I do not feel good, I feel very bad, Stanley. I think the Mantrid drone things that fly around are eating important parts of me.  I do not like it.
Stan: Well, Lexx, if you want to feel better, you have to reverse your main drive (Xev appears to be about to say something, but then decides not to), you have to shoot your particles the other way, inside ya, can you do that?
Lexx: I think that would really sting, Stanley
Stan: Yeah, I know it would sting, but Lexx, the drones are going to keep eating you till you're all gone, do you know what I mean?
Lexx (sickly voice): No (noises)
Stan: What I mean, Lexx, is that if you don't reverse your particle drive, you're going to die, and we're going to die a few minutes later, do you understand that?
Lexx: No, I do not, Stanley, (sickly voice) but I don't feel well at all
Xev once again appears to hold back something
Stan: Lexx, I command you to ---
Xev (interrupting) 790 is an electronic device, won't he be destroyed, too?
Stan: 790's mini-brain is not an electronic circuit, a-a-and so it shouldn't be destroyed, and isn't that the, the, the part that counts now?
Kai: 790 is a hybrid, part human, but mostly machine.  Any pulse that destroys the drones would certainly destroy 790.
Xev: So ...
Stan: The Lexx is about to die here, and we're about to die with it, we can't stop to save a robot-head!
Xev: Kai?
Stan: Yeah, well, c'mon, Kai, what do you think?
Kai: I do not think ... I am qualified to make life-and-death decisions, however, if you ask me to, I will enter the Lexx and try to retrieve 790, but that is not the quickest solution to our problem, and time is not on our side
Stan sighs and puts his face in his hand, obviously having given into Xev's demands
Int - Cryochamber, 2 drones are flying towards 790
Drones: You are not a human being
Camera turns to face 790 and slowly zooms in
790: I'm also not a flying appliance like you, I have a small, but tremendously important nodule of real human nervous tissue
Drones: You are not a human being
790: I have perfect human love
Drones: You are not a human being
Ext - Moth flying towards Lexx
Int - Moth
Stan: Lexx, are there any drones around the airlock?
Lexx: I ... do ... not ... (sickly voice) feel ... well ... Stan-ley
Stan: Please, Lexx, please, try to see if there are any drones around the airlock
Lexx: (sickly voice) I ... do ... not ... know ... Stan-ley ... I ... do ... not ... feel ... very ... good
Stan: Lexx, say to 790 that he's a stupid robot-head and I care for him less than I care for anything in the two universes, biological, mechanical, or in-between
Lexx (amongst various noises, something like): I ... Stanley .... my ....
Stan: Please, Lexx, please, open the airlock, Lexx.  Open the airlock.  Open the airlock
Ext - Moth getting close to airlock
Int - Moth
Stan: Open the airlock.  Stop, Xev, we're gonna get squashed!
Ext - Moth passes thru the airlock
Int - Moth
Xev: How can we land?
Kai: We do not land
Gets out of Moth, and jumps down, using his wrist brace to ease himself down.
Int - Cryochamber, Kai running toward 790
790: Kai!  Where's Xev?
Kai: Outside, in the moth, waiting.
Kai starts disconnected 790 from the machinery
790: I'm so happy
Kai: Xev did not want you to be destroyed by the electromagnetic pulse, therefore, I've come to fetch you.
790: I would gladly have expired for Xev, it would've been my perfect end.
Kai disconnects the brain cube, turning 790 off, then puts the brain cube in 790's head, and he turns back on.
Drones: Are you human?
Kai: Where's Mantrid?
Drones: Are you human?
Kai: Mantrid, if you can hear me, remember, that like me, you, too, were once human
Drones: You are not human.
Kai walks off with 790, and the drones fly off in the opposite direction
Ext - Moth flying around, trying to avoid Mantrid drones, Kai uses his wrist brace to raise himself into the Moth, handing 790 to Xev
790: Oh, Xev!
Xev (big grin): Hey, 790!
Stan: Okay, we're outta here.  Lexx, as soon as we're outside, reverse your particle drive to make that electromagnetic pulse like we talked about, okay?
No response at all from the Lexx
Stan: Lexx?  Lexx, can you hear me?
Xev: Is he dead?
Kai: I do not know, but I do know that we can no longer communicate with him this way.
Stan: Then how can we?
790: The Lexx's primitive main nerve cluster is primarily centered on the bridge
Kai: Then we must go to the bridge
Stan: Who, we?
Kai: We meaning you, Stanley, as the Lexx only responds to you
Stan: I'm the winner!  (looks down at 790) Oh, you owe me, robot-head, I can't begin to tell you how much you owe me

Act VI
Ext - moth lands on landing near the Bridge, Kai and Stanley get out, there are a bunch of drones flying around, tearing up the Lexx
Stan: Oh, they're gonna kill us!
Kai: Eating the Lexx appears to be their priority, I suspect that your turn to be the priority is coming ... soon
Stan gets in command chair
Stan: Lexx, we're gonna fly out in a moth, when we get near the airlock, I want you to open it for an instant, so we can get thru, then I want you to reverse the polarity on your main accelerator drive, that should be enough to destroy the drones
Lexx: As ... you ... com-mand ... Stan-ley
Drones turn to attack Stan
Stan: Oh, boy!
Stan (to Kai): C'mon!
Kai: Run, Stanley!
Stan: Well -
Kai: The pulse should not affect me.
Kai uses his brace to destroy drones, drone-parts go flying everywhere, as Stanley runs to the moth ducking from drone-parts.
Stan: Go, just go, go, go!  He's okay, he'll be all right!
Xev (at the same time as Stan's speaking): Kai! Kai! Kai!
Stan gets in the moth, and the moth takes off while you still hear Kai destroying drones, now the drones are after the moth
Stan: Oh, they mean business this time, they know our plan, now they're really after us!
View of the moth fleeing drones, about 5 seconds-worth
Stan: They know we're headed for the airlock
Xev: Well, then we have to get there first.  C'mon, baby!
Stan: A robot-head!  I can't believe I came back for a robot-head!
Xev makes a sound of excitement
Kai's finished destroying drones, parts litter the bridge, and he crosses his hands and sits down
More scenes of the moth fleeing drones
Moth approaches airlock, but there are drones all around it
Stan:  Stop!  The airlock is covered in drones!
Xev:  There's no stopping now!  We're going thru!
Stan's covering his face with his hands, screaming in terror, while Xev is also screaming, but more of a gung-ho type of scream, 790's screaming in terror as well, the moth gets thru along with three drones, I think they recycled the earlier scene where they left the Lexx (actually, I suspect that every time they show a moth leaving the Lexx it's the same scene), Xev's still screaming, Stan's still covering his face
Xev: Woo!  (laughs) Hey!  We made it!
Stan (uncovers face, laughing): Oh, yeah!  (grabs 790 and kisses him) Oh, I can't believe I just did that, you're the one that should be kissing me
790: Don't even fantasize about it, Security Guard Class 4, I should only be kissing Xev
Xev blows a kiss, laughing; suddenly, two drones appear on the window, a bit of clever maneuvering gets them off.  Then the Lexx's drive is activated, a beam of golden light travels up the Lexx, the three drones are too close to the Lexx and are destroyed as well as all the drones inside, we also see the blast traveling thru the bridge, and the beam dissipating into space, then we see the interior of the bridge again, Kai is shaking off electricity
Lexx: Ouch, that hurt alot
Ext - the Lexx flying, from below; it may only be my imagination, but it looks as tho the Lexx is a bit smaller
Int - Cryochamber, we first just see 790, and just a little of Kai and Xev, but then the camera angle changes and we see everyone, Kai is repairing 790.
790: I knew it!  All that talk of me being just an appliance.  I knew that I was more than a machine.  A machine could never feel for you like I do, Xev.
Kai: That is correct.
Stan: Don't make too big a deal of it, 790, it's only a tiny little cube of brain.  You don't have a whole, fully-functioning brain like me.  And your fragment seems to contain none of the thinking parts.
790: I have all I need to love Xev
Xev smiles at Stan
Stan: Oh, I'm going.  Now.
790: Don't you think it's wonderful, Xev?
Xev: I think it's ... interesting, anyway
790: I wonder where it came from?  Who was I?  What was I like when I was alive? (Kai finishes 790's repairs)  I bet I was handsome, don't you think, Xev?
Xev: You are handsome right now, 790.  For a robot, that is.
Xev walks off with 790 in her arms, while Kai turns off the protein-regenerator
Stan walks onto the bridge, there are no drone-parts anywhere
Stan: Lexx!  What happened to all the drone-parts?
Lexx: I have resorbed them, Stanley
Stan: You, you what them?
Lexx: I resorbed them.  I need the material if I am to heal properly.
Stan: Oh, oh, that's good Lexx
Gets into his command chair.  On the screen, Mantrid suddenly appears
Mantrid: Hello, humans
Kai: Mantrid!
Chanting music begins
Kai: Are you alive, Mantrid?
Mantrid: I exist.  Is there more to it?
Kai:  Yes.  We saw the insect destroyed, we saw you die, and we saw your planet destroyed.
Mantrid: But the machine you saw was not destroyed.  My insect essence fused with my human essence, and the machine, which was designed by my human half, for keeping his mind alive past the death of his body
Kai: So, you are a machine?
Mantrid: If you like.  I function, and I know that I have a purpose
Kai: And what is that purpose?
Mantrid: That comes from my insect half, my purpose is to destroy all humanity
Kai: But, how can you have that purpose, if you are part human as well?
Mantrid: I share some programming with humans, but I am not a human.  Did you enjoy my little game?
Xev: What game?
Mantrid: That was just a game, I was playing with you.  If I had wanted to destroy you, you would long ago have been destroyed, but you helped create me, so I'm saving you for last
Kai: What do you mean "last"?
Mantrid: I will destroy all humankind, and the last to be destroyed will be you.  That will be my thank-you, my going-away present.  Now, I go away from you, for a while.  Good bye.
Mantrid disappears from screen
Stan: Oh, this is bad
Kai: For everyone
Xev: What can we do?
Kai: I do not know
Stan: But, but, how can he destroy everyone?  I mean, th-tha-tha-that's not possible, I mean, th-th-there are, there are, there are hundreds, and thousands of, of planets with trillions of people on them.  He, he can't destroy them all, I mean, how could he destroy them all?
Kai: I do not know
Xev: You don't think he really could?
Kai: I do not think we should underestimate him.  He may not be a life-form as you know it, but our creation, Mantrid, is a very dangerous ... thing
Kai walks off.  Camera zooms in on 790 in Xev's left arms, and he makes a sound of horror/disgust.  Xev then walks off, and Stan sits down.
Stan: Mantrid
Ext - the Lexx from above

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