Killjoys 1.6 “One Blood”

Are there level 6 Killjoys? Are they more or less real than Red 17? Is the guy they’re hunting one?

Dutch and the brothers are called in for a Black Warrant, which is when they set a whole bunch of killjoys on one person. First person to bring them in gets the purse. Dutch and Johnny seem to like this idea, and perhaps not just for the paycheck.

Until they find out that the target, Big Joe, is a rogue killjoy…and Dutch’s mentor. He stole something from the company that the company badly wants back – a genetic bomb that targets DNA.

The warrant is upgraded, and Joe asks Dutch to kill him, but of course she can’t actually do it.

This went real dark, real fast. For one thing, it seems retired killjoys get, well…they’d better save that joy ‘cause there ain’t no pension.

D’avin tries to quit “therapy.” Pawter wants to keep her toy.

Killjoys 1.7 “Kiss Kiss, Bye Bye”

The title sounds like something out of a Bond movie.

The ship is the only sensible person in this episode. (They’ve also gone out of their way to emphasize that Lucy isn’t sentient. Which means she is).

Turns out D’avin was brainwashed. Full blown brainwashing. They find Dr. Jaeger, but she activates his programming to try and get him to kill Dutch and Johnny. (Why does Johnny have an ordinary name and D’avin a weird alien one when they’re brothers? Family names from each side of the family).

And Dutch and D’avin may be a thing now. Better choice than Pawter? I dunno.

D’avin may not be entirely sensible in this way. But Pawter’s also manipulating him. He’s a bit…easily manipulated.

So…yeah. It’s a mess.

Killjoys 1.8 “Come the Rain”

So, why does everyone want to get off of Westerly? It has one hell of a rainy season. Which has only been made worse by all of the pollution and exploitation. In fact, the Black Rain, in addition to being fatal to be caught out in, is bad enough to pull ships out of orbit. Ahem. And I was just thinking this was actually neat worldbuilding.

Johnny gets a warrant for Dutch and D’avin to handle while he recovers. It’s actually a trap: He’s going to lock them on the ship and make them talk it out. This works as well as schemes like that ever do.

Meanwhile, Johnny and Pawter end up in a hostage situation. And Pawter is in withdrawal…she’s addicted to a drug you take once and which has no cure. Oops.

In other words, everyone is completely messed up, although I’d note that Johnny didn’t really have the right to tell Dutch and D’avin not to do the horizontal tango. Or at least to only ask one of them, the man.

How about, you know, trusting your partner.

The episode ends with D’avin moving out. We’ll see for how long…

Killjoys 1.9 “Enemy Khlyen”

Answer? Less than an episode. Dutch finds Khlyen. In the heart of RAC headquarters. Because yup, he’s their boss. Of course he is. It all makes a certain amount of sense now. The technologically-mediated astral projection, on the other hand, doesn’t.

(Also, an EMP bomb on a station? I don’t care how targeted it is).

We discover the next level of why Westerly sucks. It was badly terraformed. Not the first effort, which ended up uninhabitable, but, shall we say, an early prototype.

Red 17 is real.

Level 6 is real.

But we don’t know what Red 17 is. And Khlyen?

He’s the hero of his own story. But is he the bad guy, or is he working against something even worse?

One more episode in the season.

Killjoys 1.10 “Escape Velocity”

Oh, things just got crazy. Alvis is framed and forced to confess (how do you get a masochist to confess?).

With the team separated…D’avin on Westerly and Dutch and Johnny to Qresh, where Delle Seyah is calling in her debt…by asking Dutch to be her bodyguard during a fractious political meeting in which the Nine plan on…screwing over everyone on Westerly, because of course they do.

And it gets as far as bombing Old Town. What a mess…and we end the season with that political status quo and D’avin in the hands of Khlyen, who apparently thinks neither of the boys are worthy of Dutch.

At least we know, years later, that it wasn’t canceled! I’ve seen worse cliffhangers, but this one’s a doozy.