Starhunter ReduX Season 2, Episode 9: Painless

1

Rebirth

The Trans-Utopian emerges from Hyperspace in the year 2300. Dante and Luc are gone, leaving Percy and Caravaggio as the sole occupants of the Trans-Utopian. Alone and unsure how to find Dante, Percy takes ownership of the ship while other parties make a claim... including a fellow who appears to be Dante's son, Travis.

45 min

2

Star Crossed

Jupiter Federation hires the Trans-Utopian and her crew to track down a dangerous Raider named Dakkota 79, a man seeking doomsday devices to win a raider clan war. Jupiter Fed will stop at nothing to prevent such a war... even hiring ex-raider Travis Montana to help.

45 min

3

Biocrime

In Syn City Marcus and Callie happen across a horribly mutated woman named Taryn, a prostitute Marcus grew up with on the streets... and the daughter of a powerful senator. He hires the Trans-Utopian's crew to find the one responsible. Marcus heads back into Syn City's dangerous underworld alone, attracting the attention of the system's most dangerous biocriminal, Father Abode.

45 min

4

Chasing Janus

During a routine 'sting' operation, Callie is critically wounded. The crew of the Trans-Utopian race against the clock to track down her powerful family - and their legendary resources - before her time runs out. But time has not been kind to the Larkadia family.

45 min

5

Spaceman

The Trans-Utopian crew find a stasis pod adrift in space, containing a young man named Mishkin. Revived but unable to remember his past, Mishkin builds a bond with Percy. But the man's history threatens to tear them apart, taking the entire crew with them.

45 min

6

Becoming Shiva

Jupiter Federation fears an attack by "Terra's Children" - a radical eco-terrorist cell - and enlist the crew of the Trans-Utopian to hunt them down before their brand of explosive activism causes bloodshed in the streets of Syn City. The clock ticks while the bounty hunters fight to maintain their sense of justice.

45 min

7

The Third Thing

A reality show in decline tries to boost ratings by featuring the exploits of The Trans-Utopian's crew, offering an inflated fee to record while they hunt a low-priority bounty named Tremayne. But as the line between reality and Reality TV is blurred, Percy and Marcus struggle to stay focused on a target who knows more than he is letting on.

45 min

8

Torment

Arthur Santiago is a man in his late fifties, while his parents - held by kidnappers aboard a fastmoving ship - are still in their twenties, and he needs The Trans-Utopian's crew to get them back. Meanwhile, the sudden appearance of Rudolpho's daughter aboard ship threatens to destroy both their rescue plans and Rudolpho's attempt at responsible fatherhood.

45 min

9

Painless

Travis is contacted by Roan Gerick - an old friend of his father's - who mourns the loss of his son to a new, deadly drug sweeping through Titan's poor districts. Travis must dive back into a world he left behind long ago, as he hunts down a mysterious kingpin who seems to know all about his past.

45 min

10

Skin Deep

Callie's attempt to catch up with Lena - an old friend - goes awry when violent bounty hunters chase them back to The Trans-Utopian. Once aboard, the crew must unravel the mystery behind Lena's flight from the law, while Marcus and Percy must fend for themselves aboard Clarke Station.

45 min

11

Supermax Redux

Our crew is transporting an eccentric prisoner to the authorities when they cross paths with none other than Max Fairley, former owner of the Trans-Utopian. Bringing Max and his entourage aboard over Percy's protests, the crew are confronted by old grudges and new mysteries while their prisoner makes plans of his own.

45 min

12

Pandora's Box

The Trans-Utopian is contacted by the Keres Group, a genetic research firm that recently lost sensitive work to a Raider spy named Quennell. The deal grows in complexity the deeper they dig, and the crew must choose between Quenell and Keres Group, while the fate of innocent millions hangs in the balance.

45 min

13

A Stitch in Time

Travis is disturbed by a strange dream that become prophecy as a hulking mining facility with only one man aboard - Captain Parker - seems to appear out of nowhere. Parker's accounts seem rife with half-truths or complete fabrications until some out-of-the-box thinking reveals implications that reach beyond our Universe.

45 min

14

The Prisoner

The crew is transporting an amnesiac psychiatric patient to Ganymede, when a triggered memory compels her to attack Travis. Her doctor considers this a breakthrough, but Travis sees it differently when the patient's memories implicate him in a grisly murder.

45 min

15

Kate

Caravaggio is knocked offline, giving Percy the opportunity to rewrite him as "Kate," a female persona for the ship's AI. But unforeseen problems arise as Kate takes over, pitting crew against crew in a struggle for hearts and minds aboard the Trans-Utopian.

45 min

16

Rivals

Callie is courted by a competing Bounty Hunter outfit, who seem to have their act together when compared to the ramshackle Trans-Utopian and its ragtag crew... until a lucrative bounty has both crews in a tortoise-vs-hare race across the system, with egos and lives at stake.

45 min

17

The Heir and the Spare

Alex Arroyan is a rogue, scoundrel and thief. Mars Federation officer Eva Halperin is determined to bring Arroyan to justice, hiring the Trans-Utopian crew to bring him in. But Arroyan and Marcus seem to share a bond that threatens to drag them into one another world, with deadly consequences.

45 min

18

Just Politics

The Trans-Utopian is hired to ferry a team of negotiators to a secret summit. Things devolve as members of the delegation are killed off one by one, and our crew must figure out what is happening before they become victims themselves.

45 min

19

Negative Energy

After a failed attempt to chase down a bounty in their aging ship, Marcus hatches a plan to power the ship with exotic matter that gives them the speed they need. Finding it isn't easy, keeping it is even harder, and the bureaucracy they're against threatens to shut down the Trans- Utopian for good.

45 min

20

License to Fill

Old grudges resurface on Mars when government operatives seek to make examples of Travis and the crew by summoning them to face trial on trumped-up charges. Legal wrangling and courtroom intrigue are the crew's only hope to stay free and expose their enemies.

45 min

21

Hyperspace I

Marcus - still searching for an alternative power source for the Trans-Utopian - reads up on the theories of a Dr. Gregor Laszig and compels the crew to go in search of him. But the crew find more than they're looking for when the Orchard gets involved, and Callie's life hangs in the balance.

45 min

22

Hyperspace II

The crew of the Trans-Utopian must deal with the perils of hyperspace. Separated in spacetime, they must survive while stalked by a mysterious presence... while Travis wrestles with the gift and curse of the Divinity Cluster.

45 min