LEXX : The Dark Zone

Original title : Mantrid
First Aired : 11.12.1998 (CANADA) 17.03.2000 (USA) 04.07.2000 (FRANCE)
Director : Paul Donovan
Writing credits : Christoph Schrewe
Cast : Holger Kunkel (Vigl), Chris Duffy (Captain), Burgandy Code (Navigator), John Davie (Rockhound), Dieter Laser (Mantrid)

The Story : Possessed by remnants of His Shadow, Kai convinces Stanley to return to the ruins of Cluster in the Light universe to search for more protoblood. They find insect larva, but it is dormant and can't produce protoblood. So Kai insists on taking it to Mantrid, an infamous scientist that might be able to revive it.

Original title : Terminal
First Aired : 18.12.1998 (CANADA) 24.03.2000 (USA) 04.07.2000 (FRANCE)
Director : Srinivas Krishna
Writing credits : Jeffrey Hirschfield
Cast : Simon Licht (Dr. Kazzan), Oliver Stern (Dr. Funz), Barbara Geiger (Dr. Veezra), Eva Ebner (Mrs. Deebee), Errol Shaker (Administrator), Ian T. Dickinson (Berg), Tatjana Alexander (Nurse)

The Story : Stanley messes up the cryo-stasis revival procedure, and Kai reverts back to His Shadow's assassin for a moment, puncturing Stanley's heart. With Stanley in stasis they locate an orbital medical facility, though without any funds, they are turned down until Zev threatens them with the Lexx.

Original title : Lyekka
First Aired : 25.12.1998 (CANADA) 31.03.2000 (USA) 11.07.2000 (FRANCE)
Director : Stephan Wagner
Writing credits : Lex Gigeroff & Paul Donovan
Cast : Stephen McHattie (E.J. Moss), Roman Podhora (L.L. Boosh), Jeffrey Hirschfield (P.T. Bando), Louise Wischermann (Lyekka)

The Story : As Stanley wakes from a dream, he finds a beautiful female bearing a startling similarity to someone he used to know next to him. Just as he and Kai are trying to figure out what make of her, they make first contact with astronauts from the isolated planet Potatohole.

Original title : Luvliner
First Aired : 01.01.1999 (CANADA) 14.01.2000 (USA) 18.07.2000 (FRANCE)
Director : Stefan Ronowicz
Writing credits : Jeffrey Hirschfield & Paul Donovan
Cast : Jeff Pustil (Schlemmi), Diego Chambers (Aulk), Ellen-Ray Hennessey (Rissha), Steve Sisk (Flintock), Jeremy Akerman (Proo), Noah Denby (Varrtan), Paul Day (Consort), Andrew Smith (Man), Rick Collins (Fat Man), Tom Tasse (C.G.), Dave Maddeaux (Male Customer), Angela Vermier (Female Voice)

The Story : The Lexx intercepts a transmission from the Luvliner sex-satellite, and Stanley steers the Lexx towards it - eager to finally get some "action". But when they arrive, things aren't exactly as advertised.

Original title : Lafftrak
First Aired : 08.01.1999 (CANADA) 07.04.2000 (USA) 25.07.2000 (FRANCE)
Director : Paul Donovan
Writing credits : Lex Gigeroff
Cast : Lex Gigeroff (), Barbara Schmeid (), Sandra Keller (), Rosemarie Freidrich (The Wife), Nikolas Artajo (Kid), Thorsten Feller (Liggum), Gabi Fleming (Female Body (Dead)), Thomas Arnicke (Bodyguard), Alexander Müller (Bodyguard), Mirko Szabo (Bodyguard), Sebastian Kokot (Bodyguard), Oliver Stolz (Bodyguard), André Haines (Hunted), Mark Owen (Hunter)

The Story : Xev demand they investigate an abandoned world, still transmitting TV signals. The computer host offers them parts in different TV shows, though they had better get good ratings or they'll end up canceled...

Original title : Stan's Trial
First Aired : 15.01.1999 (CANADA) 21.04.2000 (USA) 25.07.2000 (FRANCE)
Director : Srinivas Krishna
Writing credits : Lex Gigeroff & Paul Donovan
Cast : Nina Franoszek (Grand Prosecutor Jihana), Benjamin Sadler (Nool), Susanna Metzner (Lissha), Peter James Scollin (Guard 1), Harvey Friedmann (Guard 3)

The Story : Stanley is captured aboard a pleasure transport by the committee of justice for the 94 reformed planets - and charged with the murder of 685 billion people.

Original title : Love Grows
First Aired : 22.01.1999 (CANADA) 21.01.2000 (USA) 01.08.2000 (FRANCE)
Director : David Macleod
Writing credits : Jeffrey Hirschfield
Cast : Page Fletcher (), Janet Wright (), Sam White (), Maury Chaykin (Pa), C.J. Fidler (Nympho 1), Alison McMullin (Nympho 2), Sherry White (Nympho 3), Greg Cormier (Bound Man), Terry Nicholas (First Babe), Lisa Wong (Second Babe)

The Story : The Lexx intercepts the porn-flick a nearby space transport is running as entertainment, and Stanley orders the ship to head for the source - believing it to be an actual distress signal. But when they arrive, they find only the wrecked remains of the transport, with the hazardous material it was transporting leaking out.

Original title : White Trash
First Aired : 29.01.1999 (CANADA) 04.02.2000 (USA) 08.08.2000 (FRANCE)
Director : Chris Bould
Writing credits : Lex Gigeroff & Paul Donovan
Cast : Maury Chaykin (Pa), Susan Dalton (), Dave Carmichael (), Brandon McCarvell (Norb), Jon Kristopher Loverin (Gloodel), Karl Lewis Johnston (Glootus), Christian Murray (Gold Lamé Man), Louise Wischermann (Lyekka)

The Story : Stanley discovers much to his dismay that they aren't alone on the Lexx. A family of hillbilly farmers has been living there in hiding, and decides to seize control of the ship and return to their home planet.

Original title : 791
First Aired : 05.02.1999 (CANADA) 16.06.2000 (USA) 11.07.2000 (FRANCE)
Director : Jörg Buttgereit
Writing credits : Jeffrey Hirschfield & Paul Donovan
Cast : Brian Carter (Cyborg/791), Amy Kerr (Desh), John Dunsworth (Berf), Mike Pellerin (Wern), Louise Wischermann (Lyekka)

The Story : The Lexx is forced to respond to an emergency signal on a nearby planet, when Lyekka awakes - hungry. They find a crashed ship, seemingly empty except for a cyborg body (which 790 decides to make his own).

Original title : Wake the Dead
First Aired : 12.02.1999 (CANADA) 28.01.2000 (USA) 18.07.2000 (FRANCE)
Director : Chris Bould
Writing credits : Jeffrey Hirschfield
Cast : Andrew Bigelow (), Andrew Bush (), Patricia Zentilli (Laleen), Nicki Barnett (), Bruce Fillmore (Gibble)

The Story : The Lexx takes aboard 5 youths in who've drifted in space for 300 years in cryo-stasis. With nothing better to do they decide to party, until one of them corrupts Kai's programming, turning him into a psychopathic killer.

Original title : Nook
First Aired : 19.02.1999 (CANADA) 07.01.2000 (USA) 22.08.2000 (FRANCE)
Director : Bill Fleming
Writing credits : Paul Donovan
Cast : Matthew Burton (Brother Randor), Matthias Klimsa (Brother Timon), Martin Höner (Older Brother), Tom Strauss (Brother Deal), Philipp DeRoche (Brother Stack/Rat I), Milton Welsch (Rat II), Adrian Mattiske (Young Copying Brother)

The Story : Xev starts quite a commotion when the Lexx lands on a planet inhabited only an order of monks, none of whom have ever seen a woman before...

Original title : Norb
First Aired : 26.02.1999 (CANADA) 23.06.2000 (USA) 15.08.2000 (FRANCE)
Director : Paul Donovan
Writing credits : Paul Donovan
Cast : Brandon McCarvell (Norb), Dieter Laser (Mantrid)

The Story : Norb is found floating alone in space, nearly out of oxygen he is taken aboard. To their horror, it turns out he has been modified by Mantrid, and releases a handful of drones who begin tearing the ship apart, building new copies of themselves.

Original title : Twilight
First Aired : 05.03.1999 (CANADA) 14.04.2000 (USA) 27.11.2001 (FRANCE)
Director : Chris Bould
Writing credits : Paul Donovan, Jeffrey Hirschfield & Lex Gigeroff
Cast : Louis Del Grande (Roada), Mary Walsh (Heedia), Lauren Abraham (Lomea), Christian Murray (792), Louise Wischermann (Lyekka)

The Story : The Lexx is forced to land on a mysterious planet to seek help when Stanley collapses. Unfortunately, the place has a strange effect on the dead, as Kai goes off on his own reciting poetry, while the corpses buried nearby arise at night to devour the living.

Original title : Patches in the Sky
First Aired : 12.03.1999 (CANADA) 07.07.2000 (USA) 04.12.2001 (FRANCE)
Director : David Macleod
Writing credits : Paul Donovan & Lex Gigeroff
Cast : Ellen Dubin (Giggerota), Wayne Robson (Gubby), David Lewis (Fruitcake), Lee-Anne Lowe (Dream Girl 1), Laura Nason (Dream Girl 2), Amy Lonergan (Dream Girl 2)

The Story : Stanley is trapped inside a nightmare after entering a dream-enhancing machine. Meanwhile it's proprietor discovers that the destruction caused by Mantrid's drones has reached a galactic level.

Original title : Woz
First Aired : 19.03.1999 (CANADA) 14.07.2000 (USA) 29.08.2000 (FRANCE)
Director : David Macleod
Writing credits : Paul Donovan & Lex Gigeroff
Cast : Walter Borden (The Wozzard), Lenore Zann (The Dark Lady), Lisa Hynes (Original Xev), Kerry MacPherson (Skye), Stacy Smith (Calico), Robin Johnson (Guard 1), Laura Nason (Guard 2), Adrienne Horton (Guard 3), Lori Heath (Hologram Guard)

The Story : When 790 reluctantly reveals that Xev has a built-in expiry date that's soon up, the Lexx heads to the planet Woz where the only remaining love-slave transformation device is.

Original title : The Web (1/2)
First Aired : 26.03.1999 (CANADA) non diffusé (USA) 18.12.2001 (FRANCE)
Director : Chris Bould
Writing credits : Jeffrey Hirschfield & Paul Donovan
Cast :

The Story : As Mantrid is eating up the universe with exponentially increasing speed, Kai sees the Lexx's only option as traveling to the center of the universe, hoping to discover a remaining portal to the Dark Zone. But on their way, they fly into a giant living "web" and then everything goes blank...
Note : The US Sci-Fi Channel decided not to show this episode at all, because it is too similar to "The Net (2)". It is reported that they did webcast this episode on the same day they aired "The Net (2)".

Original title : The Net (2/2)
First Aired : 02.04.1999 (CANADA) 21.07.2000 (USA) 25.12.2001 (FRANCE)
Director : Chris Bould
Writing credits : Jeffrey Hirschfield & Paul Donovan
Cast :

The Story : The Lexx is captured by a web-like organism that tries to devour it. The creature takes control over Stanley, using him to fool the others into thinking that the danger is over.
Note : A lot of this episode's content overlaps with "The Web", although this time we get to see it from the creature's perspective.

Original title : Brigadoom
First Aired : 09.04.1999 (CANADA) 28.07.2000 (USA) 01.01.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : Bill Fleming
Writing credits : Paul Donovan & Lex Gigeroff
Cast : Jeremy Webb (Master of Ceremonies), John Dunsworth (Lett), Sharron Tmmins (Groo), Paul MacQuillan (Kyoo), Joe Wynn (New Born), Patricia Zentilli (Young Woman), Lorraine Segato (Time Prophet), Richard Sircom (Judge)

The Story : As the Lexx approaches the center of the universe a strange building appears out of nowhere... with the Brunnen-G battle song emanating from within. Going inside, the crew discovers a theatre troupe performing the history of the Brunnen-G. They ask Kai to play his part in the story - the starring role as it turns out.

Original title : Brizon
First Aired : 16.04.1999 (CANADA) 04.08.2000 (USA) 09.01.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : Paul Donovan
Writing credits : Paul Donovan
Cast : Earl Pastko (Brizon), Dieter Laser (Mantrid)

The Story : Stanley's broadcast for help against Mantrid brings them in contact with Brizon, designer of the Lexx and Mantrid's teacher. He claims he can shut down the drones, but can he be trusted?

Original title : End of the Universe
First Aired : 23.04.1999 (CANADA) 11.08.2000 (USA) 16.01.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : Paul Donovan
Writing credits : Paul Donovan, Lex Gigeroff & Jeffrey Hirschfield
Cast : Alan MacGillivray (Deejay), Dieter Laser (Mantrid), Louise Wischermann (Lyekka)

The Story : With only hours to go before Mantrid has demolished the universe, Stanley comes up with the idea of creating their own army of drones based on 790 to combat Mantrid's. But is it too little too late?