The Best Episodes of Lexx

#1 - Brigadoom 8.27

Season 2 - Episode 18

As the Lexx approaches the centre 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.

Directors: Bill Fleming

#2 - The Game 8.08

Season 4 - Episode 18

About to be destroyed, Prince requests Kai complete their game of chess, but with this time with real stakes. Should the undead assassin win, he'll get his life-essence back. Should he loose, Stan and Xev's lives are forfeit.

Directors: Paul Donovan

#3 - End of the Universe 8.00

Season 2 - Episode 20

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?

Directors: Paul Donovan

#4 - Yo Way Yo 7.91

Season 4 - Episode 24

Prince visits the Lexx warning of "Earth's date with destiny". Emotions abound as Kai begins to feel again and the Lexx's health is ailing. As the alien mother ship has reached Earth.

Directors: Paul Donovan

#5 - Heaven and Hell 7.69

Season 3 - Episode 13

Xev and Kai go to Fire to confront Prince about Stanley's life essence. When he refuses to give it up, Kai jumps down into a well to the planet's core hoping to retrieve it. He winds up on the beach, with Prince taunting him that he's now trapped there for eternity, unable to help either Stanley or Xev.

Directors: Paul Donovan

#6 - Giga Shadow 7.68

Season 1 - Episode 4

Kai is running out of protoblood, and a desperate Zev forces Stan to set course back to the Cluster through the fractal core. When they arrive they find they entire planet barren - everybody killed in "the cleansing", in preparation of the birth of the Gigashadow.

Directors: Robert Sigl

#7 - Boomtown 7.67

Season 3 - Episode 4

Gametown is attacked by Duke's forces in the stolen moths, though Kai manages to take back one and return to the Lexx with Bunny. Trying once more to go down to Water for food, Stanley decides they should go to Boomtown - the "all sex all the time" city... Meanwhile, Duke moves against Prince on Fire.

Directors: Chris Bould

#8 - I Worship His Shadow 7.67

Season 1 - Episode 1

On Cluster, the capital of the league of 20 000 planets, a ship with the power to destroy planets lies waiting for it's master - "His Divine Shadow". But the soon to be executed rebel Thodin has his eyes on it too, and mangles the city's computer system while engineering his escape. Using the chaos that erupts, the death sentenced security officer Stanley Tweedle and the escaped "love-slave" Zev evade capture and eventually team up with Thodin... with the undead assassin Kai following, with orders to kill them all.

Directors: Paul Donovan

#9 - Love Grows 7.65

Season 2 - Episode 7

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.

Directors: David McLeod

#10 - Lyekka 7.62

Season 2 - Episode 3

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.

Directors: Stephan Wagner

#11 - Bad Carrot 7.60

Season 4 - Episode 12

As the alien carrot probes start to infest more and more of the planet, Prince sees his best option to escape up to the Lexx. Unfortunately, one of the killer vegetables follows him up there...

Directors: Colin Bucksey

#12 - Terminal 7.59

Season 2 - Episode 2

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.

Directors: Srinivas Krishna

#13 - 791 7.59

Season 2 - Episode 9

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).

Directors: Jorg Buttgereit

#14 - Norb 7.59

Season 2 - Episode 12

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.

Directors: Paul Donovan

#15 - Mantrid 7.58

Season 2 - Episode 1

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.

Directors: Christoph Schrewe

#16 - Dutch Treat 7.49

Season 4 - Episode 17

As the Lexx's hunger becomes critical, it starts to slowly digest itself. Hoping for an alternative way off the Earth, Xev contacts Doctor Longbore, getting permission to join him on the space ship. This does however leave the Lexx wide open for Prince, who orders the President and Bunny to take a shuttle up there and take control of the ship using the key...

Directors: Carl Harvey

#17 - Super Nova 7.47

Season 1 - Episode 2

Zev decides they should go to Brunnis, the original home of the Brunnen-G, in hopes of finding something that can prolong Kai's life. When they arrive they find it barren, except from holographic messages left by the eccentric "Poet Man". As they enter the library, they are totally unaware that back on the Lexx Giggerota has sprung back to life and plots to steal it with the help of the remaining Divine Predecessors.

Directors: Ron Oliver

#18 - Little Blue Planet 7.47

Season 4 - Episode 1

In the near future, an alien spaceship is discovered orbiting the moon. At the urging of his top advisor, Prince, the president of the USA makes contact in secret with the aliens' leader: A strange man who introduces himself as "Stanley H. Tweedle". Unfortunately, the contact does not go well, but Prince is prepared, suggesting they send an insane killer up to the ship in a space shuttle...

Directors: Paul Donovan

#19 - Prime Ridge 7.44

Season 4 - Episode 14

Without the key the Lexx can't do anything, so Stan and Xev decide to settle on Earth. They pick the quiet country town of "Prime Ridge", but soon manage to stir up trouble.

Directors: Christoph Schrewe

#20 - Trip 7.43

Season 4 - Episode 22

As the Lexx flies away from Earth toward a new planet, the crew discovers a strange organic bulb on the galley counter. The bulb opens and reveals two round berries and a small potted plant. A holographic image of Lyekka's face appears and informs the crew that this is her thank-you gift for their helping her on Earth. Lyekka tells Kai the potted plant - a Yowraa-Taang - will open and bloom if he sings to it. Stan and Xev have been given the berries, which Lyekka says are the rarest and most exquisite delicacy in the two universes.

Directors: Stephen Manuel

#21 - 769 7.43

Season 4 - Episode 13

In order to get a lead on the whereabouts of the key, Prince goes along with a rather twisted plan cooked up by 790.

Directors: Colin Bucksey

#22 - Brizon 7.43

Season 2 - Episode 19

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?

Directors: Paul Donovan

#23 - The Web (1) 7.43

Season 2 - Episode 16

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...

Directors: Chris Bould

#24 - Twilight 7.38

Season 2 - Episode 13

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.

Directors: Chris Bould

#25 - Lafftrak 7.37

Season 2 - Episode 5

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...

Directors: Paul Donovan