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"The Widening Gyre" (Episode 201) "Code Red!!" The violent and bloodthirsty Magog have overrun Andromeda. On the severely damaged ship, Captain Dylan Hunt and his crew are hurt, bleeding, or worse - infested with Magog larvae. Purple Trance says the probability of escape is 1,671,000 to 1! "Exit Strategies" (Episode 202) With Nietzschean warships on their tail, Dylan, Beka, Tyr, and Rev Bem are forced to crash land the Eureka Maru on a ice planet. But it's no escape - it's a Nietzschean settlement! With the sound of pulse rifles and cracking ice, the Maru falls into a mining shaft deep underground. "A Heart for Falsehood Framed" (Episode 203) "Finders, keepers" is the rule on Pierpont Drift, a colony of Chichin thieves. But when the loot is the Hegemon's Heart, a sacred relic of the bug-like Than, Dylan must play mediator to avoid a war. In this place where theft is legal, Beka, Tyr, Harper, and Trance are thieves for a cause!
Continuing Andromeda's second season, some new angles appear in "Pitiless as the Sun." In case anyone's forgotten, Trance is given opportunity to thicken the mystery surrounding exactly what she is. This occurs as we meet a brand-new adversary, the unsavory Pyrians. Xenophobia, drug addiction, and slavery are all scrutinized in this episode--enough plot for an X-File. Which is funny since Cigarette-Smoking Man William B. Davis guest stars. Hunting for a once-glorious leader who would benefit Dylan's cause, the Maru and crew make a "Last Call at the Broken Hammer," a run-down bar in the middle of a wasteland. There are lots of twists in a mystery of hidden identities and agendas amongst the bar's patrons. Watch out for Gordon Woolvett's real-life wife among them. Another welcome sight in this episode is a change of wardrobe for the regulars, who have been sweating it out in the same gear for far too long. --Paul Tonks
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