Killjoys

Previously on "Killjoys"...

We call them Dolls.

The skeleton crew Aneela left behind.

They've been powered down.

His brain is being forced into sleep mode.

Have you tried turning him on and off?

He's got your gun! Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit!

She's coming. She's coming.

Pip!

Pip?

- How about a story? - A story can't save my life.

This one can, if you focus on the details.

Find John Jaqobis.

- What are you doing? - Look!

The parasite in the brain, it's dying.

If I can hold the knife in long enough,

and the parasite dies completely, he'll be cleansed.

Hey. Anyone have a mint?

Johnny, I need your help.

Something happened to me in the Green,

Something about you.

Let's make a baby!

The baby's too big and growing fast.

If we don't get it out quickly,

she'll have a five-year-old camping out in her uterus.

I can replicate what happened to John and make it happen here.

I won't be Hullen anymore.

You'll still be alive and so will the baby.

What do you feel?

Everything.

You did it!

What the hells?

Oh, God!

Hey, it's just me.

You okay?

You shouldn't sneak up on people.

You shouldn't scream in your sleep.

Sorry. I gave Delle Seyah my room.

I'll just go crash in the lounge.

Or, um...

or you could stay.

Yeah?

Yeah, sure, why not?

The last time I stayed, you disappeared into the Green.

True.

The first time, you tried to kill me, so...

progress?

Look, you need a room, I have a room.

Let's not overthink it.

See?

This is nice.

Yeah, it is.

Well, this is better.

Much better.

Everything looks great.

All of his cardiomyocite regen rates are off the charts.

"Don't I have the cutest cardiomyocite rates in the whole wide world, Auntie Zeph?"

- "Don't I?" - Cardiomyacites aren't really cute.

Okay, not a baby fan.

But what about my neural dendrons, though?

- Totally adorbs. Come on. - Yeah,

post Hullen, you're in perfect neurological shape.

Yeah, who knew that psychotic rage and repeated headbangings

could be so rejuvenating?

- That was also a joke. - Oh, yeah.

Ha ha ha ha.

Okay, I think that you need some rest.

I do. I really, really do.

Uh, but it's not that, it's, um...

you.

Me? I-I thought that I was fine.

You are... now.

But when you were Hullen, you were...

A complete dick?

Right.

And so it's just a bit weird to have nice, cuddly Johnny back after...

Anyway, we all know that wasn't you, so...

Yeah, but whoever that was,

You were the ones who had to put up with him.

For that...

I'm sorry, Zeph.

Better?

Now it's better.

Auntie Zeph is mean.

Hey.

It's a little early to be drinking.

It's a little early to be my mother.

Well, it's nice to see that things are getting back to normal.

We have a baby on board,

Delle Seyah's asleep down the hall,

and I just saw Pip naked in our shower.

Okay, new normal.

There's got to be something Killjoys-y we can do on the way home.

Uh, I could use a gunfight.

Ooh, do you want to, you know, punch each other a little bit?

What we can do...

is figure out what the hells Khlyen meant when he told me that story.

It's got to be a key.

All right, perfect. Let's start from the beginning.

Uh, I helped rescue you from Keffree, made nice with Luce,

and then I got us that job shipping wine to the Quad.

Uh, no, no, I got us the job.

You lost all our money and got us arrested.

See, this is why you have no other friends.

Speaking of the new normal...

Coming, coming!

Why do you all hate me?

Where is it? Where's the baby?

- Wait, I thought it was with you. - No! I mean, yes, it was,

but then I fell asleep for two seconds.

And then it wasn't in its crib thing.

He's a baby.

He can't just go for a walk.

Uh, guys...

Who the hells is that?

I think that's your kid.

Greening Pains

I never even got a chance to change his diaper.

Eh, trust me, overrated.

I had sisters and bladder-control issues...

no judging.

Now, what were we saying?

Who's the coolest?

Come on, what do we say?

We say that Pip is the coolest, right?

Pip?

High five, my man!

Pip.

Okay, uh, work in progress.

Tell me you have something.

I'm seeing aggressive telomere degradation.

- Prophyria? - The aging disease?

He aged five years in, like, five minutes.

That's not a disease. That's more like an explosion.

Look, the kid has two kinds of cells...

a normal human one and a Hullen one.

Now, the human degrades like normal...

But the Hullen one sees any degradation

as something it needs to fix.

So it forces the human cell to regenerate faster.

- And the more it regenerates... - The older he gets.

Yeah, exactly.

Except for really fast, really, really... whoa, so fast.

Okay, Zeph, got it.

How do we fix this before he's older than I am?

Don't everybody answer at once.

Well, his biology is way beyond me.

Hey, don't be so hard on yourself.

And if it's beyond me, then Johnny doesn't have a chance.

I take it back.

What do we need to do?

We need to get him back to my lab on the Armada,

and we need to do it soon.

Yeah, I think the technical term for it is "fustercluck."

How did you lose all power?

Oh, I'm gonna guess it has something to do

with this big green popsicle behind me.

Soon as it froze, we lost engines, defenses,

and any chance of us taking back the RAC anytime soon.

Well, the Green's frozen everywhere.

And ideas you can get back online?

A couple.

None I like.

Meanwhile, Westerley's getting good and creepy.

- Creepy how? - Missing kids.

13 in Old Town, two more out at Miner's Point.

Hearing all sorts of crazy superstitious shit.

Monsters in the night.

- They're taking kids? - I sent Fancy down to do some recon.

We'll find out what's happening on Westerley.

As soon as you get back, you can look into it, too.

- We're not coming back. - Why the hells not?

Why the hells indeed, Dutch?

- You know I'll stay if you ask. - I'm not asking.

Yeah, but if you need my help, sugar plum...

If you want to help, be my eyes in Old Town.

Something weird's going on.

And don't take Delle Seyah's jacket.

It's kind of more of a cape, really.

She's too doped up to notice.

But I'm the one who has to be here when she wakes up even bitchier.

Or maybe I'll just keep her sedated.

We're gonna be okay, right?

We're gonna win this?

Sure.

I just don't know how yet.

Look, as soon as we get to a space port,

you head home and hug Gared for me.

Oh, gods!

I have been a warlord, a sexer, an entrepreneur,

and that big goofy bear is what I miss the most.

How did this happen...

to me?

Things change.

Oh, just whip him.

Mm, that's what servants are for.

Not everything.

Fancypants!

Nice to see a friendly face.

Well...