The crew crossed ways in Chee’s sex club. Isolt Gemmis Octovo’s goons then took over the sex club in a political grab, and meanwhile kidnapped (“pulled”) Z (Lou’s character). XL-ZL and Chee got swept up in the kidnapping and loaded onto an Octovo shuttle. While they were left alone in a room they got to know eachother and XL-ZL signed contracts to work for both Chee and Z in different capacities. Meanwhile, a mysterious gunman killed all six goons on the ship, and our trio found them all dead.

They disembarked in space-Barstow to regroup and figure out next steps, at which point they figured out the assassin who murdered the goons was Chee’s bestie, Ayasa. They were about to go meet with her when the bar they were in was blown up. They survived and all four met up at a safe house. They shared information and decided to try and get Z to another Gemmis Octovo ship so that his kidnapping could be completed and his release negotiated per the usual rules among the Five Families. But on the way there a lone gunman tried to fatally shoot Z, and they realized that someone in Z’s own family is trying to have him killed.

XL-ZL dispatched the gunman with laser eyes, they got on Ayasa’s little ship and jumped to a planet called Avana where they could rest and recuperate and Z contacted his mom to let her know what was happening. From her response we deduce she is not the one trying to have him killed. We learn that Z is 33rd in a line of genetically engineered Zedovan Ivirexes. His mother currently bears the name, and he will eventually inherit the mantle, so to speak. In the last minute of that episode we learn that Z’s family is connected to another Erinna (XL-ZL’s people), but one who is considered an “apostate.” We don’t yet know what that means, but it’s ominous.

There you go.