Where to start?

Okay, D’avin and Johnny tried to find a way to pilot Khlyen’s black root fleet. Unsuccessfully, until Fancy revealed they need the cleansed to pilot the ships because the ships basically function as a hive and only the cleansed can manage that kind of connection due to the Hullen leftovers/rewiring or something.

I was hoping Turin was one of the good ones, and he’s not exactly bad ‘bad’, because I get his POV and him being wary and distrustful of the cleansed, but arresting people before they’ve done something to warrant it ain’t the shit, ‘kay, Turin?

Anyway, D’avin deposed Turin and had him arrested in turn, and now he has an army. Because Dutch doesn’t want it due to dealing with Aneela-related things. On that in a minute.

And it kind of doesn’t sit right, because of the mess between D’avin and Dutch that really have to clear up. Although, D’avin IS a good leader material and I’m not saying at all that he shouldn’t be (but I don’t think he wants that role – I think he’s more comfortable (and better) at being the right hand and not the guy in charge although he deserves to be.)

So, Dutch and Zeph stole Lucy and went into an abandoned Company lab so Dutch could access Aneela’s memories. Which Khlyen took away because Aneela couldn’t deal with feeling so much. And also possibly so the Hullen wouldn’t learn of them. (And now I’m back to being confused whether Khylen and Aneela ‘worked with’ the Hullen or tried to fight it. Although, maybe it was a third option and they tried to exploit it to save Qresh, but failed (obviously.))

Anyway, while Aneela was hidden away in the box thingy (I assume hiding from the Hullen because of her abilities with the Green; also the Green is a Lady) she missed Khlyen and the time before so much she basically brought the memory of her younger self with her from the green (which she saved up by squeezing it out of herself) – and that what Yala/Dutch is, the version Aneela would be without the Hullen. Like I said, I expected some kind of clone-version, but this was still a surprising twist on it.

Okay, so, considering that Aneela mentioned ‘the other nine’, I understand there were once 10 ruling families and the tenth were the Yardeens, shunned for something that was said in S1 but I forgot but I’d say now the real reason was, dealing with the Hullen/being ‘tainted’ with it and thus being traitors (I think it was mentioned they were traitors)? Yes? And, of course, Khlyen and Aneela themselves being the Yardeens. Or am I reading too much into this completely wrongly (and Khlyen just made up/used a convenient existing name that was known but no one could either prove or disprove it?)

Also, my poor heart at the fact that Khylen actually was, albeit in a messy way,  Dutch’s father (and that’s a lot to deal with for Dutch, too.)

I also do want to know what happened to the mother, though. (Or was it mentioned already in S1/2. Possibly. My memory is shit.)

Oh, yeah, and I loved Johnny’s following Dutch and Zeph and that Zeph was smart enough to both block him from accessing Lucy and still leave him a way to do it just in case they got themselves in trouble (which they did) anyway. So cool.

And the flashback to Dutch and Johnny’s first meeting! Basically, everything Dutch and Johnny, okay. <3

Also, Johnny and Lucy’s banter (okay, let’s just call it flirting at this point, lol.) <3