Synopsis
Whilst en route back to Moya, Crichton and Noranti are alerted to the presence of hostiles by a suspicious transmission from Pilot. Sending his Transport Pod crashing into a strange attack craft leeched to Moya's hull, Crichton uses the diversion to steal back on board. He finds his friends held by armoured bounty hunters, who torture their captives in an attempt to flush Crichton out.
Crichton hides himself, and is found by Scorpius - out of his cell and in hiding. They manage to liquidate one of the intruders by using serious firepower, but then the enemy show its trump card. After shrinking the other crew members and placing them into holding cells inside their own torsos, the bounty hunters transmit a warning - by killing us, you kill your friends.
When Scorpius is captured, head bounty hunter Axikor reveals his true motives: he is a Scarran of the 'ruling class' and intends to deliver the captives to his people, not to the Peacekeepers. Scorpius is then also shrunk and imprisoned with D'Argo, but is able to transmit his newly learnt information to Crichton.
Caught after a booby trap misfires, Crichton stalls the bounty hunteres by telling them about the Scarran plot. Confronted by his henchmen, Axikor summarily kills them all, then makes a break for Aeryn's Prowler.
As John arrives in the hangar bay, Aeryn, no bigger than a handspan, zooms past on 1812's back and disables the Prowler. After she is knocked to the ground, John takes on Axikor in a fight which sees both participants change size several times, ending when Crichton squishes the tiny Axikor under his boot.
