Episode
Lexx: Lyekka Vs. Japan
Overview
A huge alien asteroid mothership plummets to Earth and crashes into the Pacific ocean, causing a great disturbance off the coast of Japan. Inside, Lyekka prepares to devour "Japaneseland". Kai and Xev take a moth down to Earth to retrieve Vlad's cryopod control unit, which will replace the broken one on the Lexx. Fearing that Lyekka will consume the entire universe if she is not stopped, Xev and Kai decide they must take action to stop her.
Details
- Series
- Lexx
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 23
- Air date
- 2002-04-19
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Lyekka Vs. Japan is Episode 23 in Season 4 of Lexx. It aired on 2002-04-19. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 22: Trip
As the Lexx flies away from Earth toward a new planet, the crew discovers a strange organic bulb on the galley counter. The bulb opens and reveals two round berries and a small potted plant. A holographic image of Lyekka's face appears and informs the crew that this is her thank-you gift for their helping her on Earth. Lyekka tells Kai the potted plant - a Yowraa-Taang - will open and bloom if he sings to it. Stan and Xev have been given the berries, which Lyekka says are the rarest and most exquisite delicacy in the two universes.
Episode 24: Yo Way Yo
Prince visits the Lexx warning of "Earth's date with destiny". Emotions abound as Kai begins to feel again and the Lexx's health is ailing. As the alien mother ship has reached Earth.
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Episode 21: Viva Lexx Vegas
Kai, Xev and Stan stop off in Las Vegas as they wait for a space shuttle that Priest is arranging for them. Without a moth, the shuttle is their only means of returning to the Lexx. They check in at the King Tut, an Egyptian-themed hotel that is run by a group of mobsters. In the hotel room, Stan sees an ad for Slave Girls from the 18th Dynasty on the television and decides to order "room service" for himself. Xev discovers a female wrestling cage match is taking place on the premises and decides to enter, not realizing that it is fixed so that the casino can extort money.
Episode 20: ApocaLexx Now
An asteroid mothership appears out of the blackness of space. A metal hatch opens and a tadpole-like creature shoots out and heads for the Lexx. Stan awakens from a nightmare in which he was eaten by Lyekka and discovers that the alien mothership is hovering outside of the Lexx. Before he can finish telling Xev and Kai what he has discovered, an alien who has assumed the physical appearance of Lyekka from Stan's dream appears on the Lexx.
Episode 19: Haley's Comet
The Lexx crew encounter a space capsule filled with a bunch of politically motivated twenty-year-olds (Haley, Amber, Ryan, Josh). They claim that they have gone up in space with the intention of transmitting a message to make a political statement about the dying earth, and globalization. With financing from Haley's trust fund, they were able to pay the Russians to help them get up in space.
Episode 18: The Game
About to be destroyed, Prince requests Kai complete their game of chess, but with this time with real stakes. Should the undead assassin win, he'll get his life-essence back. Should he loose, Stan and Xev's lives are forfeit.
Episode 17: Dutch Treat
As the Lexx's hunger becomes critical, it starts to slowly digest itself. Hoping for an alternative way off the Earth, Xev contacts Doctor Longbore, getting permission to join him on the space ship. This does however leave the Lexx wide open for Prince, who orders the President and Bunny to take a shuttle up there and take control of the ship using the key...
Episode 16: Moss
While the president finds himself haunted by Prince in the form of a TV set, Stan, Xev and Kai are abducted by Field Commander Moss, leader of the American Freedom Rangers, a para-military group devoted to freeing the American people from the grip of the Beast - Izenbar Prince.
Episode 15: Mort
Wanted for murder, and the whole area swarming with police and FBI, Stan, Xev and Kai seek refuge in "Mort's Funeral Parlor". Mort takes an unusual interest in Kai's protoblood, hoping it can bring back to life his one true love.
Episode 14: Prime Ridge
Without the key the Lexx can't do anything, so Stan and Xev decide to settle on Earth. They pick the quiet country town of "Prime Ridge", but soon manage to stir up trouble.
Episode 13: 769
Prince makes a deal with "790"; "790" will help destroy Xev and Stan; and Prince will attach "790" to a human. On Lexx, First Lady Bunny, Stan and Xev play "Truth or Dare", but it's all a ploy for Bunny to murder Stan and Xev.
Episode 12: Bad Carrot
As the alien carrot probes start to infest more and more of the planet, Prince sees his best option to escape up to the Lexx. Unfortunately, one of the killer vegetables follows him up there...