Dark Matter - 'Take the Shot'

"Does this make you an electric sheep?"

It's the Android show this week, as our favourite sweetly awesome mechanoid starts to experience dreams. Sexy dreams about the sexy android demagogue who gave her the humanising chip. Dreams that she disingenuously terms 'okay' when asked.

Concerned that this indicates a further degradation in her core programming, the Android introduces the rest of the crew to her holographic duplicate before retiring for more sexy dreams... I mean, self-examination. Actually, her dreams aren't all sexy; they're dreams of a 'normal', human life without android duties and space pirates, but with a sexy husband, gorgeous home and dinner parties.

"Basically, she's rubbish."

While she's doing this, the ship starts to go wonky, and Two, Three and Four all get hallucinations caused by their neural links to the computer. The crew activate the judgey duplicate, who tells them that the Android has infected the entire ship with a virus and they should totes shoot her in the head. The crew are reluctant, especially Five, who proves that Judgey McHologram is the source of the virus. Performance of the week, apart from Zoie Palmer playing three different versions of the Android, goes to Anthony Lemke for Three's agonised expression when asked to execute the Android. Fortunately, the Android emerges from her dream to save the day and the crew unanimously agree that she should resume control.

'Take the Shot' does what Dark Matter does best; a largely self-contained episode with lots of Android and Three failing to be a tough guy. There's also some sword fighting and a few links to the arc plot, but it's not trying to be flash or epic and it's essentially all about the small group of characters we know and love.