Dark Matter - 'Welcome to Your New Home'

Prison Hazing.

That's right, it's Season 2 of  amnesiac Space Opera Dark Matter, which closed out Season 1 with the entire crew captured apart from apparent traitor Six.

We open with Two, Three and Four being stripped and sent into a high-tech prison. You can tell it's high tech because it's shiny. One and Five are not there because Six - who turns out to have been an undercover cop all along - has arranged for them to be kept out on the grounds that they are, respectively, a man who infiltrated the crew in disguise to avenge his wife's deaths and a teenage stowaway, and not hardened mercenaries after all. One also turns out to be the CEO of the powerful family firm and his lawyer yoinks him from custody to a penthouse suite.

Three quickly runs into trouble, first from the designated prison gang, and then a hardass named Nyx who knocks him down and then gets into it with Two. She puts up a hell of a fight against the synthetic superperson, which raises some questions, and they both get put in solitary, which turns out to be equipped with a sort of shit holodeck where they can work out their differences or plot escapes. In the meantime Two experiments with the possibility of faking injury to get time in the infirmary, while Four tests the riot protocols (sonic disruptors! Whee!) and meets the big man, who warns him not to make trouble.

A cold, wet, miserable holodeck.

Six gets increasingly jittery at the level of corruption in the Galactic Authority, especially when he finds out that the massacre he inadvertently enabled was permitted by the GA in order to discredit the rebels. Five is set for transfer to a group home, although a mysterious investigator seems intent on getting her banged up in choky as well, and One's attempts to investigate his wife's death stall when the only witness mysteriously dies in a bar fight. Despite the best efforts of the GA techs, the android refuses to hand over her logs and is, as always, awesome.

Two, Three and Four plan their escape, while Six becomes more and more concerned, and One is shot dead by the real Jace Corso.

Seriously; like, out of nowhere at the end of the episode. Bam. Headshot. What the fuck?

So, yeah; that's a hell of a set up for the new season.