Augur is captured by the Taelons, and Liam must find a way to save him from their latest experiment before Augur's mind is destroyed.
Following up attempts to implant human aggressiveness into a Taelon last season, Zo'or now decides to simply amp up the humans so they'll fight to the death with any invading Jaridians. You'd think by now that Zo'or's reasoning behind his experiments (ie "It's for your own good") would be wearing a bit thin by now, but the rest of the Synod seem quite content to go along with anything he feels like, with Da'an the only voice of reason. Not long ago, there were references to the Taelons needing humans to survive. Well, if Zo'or goes on like this, he isn't going to have any humans left.
Again, this is a very basic story (Augur fights lots of people, Liam makes him better, everyone goes home for tea), but there is one aspect that raises its importance in the overall storyline: a man unsubtly called Lazarus. It's never stated just who this man really is, but this episode proves the Taelons' ability to implant one person's consciousness into another person's body, and Lazarus has ties to both Da'an and Augur. This means he must be someone who's had contact with both, and he can only be one person. What's annoying is that he's dead by the end of the episode, so a potentially fascinating new source of plots is now gone.
Lastly, what was the entire opening teaser about? It's never stated exactly what Augur is trying to do in Russia, why he's doing it, and why he gets caught so easily. It's completely out of character, and comes across as an incredibly desperate attempt to bring him into the Taelons' control.
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