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Pezzini investigates what appears to be a ritualistic murder, and is intrigued by a symbol painted on the walls near the murder scene. She takes a photo of the symbol to Gabriel, hoping that his penchant for the occult might provide her with a clue - and it does, pointing her to a nightclub were an Irish rock musician named Conchobar is playing. But at the same time, it’s revealed that the body found earlier was a cadaver - the “victim” was already dead. Pezzini still visits the club, which seems pointless until Conchobar’s lyrics mention “the witch’s glove” - and proceed from there to describe, in detail, a murder that isn’t reported until the next day. Conchobar himself has an alibi, but someone seems to be following his lyrics to the letter - and the words aren’t new. The same story is already spelled out in an ancient Celtic text owned by Kenneth Irons.

teleplay by Richard C. Okie
story by Ralph Hemecker & Richard C. Okie
directed by David S. Jackson
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Nestor Serrano (Captain Dante), John Hensley (Gabriel Bowman), Kim De Lury (Conchobar), Paulino Nunes (Brian Reilly), Jean Youn (Iona), Maini Thorston (Debra Mason), Sandra Jackson (?), Robert Lee (?), Junior Williams (Vaughn) and Lazar

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Talyn lands on a planet with heavy gravity and vegetation with highly restorative powers in order to speed his recovery. His deep stasis condition makes him vulnerable when the retrieval squad led by Xhalax Sun lands nearby, so Crais, Aeryn and Crichton set out to divert their attention. They are successful, and during the ensuing firefight Aeryn is separated from Crais and Crichton. Aeryn manages to capture Xhalax, while the mercenaries pursue the others. Aeryn decides to bring Xhalax back to Talyn as leverage, but the senior Peacekeeper is able to escape and overcome her captors. She critically wounds Rygel and begins severing Talyn’s higher neural functions in order to bring him back under Peacekeeper control. She also reveals that the Peacekeepers punished her for revealing herself to Aeryn before - by making her kill her lover, Aeryn’s father Talyn. With the help of the Scorpius neural clone, Crichton realizes that the squad isn’t just after Talyn the ship - Crais, now injured, is himself a target, and has been manipulating the situation in order to enlist Moya’s crew as allies. Crichton also realizes that circumstances dictate they continue working together to overcome the mercenaries, but he’s perfectly willing to let Crais sweat that out a little. When Stark’s efforts to revive Rygel prove successful, Aeryn has a chance to force another confrontation with her mother - but can she do what’s necessary to ensure their safety? And can Crichton let her?

written by Rockne S. O’Bannon
directed by Peter Andrikidis
music by Guy Gross

Guest Cast: Linda Cropper (Xhalax Sun), Thomas Holesgrove (Vek), Dominique Sweeney (Thek and Kek)

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

An elderly Catholic priest is murdered in his own church, and a suspect is immediately captured - a mentally ill man named Edward Nolan who had frequently sought absolution by confession to the deceased priest. Two other priests admit that Nolan may, in fact, be possessed by Satan - but Pezzini doesn’t buy it. When Danny appears to her to offer advice, Pez asks him to put her in touch with the murdered priest - but this deposition from beyond the grave leads her to answers more terrifying than she could have imagined. There is a strong possibility that the Catholic Church may have its own agenda where the Witchblade is concerned - and so too may the devil himself.

teleplay by Richard C. Okie
story by Ralph Hemecker & Richard C. Okie
directed by Neill Fearnley
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Roger Daltrey (Father Del Toro), Nestor Serrano (Captain Dante), Kim De Lury (Conchobar), Paul Robbins (Father Petrozzi), David Hemblen (Monsignor Bellamy), Sandrine Holt (Newscaster), Martin Samuel (?), Jessica Booker (Old woman), Jamie Robinson (?), Noah Dianev (?), Neill Fearnley (Desk officer) and Lazar

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Tensions rise aboard Moya as Crichton continues to pursue his wormhole research and the others get a serious case of cabin fever. Meanwhile, turnabout is fair play for Scorpius; when his wormhole scientists realize that some of the wormhole information left by the Ancients is encrypted, he has the neural chip implanted into his own brain. Now a neural clone of Crichton exists in his mind, and he attempts to convince the clone to unlock the equations for him. When the Crichton-clone asks why he should help, Scorpius tries to convince him that the Scarrans are an even greater threat not only to Sebaceans but to all races, using his own history as evidence. His formative years were spent under Scarran control, where the Scarrans tormented him in the name of making him strong enough to overcome his half-Sebacean heritage. Realizing that the Scarrans were lying to him about the circumstances of his birth, the young Scorpius managed to escape, and eventually learned the truth: he was born as a result of a Scarran scheme to rape Sebacean women to produce hybrids that would give the Scarrans a better understanding of their enemy. Determined for revenge, Scorpius joined the Peacekeepers and began his pursuit of wormhole technology. When one of his scientists defects shortly after claiming to have unlocked the secrets of safe wormhole travel, it adds another level of urgency to his discussions with the Crichton clone. When that scientist shows up on Moya offering Moya and Pilot a chance at a new life of exploration and Crichton her knowledge, everyone must decide if they’re really prepared to stay together.

written by Richard Manning
directed by Ian Watson
music by Guy Gross

Guest Cast: Tammy MacIntosh (Jool), David Franklin (Lt. Braca), Amy Salas (Tauza), Evan Sheaves (Child Scorpius), Stephanie Jacobsen (Nurse Froy), Paul Shedlowich (Plint), Jo Kerrigan (Linfer), Danny Adcock (Co-Kura Strappa), Thomas Holesgrove (Wolesh), Sam Healy (Rylani Jeema Dellos), Nicholas Bishop (Ghebb Dellos), William Zappa (Captain Molayne)

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

Talyn flies dangerously close to a nearby sun and resists Crais’ commands to pull back. Crais reports that some kind of signal from the sun is compelling Talyn to fly directly into the star, but the ship’s hybrid nature allows Talyn to resist just enough to settle into orbit. The crew begins looking for ways to further filter the signals, but the stress has caused Talyn to overproduce a stimulant called drexin, which begins to leak into the ship’s corridors and influence each one’s behavior. Rygel begins to compulsively overeat, Crais becomes even more aggressive and paranoid than usual, and Crichton and Aeryn find their libidos in overdrive. Stark watches a strange woman materialize in a recently-grown section of Talyn, a woman who is overjoyed to finally encounter someone who can see her. Named Sierjna, she has been trapped in the star for cycles, watching Leviathan after Leviathan plunge to its death in the siren star. Another being appears to Crais, Crichton and Aeryn on the bridge, claiming the siren star is a natural phenomenon and warning the crew to evacuate while they can. The crew don’t believe him, however, and continue to search for the source of the signals while trying to overcome the drexin. Sierjna’s joy is short-lived when Stark tells her that she is trapped between realms, and that the only help he can give her is to help her pass into the next world. Stark soon realizes that the new chamber is a vestigial Pilot’s Den; eager to help Sierjna and the ship, he joins himself with Talyn. But when he loses contact with Sierjna, he begins a search that brings Talyn ever closer to a fiery death.

written by Matt Ford
directed by Ian Barry
music by Guy Gross

Guest Cast: Susan Lyons (Sierjna), Mark Mitchell (Mu-Quillus), Linda Cropper (Xhalax Sun)

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

Pezzini finds it tempting to call in sick and stay in bed all day - with Conchobar - but decides to go to work anyway. Not long after she leaves, however, a band of masked thugs burst into her apartment and kidnap Conchobar. Like him, they’re Irish nationals, but they have no personal interest in him. To his captors, Conchobar is valuable only as a bargaining chip they hope to use to lure his brother, an IRA terrorist, out into the open. Pezzini goes above and beyond the call of duty to find who has taken her lover and where he’s been taken - and she even begins to use powers beyond those granted by her badge to this end. The terrorists want not only money, but the Witchblade itself - and when Kenneth Irons refuses to help her retrieve it, Sara Pezzini finds herself up against the invincible might of her own weapon…and an infinite well of rage and hatred tapped by the death of someone very close to her.

teleplay by Richard C. Okie
story by Ralph Hemecker & Richard C. Okie
directed by James Whitmore Jr.
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Nestor Serrano (Captain Dante), John Hensley (Gabriel Bowman), Kim De Lury (Conchobar), Trent McMullen (Sean), Deborah Pollitt (Terrorist), Dree MacDonald (Terrorist), Brendan Wall (Terrorist), Tracy Shreve (?), Johnie Chase (?), Kevin Rushton (?), Nenna Abuwa (?)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

When Crichton and D’Argo return to Moya two days into a forced ten day vacation (because their bickering is driving everyone crazy), Crichton tries to convince Pilot that the situation really isn’t their fault and they should be allowed to stay. See, everyone was having a good time in this bar, and these two girls came on to Crichton and D’Argo, but it was just a ruse, because the next thing you know the two of them are waking up without their money and Crichton’s wearing women’s stockings. Another patron from the previous night’s partying shows up to tell them Chiana and Jool are in trouble, and takes them to this goofy alien whose tentacles you can put up to your eye and it’s like a VR ViewFinder, and Crichton and D’Argo see this total sleazeball give Chiana a whiff of something, at which point she’s all over him, and that can’t be good. D’Argo heads to the sleazeball’s pad to get the girls, but they’re having way too good a time to scram. Only problem is, shortly after D’Argo gets his butt kicked out of the place, sleazeball hooks Jool and Chiana up to a machine that extracts their bodily fluids. Turns out those fluids are the source of freslin, the stuff sleazeball’s been using on the girls, and it has a bunch of freaky effects. Just for starters, their new friend uses it to turn D’Argo into a dancing machine and a totally weird looking alien. I mean, weird compared to his usual appearance. Like I said, this freslin’s freaky stuff. Long story short, Crichton and D’Argo have to get in and get the girls out. But when does anything ever go simply for these guys?

written by Lily Taylor
directed by Tony Tilse
music by Guy Gross

Guest Cast: Tammy MacIntosh (Jool), Francesca Buller (Raxil), Tamblyn Lord (Fe’Tor), Laura Keneally (Theiadh), Anthony Martin (Mitols), Milan Keyser (Sarl), Jaye Paul (Heska Tinaco), Julia Trappe (Blue Girl), Rachel Sheriff (Green Girl)

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

Stricken by grief, Pezzini has locked herself in her apartment for four days. But while she isn’t inclined to get up from her bed, she’s terrified when the Witchblade roots her to that spot, expanding itself into metal tendrils that wrap around her body. Danny appears to comfort her and warn her that the Witchblade is testing her resolve and her character - a test which, if failed, will prove to be fatal. Kenneth Irons is also watching the proceedings closely, and feeling them as well through some kind of link to Sara. Through the test, Sara discovers that she is not related to Joan of Arc, Elizabeth Bronte, or an ancient Celtic goddess of retribution…she is Joan of Arc, Elizabeth Bronte, and an ancient Celtic goddess of retribution. Meanwhile, Jake McCartey is undergoing a test of his own as Captain Dante tries to recruit him into a shady elite police brotherhood known as the White Bulls - an association that would require Jake to sell Pezzini out.

teleplay by Roderick Taylor & Bruce A. Taylor
story by Ralph Hemecker & Richard C. Okie
directed by Neill Fearnley
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Nestor Serrano (Captain Dante), John Hensley (Gabriel Bowman) and Lazar

Notes: The choice of the Lovin’ Spoonful song “Do You Believe In Magic” may be a bit of an in-joke - series star Yancy Butler is the daughter of Lovin’ Spoonful band member John Butler.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Crichton gets a feeling that the Ancients are trying to contact him again, and guides Talyn to a rendezvous point. The alien that appeared to him in his father’s form materializes inside the ship, once more in the guise of Jack Crichton. He’s not happy, and wastes no time in pulling John into a telepathic exchange. The Ancients have found a safe homeworld. Jack, however, has chosen to stay behind to guard the others’ way, at which point he saw an alien in what looks like Crichton’s module flying out of a wormhole. Jack accuses Crichton of betraying the Ancients’ trust and letting wormhole technology fall into the wrong hands. But Crichton insists he knows nothing about it. Harvey (the Scorpius clone) takes a moment to remind Crichton not to let Jack know of his presence, and suggests that the guilty party is likely Furlow, the technician who helped Crichton repair his module after one of Crichton’s earlier wormhole experiments. Talyn sets course for Dam-Ba-Da, only to find it almost totally desolate. Crichton, Jack, Aeryn, Rygel and Crais head to the planet surface, where Furlow’s shop is under siege. They manage to get to the shop, but Talyn is exposed to the system’s intense solar flares and Crais is blinded as a result. Rygel mans a turret to defend the shop while Aeryn, Jack and Crichton enter to find that Furlow has been imprisoned and tortured by the Charrids, who want to use the wormhole tech she has developed based on Crichton’s notes as a weapon. They, along with the Scarrans, want Furlow’s tech, and when a Scarran dreadnought taps into Furlow’s computer to get the data, Jack says there’s only one solution - they must beat the Scarrans at their own game and build their own wormhole weapon, one that will destroy the dreadnought. But Jack can only do that with help from Crichton, by unlocking the wormhole knowledge in his subconscious. And that means that Harvey has to go . . . Crichton’s brain isn’t big enough for the two of them anymore.

written by Carleton Eastlake
directed by Peter Andrikidis
music by Guy Gross

Guest Cast: Kent McCord (Jack Crichton), Magda Szubanski (Furlow), Thomas Holesgrove (Alcar), Patrick Ward (Zylar)

Notes: The Ancient Crichton knows as Jack first appeared in season 1’s A Human Reaction. Furlow repaired Crichton’s module in that season’s Till The Blood Runs Clear, and in exchange Crichton provided her with schematics to the module and the data from his wormhole experiments to that point.

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

Dante assigns as many of his officers as possible to keep an eye on a shady arms dealer who may be peddling his wares in New York. Pezzini protests the assignment, citing her already overflowing homicide workload, but Dante insists. Gabriel comes to Pezzini with word that one of his best friends has been killed, but she can find no evidence that the deceased - a comic book artist with a drug habit and more than a few enemies - did anything more than commit suicide. The arms dealer surveillance assignment quickly blows up as the man in question is gunned down by a sniper with a powerful weapon. Not long afterward, Ian Nottingham - Kenneth Irons’ hired hand (and hired gun) - turns himself in to Sara, claiming to have been the shooter.

teleplay by Richard C. Okie
story by Ralph Hemecker & Richard C. Okie
directed by James Whitmore Jr.
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Nestor Serrano (Captain Dante), John Hensley (Gabriel Bowman), Kathryn Winslow (Vicki), Bill McDonald (Orlinsky)

LogBook entry by Earl Green