The penultimate episode to this the only season of a show that was never given its due but oddly not killed outright.  I got to thinking about this while watching “Flesh,” why have this show on a two in the morning instead of just not running it and instead opening up the time slot to paid programming or possible some other syndicated show like Battlestar: Galactica (the original) or Buck Rogers or any other number of science fiction shows that are proven favorites.  Why are they running this show in its entirety?  There’s something I’m not understanding about the world of cable programming.  No one, or very few people, would be up that early watching an unknown, foreign produced science fiction/crime/noir TV show and those that do would be recording it and moving through the commercials, so there’s no money it in.  So why keep running it?

It’d be naive to think this show has a chance at another season.  The original season one ran nearly five years ago and while the second season was written, it was never picked up.  So what we’re going to be left with are a handful of mysteries.  Charlie Jade really weaved threads from many plots lines into this run and they started it immediately, to the point that after one season there are more unanswered questions than most shows.  While this episode didn’t really answer anything, it did change everything.

Charlie has been in Alpha for a few days (or maybe weeks) and the folks in Beta don’t know what’s happened.  With the hunter after him, Karl, Reena and Blues fear the worst.  But as we know he’s alive an kicking in Alpha where he and Sew Sew forge an uneasy alliance (Sew Sew slept with his wife after all) to bring down Essa Rompkin.  She is recovering from Brion’s death and wants 01′s head on a platter, to which Sew Sew nods and smiles and pretends to do her bidding.  However, he and Charlie and a wrongly incarcerated 01 plan to find the lab tech who was involved in killing execs to transfer blood to Brion.  That technician is their link to bringing Essa down, putting 01 in her place, and shutting the Link to Gamma/Beta down for good.

The actually win the day and the results are as follows.  01 is freed and Brion’s computer will (probate bot, no foolin) declares his son as the rightful ruler of the Vexcor kingdom.  The tech and his lover are killed but the chip in one of them has a recorded confession saying they killed people at Essa’s request.  Essa is removed from the board and sent to jail.  Sew Sew is smug about it.  Jasmine and Charlie talk and he leaves saying he’s going “home.”  Jasmine calls Sew Sew, tells him to come home.  Charlie ends up at Blues’s place in Beta.  All seems well until the last scene with Reena.  Blues had found the bodies Reena exploded a few episodes ago (Malachi and company) and Reena asks if there were any odd objects.  There were, she tries to figure out what one of them does and in the end it opens up and projects a green and fuzzy set of looped images that I couldn’t make out, but Reena must have recognized it because she quotes Oppenheimer, “I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

So, going into our final episode, here’s where we stand.  01 Boxer is running Vexcor, Charlie left Jasmine and AlphaVerse forever and will be staying in Beta with Blues.  Essa is in jail, Brion is dead, the board still wants the Link set up, 01 doesn’t.  Jasmine and Sew Sew will likely end up together.  Reena, free of her programming, must still understand some deeper and malevolent purpose.

And here are some mysteries we’re left with.  Who was Malachi and what was his group?  Why were they intent on programming Reena to kill Julius Galt?  What is Reena’s mission?  Will the Link be set up and will the other universes be destroyed or will 01 stop it?  Does Charlie even care about the Link any more or does he think helping dethrone Essa is enough?  Speaking of other Verses, we saw an “unknown verse” while Charlie was jumping around, what are the other Verses?  What happens to 01′s kids in GammaVerse?  Will Karl still go after Vexcor now that 01′s in charge?

I can’t imagine one episode will answer all these questions, but as far as this episode goes, it was about as good as the show gets.  And because so much happened, I’m giving it four and a half shiny blue stones.