Final Countdown
Prologue: Ethics of thieves, pirates and outlaws.
Gene, Jim, and Melfina take a job towing an advertising ship. Things don't turn out as planned. The advertising ship is a trap. It is loaded with explosives placed there by the People's Liberation Front. The PLF threatens to blow up the advertising ship, causing lots of damage, if their demands are not met.
The government of Heifong has 5 hours to comply with the terrorists' demands. Gene can't stand to not do anything. His first attempt to find and deactivate the bomb ends with one of the Outlaw Star's grappler arms getting seriously mangled.
Aisha Clan-clan and Twilight Suzuka hear about what is going on and do what they can to help out. Gene compares notes with them and figures out what is going on. The terrorists are actually thieves using a bomb threat to make it easier to steal. He finds the detonator and defuses the bomb and then, with some help from Aisha and Suzuka, he stops the PLF
This one is kind of light on plot. I don't have a problem with that but it would be nice if there were some good character moments.
The theme song over the ending credits changes starting with this episode. I think I preferred the old one but this one might grow on me.
As with the last episode it is hard for me to tell how this one fits in to the larger story.
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