This week Dutch and her fellow Killjoys are competing on a Black Warrant for one of their own against other Killjoys for bragging rights and cold hard “joy”(cash). Dutch goes on her own to find an object that her old mentor needs to find, and Dr. Pawter Simms risks her career, maybe her life to help D’avin.
- Black Warrant is a competitive Warrant where which ever Killjoy delivers the mark first to the RAC wins “joy” and lots of it. There mark is an old Killjoy, Big Joe. He is considered a legend and a hero among other Killjoys, especially Dutch. But because the Warrant is a fellow RAC agent, Turin, the boss of the RAC, wants him found first before the Company does. Turin is afraid of what the Company might to do him.
- A fellow Killjoy mentions an urban legend where certain Killjoys are turned and trained on the moon Arkyn to become Level Six RAC Agents, but Dutch brushes it off as just a myth.
- Khylen forces Dutch to retrieve a certain device that Big Joe stole from the Company. Dutch goes on without Johnny and D’avin to find the mark, Big Joe on the planet Leith.
- Johnny, D’avin, and Fancy Lee reluctantly team up to find Dutch and Big Joe and they head off to Leith.
- Pawter Simms uses her womanly charm to seduce a Company official to gain access to the Qreshi medical database to find Dr. Jaeger for D’avin. She gets caught and placed under arrest.
- Dutch finds Big Joe first on Leith, but is taken hostage by Leithian purist who rebels against any outsider who takes their property and possessions.
- One of the Leithian purists accidentally triggers the stolen device taken by Big Joe and everybody but Dutch, Big Joe, Johnny, Fancy Lee, and Lucas, the patriarch of the purest is vaporized. Johnny figures it is genetic bomb where it targets specific genetic DNA markers as their killshot.
- Dutch and the other Killjoys return back to base on Westerly, where Big Joe is delivered to the RAC. But the Company is there as well, waiting to collect Big Joe for theft of Company property. But the Company upgraded the Balck Warrant to a Level Five Kill Warrant. Big Joe begs Dutch for her to do it, but she hesitates and Fancy Lee finishes the job. “Warrant is all”, Fancy says.
- Dutch gives Khylen the bad news that the device he wants is back in the hands of the Company. He gets very upset and hits Dutch. She is utterly shocked.
- On Lucy, Dutch finally confesses to Johnny that Khylen is back and wants her back. Johnny and D’avin tells her that whatever she needs, they will have her back. She says she wants to find Khylen and kill him.
This week Dutch faces her old mentor and discovers what he is really doing in the Quad. The tension between the RAC and the Company is growing and eventually the RAC is going to have to take sides. A war is coming between the Company and everybody else and the mantra of the RAC where they don’t take sides, is going to be put to the test very soon.