Max and Logan are ensconced in the cozy Halls of Justice, sitting before a roaring fire to combat the rain and cold. They are playing chess. Max is winning, and Logan is a very gracious loser. And yes, by "gracious" I do mean "cute." Max makes a move (no, not that kind) and declares checkmate. Logan asks if it is against the Superhero Code to use her powers to take advantage of mere mortals. She says yes, but she's not done taking advantage. The Captain looks uncomfortable, and I giggle and pace around the room. Because I am retarded. And I get embarrassed for people on TV. I've never once made it through a Nora Ephron movie, because I always have to get up and walk around while the characters are embarrassing themselves on-screen. Not that being unable to sit through a Nora Ephron film is a bad thing. Anyway. Max isn't planning on "taking advantage" of his innocence, but rather she's trying to get him to go to a concert with her. He passes. She gets huffy. "No fun for Logan Cale. The world's coming to an end. Protect the downtrodden. Blah blah woof woof." Okay. I realize that we the writers, and the forum posters, make fun of the slang used on this show a lot, because it's really early nineties and probably would never be used in 2019. But now I'm beginning to realize that the anachronistic lingo is highly preferable to the bizarre quasi-futuristic slang that the writers insist in putting in Max's mouth. "Blah blah woof woof"? Fishcakes. Logan flinches. I second it.
Lydecker is skulking around an office, working with a sketch artist who is creating a picture of Max. He tells the artist to make the cheekbones rounder and the lips fuller. Fuller? You heard me. Lydecker is planning on postering the city with pictures of Max and the offer of a large reward for her capture. He's working with the Seattle PD, but the captain is trying to shake him down for some extra cash for his trouble. Lydecker is having none of it, pulling a big ol' gun out of his briefcase and warning the captain that greasing palms can make trigger fingers slippery. Now what is it that they say about little men and big guns?
Original Cindy and Max are getting dressed (undressed?) in the JamPony HQ. Why they are getting dressed/undressed I'm not sure. Don't they just wear their plain old everyday clothes when they deliver packages? Wasn't that the entire complaint about the uniforms from the last episode? A little continuity, folks, thank you. Anyway, Max and OC are dressing up, or dressing down, and some skeeve is spying on them, and Max catches him and knees him in the hoohahs. Go get 'em, girl! Normal grabs her to deliver a package to South Market, which is yet another in a series of geographical liberties that the writers feel necessary to take with the layout of Seattle. South Market Street? Never heard of it. But I gather, post-pulse, it's quite the shanty town, with armed guards and restricted access. I thought restricted access was for whitey-tighty gated communities, not for Super Slum, but whatever -- I've given up on this show making any sense. Max's picture is starting to be distributed around the area, but she makes it through the checkpoint with no fuss. Because they need to build up the drama a little more. After Max delivers her package, she notices a wanted poster with her face on it. to her bike. to some officers of the law. She puts it all together and books.
Back at JamPony HQ, OC, Herbal, and Sketchy are looking at a printout of the wanted poster. Sketchy thinks it's Max. OC says she'll slap him upside his head if he even thinks it. Normal butts in all blip blip blip and grabs the paper out of Sketchy's pocket. You can just see the little wheels start turning in his really square head.
Max does what she always does in a jam. She calls Captain EO. But she's on her own, cause the Captain's out. He's at the doctor's office, getting some bad news. Seems that flinch wasn't related to Max's mutilation of the English language; it had to do with some bullet fragments migrating towards his cute little spine. If he doesn't get a high-risk spine operation, he could end up a quadriplegic on a respirator. A cute quadriplegic on a respirator. Captain EO's kinda bummed.
Not as bummed as Max, however, who, trapped in South Market, was spotted by a cop, who reported her to Lydecker after she grounded him with an elbow to the head. She's quickly surrounded by overly-armed soldiers and armored attack vehicles. She's only slightly nonplussed, since she's a superhuman attack vehicle herself. She hides in a storage crate, but she's outed when OC pages her because she's late for their lunch date. She busts a move, but she's in kind of desperate straits, what with the Captain being preoccupied. Luckily, Zack sees a poster and is off to the rescue.
Max is still hiding out, but when some hapless guy on a cell phone wanders into view, she relieves him of his phone while he, uh, relieves himself on the wall. Serves you right for whizzing in public, Mister. And he wasn't even drunk. Not that being drunk is a good excuse for whizzing in public.
Back JamPony HQ, Normal gives Sketchy control of the desk. Because Sketchy's proved himself to be so responsible and promotion-worthy? Or because Sketchy is contracted to have at least 4.33 minutes of on-air time per episode? You be the judge. As Normal prepares to split the scene, Zack shows up at bike central. Normal tells him that he has some nerve showing up there, since he quit without giving the required two weeks' notice. Zack ignores him and walks up to OC to ask where Max is. OC is about to tell him that she doesn't know, but the phone rings and it's Max. Zack grabs the phone and tells her that they have to get her out of town. OC is confused, because she doesn't realize that Zack and Max know each other, let alone have a relationship or, hell, that Zack is even his name.
When Zack pays a visit to the Halls of Justice to set up Max's escape plan with the Captain, it turns out that the Captain still had no idea that Max was in trouble. I love the scenes between Zack and the Captain -- they have WAY more chemistry than Max and Captain EO. Or Max and Zack. Or Max and the furniture. Anyway, in case you wondered, Lydecker is still calling the shots from Evil Empire HQ. A two-second scene that certainly should have been left on the cutting room floor. Like, writers? Did you think we forgot?