Nolan returns to Defiance but Irisa stays back for Sukar's sinking ritual (his body will be consumed in an acid bath).

Sukar, right after they sink his body in the acid, rises fully healed and the Spirit Riders are confused because they do not know what happened.

Alak (Jesse Rath) and Cristie (Nicole Muñoz) discuss a bathing ceremony that Stahma (Jaime Murray) asked Christie to do with the family.

Stahma goes to "Need/Want" bar to ask Kenya (Mia Kirshner) about her services for her son Alak before the wedding, so he will be prepared.

In the meantime, Nicky (Fionnula Flanagan), not having any news from Birch, arrives at the McCawley home to find out what happened.

Club gave a C grade to the episode saying that despite there were some cool moments and interesting ideas on it, it was not serving a larger purpose.

"“Good Bye Blue Sky” isn't notably worse than several previous episodes of Defiance, but it frustrated me much more than those did.

The episode did a good job in illustrating that the tensions don’t just occur between human and Votans – though it’s understandable that those relationships pose the most opportunity for misunderstanding.

Sadly, this left it feeling like "Good Bye Blue Sky" was doing far too much in a short amount of time.