Datak (Tony Curran) wakes up to find Jalina (Kelly McCormack), the Tarr's hand-maiden and who he spent the night with, dead on his doorstep with her eyes missing.
Datak calls Doc Yewll (Trenna Keating) to help him find out what happened and to get rid of the body.
Datak is afraid that they will blame him for the murder and he does not want to report it to Nolan (Grant Bowler), so he calls Rafe (Graham Greene) for help.
Rafe helps him to transfer the body to a hellbug area to be eaten and then they both start to search for Jalina's murderer.
Datak informs Stahma later about Jalina's death and they agree to find who is responsible without involving the lawkeeper while Nolan asks Irisa (Stephanie Leonidas) if she has anything to do with this.
She draws the man's face when Rynn (Tiio Horn) interrupts her to ask her help finding Sukar who is missing.
Yewll gets a lead of who might be responsible for Jalina's death when Professor Lambert (Gilles Savard) comes to her office for eye drops and she calls Datak.
Christie (Nicole Muñoz) and Alak (Jesse Rath) prepare to have lunch at the Arc radio station with Deirdre (Kristina Pesic) who snaps the opportunity to give Christie the Castithan gem that Viceroy gave her the previous night at the club.
"Defiance’s plot may still give me trouble, but the show works at so many other thematic and visual levels that I think it’s still a success.