Into The Wild Green Yonder
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The Planet Express crew visit Amy's parents, Leo and Inez, who are destroying the "old" Mars Vegas and constructing a
more extravagant one. A group of eco-feminists led by Frida Waterfall protest the resulting destruction of the
environment, leading to an accident where a piece of Frida's jewelry lodges inside Fry's brain. The destruction upsets
Leela, but Leo claims that he has received proper clearance -- by bribing Professor Farnsworth. Unconvinced, Leela saves
a Martian muck leech, the last of its species, from the site.
At the new Vegas, Fry starts hearing voices in his head. He meets a transient named Hutch, who explains that they are
both telepathic and advises him to wear a tinfoil hat to block the voices. Hutch admonishes Fry never to reveal his
powers and to beware the "Dark Ones". Meanwhile, Bender conducts a brief, illicit affair with a performing robot.
While golfing with the crew, Leo reveals his plan to destroy part of the galaxy and build the universe's largest
miniature golf course. Farnsworth and the crew survey the proposed site and discover an asteroid in a violet dwarf star
system, teeming with primordial life forms. Over Leela and Fry's objections, Farnsworth approves the project. After a
botched protest leads to the accidental death of Vice-President Spiro Agnew's headless body and forces Leela and the
eco-feminists into hiding, Leela convinces them to sabotage Leo's projects. Leela returns to Planet Express to retrieve
her leech and runs into Fry, who offers his blessing; the two share a tearful goodbye.
Hutch introduces Fry to the "Legion of Mad Fellows", a secret society of tinfoil-wearing telepaths led by the No. 9 man.
During a sequence of Legion meetings, Fry learns that the violet dwarf is the only surviving egg of the Encyclopods, a
now-extinct species which evolved to preserve the DNA of all endangered life forms and recreate extinct species from its
collection. Meanwhile, the Dark Ones evolved to pursue the destruction of the Encyclopods and all biological life. Due to
a resurgence in the life-giving force called "Chi", the Encyclopod will soon be reborn; as Fry is immune from the Dark
Ones' psionic powers, he alone can save the star. To conceal their knowledge and existence from the Dark Ones, the Legion
swear Fry to secrecy. After the initial meeting, Fry infiltrates Leo's empire as a security guard.
Leo enlists Zapp Brannigan and Kif Kroker to bring the eco-feminists to justice; jealous of Leela's criminal record,
Bender joins them. At the golf course, Bender bugs Fry's cell phone. Fry later runs into Frida and has her take a
discreet message of support to Leela, but an unseen Dark One learns of the message at the eco-feminists' hideout and
psionically murders Frida. Farnsworth, Zoidberg and Hermes attempt to deliver a fence to Leo, but are intercepted by the
eco-feminists (now joined by Amy, LaBarbara Conrad and others), who commandeer the Planet Express ship. At their hideout,
the eco-feminists discover Frida's corpse. Having seen Fry working for Leo, Amy suspects foul play by Fry, so Leela calls
him to clarify things. Fry and Leela arrange a rendezvous which is ambushed by the eavesdropping Brannigan in the Nimbus.
Leela escapes in the Planet Express ship and abducts Fry, convinced that he is a traitor. Brannigan pursues them, and the
eco-feminists are caught, convicted and sentenced.
Fry arranges a final meeting with the Legion, who explain that Fry must not only stop the imminent implosion of the
violet dwarf, but also identify and thwart the Dark One who is sure to be present. Though no one knows the current form
of the Dark One, its mind cannot be read, allowing Fry to identify it. No. 9 gives Fry the Omega device, which can
disable the Dark One at close range.
In prison, the voice of a Dark One urges Leela to escape. Bender arrives to free the eco-feminists, happy to overtake
Leela's criminal record. Hermes, Zoidberg, Scruffy and a repentant Farnsworth arrive in the Planet Express ship and
whisk Bender, Leela, Amy and LaBarbara off to stop the implosion ceremony.
At the ceremony, Leo gives Fry the honor of imploding the violet dwarf. Unable to locate an unreadable mind in the
massive audience, Fry concludes that he must be the Dark One. Before Fry can press the plunger, the Planet Express
crew disrupt the ceremony. Still unable to explain his intentions, Fry implores Leela to return the detonator; after a
moment of reflection, Leela does so. Having covertly wired the detonator to the Omega device, Fry presses the plunger
and attempts to destroy himself. The device activates, enveloping Leela and Fry in a flash but leaving them unharmed;
Leela's leech reveals itself to be the lone surviving Dark One before collapsing. The violet dwarf system configures
itself into a giant sperm and flies into the star, creating an Encyclopod embryo which quickly reaches adult form. The
Encyclopod approaches the audience, revealing an ecosystem full of formerly extinct species in its pouch. As Hutch is
about to explain the events, the Dark One recovers and murders him. The Encyclopod then incinerates the Dark One; before
it can decide whether to preserve the Dark One's DNA, Zoidberg consumes the remains. After harvesting a sample of
Hutch's DNA, the Encyclopod departs.
Unmoved by these events, Brannigan attempts to arrest the Planet Express fugitives, but they and Kif escape. Kif and
Amy reconcile and Fry and Leela profess their love for each other as the Nimbus chases the Planet Express ship into a
wormhole. Instead of surrendering, the crew follow the wormhole to an unknown destination. Fry and Leela kiss as the
ship enters the wormhole.
