The Korven ( TV story ) The Korven was the third episode of series 1 of " K9 " . It introduced the Korven and revealed the danger they would pose to Earth in the future . Synopsis . Starkey is homeless so K9 and Jorjie try to help . Meanwhile , the Korven kidnaps Professor Gryffen . Darius , K - 9 , Starkey and Jorjie must try to save him . Plot . K9 and Starkey hide from the Department ' s surveillance . They go over a fence when K9 senses the police . K9 detects an invisible camo vehicle . They hide and it goes past them . At Gryffen House , Darius prepares a lunch while Gryffen works on the STM . Once Gryffen has it working at full capacity , he will travel through space and time and see his family again . Unknown to them the STM activates , and an alien creature appears . Gryffen asks Darius if he was to go back to any point in history , where would he go ? Darius says he ' d go back 10 days and find out who stole his wallet . The alien sneaks up on Gryffen and when Darius turns around , his friend is nowhere to be seen . June and Jorjie return from shopping . June will be home by midnight , and she expects Jorjie to be in bed . Back at the mansion , Darius searches for the professor . Jorjie finds Starkey who asks her what she ' s doing there . He had told her about his three hiding places and she ' s already checked two of them . Darius alerts them to Gryffen ' s disappearance . When Darius returns , Jorjie asks if he has any news . K9 detects phosphane gas , a cooling agent that won ' t be invented for three hundred years . K9 accesses the STM and contacts a human soldier from the year 2618 , Senior Lieutenant Medowin of Special Operations Commando , Global Command . He tells them the Korven threat must be stopped at all costs . K9 tells the team that the Korven are due to invade Earth in the year 2480 . Medowin says the Korven are sending an operative through time to find the scientists who created a system to cool the Earth , which was abused before 2050 . Gryffen is one of those scientists . If the Korven get their data , they will cool the Earth and destroy humanity . Before he can reveal the Korvens ' weakness , his transmission stops . K9 knows the Korven ' s weakness : during the leeching process , their entire being is focused on their victim . This is the only time they are vulnerable . K9 follows the trail of phosphane gas with Darius accompanying him . As the Korven brings Gryffen to a deserted iceworks , Gryffen begs him not to take him outside and demands he be taken home . At the Department Mobile HQ , June sends Jorjie a message saying she assumes the reason she isn ' t responding is she ' s busy doing homework . Drake interrupts her , requesting an update on the recent alien activity . She declines as she is Head of the Alien Activity Section and Drake is Head of Security and she doesn ' t report to him . When Drake asks her about information - sharing , she says it works on a need to know basis . When she feels he needs to know something , she ' ll share it with him . Drake tells her he will do the same . They ' re " one big happy Department " . As the team go to the entrance of the iceworks , K9 detects more phosphane . Gryffen is strapped to a table by an immobilising force field . He asks what the Korven is going to do to him . It uses a device which mutes Gryffen and takes out its phosphane tank . As the team move on , K9 detects the phosphane is becoming uncommon but still present . Darius and Jorjie go one way while K9 and Starkey go the other . Starkey notices it ' s getting colder . They ' re getting closer . K9 ' s thought and energy levels are being affected by the phosphane . Starkey sees the Korven start the leeching process . He turns to see K9 on the floor ; the Korven sneaks behind Starkey and captures him . Starkey is forced to the table by the immobilising force field as well . Starkey calls out for K9 , but is muted by the Korven as well . The Korven restarts the leeching . Darius and Jorjie find K9 on the floor . Seeing the Korven leeching Gryffen , they try to get K9 to help . He tries to focus but engages his self - protection protocol and shuts down . Gryffen has flashbacks of his lost family and cries out . Darius gets angry and decides to help Gryffen . He destroys the phosphane tank and gets the Korven ' s attention . The Korven prepares to shoot Darius , but K9 overrides his self - protection protocol and shoots the Korven . K9 shuts down . Darius wakes Gryffen , who recognises him . The Korven gets back up . Darius grabs the Korven ' s arm before it can shoot him , but can ' t hold on . Jorjie tells K9 to fire but K9 interprets this as a warning that there ' s a fire . Starkey tells K9 to fire his Photon Beam . K9 interprets this as " Baked beans ? " . Starkey shouts out , " Baked beans " . K9 shoots the Korven with the temperature required to make baked beans edible , killing it . Back at the mansion , Gryffen works on K9 . Starkey asks if he will be okay . Gryffen says his power activation module was damaged by the phosphane , but with a few minor repairs and a recharge he should be fine . Gryffen accesses the Department ' s computer and reprogrammes it so that Starkey is no longer a wanted dissident ; he may not even exist . Jorjie says he ' ll never have to sleep behind a fence . Starkey says not until he finds a place to live . Jorjie tells Gryffen that Darius says there ' s a spare room . Gryffen calls it a splendid idea , saying Darius and he could use some company . K9 and Starkey go to bed . They bid each other good night as K9 emits the remainder of the phosphane gas in a manner similar to flatulence . References . 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