The Bounty Hunter ( TV story ) The Bounty Hunter was the fourth episode of series 1 of " K9 " . It revealed K9 ' s circumstances before his regeneration . Synopsis . K9 ' s past comes back to haunt him when an alien " bounty hunter " arrives and accuses him of committing a murder in the 501st century . Plot . Gryffen is at work trying to fix K9 ' s memory . He finds a fragment from just before he transported here , an alien called Zanthus Pia , head of the Galactic Peace Commission , who orders him to leave immediately . He warns that assassinating him will gain his assassin nothing and others will replace him . He vows they will have peace in the Galaxy . Gryffen tells K9 he ' ll have to work harder if he ' s going to retrieve his memories . K9 assures Gryffen he ' s working as hard as he can as that fragment is all the memory of his own time . Starkey tells Gryffen he can ' t get blood out of a stone . K9 corrects him and references the rocks of Nebulax 4 . Gryffen finds K9 can retrieve data but not memories . Starkey offers to take K9 for a walk to get his mind off it . As they walk , Gryffen watches them on the monitor and notes how much the surroundings have changed , a common effect for someone who hasn ' t gone outside in ten years . They go to a ferris wheel , which speeds up as a group of CCPC s walk in . Starkey thinks he ' s been found and tells K9 to save himself . K9 declines the order . Meanwhile at the mansion , as Gryffen instructs them to leave , a strange man enters the STM . The CCPCs keep the worried crowd under control . Drake informs them of a dissident attack . A bomb has been attached to the speed clutch in the control centre . If they try to stop or even slow the wheel , the bomb will explode . K9 decides to help . Starkey says the place is swarming with CCPCs . K9 says it is a compulsion as he is programmed to assist humans in distress . Starkey notices a CCTV camera arriving on the scene . Gryffen investigates the state of the man that emerged from the STM . The man grabs Gryffen , telling him to stay where he can see him . Gryffen asks how he can control the portal . He says he didn ' t . Gryffen decides to get him some tea . On the scene , Drake talks to a news camera , stating the dissident threat will be tracked down and eliminated and urges people to stay in view of a CCTV surveillance point and report any suspicions . Starkey tells K9 that the story of the Department saving the day from rogue dissidents is a publicity stunt . K9 says it ' s unlikely . Starkey asks if it ' s such big news and such a big threat , why haven ' t the CCPCs done anything ? K9 agrees and says he isn ' t interested in the camera and has to help the people . Back at the mansion , Gryffen apologises for being inquisitive but he can ' t control the STM . The man tells him he followed someone here , a cybernetic device known as K9 . Starkey asks the crowd why Drake doesn ' t do anything . A mother whose children are stuck on the wheel asks Drake the same question . While Drake is distracted , K9 and Starkey sneak into the control room and find the strangely non - explosive bomb . This is a publicity stunt planned by the Department . K9 destroys the bomb , which slows the wheel , saving the people on it . Starkey and K9 are praised by the crowd to Drake ' s dismay . They leave . Back at the mansion , the man grows impatient and demands to know where K9 is . He says that his name is Ahab and he is the most renowned bounty hunter in the galaxy and he ' s here to bring K9 to stand trial before the Galactic Council for murder . K9 is wanted in the year 50 , 000 for the unlawful disintegration of Zanthus Pia , president of Galactic Peace Assembly . Gryffen says there is no K9 here . Ahab ' s voice analyser reveals he ' s lying . When Gryffen refuses to tell him where K9 is , Ahab grabs his face . They are interrupted by a Department broadcast from Drake claiming that the " mechanical dog " was not the hero of the ferris wheel incident . Ahab asks how to find the Department . Gryffen suggests he go to the nearest CCTV camera . He does and tells Drake they need to talk . The team are shocked when Gryffen tells them what Ahab said and refuse to believe K9 is a murderer . Starkey says his programming forbids it . Gryffen says that according to Ahab , K9 disintegrated Zanthus Pia with extreme prejudice . They argue the legality and morality of the situation until they conclude K9 should hide . Darius offers his services . At the Department Mobile HQ , June and Drake argue about K9 . Drake says she was aware of a dangerous alien yet failed to alert his section . She says K9 isn ' t dangerous and his technology could be of great value to the Department . Drake agrees and decides to have him apprehended and dismantled to learn his secrets . June says his section has no jurisdiction as K9 poses no security threat . Drake consults Lomax , who says he will consider the matter and orders them to keep doing what they ' re doing . June assumes K9 is under her control , and Drake simply agrees to keep doing what he ' s doing . Darius takes Jorjie , Starkey and K9 to his secret storage facility in the sewers , made up mostly of food and supplies that fell off the back of trucks and vans . June comes to Gryffen ' s house and tells Gryffen to tell her if Drake comes looking for K9 . Gryffen tells her of his encounter with Ahab and that the kids are hiding K9 . She asks him to have Jorjie come home with her . Ahab arrives at Department Mobile HQ and shows Drake how he intends to subdue K9 . They make a deal . As Starkey , Darius and Jorjie eat , Starkey tells Jorjie he ' s " defragging " . Jorjie wonders if it ' s possible K9 assassinated Zanthus Pia . Starkey refuses to believe it but Darius argues neither they nor he know what he did before he came here . Starkey asks if he has done anything suspicious . As Starkey pets K9 , K9 accesses the remains of his memory and an encounter with Zanthus Pia . The clip shows K9 ' s HUD stating Zanthus must be destroyed . The clip glitches and cuts to a burning corpse , which K9 identifies as Zanthus ' s remains . As everyone is asleep , K9 determines he is guilty and a murderer . K9 decides to surrender himself to the Department and leaves . He is spotted by a CCTV camera . At the Department Mobile HQ , June uses this to trace him to the sewer . She is angry Jorjie spent the night there and decides to get her . She tells Gryffen to tell them to stay there if they contact him . Gryffen wonders why K9 would be so careless as to miss a motion detector . He contacts K9 , who shows him his memory of Zanthus Pia ' s corpse . He says his human life protection protocol was compromised . Starkey and the others look for K9 . Darius spots him . They try to stop him , but K9 insists he must surrender to the authorities and stand trial . Drake and Ahab arrive and Starkey tells K9 to run . K9 says he he must face justice . June is contacted by Drake , who tells her Ahab betrayed him and took K9 and the kids to Gryffen ' s house . He explains his arrangement with Ahab which would have given the Department access to K9 ' s technology . She decides from now on all matters concerning K9 will be handled by her section . At the house , Ahab pulls K9 to the STM vortex . The leash - like device Ahab uses on K9 turns him into a conductor , restoring his memory of Zanthus Pia . K9 did not kill him ; Ahab did . When K9 notes the device Ahab uses generates extreme cold , weakening him , Jorjie throws a cup of tea on the beam , disabling it . The force of the device throws Ahab into the STM and he disappears . June arrives at the house . She says K9 is under the control of her section and not security . She gives Gryffen responsibility for K9 and makes K9 and the team the " Official K9 Unit " . As Jorjie leaves with June , Darius asks what ' s stopping Ahab from coming back . Gryffen says he went to the time of his destination , but not the place . He ' s been landed in this exact spot fifty thousand years from now . Darius thinks he ' s home safe and sound , but Gryffen explains the planets are continually moving through space . The Earth won ' t be in its current location . Darius asks where he is . K9 says , " Lost in space " . Story notes . Ratings . " to be added " Myths . " to be added " Filming locations . " to be added " Home video releases . This episode is featured in the following DVD sets :