Liberation ( TV story ) Liberation was the second episode of series 1 of " K9 " . It resolved the issue of the surviving Jixen and Dauntless Prison shown in the first episode . Synopsis . Starkey goes into to hiding from the Department and the surviving Jixen warrior . Jorjie finds out that the Department has imprisoned innocent alien s , so K9 and the team break into the Department ' s prison to set them free . Plot . At the mansion , Gryffen watches a recording of his wife and children . Darius doesn ' t like Starkey staying , but K9 insists that he must or the Jixen will tear him asunder . Starkey asks why can ' t he just get the Jixen before it gets him . K9 states the odds aren ' t in his favour . Starkey becomes alert when someone knocks at the door . Jorjie arrives and talks about travelling through time via the space - time manipulator . Darius says it ' s too dangerous and anything could come through like dinosaurs . Suddenly the STM activates and sends a couple of black rats through , which scares Darius . K9 tells Gryffen that the Jixen is alive and on the move . Some time later , K9 detects the direction the Jixen is heading . Starkey says it must be heading for Dauntless Prison . Jorjie says the Department keeps captured aliens prisoner there . They have no rights and are treated inhumanely which isn ' t fair . Darius asks why the Jixen would go to an alien prison and suggests Starkey give himself up . K9 says one word , " Meron " , which Darius hears as " moron " . Jorjie corrects him and asks what it means . Gryffen explains it ' s an enemy of the Jixen and very dangerous . Starkey decides they should go to the prison and get the Jixen before it gets him . K9 says that isn ' t a good idea . The last thing they ' d want would be to get caught in is battle between the Merons and the Jixen : whole planets have been wiped out . Jorjie ' s mother calls her . Gryffen asks K9 to go to the prison and track the Jixen . K9 says he will , but with great discomfort . While Darius is with Mariah , Starkey says they should help K9 find the Jixen . Darius agrees but only with the promise that Starkey will leave and not come back after they stop the Jixen . They get into Mariah and go for a drive . Gryffen tracks K9 through the monitor . On his way to the prison , K9 is detected by the Department . K9 enters the Department exclusion zone . The Department ' s defence robots attack and disable K9 . He falls in a dustbin that Starkey and Darius walk by . Starkey and Darius climb down and find a locked door , which Starkey tries to unlock . Darius wishes him good luck on getting out and walks into a brick wall which breaks . He has stumbled upon the entrance . They spot two scientists taking a sample from an alien on the other side of the corridor and are apprehended by the CCPC s . Starkey calls K9 with his dog whistle . Gryffen takes this as a sign he is in trouble and asks K9 to wake up . As Starkey and Darius see the alien prisoners , Gryffen begs K9 to respond . They look at the alien prisoners . Starkey notes there ' s a lot they don ' t know about the Department . They are met by Thorne , the prison governor , who throws them in a cell with an alien called Mr Wiffy . Darius complains he can ' t keep them in here with no charges . June comes in and says he can . She is surprised to see Starkey , " the boy everyone is looking for " . She says they ' re not to be harmed . Thorne asserts his authority as governor , but she challenges this as a department inspector in charge of alien threats . She suggests he searches his prisoners before he " blabs his face off " . She takes Darius ' s communications device and contacts Gryffen , who asks why the Department is imprisoning aliens . She says they need to be catalogued to look out for others of their species and if the species commit a crime , they ' ll know what they are looking for . They can ' t be allowed to wander around London . Gryffen says they should be sent back home . She says they have tried , but insists it ' s the only way and ends the call . June warns Starkey he will be returned to virtual detention , where his sentence will be restarted , plus an extra six months for escaping , unless he tells her where she can find K9 . If he does , they will both be released . Starkey refuses . She leaves them . Gryffen waits for K9 to wake up . He thinks of his family and tells K9 if he survives and they don ' t he ' ll never forgive himself . He ' ll never get past that he wasn ' t there for them . When K9 doesn ' t respond , Gryffen creates a sound that K9 knows , dropping a ball over and over . K9 reactivates . He says his living metal frame required down time to repair from the Department ' s weaponry and his combat conditioning shielding has now done its job . K9 starts to make his way to Dauntless Prison . Darius tries to convince Starkey to give K9 up . Suddenly , Jorjie arrives . Asked how she found them , she says she tracked Mariah ' s autodrive and then followed the bickering . Darius gives her a key card for the keypad up the corridor that he picked from Thorne ' s pocket . Jorjie unlocks all the cells in the corridor . All CCPC units are ordered to the cells . K9 goes through the prison , scanning for the Jixen . As the kids and aliens run , Starkey looks behind to see if they are being followed when he is attacked by the Jixen . The Jixen corners him , but K9 shoots it . However , he has used up all his power and his energy levels don ' t have time to reboot . He recommends they run . Starkey and K9 lure the Jixen to the cells . Starkey puts his jacket , covered in the Jixen tracking slime , in a cell which the Jixen finds . Starkey locks the cell . As they taunt the Jixen , one of the scientists walks in . He morphs into his true Meron form and attacks K9 . As he advances on Starkey , the Jixen emits a loud scream which makes the Meron retreat . In Thorne ' s office , June hears the Jixen ' s scream . Thorne locks the door , saying it ' s best they stay here . June spots Starkey and K9 on a camera and suggests they go capture him . Thorne refuses , saying they don ' t know what ' s going on down there . K9 isn ' t in good shape . Saying his immunity levels are down to 19 % , he reroutes energy reserves to critical systems and tells Starkey to leave . K9 can ' t go as his power levels are critical . Starkey tells him to try . June grabs Thorne ' s locking device and promises he ' ll never darken the prison ' s doors again . He ' s finished . Thorne vows revenge . Starkey and K9 meet up with the others and Darius unlocks the door . Through the door , they are met by June , who tells them they are blocked by a force field and orders the aliens to return to their cells . Darius calls her a monster . She says that the system works but Starkey argues she ' s imprisoning innocent aliens . She says she ' s doing this for the future , so their children ' s children will be safe . Jorjie tells her that she helped the aliens . June is shocked to see Jorjie here , just as Jorjie is to find she works for the Department . The Jixen arrives and attacks Starkey and June . K9 tries to fight it but exhausts his firepower . June gives Jorjie the force field device and tells her to arm it to self - destruct . Darius grabs it and June tells him to attach it to the Jixen . When the Jixen advances on him , he throws it to Starkey , who attaches it to the Jixen , killing it . Jorjie and Darius agree they make quite a team . K9 calls the assessment logical , amusing the kids . Starkey faints . That night , Starkey wakes up in Gryffen ' s house . He calls for K9 and Gryffen shows him that the robot dog has been waiting by his side . Starkey asks K9 how he got away from June . Darius says that all the information about the aliens and the prison was leaked to the media . The prison is being shut down . K9 confirms the Jixen is gone . As one problem is solved , another presents itself . Gryffen reports bad news about the rats . They multiply every ten seconds . He says he knows the machine needs more work before he tampers with it . As Starkey gets up , Gryffen asks where he ' s going . Starkey says he has a job to do and he had a deal with Darius . Jorjie ' s gone home and the Jixen ' s dead . Starkey thanks K9 for saving him from " termination " before he leaves . Later , Starkey hacks into the display board terminal again but is met by two CCPCs . K9 moves to protect him and they both run away . 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