Cleopatra Needs Space

**Cleopatra Needs Space** is the fourth episode in Season Two of the *Cleopatra in Space* TV series.

## Characters

* Cleo
* Akila
* Brian
* Khensu
* Mihos
* Precious
* Dave
* Zaid
* Damaris
* Jane-2000E
* Marigold Heads
* Omnia
* E'Geke-Ek'Gek

## Locations

* Cleo and Akila's dorm room

* Mayet City

* P.Y.R.A.M.I.D.

* Mayet

* The planetarium

* The arcade (possibly)

* Ship of Dave and scavengers

## Plot

     Akila prepares for her date with Brian and is nervous about what to wear. She meets a nervous Brian in the hallway and they go off on their date to the planetarium in Mayet City. Cleo and Khensu are disturbed by their disagreement, with Khensu giving Cleo advice: never get involved in relationship disputes between two people, especially those that are your friends. The date goes well at first but then breaks down, causing a ruckus in the auditorium (like a movie theater) that annoys the other students.

After they both leave, Brian and Akila separately call Cleo, and she learns about what happened. Accidentally she merges their calls together while she is still on the line, leading her to be trapped between them. This goes on for days and days, and she ends up eating a lot of soup during this time period, for some reason. Later, in an attempt to get them to reconcile, she tries to get them both to play a game at the arcade. Unfortunately, this is not successful, and they continue fighting with one another. She talks with Zaid, who tells her that he has found the location to the UTA Tablet and gives her the coordinates. He sadly tells her that he cannot go along. She comes back to Brian and Akila, who are still fighting, and decides to leave them, saying she needs space.

     She ends up taking a ship and going to the location of where the tablet is supposed to be and is ambushed by the space scavengers, led by Dave. She ends up agreeing to work as a scullery maid, agreeing to do so in an attempt to get away from the bickering of Akila and Brian. She eventually escapes the vessel on a garbage barge which is leaving the ship of the scavengers. At the same time, however, her friends, Akila and Brian, joined by Zaid, who had earlier learned of the disappearance of Cleo by accident, come in an attempt to rescue her in an Academy ship. However, this is not successful and they end up getting captured. Thanks to the efforts of Mihos and Precious, Zaid, Brian, and Akila are freed from jail.

Just as it seems they are about to escape, Dave and the other scavengers have them cornered, but agree to let them go on the condition that Precious come back to him. She does so, and they escape. While Cleo and Akila joke with others in the front of the ship, Brian has a heart-to-heart talk with Zaid in the back of the ship. , Mihos is heartbroken over the loss of his lover and looks out the window longingly as the episode comes to a close.

## Broadcast

*Main article: Episode Guide/International*TBA

## Notes

### Trivia

* The scene of Mihos and Precious together on top of what they think is a cliff (actually a pile of trash) is a clear reference to the famed scene from the Titanic, which with shows like Futurama also paying homage to it, specifically in the episode "A Flight to Remember"
* The ending of the episode may also be a reference to the ending of "Time Keeps on Slippin," an episode of *Futurama.*
* Like with the episode "XerxWorks," there is a Batman reference in the scene with Mihos, when he is coming up with a plan to get the key to free them, specifically the classic Batman series.
* When each of them offer to help Cleo, first Brian, then Akila, and finally Zaid, this may be a reference to the famous scene from Spartacus.

### Continuity

* Brian and Akila go on the date they talked about together in "Cyrano"

## References

1. ↑ http://dubbingpedia.pl/wiki/Kleopatra\_i\_kosmos
2. ↑ https://www.peacocktv.com/watch/asset/tv/cleopatra-in-space/8372790178399687112?section=episodes