Snow in the Desert

**Snow in the Desert (🍓❌👙)** is the fourth episode of the second volume, and the overall twenty-second episode of LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS.

3 Symbols:

1. Strawberry
2. Cross
3. Breasts

## Episode Synopsis

Every bounty hunter in the galaxy wants a piece of Snow.

## Plot

A man is walking through the hot desert, clothed, to block the nearby sun. He strolls into a nearby city where water thieves are placed standing upright in glass pods, baking in the sun as punishment for their crimes. He walks into a market, where he picks up a rare supply from Earth from an alien named Egan.

The man's name is Snow and he happens to be pursued by bounty hunters hired by a man named Baris. One of them, an alien woman named Visser, approaches him in a bar with two men of the same species with her. She states that Baris wants Snow's testicles. She challenges him, and he kills her and one of the men she is with. The third, armed with a shotgun, blows off one of Snow's hands, but before he is able to kill Snow, he gets stabbed in the back by a woman named Hirald. Snow leaves, and an alien woman uses a communication network to tell someone to contact Baris and get a team together.

Hirald follows Snow back to his tent.

When it’s too late for her to go back, Snow offers her a spot in his tent so she won’t take a beating from the sun. But it turns out that the woman doesn’t have an altruistic heart because she works for the Earth Central Intelligence (ECI) agency. She wants him to go back with her, willingly, because his cells regenerate (stating that his hand will regrow soon), and she wants everyone to achieve immortality. Whoever decodes his reproductive system has unlocked the key to immortality. Baris wants to capture Snow's reproductive system as well, but wants to take it from him by killing him and without consent. He asks Hirald why she doesn’t just kill him. She then says the EIC does not suppress knowledge. He responds in turn by saying how mortality is just a construct.

She follows him to a little bungalow he has kept on top of a mountain for decades. He tells her to make herself comfortable, and she finds a dress in a closet. Eventually, he tells her that it belongs to his deceased wife. She killed herself because she got old; he didn’t and is now a widower that has been alive for centuries.

Snow and Hirald have sex.

She wakes up later and Snow is gone, but she sees an alarm going off in the bedroom and realizes on a monitor that a ship has landed near their hideaway.

By the ship, Baris and his goons come walking out, and move in to take out Snow. Snow kills an alien woman named Meck - the one from before who had spotted him in the bar - as the bounty hunters make their way up to the mountain top. He tussles with a human woman named Jharilla. He is about to put her down when one of her associates comes up with a gun. He is a human man named Jharit, and the husband of Jharilla. Snow puts her between him and the giant weapon. Jharilla pleads with Jharit to help her, but he chooses to shoot the giant cannon right through her, pulverizing her head, in an attempt to kill Snow.

Snow dodges the fire and escapes. A burly alien man named Trot comes up behind him and shots him several times, one shot blowing off Snow's left leg, and another his right arm. Trot turns Snow over with his boot, and Snow manages to pull Trot to the ground and kill him. Jharit approaches and Snow, on the ground and maimed with limbs missing and blood everywhere, lies and looks up. Jharit blames Snow for his wife's death, pulls out a knife and says "After I've snipped your sack, I'll take my time cutting all the rest." A red light from a targeting scope distracts Jharit, and a shot to the side of the head kills him.

Hirald, having killed Jharit, approaches Snow.

Hirald gets shot in the side of the head and falls. Baris approaches and shoots her body some more, causing sparks to form.

Baris loads his gun, and asks Snow why he lives on this god-forsaken planet and is about to end his life when a giant synthetic robotic arm busts through his chest and tosses him to the side. It’s Herald, now with half her face revealing she is a cyborg. Later, back in the hideaway, she tells Snow that she was in an accident and that much of her body became synthetic due to it, but she is still partly human and has also been alone for a very long time, just like him.

## Cast

* Peter Franzen at the Internet Movie Database as Snow
* Zita Hanrot at the Internet Movie Database as Hirald
* Alias Lawson at the Internet Movie Database as Visser
* Jonnie Hurn at the Internet Movie Database as Baris/Egan
* Piotr Michael at the Internet Movie Database as Jharit
* Julie Nathanson at the Internet Movie Database as Jharilla/Meck
* Scott Whyte at the Internet Movie Database as Trot