“In Zod We Trust” is episode six of season two of Krypton.
In the previous episode, “A Better Yesterday”, after discovering that Zod had lied to them about removing troops from Wegthor, Jax slit Lyta’s throat as everyone watched. Zod is standing looking over the city when a Sagitari approaches – probably poor timing – to report Doomsday has been located. Zod asks if they’ve regained control of their public broadcast system from the rebels. No. Does that mean that people are still watching replays of his mother’s execution? The Sagitari doesn’t know. Zod throws him down to the city to check for himself.
On Wegthor, Jax is saying what she did was… unexpected. But the Sagitari in the mines are now cut-off. They can take the elevator base station and make this permanent. Val objects; this barbarism is against everything they stand for. Yes, he wants to win, but even if they could put the moral issues aside, this was a grave tactical error. They are freedom fighters, not terrorists. Jax says the people won’t care what they’re called; they will thank them when they win. Val tells Jax they need the people to win. They are supposed to be offering freedom from hope and repression. What Jax showed them was another tyrant. Val wants no part in this kind of rebellion. Everyone there made a choice to stand against this kind of brutal tyranny. They now have another choice to make. Many stand with him.
Nyssa is returning and contacts Zod. She wants the Codex for Cor. Or she will destroy the Codex. Zod asks if Nyssa would doom their species to extinction. She will do whatever it takes to protect her family. Zod will honour the deal; he gives his word. He cuts Nyssa off as she’s giving her opinion of his word.
Seg, Jayna and Dev are starting to argue when Dev tells them Lyta wouldn’t want this. Seg says they don’t know what Lyta would have wanted. Because Zod reconditioned her. When Dev says this can’t be true, Seg says he saw it. And Dev realises he knows when this happened, though he didn’t realise it at the time. He failed Lyta. He abandoned her.
Brainiac comments on so much grief over a single life, when death is inevitable. It compromises rational thought. Seg can’t possibly want to feel this way. He must learn to divest himself of emotions. Seg tells Dev that he isn’t to blame for what happened to Lyta, when Dev gets com chatter about Nyssa’s arrival. Sagitari are being sent to recover the package. Nyssa is now irrelevant.
On Wegthor, Jax and those who would support her are being locked up. Val is telling everyone that he isn’t the leader Jax was, but they can win. Essentially, because their cause is just. Then Zod contacts them. Turn Jax over to him, or everyone on Wegthor will be killed.
Nyssa is being escorted by two Sagitari who are attempting to find out if the Codex is on her. They are amusing themselves, planning to kill her anyway. She kills them instead, then runs into Seg, Jayna and Dev.
Val says that Lyta’s death did what Jax wanted; it provoked an emotional response from Zod. But, instead of acting carelessly, he’s out for revenge. They can turn Jax over or deny Zod. Kem suggest turning Jax over, to put an end to the killing. Adam says that Zod won’t stop until they are all dead. Val agrees with Adam. But that means they have to turn Jax over to buy time.
Jax isn’t so willing to go quietly, and she believes what she did saved Val from having to make decisions like that. Seg, Dev and Jayna decide to help Nyssa get Cor back. And Zod has plans for Doomsday. Meanwhile, Brainiac keeps helping Seg. Something that will come with a price.