When the life disc that joined Chiana and her brother Nerri extinguishes, she knows he is dead. Distraught, she blasts down to a royal cemetery planet and joins a group of nihilistic young aliens. Crichton, Aeryn and Rygel fly down to the planet to try to talk Chiana into coming back to Moya. Chiana has decided to take part in a terrifying local ritual which involves jumping off a cliff into a 300-foot chasm, your fall cushioned only by sound waves that are created by shouting as you descend. But if you don't shout correctly, you die. For Chiana, it is a way to prove to herself she is still alive and can go on without her brother. But Crichton can't understand why Chiana wants to jump and when he can't talk her around he tries kidnapping her. Crichton must learn that there is nothing he can do, Chiana needs to work it out on her own and he needs to let her.