Bortus is surprisingly cold to fellow Moclan Locar, a star engineer who visits the Orville to install a brilliant deflectors improvement. Yet his stay soon goes wrong, possibly murdered, and the crew finds out it all has to do with a Moclan taboo Locar broke with Bortus, so fearsome he prefers to disappear, then tires of hiding for the truth regardless of biter consequences. Meanwhile Kelly faces her feeling for an unrelenting suitor in recreated New York 1940s.
—KGF Vissers