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ST · SEASON 11×04

The Escape Artist

NOMADIC PICK · FUN PICKRainn Wilson's Mudd at his slipperiest.
FIRST SHOWN (US)
3 January 2019
ON
CBS All Access
STARDATE
None given
DIRECTED BY
Rainn Wilson
CONNECTS TO
Discovery

WRITTEN BYWritten by Michael McMahan

IN BRIEF

SPOILER-FREE

Captured yet again, the con man Harry Mudd tries every trick he knows to talk his way out of the hands of a vengeful Tellarite bounty hunter.

SYNOPSIS

SPOILERS
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Harry Mudd has been sold by a bounty hunter to Tevrin Krit, a Tellarite with a personal grudge: Mudd once seduced his sister and stole a family heirloom. As Krit heads off to claim the Federation's reward, Mudd works through his whole repertoire, from offers of partnership and flat denials to tearful confessions and pleas for mercy. Flashbacks show him trying the same lines on other captors. Krit is unmoved and hands his prisoner over to the USS De Milo. There a Starfleet officer reveals the truth: this Mudd is an android, and the ship already holds several identical copies brought in by other bounty hunters. The real Mudd, meanwhile, is posing as a bounty hunter himself, selling his android doubles and cashing in on the price on his own head.

DID YOU KNOW?

  1. 01Rainn Wilson both directed the short and starred as Harry Mudd, the role he played in Discovery.
  2. 02Writer Mike McMahan, credited here as Michael McMahan, previously wrote for Rick and Morty and went on to create Star Trek: Lower Decks.
  3. 03Harry Mudd first appeared in the original series episode “Mudd's Women” (1966), played by Roger C. Carmel.
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