Blake is on the hunt for Docholli, an ex-Federation cybersurgeon who knows the location of Star One, the Federation's central control computer. Blake's search brings him to Freedom City, a planet well outside the reach of the Federation. Blake, Jenna and Cally teleport to the planet in order to track down Docholli, unaware that both Travis and Servalan are already there for exactly the same reason. Remember, the location of Star One is classified information; not even the President of the Terran Federation knows where it is -- and it was Docholli who was responsible for removing the memory of the location from the brain prints of all Federation personnel.

Freedom City is ruled by a charismatic figure known as Krantor. When we are first introduced to Krantor, he is in fancy dress as the Prince Regent. He is sporting heavy silver facial makeup, including a love spot. If you are unsure of what this says about Krantor's sexuality, we will examine some other clues.

Krantor's communication system is disguised as an ornate dressing table, and the monitor screen as an elegant oval-shaped mirror. Freedom City is the Amsterdam of the Universe, and Krantor believes in recreational drug use.  Krantor has a male companion called Toise (pronounced Toys). We see Krantor feeding Toise a space cake. He does so as he does everything else; theatrically and delicately, with thumb and forefinger. After a tedious meeting with Servalan, Krantor turns to Toise and says, "What a pity not everybody is in the spirit of Mardi Gras!"

But the campness of this episode doesn’t end there: Toise is dressed in a similar fashion, with an elaborate head dress; Servalan's new bodyguard is as butch as Julian Clary; one of the bars in Freedom City is called "The Rink" and is decked out as an 80’s gay bar; there is even tinsel decorating the city streets.

While Blake, Jenna and Cally are looking for Docholli, Avon and Vila are getting bored on the Liberator. Avon tricks the ORAC computer into demonstrating that Molecular Reduction is possible, thus reducing itself to one-eighth normal size. Avon and Vila are thus able to smuggle ORAC into The Big Wheel, Freedom City’s Casino, in order to use it to fix the odds in their favour on the casino’s control computer. Avon and Vila succeed in winning nearly 5,000,000 credits, which Krantor wants back at all costs! He takes Vila to his private quarters and offers him drugs. Vila never turns down an offer of a chemically-induced good time, and soon finds himself agreeing to one last gamble: playing against the Klute at speed chess. The rules are simple. It is standard chess but all the moves must be made within a matter of seconds. If Vila loses, he will be electrocuted. If he wins, he gets 10,000,000 credits. Krantor is not aware that Avon is seated elsewhere in the casino, with ORAC reading the chess computer and using his teleport bracelet to relay the moves needed by Vila to win. Vila wins the game, and he and Avon return with ORAC to the Liberator with 10,000,000 credits, just in time to teleport Blake, Jenna and Cally aboard.  They have discovered that the secret of the location of Star One lies on another planet.

The final shot we see of Krantor and Toise is Toise holding Krantor's hand, consoling him over the loss of 10,000,000 credits.

Surely the most blatantly gay characterisations in a 70’s BBC Sci-fi drama.