

Bender then comes in, saying that he pawned most of the stuff in Fry's locker for closure, keeping only one item because it turned out to be a present for Leela: a one-eyed stress-relieving doll. When she opens his locker, she is disappointed to find that it is completely empty. Leela tells the others about her dream and what she was told, explaining that if it's true, then he must still exist in some form or another. He then tells her that he wants her to wake up it turns out that this experience was only a dream.

Leela is not entirely certain, especially since Fry still has a gaping hole through his abdomen, so Fry decides to prove he's alive by telling her that he left something for her in his locker, which only he would know.

She then finds herself floating in space with Fry, who seems to be alive.

Having kept some of the space honey from the mission, she takes two spoonfuls to ease the pain and, after having a brief laughing fit, quickly falls into a deep sleep. Back in her apartment, Leela remains sorrowful as she goes through all of the belongings that Fry had given her. Towards the end of the processions, Fry's coffin is ejected into the outer reaches of space. However, none is more woeful than Leela, who believes that it was her error that caused Fry's death, and is wracked with utter remorse. Leela gets up with a minor wound from the stinger and is horrified to discover that Fry is dead.Īct II: "It was all my fault! He died because of me!"įry and Leela in the ice fields of Hyperionįry's funeral is held at the Orbiting Meadows, where many old acquaintances come to mourn. Bender picks up the defenceless dying queen and throws her into the air lock, ejecting her into space (where she is hit and killed by a space truck). Fry throws himself in front of Leela in defense, but is impaled in the spleen with the stinger, which passes through him and mildly stabs Leela as well. On the way back to Earth, the baby queen wakes and threatens to kill Leela. Suddenly, Bender accidentally insults the bees, including the current queen, causing the enraged bees to chase them back to the ship. Leela comes across a baby queen bee, which she takes, so that the crew can build its own hive in the future, and takes some jelly with which to feed her. The crew eventually discover the honeycomb stockpile, and a flow of royal jelly, into which Fry falls. They eventually come across the remains of the old Planet Express ship in the process (where the black box reveals the previous crew died due to the captain's insistence they prove themselves better than the Professor's expectations). The crew reaches the bees' hive and paints Bender's body like a bee, giving him a bee language cartridge that will allow him to communicate with the other bees to distract them while they venture deeper into the hive. Leela insists that they are just as good and forces Fry and Bender to go on the mission. However, not all is as it seems.Īs Fry and Bender are playing virtual golf, the Professor comes in and explains that they are not good enough for their next mission: collecting honey from space bees, which claimed the lives of the old Planet Express crew. It aired on 1 June, 2003, on Fox.įry dies after being stung by a bee queen while trying to save Leela, and the guilt of his death drives her crazy. " The Sting" is the sixty-sixth episode of Futurama, the twelfth of the fourth production season and the ninth of the fifth broadcast season.
