Headscratchers / The Orville S2 E5 "All the World is a Birthday Cake"

• So Kelly and Bortus stage their Great Escape. They clearly kill or wound a number of guards and are about to be executed. But then they are simply released without any consequences for the shootout? Doesn't seem likely.
  • Considering the lost star just suddenly "came back," the superstitious denizens were probably too busy with a Mass "Oh, Crap!", likely attributed it to some divine intervention, and wanted to get the freaky aliens with a bad star sign off the planet ASAP.