Not all stellar nurseries occur near hypernovas, yet it appears that hypernovas only occur in stellar nurseries. What is the connection between them? This program illustrates how a scientific quest to understand massive intergalactic gamma ray bursts revealed to Stanford Woosley, of the University of California, Santa Cruz; the University of Cambridge’s Sir Martin Rees; Princeton University’s Bohdan Paczynski; and Dale Frail, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, the nature of massive stars—and the possibility that they will point the way to the place where the very first stars were born. Original BBCW broadcast title: The Death Star. (50 minutes)