Alex is home, and struggling to adjust to a normal life. But his adventures aren’t over yet, as a mysterious stranger threatens to ruin his entire life, one person at a time. Yassen takes care of the final loose ends as Mrs Jones finally realises exactly who the Division are dealing with.

I’ll be honest, I wasn’t really sure what more the show could do after the events of the previous episode. Greif was captured, Stellenbosch was dead and the original kids had been rescued from Point Blanc and their clones put in custody. Surely that’s game over for an idea like this? The appearance of the Alex clone at the very end hinted at more, but it doesn’t quite play out the way I’d expected.

Mostly, if the previous episode leaned very heavily into the James Bond half of the character, this one swings back the other way and is a bit more Grange Hill. There’s lots of teenage angst, misunderstandings, and a weirdly oblique way of the clone trying to mess with Alex’s life. For me, when the previous episode ended I half-wondered if the story was going to be that it was real Alex in Point Blanc’s wreckage, and his clone who had been taken away and would be able to infiltrate MI6 and The Division and sow anarchy from the inside while Alex was stranded. Instead, it actually is the clone, and he makes his way to England to… be nasty to Alex’s friends and ruin his reputation.

It feels like a missed opportunity – a chance existed for the bad guys to really try to turn the screws here in an interesting way, but instead it all gets a bit teen drama (which I suppose it is). Also, given that Alex and MI6 know all about what Greif’s plans were, it takes a really long time for anyone to put two and two together and realise that there should have been another clone – exactly how thoroughly did they sweep and clear that building anyway? Guess The Division being super smart couldn’t last forever.

That continues as they manage to lose their only decent lead in a very pedestrian manner, and given how hard the death of Ian hit them all, the death of other agents rather seems to slide off everyone a bit.

It all comes down to Alex of course, and a final confrontation with his doppelganger which rather fittingly gets resolved by Tom, because of course he’d be the best one to tell the difference between his best mate and a clone.

It’s not a bad episode, and there’s plenty of fun, but it does once again feel like there’s a lot that happens artificially because the plot needs it to rather than feeling organic. It doesn’t exactly end with a whimper, but it feels like the real climax of the series happened in the last episode.

Verdict: Wraps up well enough, but can’t help but feel a little anticlimactic after the previous instalment. 7/10

Greg D. Smith