Adam is dead, Simms is imprisoned – and Georgie is working for Margo Caine. Will London ever be the same again?

Very much the third hour of a single three-hour story, Guy Adams’ final script for this set of the revitalised Edwardian adventurer veers us back towards more traditional storytelling, with plenty of red herrings, trips down the garden path, and the invocation of other clichés by its reviewer. If anyone seriously thought Adam was dead at the end of the second episode, they’ve really not listened to enough of this sort of stuff; it was always a question of when, not if, he’d reappear.

Blake Ritson’s presence is felt throughout the story, as is Adams’ William Simms, but this one belongs firmly to Milly Thomas as Georgina Jones. There’s plenty of rum business afoot, and Georgie is at the heart of it, working at the behest of Izzy van Randwyck’s Margo Caine – one of the nastier specimens of humanity that Adams has created. There’s plenty of flashbacks needed to fill in the gaps and Benji Clifford’s sound design signals this with an appropriate effect.

Hopefully we’ll hear some more from Adam, Georgina and “Billy-Boy”, and when we do, I trust that we’ll be nearer the lighter adventures that we heard portions of in the previous box set – the characters have quite definitely earned that reprieve!

Verdict: Making sense of the madness of the previous episode and moving the story on, this is a much more engaging hour. 8/10

Paul Simpson

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