eve-3-2Katherine refuses to deactivate KT, as Eve and Abe deal with domestic crises…

An interesting mix of tones in Anne Marie De Mambro’s script for this episode, with the ongoing KT saga and the investigation into Will’s nanobots taking a serious turn, while the Abe and Eve plotline is played for broad comedy, and while it’s fun to see Poppy Lee Friar do her haywire Eve turn, it feels just slightly out of place in this context. Equally, it was good to see Shonagh Price get a good proportion of the episode and Elijah Ayite is as good as Abe as ever.

We finally find out at least part of what happened to Jane Asher’s Mary Douglas at the end of last season (which gives so many different SF angles for the writing team to play with that I hope it lasts more than a couple of episodes), and Cain shows his hand – or at least appears to, with the throwforward to episode 3 being a little too revealing! The scenes between him and Lily are nicely pitched, particularly once Will turns up with Oliver Woollford, Chris Hegarty and Eubha Akilade all giving nuanced performances.

The Nick/Katherine relationship is going to be fun to watch now the roles are reversed (watch for an interview with Ben Cartwright coming a little later in the season regarding this), although it seems a shame to lose Jenny Bede’s Rebecca just when her character could be central to proceedings.

Verdict: There’s still a sense of things being put in place, but there’s plenty of potential yet in this show. 7/10

Paul Simpson