At the hospital, June has another episode which causes new problems and reveals a little more to her and Harry about what her abilities can do. Meanwhile, her having checked into the hospital means that various other interested parties are back on the young lovers’ trail. At Sanctum, celebrations of Sigrid’s finishing of the therapy is marred by Runa’s own issues.

So this is the episode where things start to make an awful lot more sense, while at the same time expanding in new ways to get away from us and our protagonists again. June checks into the hospital, worried that she might have hurt Lil and hoping that maybe the doctors can give her some answers and help stop it happening again. Unfortunately, between the stress of everything that’s happening and Harry seeming on the verge of freaking out, instead it does happen again, and in the most awkward way.

Where it gets worse is in the particular circumstances of the person June shifts into, and the fact that she gets very attached to the idea of the life that person leads. It starts to become clear that it’s not just the appearance and voice of those she shifts into that her ability allows her to adopt – there’s a deeper connection there, though how deep the show leaves us to ponder.

Of course, having put herself on the radar by checking into the hospital means that Christine is alerted to June’s whereabouts and can tell John, who is in turn followed by Steinar and Alf, the latter increasingly uncomfortable about what they appear to be doing. It’s clear that our heroes are going to struggle running from everyone chasing them forever, and the encounters they have with both sets of pursuers do not go well.

Meanwhile we have a name finally for the little commune Doctor Ben is running in Norway – Sanctum – as well as a surname for him (Halvorson) and some background on who he is. A psychiatrist with a deeper connection to Steinar than we had necessarily realised, it’s now clear why he is working with shifters and what he hopes to achieve for them with his therapy. In the case of Sigrid, it would seem that he’s there, but meanwhile Runa is, as everyone keeps saying, ‘not well’. This causes a certain amount of conflict, especially when Elena and Ben’s future plans for her and June are revealed to her. Maybe the cure that Halvorson is so diligently working towards isn’t as much of a permanent fix as he thought?

And back home, Christine is starting to put the pieces together which had begun to emerge last time out. Turns out there may be a lot more connecting everyone than we first thought.

Once again, the striking feature of the show is how very little time and energy it spends on the ‘theatrics’ of its central premise, preferring instead to examine it from a very grounded, human perspective. What helps that most of all is that there are no bad guys here. Every character has their own, understandable motivations, their own relatable sense of what is right and wrong. It’s not often you get that much nuance in TV genre work, and it’s refreshing to see.

Verdict: Artfully peeling back layers to reveal more information while simultaneously posing more questions. This one has me hooked. 9/10

Greg D. Smith