Tandy finds herself getting deeper down the rabbit hole as she goes through the evidence she liberated from Greg’s office safe. Tyrone prepares for the big state finals basketball game. O’Reilly keeps digging for the truth.

Cloak & Dagger seems content to march to its own beat. It has action, but not a great deal of it. Its protagonists have powers, but they aren’t super flashy, nor do they get used a great deal. What it does is focus in on characters and their development, while never allowing the viewer to get too comfortable.

Tandy is on a mission to try to continue Greg’s work and find out exactly what the truth is that Roxxon seem to have been covering for ever since the incident that caused her father’s death. Now that she knows that she can use her own gift to see people’s hopes when she touches them, all she needs to do, she reasons, is find the right people to touch. Problem is, the people at the top aren’t all that easy to reach (or in some cases even identify).

Meanwhile, Tyrone is thinking a lot about his brother in the lead up to the Big Game. His team mates seem to have forgiven him since beating him senseless for a mistake a few episodes back, and he seems to have wryly accepted things. This is one of the odd tensions in the character – he has a burning sense of injustice, especially in relation to his brother, yet he seems fairly resigned to whatever bad things come his own way each and every time. There’s a sense that deep beneath that calm exterior, Tyrone is very tightly wound, and it’ll be interesting to see what happens if and when that unravels. For now, he’s the quiet, reasonable one to Tandy’s fiery, reckless one.

This is reflected in the way that both relates to their powers. Tandy is constantly pushing, and therefore has much greater control both over her gift at reading people and in using her knives. Tyrone, on the other hand, is still not comfortable intruding on people’s fears, and has no apparent control over when his teleportation manifests. It continues to do so at awkward times, though sometimes there’s an almost TARDIS-like quality to it – it’s not taking him where he wants to go, but where he needs to be.

O’Reilly meanwhile, is pursuing her own enquiry. Connors is now on her radar, and she is determined to keep digging through the layers or obfuscation and smokescreen to find out the truth behind the man and his past. We still don’t have much to go on with the character, which actually works for the way that the show is written, keeping her motivations and feelings vaguely mysterious. It seems that she’s on the side of the angels, but I guess only time will tell.

By the time the credits roll, a lot has gone on, without much in the way of action. Both our protagonists are advancing as characters, and it’s a great contrast between the two of them with their different attitudes and backgrounds. One thing’s clear – they’re going to make a heck of a team.

Verdict: Those looking for big action scenes and explosions will need to look elsewhere. This one is firmly nailing its colours to the same mast as Runaways before it, and so far, that’s working in its favour. 8/10

Greg D. Smith