Tandy and Tyrone each dig deeper into their respective pasts, learning truths that take each of them by surprise. Evita and Auntie do a reading which indicates that Tyrone’s destiny may be a great and terrible one. O’Reilly gets herself in deeper as she tries to throw light on whatever Connors is up to.

With last week’s revelations driving them, both our protagonists spend this episode grasping those threads and following them in their own individual ways. The way that plays out is interesting, as each essentially follows a different method than you might expect, almost flipping with one another.

Take Tyrone: he wants to get closer to his brother’s old friend and the nasty business he’s involved in, feeling that this is the best way he has to get closer to the truth about Connors and the murder of his brother. Being Tyrone, he starts out using the polite, friendly route. And that gets him about as far as you might imagine it would with a drug dealer. After trying another angle, it’s some advice from Tandy of all people that sets him on, if not the right track, at least a more successful one. For the first time, we see Tyrone using one of his gifts for his own benefit, taking something from someone else and using it against them. It works, and you could even stretch to it being justified in the circumstances, but it’s still unlike him – perhaps Tandy is rubbing off on him more than he realises?

Meanwhile, Tandy is getting closer to Mina Hess is an attempt to get to her father. Being Tandy, she does this through deception, posing as an intern for Hess with the sole intention of getting close and using her gift to extract what she needs directly. As the two spend time together, two things become clear – Tandy isn’t as hard-hearted as she once was (or at least liked to think) and Mina isn’t as naïve as Tandy might have hoped. There’s a specific moment between the two that suggests that as much as Tandy may have been a bad influence on Tyrone, she may also have unwittingly picked up some of his more noble qualities. How that will develop moving forward, is anyone’s guess.

And then there’s Auntie, insisting on doing a reading of the cards, concerned about the power and destiny that she senses around Tyrone, as much for Evita’s sake as the boy’s. The reading suggests something greater and potentially more terrible than even she was prepared for, which might also speak to events and people beyond Tyrone himself, but how that might play out remains unclear.

As to O’Reilly – if last week’s drug taking to get on Connors’ good side wasn’t dangerous enough, this week she prods the bear more, trying to get Connors to trip up in a way she can use. She senses that he’s bad news, that Tyrone had a point about him, but she needs more evidence. Connors invites her to accompany him on a bust, and the outcome has dire implications, and not just for O’Reilly herself. Things are, one senses, about to get very complicated indeed.

Verdict: Some interesting flips in our main protagonists, and some continuing complexity elsewhere. The show continues its deliberate pacing, but when the storytelling is this solid, it’s difficult to complain. 8/10

Greg D. Smith