Trevante and Rose continue their search for answers, which leads them to a familiar location. Caspar is back but not everyone is convinced he has the answers. Aneesha and the Movement continue their search for Sarah.

Every week, I approach the new episode of Invasion hoping that this will be the one that finally ties it all together and proves me wrong about the whole thing. Did it happen this week? Can you guess?

Trevante and Rose are still staring at Caspar’s sketches and trying to work out what the hell is going on, while dodging more situationally stupid/incompetent members of the military and using some of the absolute cliché-est of clichés. When they feel completely cornered, they turn to that most staple of genre archetypes – the one safe place they can go – and have a heart to heart which ends up telling us who Billy is and what exactly the deal was with Trevante’s past. Well, sort of. At any rate, now these two have Bonded, and I can only assume that the show intends to pair them off as more than friends.

In Paris, turns out that that traumatised boy with the brain wonks who’s been in a coma for a while might not be Alien Invasion Jesus after all. Caspar’s powers seem somewhat on the blink, and his complete lack of knowledge as to what he was doing there or who the other kids with him were isn’t exactly reassuring to the group. Monty in particular isn’t shy about voicing his concerns on the matter, especially when Caspar seems more likely to lead them directly into danger instead of away from it. Points deducted from his snark for it referencing another far more entertaining sci-fi franchise. Further points deducted for the aliens apparently catching a dose of that situational stupidity/incompetence that’s been doing the rounds, as the gang outwit them with a plan that only ever worked in Attack of the Surfboarding Killer Bikini Vampire Girls (hey, if they can reference other genre media then so can I).

As for Aneesha and The Movement, as their numbers dwindle, the latter begin to question why they should bother continuing to help the former. It’s a fair question, all things considered, and the answer is…an Inspiring Speech about an experience from her former life as a doctor. But Invasion’s characters never heard a clichéd saccharine-sweet bit of motivational talk that didn’t immediately reassure them so off they pop to raid a military base and continue the search for Sarah. This gives Aneesha the chance to remind us all for what feels like the billionth time that she’s a badass who can Do Anything because she’s a mother, as well as call back to a bit of the Farsi teaching she gave her daughter who apparently had access to crayons in the military captivity.

It all circles around to the end where Trevante finds a literal rabbit hole to vanish down as we wonder – what are the military secretly up to in the wake of a literal post-apocalypse alien invasion that they are bothering to try to hide? But then I remember that’s a question which involves logic and reasoning, things which are in short supply in the world of Invasion. Oh well.

Verdict: I feel like I’m going down a rabbit hole, but I reckon all it leads to is a dead end. 4/10

Greg D. Smith