Darius and Brooklynn clash over methods and must put it aside when they find themselves prey. Yaz and Kenji realise they’ve been outmanoeuvred.

This episode is a gear shift, which is understandable given the short season length. Darius, Brooklynn, Ben and Yaz spend the entire episode getting a lift downstairs and almost dying, while Yaz and Kenji bond some more. It’s not without incident, but it is low-key and that’s a rare treat for a show like this once you adapt to the gear shift.

What’s interesting about all this is that Darius and Brooklynn openly clash. Brooklynn’s new-found fondness for manipulation comes to the fore here and does so in a very unpleasant way. Earnest, the amiable doofus dinosaur rights activist from last season, returns this season as a Biosyn intern. Voiced by Superman (and Booksmart)’s Skyler Gisondo, Earnest is a lovely dude who’s made some bad choices. Brooklynn wraps him around her little finger and worse, insults him for liking dinosaurs. Darius sees all this happen and the clash between the two of them becomes the centre of the episode. Brooklynn’s newfound fondness for a life of near-crime gets the job done, but she works alone in the exact way Darius doesn’t. It’s logical, character-driven drama and it works very well. Especially contrasted as it is with scenes of the team having to escape a raptor test maze without being detected. That goes about as well as can be expected and gives the episode a couple of fun action beats. But it’s the character clash you remember.

Elsewhere, Sammy and Kenji discover how much they have in common in a plot that riffs off the same motif. The sacrifices they’ve made, and that have been made by their families, are for very different reasons and have led them to the same place. A place where, it seems, Dodson has just left them out to die.

Verdict: It’s a nice cliffhanger for an episode which is character focused rather than action. Slower than episode 1 but still typically excellent. 8/10

Alasdair Stuart