Adam and Seg contend with Lobo, an intergalactic bounty hunter with a serious anger management issue. On Krypton, the search for Doomsday continues, Nyssa Vex is returned to the resistance by Dru-Zod to begin her mission and Lyta continues to struggle with her sense of loss.

After a strong opener last week, Krypton maintains its pace with another excellent episode in which an awful lot is going on and it’s all fairly important.

On Colu, Seg and Adam are the prisoners of Lobo, a bounty hunter who seems more than a little unstable, played with evident glee by Emmett J. Scanlan. Between the thick accent and the constant stream of ever more horrifyingly inventive threats, the character is never dull, but the one thing which may save Seg (whom Lobo keeps humorously referring to as ‘Siegel’ – nice nod there) is a potential common enemy. It’s no coincidence that Lobo has set up camp on the former homeworld of Braniac.

Back on Krypton, Nyssa is delivered to Wegthor to infiltrate the resistance. This is going to be an incredibly complex part, and it’s only fitting that Nyssa be the sort of character to get it. We the audience feel a lot of sympathy with her, as do her comrades from the resistance. However, we also know that Zod has her and Seg’s baby hostage. Wallis Day has always played Nyssa as a character whose motives and potential responses remain almost constantly unclear, and here is no exception. Much as I (and the Resistance) might want to trust her, one thing is certain – she’ll always do what she needs to in order to survive. Whether and who she might double cross on the way is a journey I look forward to the show exploring.

Meanwhile, Lyta is struggling with the loss of Seg more than she might like to admit. Her insistence on training the new Sagitari cadets seems more like displacement activity than anything else – a distraction to stop her thinking too much about anything. But it isn’t the escape she might have hoped, and her behaviour becomes increasingly irrational as time goes on.

And out in the wastes, Jayna continues to survive, making her way back towards Kandor with her long-lost brother. This is very much a changed Jayna. She no longer wishes to continue her family’s legacy of aggression and killing, seeing finally the mirror of her father’s treatment of her and her sibling in the way she treated her daughter, and indeed the way her daughter turned on her.

Verdict: Potential arcs for multiple characters abound, and given the strength of the writing and the cast, it looks like this is going to be another strong season for Krypton. 9/10

Greg D.Smith