A new fugitive appears in the 1950s and Sara, Charlie, Z and Rory go get it. At the same time Gary and the awesome food delivery lady from a couple of weeks ago face a fate worse than death and Nate and Ava have thanksgiving. Meanwhile, Ray searches for Nora to try to save John.

So this is my new favourite episode. Honestly, it may even tip ‘Here I Go Again’ from last year off the top spot. The main plot focuses on Ishiro Honda, the legendary director who would give the world Godzilla. He sees something… tentacular… while filming which is clearly the renegade but when the team arrive, he refuses to discuss it with them, claiming the film was destroyed.

What follows is both a very gentle and affectionate salute to Kaiju movies and a discussion of art as therapy. Honda admits to the team that he invented Tagumo the octopus as a way to deal with what he experienced at Hiroshima. It’s a brutally honest scene and Ejiro Ozaki is just the latest in a long line of excellent guest stars the show has had. He’s completely raw, completely honest and in the space of maybe two minutes helps deliver a fiercely hopeful message and give us insight into one of the greatest directors of all time.

Elsewhere, the episode suffers a little. The Nora stuff is fun but fluffy as is the Nate material. That being said, both plots lay groundwork for future arc stuff, the first with Nora firmly on the path to redemption and the second with both the mysterious Project Hades and a new addition to the time agency. It’s all worthwhile in the end but some of it doesn’t quite feel it at the time.

But the core of the episode is the power of art to heal, both Ishiro and the newly blocked Mick. This is not just a lovely callback to ‘Here I Go Again’ its arguably the subtlest, most necessary message a show like this can send: Create. It’ll help.

It did. it will. So does this.

Verdict: A deeply lovely, sweet natured entry in the best season to date of the weirdest superhero show ever. Go see it. 10/10

Alasdair Stuart