David goes to war against Division 3, as he seeks to retrieve Switch and change time once again.

Where last week’s episode did very little, this week’s does quite a lot, and what it does more successfully than anything else is make me really really dislike David.

One suspects that to be the point, of course. Perhaps the cruellest trick played by the writers’ room on this show was introducing David as a sympathetic protagonist, allowing us to get to know him and empathise with his struggles and then turning him into the very monster against which he initially raged. I wondered early on in this final season whether the writers were attempting to rehabilitate the character after what I maintain was an unnecessary and frankly tone-deaf narrative beat in Season 2, but as time has worn on, it’s become clear this isn’t the case. Nowhere more so than here.

Beginning with an act of wanton cruelty which resonates on levels I am not entirely sure were considered by the showrunners before they committed to it, David here is loose from any semblance of a leash on his crusade to get Switch back. His logic is simple – it doesn’t matter how many awful things he does to get her, because with her assistance he can change time and none of it will have happened. Though there is a certain logic behind this philosophical standpoint, that can’t make up for how very casually he is able to destroy – in both a literal and metaphorical sense – the lives of those he formerly counted as friends.

As the episode progresses, it throws a couple of twists in for good measure. There’s one particular scene which had me ready to throw something at the screen until it played out to a conclusion which finally gave another central character the sort of power and treatment they should have got a long time ago.

There’s plenty of the usual Legion weirdness as well. Wrongfooting from certain quarters, bizarre sequences and even a fairly extended musical number which actually crosses from the weird to the outright bizarre in tone and content. But I’ll give it this – it’s never dull.

Verdict: Doesn’t let up from the first beat to the last, either in terms of action on screen or in terms of letting us see just how far our central character has fallen. 7/10

Greg D. Smith