Ben’s attempt to help a vulnerable passenger with their Calling puts him into direct conflict with an old enemy. Saanvi is faced with a stark choice. Angelina goes a little too far.

It’s been getting clearer over recent weeks that Ben’s conviction that he’s the one ‘in charge’ of the passengers and responsible for the fate of them all is getting a little unhealthy. This week, it spills over into full on recklessness as he tries to help a vulnerable passenger with her Calling. The road to Hell is paved with the best intentions and all that, and Ben’s ‘mission’ leads him to confronting a face from the recent past. With it being the anniversary of a very resonant date, his judgement is perhaps even more clouded than usual, and things get quickly very out of hand.

Olive is staying away from home after her climactic confrontation with Angelina last week, and Angelina herself is getting weirder by the minute. Zeke assures Grace that the girl is on the level, with only the very best intentions and genuine love for baby Eden, but remember that thing about good intentions? Yes, Angelina may well be even more bizarre than it had appeared, though Cal seems still convinced that she’s supposed to be with them.

Meanwhile at Eureka, Saanvi is becoming increasingly convinced that the team are messing with forces they really should leave well alone. A conviction that only gets stronger when a further experiment on the piece of the Ark produces some very weird apparent effects in the real world. Faced with scepticism from Vance, Saanvi enlists assistance from elsewhere to try to make things right the only way she can think of.

It’s a real shift on multiple levels, and it’s difficult to see exactly where several characters may eventually end up. Angelina in particular is very difficult to get any sort of read on but Ben has gone perhaps way too far this time, Michaela is increasingly conflicted between her duty and her instincts and Saanvi seems to already potentially be having second thoughts about taking responsibility for the murder of The Major. As the series barrels along, it would seem that all bets really are off.

Verdict: Does interesting and unexpected things with several characters. Becoming more fascinating by the episode. 8/10

Greg D. Smith