A new threat forces tough decisions for the Stone family.

After last week’s less than stellar start, this feels like more of the same – it’s tough to escape the feeling that the writers are really struggling to come up with original angles for the show and so are revisiting old favourites instead.

With Vance gone (again), Ben feels deeply responsible and does his best to organise some sort of rescue mission. But Vance’s second in command isn’t having it because it was drastically important to Vance that nobody – especially the government – know that he was alive. Then Ben visits Vance’s wife to pass on the message he’d been given, she gets mad and Ben forgets literally everything he knows, has been reminded of and had agreed to mere minutes previously. Still, I’m sure that won’t cause any problems later on…

The main issue facing the Stones though, is that with the ‘Meth heads’ risen from the lake, they naturally assume their lives will be in danger. Time to ship out to Grace’s step-dad’s cabin in the middle of nowhere where her hitherto entirely unmentioned brother lives, from whom she has been estranged for years. Convenience!

Michaela wants to track down the lads before they can cause mischief but unfortunately her boss says that she must obey the rules if she wants to carry on being a cop. First time for everything, I guess, but that means that she doesn’t have time to listen to Jared trying to tell her about the Major’s daughter looking for her. She’s too busy pursuing the Meth Heads anyway but with her partner and in totally rule-obeying ways including high speed pursuits, crashing her car and not giving someone their personal item back because she’s decided that it’s evidence (though of what is unclear). OK…

As for Olive, she gets to make friends with Angelina as they bond over…both being teenaged girls, I guess. Olive gets to help Angelina work out her ‘calling’ but the issue here is that the Calling seems really obvious when Angelina thinks about it for more than one second (she’s supposedly been plagued by these visions for months now?), the Calling itself doesn’t really make all that much sense and then there’s a weird connection with other characters elsewhere that just starts to feel like this is all being made up as they go.

Verdict: Really struggling to drum up anything new or interesting. 5/10

Greg D. Smith