Michaela, Saanvi and Ben find themselves involved in another rescue with one of their fellow travellers. Ben is faced with the one man he didn’t want to meet. Jared risks his career to protect Michaela from the consequences of a mistake.

Once again, we get another hour where a whole lot of subplots are juggled successfully as the show continues to find inventive ways of expanding on its central premise.

When Michaela finds herself on a stakeout in a car alone with Jared for six hours, it’s hardly the most ideal scenario. Aside from the expected awkwardness of being stuck alone with a man who – by her reckoning – she was about to become engaged to a few days ago, and who is now married to her best friend, there’s the additional layer of complication provided by the visions and voices in her head that Michaela is struggling with. Jared knows something is up, but she doesn’t want to drag him into things. When things then go south, Jared insists on covering for her, indicating that maybe she isn’t the only one feeling a little confused about things.

At the Stone household, it’s just one bit of bad news after another for poor Ben. From the mother of all money worries problems which anyone paying attention should really have expected, to Olive being a little wayward and then having to meet the one man Grace promised him only last week that he never would, there’s a lot for the poor man to take on board. The show has been very subtle about this – there is an obvious route that could be taken here of a man feeling a stranger in his own home but the way in which it is addressed is pleasingly complex. Week by week, despite their best efforts, it’s becoming clearer that the Stones can’t just pick up where they left off, but at the same time, it’s clear that they both want to. It’s satisfyingly meaty domestic drama which doesn’t feel at all out of place against the backdrop of the genre elements of the show.

The main plot thread though, revolves around another set of ‘callings’, this time affecting not just Michaela but also Saanvi. There’s something that went on with one of the other people on the plane that they need to investigate so they can set things right, but again it turns out to be a lot less simple than it might appear at first glance. With elements seeded from early in the episode, the conclusion to this one once again lands extremely well, and it speaks to the commitment of the writers that they continue to find so many fascinating and believable stories to tell in this one group of people on an aeroplane and how it gets woven into the overarching narrative of the disappearance.

Verdict: A perfect blend of human, domestic drama and fantastical elements, like all the best science-fiction should be. 9/10

Greg D. Smith