Bing takes matters into his own hands to get off the naughty list, while Vic discovers that getting what you really want can come at a price.

Poor Maggie is really struggling. Her mom will only let her come home if she has regular drug testing, gives up the girls and goes to church on Sundays. That’s not going to happen, and she reacts by having a wild night out, unaware that her friend Sheriff Bly has become a meal for Manx’s vampire brood.

Vic receives the welcome news that she’s been accepted to go to college on a full scholarship, but this is soon tempered by her jealous mother’s reaction and the arrival of a certain gas-masked Bing Partridge who has rationalised that abducting Manx’s nemesis will gain him favour.

The dialogue between Bing and Vic is decidedly unsavoury, the former describing how his dead mother tasted and smelt. He paws at her and somehow she manages to escape in a very tense sequence. In a real change of tone, Manx arrives at the Parnassus bar, a watering hole for grotesques – Pennywise the Clown is sat at the bar with his red balloon! Manx gains counsel from his old friend, Abe, seeking advice on how to deal with Vic. His reply: to kill her, rather than risk losing his Inscape.

Verdict: One of those episodes where we go deep rather than move the story along any great distance. It ends with Vic discovering that the bike was really in the garage the whole time, and you’ll punch the air as she catches a washed-up Maggie, fading away on a mattress by a dumpster. With two episodes left of this season (the show’s been renewed for a second year), we’re moving in to the endgame, and truly anything could happen. 8/10