The death of Lee shakes everyone up, but to know for sure whether she was the one who was infected requires an autopsy – something not everyone is happy about. Meanwhile as he recovers Logan reflects on the journey that brought him to the Origin in the first place, and we get to see a different side of his character altogether.

It’s almost becoming a hard and fast rule here that the characters who have seemed from the start to be the biggest assholes will turn out to have backstories that throw whole new light on them, without actually making them angels. With Baum it turned out that, yes he was a conman, but still human enough to have fallen in love and been tricked because of it. With Logan, yes he was a ne’er do well who did something that saw him lumped with community service, but it turns out that under that gruff exterior there’s a heart that’s – if not exactly made of gold – at least functioning.

What’s odd is that compared to Baum’s tangled and unpredictable backstory which unfolded with genuine surprises along the way, Logan’s is as predictable as can be – certainly I had the whole trajectory worked out pretty much from the very first scene and I was proven exactly right. But as has often been the case with this quirky little show, it’s less the destination than the journey that’s worth the price of admission, and after having spent the first few episodes wondering exactly why an actor of Felton’s undoubted talent was not being used properly, we finally get to see that talent front and centre on the screen. The sneering attempt at appearing tougher than he is may be pure Draco Malfoy, but the vulnerability and earnestness he manages to bring to the character are something else entirely, and between him and guest star Fionnula Flanagan, it’s a story that’s no less compelling to watch even if you know where it’s headed.

Back on the ship, the writers are perhaps using up all their inventiveness keeping the audience guessing as to the identity of the infected individual among the survivors, when their numbers are dwindling faster and faster. Honestly, even by the very end of this instalment, when the show seems about set to point very specifically at one individual, it manages to introduce just enough of a seed of doubt that I’m still not sure exactly who to trust or what to make of it.

What’s also of note is how much each and every character death is really starting to hurt at this point. Lee was always a likeable character from the outset, spiky and snarky as she was, and her loss is particularly keenly felt after we got to see her backstory in detail. As I head into the final two episodes, I’m really nervous to see who will be left standing and who will be gone.

Verdict: Almost perfectly split between tense, unpredictable drama and obvious but thoroughly well-acted melodrama. The stakes are rising now with each passing episode. 9/10

Greg D. Smith