When a severed foot is found in the lake the race is on for Harry to recover the rest of the original Harry’s body before the authorities find his double. Meanwhile young Max makes a new friend and Asta remembers more about her past.

There’s something of a change in tone this week, as the focus shifts more towards supporting characters, especially Asta and her friend D’Arcy. As noted last time, these characters are played dead straight and it does at times feel a little like you’re watching two different shows at once. They’re certainly strongly written, this week by Njeri Brown (Black-ish and Dear White People). Asta’s journey coming to terms with her past is actually quite moving, if a little soap-ish, and it’ll be interesting to see if, and how, this plotline converges with Harry’s situation.

Once again we have fun with flashbacks to Harry’s first days on Earth, specifically a desert encounter with a cowboy-type who’ll we meet again later. To his credit Alan Tudyk does actually perform in the alien costume much of the time, with stunts, quick cutaways and reflections supplied by Keith Arbuthnot. This provides a consistency in performance and body language which really helps sell the fact that the twitchy “human” Harry is really only what other people see. Apart from Max of course, who this week meets fellow pupil Sahar, the only person so far who believes him. They’ll no doubt continue to be thorns in Harry’s side..

The meat of the episode is the search for the real Harry’s body, a task alien Harry has rather neglected of late. His solution to the issue of how to send off a skin sample from the foot for DNA testing is rather inventive and suitably sick, and there’s a few comedic near-misses when various characters come close to finding out the truth. We’re also introduced to a couple of shadowy agent-types who meet up with the aforementioned cowboy, with a shocking little twist which indicates the start of another storyline about to unfold.

Verdict: The decision to shift the focus elsewhere for much of the episode helps emphasise that this is not purely a fish-out-of-water comedy and may have a little more meat on the bone than it at first seemed. 7/10

Andy Smith