A figure from the real Harry’s past teaches alien Harry about love, and a truce is called with his best frenemy.

At the end of last week’s episode I rather foolishly assumed that the woman who showed up claiming to be Harry’s wife was his alien wife, who he told Asta was dead. I was completely wrong of course, this is Mrs Isabelle Vanderspeigle (Elvy, formerly Elvy Yost), estranged wife of the real Harry, who’s here to convince her husband to sign their divorce papers. Our Harry is unsurprisingly accommodating in order to get her out of the house, but Isabelle soon has other plans.

While their scenes make up the bulk of the episode I was perfectly happy with that. They make a rather charming and sparky couple, although of course Harry still intends to kill her, just not today. His reaction to her British accent, “you sound like James Bond” and his attempt at a generic Bond impression is priceless. Once again Harry’s horribly awkward manner somehow intrigues a woman – I can say from painful experience that it doesn’t work that way in real life, although I suppose being a doctor doesn’t hurt. It’s fun though, and as we reach the halfway mark the time was probably right to introduce another element into the story and Elvy makes a classy foil for Tudyk.

Talking of foils, there’s a major sea-change in the relationship between Harry and Max, who we last saw zipped up in a body bag after discovering alien tech in Harry’s cabin. Needless to say neither Max or his friend Sahar were murdered, Isabelle’s arrival seemingly sparing them that fate. Finally a truce is called, and as much as I’ve been enjoying their sparring I think it was the right move to move on from that as Harry starts to soften. Plus there’s an approaching threat to Harry in the form of the agents (unseen this week) so he may soon need every friend he can get.

Verdict: A show that has so far never failed to put a smile on my face and a few laughs in my belly comes up trumps again. 8/10

Andy Smith