Dana is healed, Em is exhausted and the town is under martial law.

All the chickens come home to roost this week. For Em it’s using her abilities to heal her sister. For Dana and Wayne it’s a long overdue confrontation and the Blackdeer case, which Wayne never fails to mention to her. For Em, and Ibrahim, it’s survival.

Em first. We seem to see the first real stage of her and Ibrahim’s journey conclude this episode. We now know that the creek where she died is ground zero for Revivers and that she’s healed when she returns to it. We also now know she can move her power around, and that her power is finite. This is especially bad news for Revivers given the way the plot involving General Louise Cale and Doctor Carla Morel is surfacing. Cale (Konma Parkinson-Jones) is a government pitbull whose job is to do what Wayne dreamed of and corral the Revivers. Morel’s job, played with blank amiability by Paige Evans, is to work out how to make Revivers die. Both get answers this week and it’s bad news for everyone. It’s also ironically proof Revivers aren’t as terrifying as they’re reacting to. They’re fragile, they can be killed.

Special mention this week too to Andy McQueen, whose Doctor Ibrahim Ramin appears to have solved the case and is finally getting some things to do. His relationship with Dana over the last few weeks has been sweet to see but for the most part his job has been to lose arguments with Wayne. Dana having him help Em not only gives him a side but a lot of agency, as well as proof he was right. He’s still the character who gets kicked around the most but he’s getting there.

But this week is Dana and Wayne’s all the way down. From the ridiculously narrative tidy opening which reminds us that there’s a partially incinerated Reviver out there only Dana’s seen, to the closing moment where the sisters are reunited, Melanie Scrofano does fantastic work. Her Dana is grumpy, principled and brilliant and she finally gets to let loose this week on the one thing she can understand: a case. There’s a brilliant moment where she breaks into someone else’s house just to have a conversation and eat a pop tart but the highlight is her getting to play with David James Elliott. Wayne travels a long road this week, not only learning one daughter died and another is a Reviver but that his instincts are entirely backwards. Admitting he’s a terrible father at gunpoint to Cale is heartbreaking and improvising a distraction/ambush with Dana is a delight. Elliott’s a brilliant physical comedian and I’d love to see him do more of this sort of stuff as Wayne cautiously steps into the light.

As the episode closes, all the cards are on the table. The Revivers are in prison and are torture subjects. The sisters are safe, for now, and the burnt Reviver is revealed to be Jesse Blackdeer, the subject of the case Dana screwed up. Except she didn’t screw it up at all and Jesse may be the key.

Verdict: Lots of answers, lots of questions, even more fun. What a great episode. 9/10

Alasdair Stuart