With Jonah dead, the PRIDE parents look to go their separate ways. Karolina starts looking for anything that might tell her more about her father while the rest of the gang find themselves with a new mission that will provide some uncomfortable revelations.

It was difficult to see where the show would go next after the apparent death of its main villain, and to be fair the episode begins with a little bit of backstory on Jonah, including who he was before the man we came to know and how the church began. This feels like a needed bit of backstory at this point, providing colour to the character if not exactly adding anything substantial to our understanding of him.

In the present, both sides of the conflict find themselves suddenly lacking much unity of purpose in Jonah’s absence. The PRIDE parents, who could never much stand one another anyway, now feel free to go about their own business and try to reunite themselves with their respective children. But when you’ve run a shady organisation like PRIDE for as long as they have, you don’t just get to walk away easily, as the Wilders in particular begin very quickly to realise. Geoffrey may be keen to try to fix his wife’s actions, but between her continuing to act on her own initiative and the sort of people she has managed to annoy, that’s going to be easier said than done.

Meanwhile back at the mansion, the kids are equally divided. Gert and Chase are still struggling, Karolina is unable to simply forgive that Nico killed her father and overall, without the unifying struggle against Jonah, the group is feeling directionless and a little fractured. This mirrors the parents and really starts to emphasise just how pivotal Jonah was to all our protagonists’ lives – it’s hard to imagine that we aren’t going to see more from him soon.

Still, in his absence, the kids (minus Karolina who goes off on her own mission to try to discover more about her father) manage to find themselves another mission anyway, attempting to prove that Darius was murdered by Geoffrey Wilder and prove his innocence of Destiny Gonzalez’s murder. The only small issue there is that we as the audience know who killed Darius, and that information isn’t going to be easy to assimilate for some.

Feeling more like a new beginning than an ending, this episode really does provide a lot of new angles for our protagonists, and starts setting out the stall of them being an actual unit of heroes going forward, rather than just the group of kids opposing Jonah and PRIDE. With PRIDE itself crumbling, the new challenges being thrown up at the various parents as well seem to indicate there’s plenty more life in the show yet.

Verdict: Focusing as ever on the relationships between its characters more than the events in which they are caught up, the show serves up another solid episode. 8/10

Greg D. Smith