Evangeline calls a meeting of all the national Underground leaders. In the wake of last week’s revelation, Lorna determines to find out more about what Reeva’s agenda might be. Caitlyn decides to reach out for help from a family source. Clarice’s past haunts her choices in the present.

So last time out we found out that Benedict Ryan and Reeva Paige are working together, and that can’t possibly be good. Marcos wants Lorna to get out of the Inner Circle while the getting is good but Lorna is determined to see if she can find out what exactly the secret mission is that Reeva has planned for the latest recruits, which may prove more difficult than she thinks.

With this revelation passed to Evangeline, she elects to trust that Lorna is on the right side and call a meeting of all the national Underground Leaders to start planning how best to fight the war that the Inner Circle and Purifiers seem hell-bent on bringing to their doorstep. That planning will require help from everyone though, including the Morlocks. Erg shows up to meet John and the others, but they soon start hearing a different side to the history between Erg and the Underground.

Lauren is getting ever more powerful, and continuing encounters with Andy in their shared dreams make this clear to her wayward brother. The Frost siblings – in whom he confides – insist that he must reach out to Lauren and bring her over to the Inner Circle’s side, and even offer to provide their own assistance in doing so.

But Lauren has her own stuff to deal with, as she accompanies Caitlyn on her own mission to het help and information for the Underground. It’s not a mission that seems fated to go especially well, but it does give the two a chance to talk, with Lauren finding out more about her mother’s past and Caitlyn finding out a little more about just how strong her daughter is becoming. It seems odd that these two are becoming almost their own little offshoot team of rebels within the hero group but it’s also fun to watch.

And poor Clarice, caught between her love for John and her own personal demons and reluctance to get involved in impossible fights that she believes cannot be won. We get some more development of her own character here which explains exactly where those feelings originate from and it fleshes her out nicely, while also being terribly sad.

This isn’t an episode filled with hope though. At every turn, things seem to be getting much bleaker for our heroes. Two episodes from the end of the series, it looks increasingly like this one is going to end on quite a number of cliffhangers, and honestly at this point, I wouldn’t know where to start guessing where the pieces will fall when we reach the end.

Verdict: Action-light but no less intense for it. The prevailing mood here is sombre. I expect some major casualties in the war to come. 8/10

Greg D. Smith