The Nakayama family struggle to adjust to their new surroundings at the Relocation Center in Oregon, not helped by the ancient evil that has hitched a ride with them on their internment journey.

You really do have to feel for Chester (Derek Mio), who is being pulled in multiple directions from all around him. The cinema screen is telling him to leave, he knows he cannot stay, and yet how can he desert pregnant Luz? Indeed, how can he join the very same army that has relocated his family and created them like spies? His father – once a patriot – is now a broken man and sees treachery everywhere, but Chester has a gift at cracking codes and can at least earn some money to provide for his family.

Asako (Naoko Mori), the family matriarch, tries to reassure her husband that at least they are now protected from evil spirits, but the bigger threat is actually the monsters running the camp, a point that’s not too subtly made. That’s not to say we don’t get to see the ancient evil, the Bakemono, an evil shapeshifting spirit that this week possesses a soldier and makes him drag blind Furuya into the woods. In the form of Yuko, she reminds him that he once called her ‘exquisite’, at which point something clicks back into the memory. We don’t know exactly what happened to warrant this retribution, but the secrets are starting to be revealed… and a tongue is ripped out!

Verdict: Taking Chester out of the camp will allow the show to explore new locations, but it does mean his vulnerable family are at the mercy of two formidable forces. The horror quotient is still some way away from ‘Terror’ on the scare scale, but this is a solid episode that builds on family relationships and helps map out what’s to follow. 7/10

Nick Joy