John and Quiet make a deal in order to get some much-needed supplies, but have they bitten off more than they can chew?

No flashbacks this time out, just another instalment where John – an experienced Milkman who’s been driving these roads and making deliveries for years – winds up getting caught. Again. Fortunately, this time around the people who caught him don’t actually want to kill him, but they do have a fairly risky proposition for him.

With no weapons left on his car after Stone’s goons stripped them all out, John finds he has little choice but to accept the terms offered, and he and Quiet set off on their little fetch quest to bring back what their captors require.

Finding it is less of a problem than dealing with it though. Because you’ll never guess what? They only end up getting hoodwinked a second time in the space of one episode… Seriously, I know that the guy claims his mouth has gotten him out of a lot of sticky situations, but you have to wonder how many of them he could – and indeed should – have avoided if he’s all that experienced at his job.

Ultimately, it doesn’t really matter as this instalment is more of an introspective one in tone. Granny steals the show as a character who literally epitomises the weird divide the material has between comical and serious, and both our protagonists are given pause for thought as they find themselves surrounded, for once, by people who seem fundamentally decent, albeit while fleeing from the scary sounding ‘Holy Men’ who never seem too far away.

It’s also an episode that takes the opportunity to have our two main characters get a little bit closer and reveal a little more about themselves. Quiet, as it turns out, isn’t just a mean and nasty asshole, and John has a little more tragedy to his backstory than might have been first apparent. If they can just get over constantly managing to annoy one another, a firm friendship may even have a chance to emerge eventually.

Verdict: Slightly less frantic, but no less filled with situations our heroes keep falling into. It’ll take a miracle (or heavy plot armour) to keep them alive until the tenth episode at this rate. 7/10

Greg D. Smith