The discovery of a dead policeman that looks exactly like Minogue leads the cops to a creepy motel.

Wellington Paranormal enjoys its first story continuation in this sequel to Season 1’s Cop Circles, which ended with plant-based copies of our favourite constables escaping into the world. One of them, a doppelgänger of Minogue, turns up dead, leading to half an hour of running round, mistaken identities and multiple Minogues.

The FX team really pull out all the stops with some highly effective character duplication effects. The story leans heavily on Invasion of the Body Snatchers as well as The Thing as it plays out the paranoia to great comic effect. Even Sergeant Maaku gets to do more than usual this week, and you really do wonder if maybe a police force run by pod people would be any less effective than their idiot human counterparts.

Verdict: A lot of cloning around on the streets of New Zealand’s capital. God help us – one each of Minogue and O’Leary is enough! 7/10

Nick Joy