Multiple timelines abound in Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan’s reimagining of Michael Crichton, and we finally get a proper look at another fully-realised world.

It seems increasingly unlikely they we’re going to Medievalworld, as featured in Crichton’s original movie, but the appearance of Samurai and a Bengal tiger in previous episodes suggested we’d get to travel to other environments in different sectors of Delos. That expectation is met as we follow visitors to Indiaworld (or Rajworld?) at a British encampment. It’s all a world of lush colonialism for the lucky elite, but then the servants start shooting the guests, which places the action at the point where all the hosts ‘wake up’ and start fighting back. Ramon Djawadi has great fun with a sitar-heavy version of the Sweetwater theme, and at least we now know where that tiger came from.

Elsewhere in the park, the Cradle looks like a charnel house and the troops are pushing their way across the park, sector by sector. While they should be calling in additional help, they still need to find Peter Abernathy (Dolores’ father) first.

Talking of Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood), she turns up at the impressively-realised Fort Forlorn and Hope, reveals herself to the commanding officer as Wyatt (her evil alter ego) and shows her fearless reanimated army. In a really moving scene, she finds her father Abernathy, who is glitching. He’s bouncing between personalities, masking a bigger file that’s heavily encrypted.

The attack on the fort by the modern mercenaries is a great action scene, with exploding buggies and clash of warfare tactics. Maeve, gunfighter Hector and Quarterman also make progress this week after successfully escaping some bloodthirsty braves and discovering more secrets underground.

Verdict: An episode that dispenses with Ed Harris’ Man in Black and instead reintroduces some of the subsidiary characters that we haven’t seen since the Season One finale. More importantly, it expands the breadth of the environment and sets up more of the questions and MO of the season. You won’t find any answers yet, but you’ll pick up a fistful of new clues as the character groups move around the board. 8/10

Nick Joy