Max goes undercover into the Mafia in an attempt to make a mob boss's faithful lieutenant give his boss over to the police. Unfortunately, a Manticore Psi Ops agent with the ability to control minds is also working the case with her own agenda...

After a while you do start to wonder how anyone can make any progress in this story when Mia is constantly making people do what she wants and forget everything they've recently done. Thankfully Logan comes up with a simple but effective solution to the problem. Mia is another superb Manticore creation, outwardly inoffensive and ditzy and inwardly carefully controlling everything that happens to get the result she wants. Wonderfully played, her frustration at having to put Max under the influence time and time again is great fun.

It's actually rather well done, with the plot threads tying together well and a few twists and turns along the way. The wrap-up works well, especially with Max's climactic ass-kicking of Alec, which is great to see, especially when she lists all the things he's done in the last year that have really pissed her off. It's great to see him finally get his comeuppance, although after Max's last kick that may be something of a problem for him. Good to know that even genetic mutations have their soft points though. If there's any problem, it's in the sidelining of the regulars once again and the way each episode is becoming dangerously close to 'Manticore escapee turns up, demonstrates a cool power, Max helps them escape'. We've been doing these stories for quite a while now and it's time to get back to some character interplay.

Oh, and can I just point out that, a day after seeing the episode, I've just got the joke of Alec's fighting name, 'Monty Cora'. How rubbish am I?

****

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