Da’an is attacked and a volunteer takes a piece of Taelon technology and flees the mothership with it. Liam is sent to retrieve this piece of technology as Da’an and Sandoval try to cover up what they’ve been doing.
The first important question here is: who is being abducted? Everyone seems to be leaving and moving around of their own free will. Anyway, enough of that. Abduction is a strange episode that moves along very slowly before arriving at an actually rather satisfying yet limiting finish. Aside from having little plot to start with, there’s even some obvious padding as Renee is provided with another dreary hunk to drool over. Presumably in an effort to distract people away from the fact that there’s not much else going on. This sub-plot is ultimately pointless as it goes nowhere at all and once again Jayne Heitmeyer shows a singular inability to play anything approaching real emotion.
Once again it’s the Taelon aspects that make the episode more watchable. The big secret Da’an has been hiding all season is apparently the final report of Ma’el to his race, and with Sandoval in on the deception too, they’re both for the chop. However, we see very little effort on either of their parts to escape their fate and the ultimate upshot is to put things back pretty much the way they were in season two: Zo’or in charge, Da’an being a bit annoyed about it but not doing anything and Sandoval scheming away to no effect. It’s a shame after this season has made the power play between these characters particularly fun to watch.
Meanwhile, the Resistance finally make some headway as Liam makes the only deal he can so that Ma’el’s words don’t fall into the wrong hands. It’s good to see them actually staying a step ahead of Sandoval again rather than effectively assisting him, although once again this puts the series back to the season two set-up once more, only with the marvellous Lili absent and the dull Renee in her place. What we need is some long-awaited overt conflict between everyone; this slow and relatively interest-free offering really doesn’t do the series any favours.
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