Cade investigates a series of disappearances of young women with help from a romantic fiction writer whose sister is the latest to vanish.

First Wave moves back to basics with this episode, which features an alien experimenting on humans once again, although this time it’s in an attempt to improve the Gua healing powers so that their husk bodies can withstand injury. This is proved in a rather cool scene in which the alien in question leaps off a building, smashes onto the ground, then snaps himself back into shape and leaves.

Sadly, there’s nothing much to this story. Cade has several chances to kill the alien, but fails to do so, and his investigation goes off pretty much without a hitch. Lisa Howard plays, Renee, the writer whose sister has disappeared, and although she does make a suitably feisty partner for Cade, the character is very two-dimensional and doesn’t have much to do beyond showing off her body, looking terrified and being suspicious. In the end she offers assistance to Cade, and I can’t wait to see the eventual army Foster gets together, which will consist of some of the most useless humans imaginable taking on the Gua. I mean, what help is a romantic novelist to him?

There’s some sex (although again you don’t see anything of note), there’s a particularly horrible moment when we find out what the alien is doing, and there’s a great bit at the end when he refuses to lie down and die, but overall there’s nothing particularly new or exciting here, just an average episode of First Wave.

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