Cade tries to acquire proof of alien infiltration that a senator has in his posession. But a reporter is on his trail, and he may be in for some surprises.

There's a certain confidence evident in the storytelling in this second episode of the season which suggests that Daniel Howard Cerone, writer of several of the better season one episodes, has made a concerted effort to come up with cleverer stories with better twists.

This one is pretty impressive work, containing a whole host of potentially non-related plotlines that blend together impressively as it approaches the end. Firstly, there's the packaged evidence of a wormhole in space, then there's a reporter trying to get a good story, a Senator many want to bring down, a dominatrix and somewhere amongst it all, Cade Foster and Eddie.

Yes, the obsession with barely-dressed women continues as the Senator visits Dominique for a spot of sado-masochistic pleasure. Long-term viewers will know that the Gua assembly take a dim view of this kind of weakness and Joshua will eventually turn up, but this is saved until the end to allow better for all the plot threads to come together.

Rather than simply exposing the week's experiment, it makes a nice change for Cade to set out on a different quest, and for once it's a genuine surprise who the aliens are amongst the cast. The revelation of who Deepthroat is towards the end is very anticlimactic after what has gone before. Given the secrecy of the person's identity, I'd come to believe that it was Joshua's new found way of imparting information, but it's just a regular blonde woman. Still, there's definitely been more thought put into this, and it's an improvement on that basis at least. Hopefully the show, which still has potential, will be able to keep expanding beyond its restrictive premise.

****

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