Zo'or agrees to his first TV interview, unaware that he has been invited on to expose what the Taelons have been doing for the last few years.

All this is really an excuse for a clip show, the first the series has done for about a year. Last season's was an underwhelming Beckett tale and this year's isn't any better. The biggest problem is that for long-term viewers, there's nothing here. If you missed this episode, you certainly wouldn't lose anything important. For more recent converts, I suppose there's some merit in this story, as it serves to show some of what the Taelons have been up to and sketches in some background. However, the opening 'previously' montage rather confusingly shows the sign to Taelonville, which I still don't understand the significance of.

The main characters are fairly superfluous to the whole thing too. Zo'or sits in a chair, Da'an provides grave tidings of doom, Liam stands about most of the time, Renee does next to nothing as well, and Augur comes out of hiding into the open, despite still being wanted by the authorities and being surrounded by Volunteers guards. It all seems so haphazard, and when the tried and trusted 'human who wants to assassinate a Taelon plot rears up, you start to wonder why you're bothering.

Special mention must also be made of Sandoval's interview, in which he more or less says that being a Taelon Companion is great, and if a shuttle crashes there are airbags, a fact he has to explain about to make the ending possible. After the careful plotting earlier this season, this episode doesn't really seem to be trying, which is a shame.

**

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