Thanks to the Atlantic National Alliance, the Taelons declare a planetwide amnesty of Resistance members, but the first overtures are met with an attack and Liam puts the blame on himself.

There’s a lot of emotion running high in this episode, yet somehow you don’t get that impression. Dragging Hayley back into the show again is a desperate ploy to find someone the audience might sympathize with, then kill her off, and the last time Liam inadvertently caused her betrayal in Thicker Than Blood was far more powerful. This time, Robert Leeshock is given minimal chances to show any emotional depth and although he tries his heart’s just not in it.

The inclusion of Hayley’s kid sister is a bad move, mainly because she’s so odd. The writer doesn’t seem to have discovered how to write dialogue for children, so what we get is some unconvincingly-delivered adult-sounding sentences.

The way the series has been going lately, there’s little mystery as to who is behind what’s happened. Sandoval apparently has his hands in every pie going, so if he wasn’t involved there might actually be some surprise. The potential lies in Sandoval’s new boss, one Justin Kalen, who knows enough of the agent’s secrets to keep him on the hop. Surviving a close call with death, it appears Sandoval has got him in the end, but it would be foolish to waste a character like this. Sandoval’s scheme this time is mind-controlling worms, which enable him to send out kamikazi missions of destruction. It’s a threat too lightly dealt with, with Liam’s possession by one too easily stopped, the lab destroyed and not much reason for them to be there in the first place. It does show them all in a briefing though, which seems a bit of a waste of the short lifespan each of them has left. They should be briefed on their way somewhere…

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