However, the peace is soon shattered as an anomaly opens, and things kick up a gear both for the team and the viewer as within five minutes of the episode starting, we are treated to an hour long mini-telly-blockbuster filled with fast cars, tonnes of action and monster mash-up fight scenes. Things, it would seem, are quite bad, and turn a lot worse when Abby’s brother Jack’s continued inquisition of our peroxide elfin heroin’s job goes a stage further, as he decides to ‘borrow’ her sat-nav/anomaly detector from her handbag, thinking that her ‘secret’ job is a lot more than just feeding penguins at the local zoo. Following the anomaly’s signal, he proceeds to break into the test track, find the corpse of the ‘red-shirt’ guards and is confronted with the other lurking mantis-monster. Panicked, he then inadvertently drives through the anomaly, which takes him into the future, rather than the past, a future that viewers of the show should recognise. Once again this was an action-jam-packed-hour-long-edge-of-your-seat hour that, with some canny editing, well-designed sets and a few camera filters, made a disused car park and a bit of industrial estate a place of continual danger and terror. Even the basic task of walking quietly past some cars had the tension knocked up to 11 with baby future predators waiting in the car to pounce. In addition to all this tension and action, every member of the cast got a chance to shine. For the first time, Hannah Spearitt had something to actually say and do rather than stand there and look pretty. Even Ben Mansfield’s Captain Becker had a bigger role and actually a bit of brains about him. Once again, a cracking episode and with only two left for the rest of the season, hopefully the finale will finally shed some light onto both the artefact, this dark future, Helen and Christine’s plans and what the future of the series holds as we are told last week that a new US movie spin-off could be in the works. Check out Robert’s review of episode 7 here.
