Renee attempts to make a deal with a newspaper reporter to convince her the Atavus exist and gain some respectability. What she actually gets is a former reporter who now lives in the sewers, where the Atavus have been feeding.

Well, at least Renee's not on the mothership this week. Not that that makes this poor excuse for an episode any better, of course. She's moved on now to seeking recognition on Earth for her struggle while a race of people who've just had aliens looking over them and causing trouble for over six years refuse to believe some more have come along. They accepted the Jaridians easily enough, didn't they? Renee is now attempting to rid the world of hybrid chambers to save humans from the Atavus, but without help her efforts seem doomed to fail.

Peter Outerbridge gives good value here as the man dumped by the reporter Renee is attempting to get on-side and attempting to protect the people below ground (another newly-introduced concept after earlier suggestions that the Taelons had solved social problems) from the Atavus killing them. Now, on the one hand, the Atavus need to feed on humans to live, but why don't they simply beam them simply to the mothership where no-one will notice their absence? Not one little bit of the set-up for this season has been properly explained, with holes everywhere.

It's impossible to have much sympathy for the deaths of the great unwashed and the only thing that gives this episode an extra star is the downbeat ending that works rather well for it. Shame that everything beforehand is just more running and chasing for Renee that doesn't go anywhere.

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