Renee is forced to kill an informant when he demonstrates that he is becoming an Atavus hybrid. However, when she discovers that he has been working to fight the aliens, she attempts to uncover his codes to shut down their hybridization plant.

Meet Renee Palmer: tough bitch who doesn't care about anyone except herself, or at least that's what this episode appears to be demonstrating. In further attempts to make the lead character increasingly unbearable and non-heroic to the audience, this week she has the sheer temerity to murder someone, then enlist his father to get access to all his data, at no point admitting her involvement in the whole thing. So where's this guilty conscience of the title? She doesn't seem to care in the slightest!

Then there's the fact that this episode seems to go on forever without making any progress. Everyone argues about getting the codes, someone gets the codes, everything blows up, the end. Sandoval just wanders in and out of rooms being grumpy, Street barely appears at all, and the Atavus aren't that significant to the plot either. There's a bunch of guest stars who seem to have been employed purely for their dreadful acting skills and at the end of the day it's yet another search and destroy mission as Renee blows up another hybrid chamber. Can we move on from this now? Some degree of story arc, plotting, intrigue, any of these would be welcome rather than variations on the same plot every week. I'm amazed anyone's even bothering with this series any more. The only reason I'm sticking with it is because each episode I watch brings me one closer to the end.

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