While Renee is visiting Hubble, still locked in a coma, in hospital, she comes across Reece Jackson and his new wife, who thanks to an 'allergic reaction' falls into a coma as well. Smelling something fishy, Renee and Jackson try to uncover what is really going on in the hospital.

Okay, I'm puzzled now. Who the hell is this Reece bloke? I can't find any record of him having been in E:FC before, so why make Renee and Street mad at him when we have no idea why? It's not like they explain what he did at any point, so how are the actors supposed to convince in their emotional response if we viewers can't understand what's going on?

Thanks to the trailer from last week, we also know that this is the episode in which Hubble awakens, so all dramatic tension is robbed from the thing when that event only happens in the last two minutes. It's only then that things start to kick off as the Atavus threat is finally made known to the world and it looks like after 13 episodes the season is at last starting.

The story itself is passable, with the Atavus putting people into comas to serve them, keeping bodies as unwilling soldiers for their cause, a rather nasty plan if ever there was one. The problem lies in the way there's no development in this premise. There's a while spent with Renee at Hubble's bedside, showing a level of concern unnatural considering the way she's usually reacted to him before, then vast amounts of running through hospital corridors without anything much happening, Renee saving Reece, then telling him to stay out of the way, then him helping her… and so the cycle continues. Well done to the staff for trying a little harder for originality, but they still need to put in more effort than this.

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