Following up one of Nostradamus' quattrains, Cade sets out to find a blind hospital patient who may be able to recognize aliens.
Ignoring the huge leaps Cade is taking these days to work out the meaning of a quattrain (and still getting it right!), this episode isn't bad. Cade's method of infiltrating the hospital and looking around it is rather clever, and Alika, the blind woman, is well-played. It's just a shame that she is all but written out by the end of the story. There's an exciting opening scene as Cade is rushed into the building, and the explanation of what is going on is a little vague but does make sense, even if most of the aliens seem to be hiding somewhere.
The issue of Cade's loss of faith in his mission is rather hastily dealt with at the end, after having been dragged into a conversation rather unsubtly earlier on, so it would have been good to see him having a real crisis of conscience.
On top of this though is the aliens' plan, which involves some of the most creepy and unpleasant scenes seen on the show so far, and we discover that they resist fire slightly better than most weapons they could be killed with.
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