With most of the characters introduced in the opening episode this episode throws us straight into the story; most of the survivors from the transporter have made it to Forthaven but one escape pod is lost. Not surprisingly at this point Stella's daughter is still unaccounted for. She is the sole survivor in the pod but by the time a search party arrives she has been taken by a group of genetically engineered people known as ACs (Advanced Cultivars). They are the people Mitchell had been ordered to kill many years before and understandable they aren't happy with Tate and the other inhabitants of Forthaven. They have a baby but it is ill, in order to get it treated they threaten to kill Stella's daughter. Back in Forthaven another survivor has been accused of stealing a place on the escape pod from the mother of another survivor; he claims that she gave it to him but Stella doesn't trust him and grows to believe he could be a threat to the girl.
This was a decent second outing although it felt as though something was lacking now that Jamie Bamber's character has been killed off. I also felt that we learnt about the ACs a little too soon although this did lead nicely into telling us how the colony was suffering from lower than expected reproductive rates. In the opening episode it looked as if President Tate was going to be the villain of the series but now I'm not so sure; it is possible that he will be a flawed hero and new arrival Julius Berger could be the true villain he is certainly creepy enough to be!
This was a decent second outing although it felt as though something was lacking now that Jamie Bamber's character has been killed off. I also felt that we learnt about the ACs a little too soon although this did lead nicely into telling us how the colony was suffering from lower than expected reproductive rates. In the opening episode it looked as if President Tate was going to be the villain of the series but now I'm not so sure; it is possible that he will be a flawed hero and new arrival Julius Berger could be the true villain he is certainly creepy enough to be!