Union Jack: Right

"You're a pathetic phallus!"

A very different episode this week, bravely centring on a moral dilemma portrayed through dialogue and drama instead of action, entirely in monochrome, and allowing Romany to be the wonderful, articulate, ethical hero- with Joe also showing his essential decency by standing by his woman.

Jasmine Knight deserves much praise for anchoring this episode, as does Simon Cleary. The dilemma is splendidly, impossibly acute in pitting Kantian versus ultilitarian ethics- should we kill a village full of innocent people infected by a kind of vampire-zombiesm in order to avert a zombie apocalypse? In the end Romany is right, and the script clearly sides with Immanuel Kane, as the final scene is of Gavin, literally having dipped his hands in the blood, learning that a cure has just been found. Ouch.

This is an an usually serious episode, but not one without the usual wit, humour, fourth wall busting ("We're second string characters at best") and digs at Captain Britain. And Brexit, of course. Which the Tories now own with no excuses, but I digress.

It's interesting to see a role for Arabian Knight- although apparently this is a new and different incarnation of the character. And sad to see that the actor playing him, Surinder Juneja, died this year, and he was very slightly younger than I am. That's no age, and it's right that he should get a credit.

Anyway, the excellence continues. It's sad that we're on the final stretch now...