It turns out that I was right about this episode. With that in mind, this review's going to be short.

If you didn't know what I meant at the end of my last review, allow me to explain. Resident Evil (a.k.a. Biohazard) is a video game series that revolves around outbreaks of viruses and parasitic organisms that turn people into zombies or automatons (some of which have those creepy appendages that come out through the host's mouth). It's a survival-horror game series. 12 Monkeys is a 90s movie about a man-made contagion that was spread around the world to wipe out humanity and give the earth back to the animals. At the start of the movie, cities are in ruins, survivors don't see the sun very often and you get to see one of those anti-contagion scrub-down scenes whenever someone comes back from a trip to the surface. For this episode of Sanctuary, though, I couldn't see how it made sense if all those commando guys were running around unprotected.

I admittedly missed the first minute or two of this episode, but only that much. The start of it was shaky. It was understandably slow, but still a bit uneasy. This new style of editing they're using didn't help this at all. It's really starting to grate on me. Maybe it's just hammering home the point that SyFy (grrrrr, that name...) sold out in the utmost extreme. They sure dropped us founding fans of Sanctuary like hot rocks when the series went to air. Seems we're plummeting further this season.

In the acting department, there's not much to say about this episode. Very few people were in it for more than two minutes. Mr. Dunne, I'm sorry, but you make a very bad commando. You're better off playing Will the way he is normally (I miss the glasses, dammit!). Granted, he did deliver two lines very well in this episode. I could believe him when he was talking to Helen about how healthy she looked compared to him. The way he said "food" did make him sound in great need of it without going too over the top. The other bit I liked was Commando Will talking about his son. It was the way the line was both written and delivered.

Will: We had a son.
Helen: ??
Will: Kate and I.

I liked the misdirection. We got to feel along with Helen. Finally.

Another performance I liked a lot was that of Nicole Munoz, the young girl in the episode (I think the character's name was Jessica. IMDb says so). Her character didn't speak much, but that's far beside the point. When she was sick, she was SICK. From the moment she passed out until the moment she got shot, I could believe that she was ill and in huge amounts of pain from the parasitic transformation. I also give her kudos for putting up with the stage slime. The way they had her sitting, she could have choked on it.

All I have left to comment on are minor details. Why did Helen make a spear out of the knife she found instead of just carrying the knife itself? There was no indication that she needed a weapon that far-reaching. I also reeeeeally didn't like the scream thing they made Will do toward the end. It was too fake. I'd have believed it if he'd just done the deep breathing and then ran off into the crowd of infected. This episode really fell flat for me, even with a reference to the fall of the Maya (which I'm studying in one of my classes right now. They chalk it up to climate change). I pray this week's episode is better, what with more Wolf-Henry and all. It was my classes that kept me from writing this review until now.