Survivors - 3.7 The Peacemaker

Jenny said that she wouldn't leave Paul again. Yet here she is roaming round the countryside again with Charles and Hubert. I thought for a moment I'd got the episodes in the wrong order.

It's a good episode this though, lots of cunning misdirection before we find out what's really going on at the mill. Who's the evil one? Is it surly Henry, saintly-seeming Frank, or Rutna with her sitar cue? The twist is that it's none of them and nothing sinister is happening, rather like in ep 3.1. Henry's display of peacemaking with the gunmen is quite impressive.

There's another good reveal too, that Frank has a pacemaker which might give out at any time. It's a good post-apocalyptic plot idea, but it's a terrible pun with 'peacemaker'. Do you think it was deliberate?

Hubert's back on comic relief as he gets to literally roll in the hay with Blossom.

'Contains strong language reflecting attitudes of the time' - Hubert drops 'wog' and 'darkie' twice each. On the other hand, Blossom exposits about Asian women being targeted during the initial plague panic, for supposedly bringing the plague here. Surely such a thing would never happen...

The sitar cue. On one occasion we see her actually playing a sitar, but on two others it's definitely non-diegetic. Which is the first use of incidental music so far, unless you count the times when they bring up the closing theme early.

Charles has trouble recognising the aroma of curry because he's forgotten about it. Nice.

A third Scottish person has survived the apocalypse.

Dating: it's 9 months since Greg left, so in theory it's still March. Pet does have a woolly hat and gloves on when she's using the phone. But it's been a busy March for the survivors if that's still the month.