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Trev is grounded in the UK. He’s been given a pistol and safe passage out of the facility, but he doesn’t know how to use it. Sergeant Harris (the guy in charge here) is trying to help him out, but he’s not very good at it.

Trev sets out to find a way to get home and clear his head. He comes across a blockade in the city center, and starts to climb up to higher ground. He gets a good look at London from this location, and it looks like it’s in trouble. Thick black plumes of smoke rise into the air, while the city is almost completely abandoned. Trev phones home from a phone box but he only gets his wife’s voicemail message. It’s directed at Trev though, telling him this is a war they can’t win. She also goes on to regret what transpired between them in their marriage.

Aneesha and Barton continue to date after their kiss, and Aneesha reveals that she is pregnant. They decide to name their child after Barton’s late wife.

Luke finds Jack in the hallways of this facility, where deceased victims of the invasion lie dormant. They’re covered in some strange black goo and it appears nothing can kill or stop them – except for that shard of metal Luke has of course. Jack tells Luke about a place where these victims can be healed, but only if Luke helps him remove the goo from their bodies.

He stands mesmerized as the black goo begins to disappear. Aneesha shows up and sees this too, prompting all the other staff onboard to try and make sense of it.

Casper and Jamila head home where the former finds his mother lying dead on the table. Casper however, has been sketching these aliens for a while and he talks to Jamila about it, deciding he needs to communicate with the aliens. Casper believes that he’s the key in all this, and he’s all set to kill all the invaders.

The kids find Trev in a bar, drinking away his sorrows. Casper points out that he’s been seeing these aliens in his head whenever he has a seizure. One of his sketches happens to include the skull insignia from Trev’s platoon, which certainly grabs his attention. That’s enough for him to agree to help.

Mitsuki is kept handcuffed in an office, with a guard who refuses to engage. The communication with Hinata has certainly riled them all up. However, Akira shows up and confirms that the shuttle – or what’s left of it – is being kept in geo-sync orbit and they have fixed coordinates. Hoshi-12 is the only communication they have with the alien visitors and Mitsuki is the key to communications. After talking to Akira, she’s allowed to leave and front the comms team.

Mitsuki opens the shuttle comms channel and begins to speak with the aliens. It’s a pretty big leap, believing the aliens will even communicate with them when they’ve made it abundantly clear that negotiations are off the table.

Mitsuki continues to work, deciding to use some machine translation gear to at least speak in the alien tongue. We’ve seen the patterns before, with the cacophonous radio waves, but whether it’ll work or not is another matter.

Mitsuki is defeated, knowing it’s futile to work against such intelligent creatures. Instead, she sends thousands of pictures and videos of Hinata across all radio frequencies. As it seems they’ve made contact, Mitsuki rushes back to her console, throws on the headset and whispers “Hinata?” ..

The Episode Review

The Invasion of Earth is back with another episode that is slow-paced and character-driven. All that’s left is to see how this show ends and deals with the invasion itself. Casper is going to use his seizures to kill the aliens, but seeing him and Trev’s stories collide is a nice inclusion.

In the latest episode of “The Expanse,” we learn that there is another group of aliens who are working against the humans. This group is made up of shard of metal, which seems to be working against them. We also learn that Luke, a character who is important to this story, could play a big role in resolving this issue.

The final few episodes of the season are disappointing, and Invasion bows out with an indifferent slice of drama. ..