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This show is a real puzzler. The whole setup of this show, Sugar's search for a missing granddaughter, has increasingly became a background element. What is the show? We've known for a while now that something isn't right with Sugar, and the final reveal in this episode is so anticlimactic. There's no tension because we've been expecting something like this, and outside of smaller details about why it's important for Sugar to stop investigating the case, there's really little that is keeping me invested. They should have just given us the sci-fi show they clearly want it to be, or stopped pretending it was a noir detective show way earlier. Strange.

There are so many hints spread out across the first 5 episodes (as well as one name in the credits), that I knew the show would turn in a completely different direction at one point, and I absolutely love how they did it. It didn"t make sense to make a show so formulaic, as the noir part of the show is, without something up its sleave, and unless you notice all the small (ingenious) hints, I can understand why some feel a rug has been pulled under them, and that the genre they are suddenly watching isn't their cup of tea. To me that is what makes this show stand out. The acting is superb, the characters are interesting, and the mystery about the missing girl, while formulaic and by the book, is interesting, because you soon realise that the real mystery is, who is John Sugar?

I was waiting for this reveal after the numerous hints. A meeting of spy "polyglots", their shared "mission", the would-be-top-secret background that John allowed Kenny to find, John's peculiar pacifist nature despite his skillset, his inhuman capacity for empathy, his strange "illness", his studious obsession with movie classics (human nature) and how he came across them late into his life, and of course the "big secret" he could never reveal to Melanie.

John's story and personality just had too much of an unearthly air me, and I was hoping the show would head into the direction of sci-fi, so I'm glad I finally got to see it in this episode.

Only 2 episodes to go, but I must say I've been enjoying this noir; and also now, sci-fi, mystery series so far!