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Reverse Engineering


Purity Undreamed 2.1


Patricia McBride - a character from the previous episode returns here. In this she’s travelled o a clinic in Sweden, kind of a luxury spa, a place to roll back the years, quite literally in this case…


Its an interesting start as Mel has been working there undercover for a couple of weeks. Not only that but she makes contact with Patricia before Patricia phones Hebe to ask them to help! Its a nice bit of time travel trickery that sets up the tome for the story.


As mentioned the facility has the ability to ‘make people younger’, by use of a time machine. Not like the TARDIS, its a bit more in vein of the Red Dwarf episode where they could digitise time. Meaning there’s Neanderthals, as the rejuvenation of wealthy patients is just the tip of the iceberg in where their research is going.


The build up to the cliffhanger is where the really interesting stuff starts, theres are some nice ideas leading to points where you feel quite in the moment. The cliffhanger itself, or rather its resolution is a bit of a let down.


The second have is a bit more of a run around and Idid lose interest.


Once again, Americanisms, in this case ‘elevators’, and like an audio I listened not that long ago, one minute saying elevators and then also referring to them as lifts. 


Some nice ideas, Hebe is not as harsh as she seems in the first set. A standard adventure.

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