Following the death of Libby, Markus devises a "Trojan horse" style ambush to strike back at Sims and the rest of Daniel's men; but things do not go according to plan.

Jeremiah asks Frank to print up 500 copies of Barbera's sketch of Sims; he hands them out in Milhaven.

Markus decides to go on the offensive, spreading a rumour that some trucks carrying supplies have been stolen, hoping that Sims and his men will go after them. After a battle Sims' men are all either killed or captured, but Sims had already returned East, so Jeremiah's quest to hunt him down continues.

Sims has never met Daniel in person.

Sims says he was in New York when the "cannibals" were there, and was one of the few to get out alive. He also says that after he was beaten nearly to death by a group of raiders, a "coyote eye" spoke to him, telling him to travel east toward Daniel.

Erin says that twice she's had to kill people in circumstances other than as part of a larger battle.

Jeremiah on Sims: "When he is found, I want him brought to me; and I'll kill the motherfucker with my bare hands."

"I'm tired. I'm tired of losing what we love because we're fighting for what we believe in." - Markus

Erin and Smith: "Can I ask God a question?" "It doesn't work like that." "I'll make you cookies." "It doesn't work like that either."

Sims: "If there were no Daniel, it would be necessary to invent him."

Sims: "I marched through the fires of Atlanta. I was there the day that Memphis went mad… my life is a river of blood and fire."

"Go that way. East. There is someone waiting for you." The coyote eye speaking to Sims.

More Sims: "This isn't a fight for the pieces of the old world, Rod. This is a war, of powers and principalities. We are the coyote, Rod, we are the wolf, and it is time, long past time that we bared our teeth and fed."

God's message to Erin: "I saw your face before you were born. I knew your name before it was spoken, and I heard your voice before you cried in birth. And I bring only beautiful things into this world, and you will too, in your time. And one day, not far away, you'll have to leave Markus, and the safety and security of the Mountain. And you'll know that you're walking into darkness, and you'll go. Your heart will light a path and your mind will not want to travel, but you'll do it anyway, knowing that you'll never see the Mountain again, you'll never return. And the next time I hear your voice and see your face, the next time I call your name, you'll know that your sacrifice was not in vain."

The fires of Atlanta mentioned by Sims may well be the same fires that began the Tellers' story in "The Mysterious Mister Smith".

It's impossible to hear Sims talk about the "coyote eye" without thinking of Mister Smith and the messages he receives. The obvious conclusion is that the coyote eye is the devil, and Sims is Smith's opposite number on the east. In which case, God and the coyote eye may be the strange attractors. I promise to stop talking about strange attractors eventually.

It feels like there's a scene missing where the truck develops a fault.

While one can give a certain amount of tolerance to actors who don't look as if they've been living without civilisation for sixteen years, is it necessary for Ingrid Kavelaars to look like she's just stepped out of a salon? ;-)

The position of the knife and flyer on the dead body moves about from shot to shot.

Markus says he let Innsmouth and Ridgway know that he's captured some of those who attacked their towns and that he will hand them over to face justice. But surely with the exception of Barbera, everyone at Ridgway is either dead or still a prisoner of Daniel?

This episode is pretty tense given that very little really happens. There's space for some nice performances and a new, uncompromising attitude that's welcome. We see light and dark sides of both protagonists and antagonists, which is a risky strategy but it works well here.