Jeremiah encounters a town who think they can recreate the pre-Death world, while Kurdy has to deal with demons from his own past.

Kurdy and Smith's latest mission is to check out East Cliffton, but Smith agrees to let Lee partner Kurdy to help him win back Markus' trust. They discover the town is still controlled by a gang called The Dead. Kurdy sends Lee to an Alliance town ten miles away for troops, but he has to go on foot when the Rover is found by the gang. When he finally returns, Alliance troops take the town.

Taking a dangerous shortcut towards Milhaven, Jeremiah is taken prisoner by a town who force him, a woman and a young boy to pretend that it's 2004, before the outbreak of the Big Death. The townsfolk watch them on a television powered by a bicycle generator. They appear to believe that this re-enactment will somehow spread to their whole town. Jeremiah persuades Sandra, his "wife", and Jimmy, his "son", to fake symptoms of the Big Death in the hope they will be released, but instead the townsfolk flee. They are rescued by Gina.

Lee Chen has been on latrine cleaning duty since being replaced as head of security by Erin.

Gina lost a bet and is now Jeremiah's liaison with the Alliance troops stationed in Milhaven.

Kurdy lived in East Cliffton about a year before he met Jeremiah. He got involved with a gang called The Dead, but fled just before the group massacred the town. As a result, he considers himself responsible for the death of Cal, the brother of a friend named Ike.

Sandra has been forced to live in the re-created house for two years, Jimmy since the summer.

The Dead were led by Tony, whose craziness made up for the group's lack of size and weaponry.

"Death is a word we do not allow in this home. This is a happy home; no death, big, small or… dinner's getting cold." - Sandra

Gina loses her lucky coin: "Fuck! Fuck! Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuckity fuck!"

Sandra to Jeremiah: "Understand you are not my first 'husband'. The others fought too and they paid the price."

Tony's chilling pronouncement: "We are gonna blood this place from end to end."

Sandra likens the town's behaviour to that of "Cargo cults", a slang term for a phenomenon whereby primitive spiritual groups believe products of modern technology to be divine gifts, and that if they mimic western behaviour they will be given these gifts. Such cults sprang up in the aftermath of World War II - having witnessed soldiers' behaviour coupled with the arrival of planes full of cargo, they assumed the former directly caused the latter. This led to the construction of full size planes and control towers from wood and straw.

The title is a nod to Shakespeare's The Tempest - "And by that destiny to perform an act / Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come / In yours and my discharge." (Antonio, Act 2 Scene 1).

We can infer from Lee's dialogue that it's been about four months since the events of "Deus Ex Machina".

Jeremiah says February 2004 was seventeen years ago, "a year before the Big Death". This seems to be the first explicit reference in the show to the date of the original outbreak.

When Gina sees Jeremiah on the TV screen, who or what is controlling the camera movements?

"Not tonight. The Dead's walking on Six." A welcome break from a relentlessly grim sequence of episodes, the reality-TV inspired Jeremiah half is absurdly entertaining, while Kurdy's back story is moody and evocative and provides Lee with an opportunity to begin his rehabilitation. Luke Perry scrubs up nicely, but best of all is Enid-Raye Adams' performance as Gina, every scene of which is a little gem.