The chance of a vacation turns to tragedy for Jeremiah, Kurdy and Smith when Daniel's forces begin to rout Alliance towns.

As part of the finishing touches to the Alliance communication network, Kurdy and Smith are helping deliver radios to Alliance towns. One of them is Three Hills, run by Sandor. As punishment for siding with the Alliance, Sims has the townsfolk massacred and the buildings burned to the ground. Also destroyed is Silver City.

Daniel's forces mine Three Hills on their way out; when Jeremiah, Kurdy and Smith arrive a landmine destroys their Rover. They decide to walk to the nearest town, Cold Creek, to raise the alarm.

Routing the nearby towns is just a diversion - at Cold Creek, Daniel's forces have erected a radio antenna to jam the Alliance's transmissions. When the trio see it, they come up with a plan to take it out. When he finds out that the antenna was not heavily guarded, Markus comes to believe that even this might be a diversion from something even bigger. He's right: Daniel has operatives inside Thunder Mountain itself, in contact with Sims.

Jeremiah is feeling restless in Milhaven, and wishes he were back on the road with Kurdy.

Erin has persuaded Markus to allow Lee to run the Thunder Mountain communication room.

Three Hills was run by Sandor. He is shot by Sims for joining the Western Alliance.

Smith tells Kurdy that Libby was a traitor and that he shot and killed her. Kurdy won't promise not to tell Jeremiah.

Jeremiah: "Do you sleep?" Gina: "Yes sir! Five hours a night, whether I need it or not!"

Kurdy to Smith: "It's become painfully obvious that we need to practise this good cop / bad cop stuff some more."

Erin: "You look like shit." Markus: "Thanks, that's the look I was going for."

Sims to his painter: "I enjoy your attention to light and shadow, it ties everything together. But my figure should fill the frame."

Sims, like a true General, likes to play chess and listen to classical music while having his portrait painted.

Jacob seems to call Sims by his first name - Gabriel. Those biblical references just keep coming, don't they?

Near the end of the episode, Mister Smith's stopwatch suddenly starts again. This fulfils his prediction from "Crossing Jordan" that it wasn't broken, but was just waiting for the right moment to begin again.

Co-Executive Producer Grant Rosenberg's credit appears to be missing - at least on the original Canadian broadcast.

Another cracking story, at times unbearably tense; full of things that almost go terribly wrong and things that do, with enough room left over for some great character scenes - some chilling, some great fun. On top of that, there's a palpable sense of all the pieces being moved into position ready for the endgame.