Sims' forces plan for the final assault on the Alliance. Erin has a few surprises in store for Markus.

One of the "Founders" visits Sims. These are the people from Valhalla Sector who created Daniel, but they claim that they "survived" the Big Death, found Daniel, and saw in him the potential to become a new leader. Sims says he has seen the Founders before "on occasion" but it seems this is not widespread. Sims asks the Founder if Daniel exists. He says he does, but Sims is convinced he's lying.

Daniel has Thunder Mountain surrounded, as well as the "fifth column" inside. The army is moving west and Markus expects Daniel to launch an attack on Milhaven within two days. Kurdy is overseeing the defence. Mister Smith gets a message to Kurdy that they are planning to attack via "Four Roads", but Jeremiah is sceptical - the place is flat, and he expects Sims to want to view the battle for somewhere high. Nevertheless, Kurdy mobilises 5000 troopers to the area.

Taking an inventory of weaponry, Lee discovers missing equipment. His cover blown, an undercover agent attacks but is restrained. During interrogation he tells Lee that the enemy agents plan to slaughter Alliance troops in their sleep. With this knowledge, Markus and Lee corner the agents and personally dispatch them.

Jeremiah decides to take five troopers east on a personal mission to find Sims. He finds him. Sims seems to be killed in the fight, but not before his deputy overhears him admit that Daniel is not real. Jeremiah is taken prisoner, but when it becomes clear that Daniel's forces have neither a leader nor anything worth fighting for, they allow him to return to the Alliance.

As both forces hesitate on the battlefield, Kurdy, Smith and Jeremiah stride towards the enemy to begin negotiations.

Mister Smith is found by Hannah and taken back to the house from the previous episode.

Rose, the girl at the hospice who Kurdy recognised, is Mister Smith's daughter. It seems she can now hear the voice of God.

Erin admits to being in love with Markus when she thinks he's asleep. She invites him to a "formal dinner" for just the two of them. He tells her he wasn't asleep and that he doesn't think it's the right time for them to grow closer.

Markus's father was once stationed at a base in Germany.

Sims falls into a ravine and is presumably killed.

A particularly quotable episode, this one.

Jeremiah: "How did we get into all this in the first place?" Kurdy: "You tied me up." Jeremiah: "You stole my fish."

Erin, seeing if Markus is awake: "I've got cake! The four horsemen of the Apocalypse just showed up and they don't know where to park."

Then, after a pause: "I'm in love with you. I've always been in love with you… [but] you were faithful to a woman you couldn't even touch for fifteen years - go ahead, tell me again you're not the romantic type… I have this feeling in my heart that we're running out of time… I'll always be here for you, right till the end."

Mister Smith on the absence of God's voice: "It's like the future's waiting to be born and I- the voice doesn't want to name it until we're sure it's going to live."

Rose: "Today we learned calculus and the capital of Peru. And I made a clay pony."

And to Mister Smith: "Daddy? The voice says to not be afraid."

Markus says the over-large tuxedos available made him "look like some kind of demented penguin."

Lee to his prisoner: "Understand that the only laws in here are the ones we built ourselves. So if this place falls, all the laws fall with it. Now tell me what I want to know."

After letting Erin know he wasn't asleep: "Some things aren't meant to be right now - do you know what I'm saying?"

Jeremiah and Smith: "If you try to hug me I will get a gun and shoot you where you stand." "Roger that."

From the speeches that close the episode: "Just make sure you tell the truth about what happens here today. There's a whole new world being born on the other side of that hill. History's always been written in blood - hopefully until now. Maybe we'll be smarter. Maybe we'll finally get this thing right. Either way, I want to see where this book is going." (Kurdy); "This day, the world would change forever; not in the clash of armies, not in the currency of bomb blasts or body counts, but through the proper application of the only force that matters, the only power that even God respects: the truth." (Smith)

Kurdy has heard of the Hydra. Jeremiah has not.

After being thrown in the river by Sims, Mister Smith is washed up on the shore, in an echo of the events that led to him being able to hear the voice of God. Later, he says the voice is silent. He attributes this to the future being in a unique state of flux; alternatively, his meeting with Sims and his subsequent near drowning might be the appropriate conclusion to this period of being God's spokesman. Evidence for this comes when Rose implies that the voice now speaks to her (it's not explicitly stated that it hasn't always spoken to her, but Mister Smith's reaction suggests this is a new development). Perhaps God thought that Mister Smith was really a goner this time.

While Jeremiah implies that he's going after Sims to attempt to avoid a direct clash between the two armies, it's clear that he's really still obsessed with his personal vendetta against Sims for Libby's death. This has been the keynote of Jeremiah's character during the series: moving alongside others but driven by personal motivations rather than the more noble, humanitarian instincts of Kurdy or Markus.

Mister Smith says he gets reports on his daughter's welfare every day, "my part of the deal". Presumably, although it's not explicitly stated, the report comes from the voice of God. This is the first suggestion that God made a deal with Mister Smith rather than simply expecting him to accept his role of "sock puppet".

Mister Smith calls the woman at the hospice "Sister Hannah", another nod to their being the female counterparts to the Brothers of the Apocalypse.

Sims tells the Founder, "you're a long way from home." This is what Hannah said to Mister Smith. It's also what Kurdy said to Rachel in "The Face in the Mirror".

We see Sims write a note and throw it in the river. Is this a parallel of Jeremiah's notes to his father? Or is it how he communicates with his coyote eye?

To date, this is the last episode of Jeremiah. J. Michael Straczynski was unhappy working with MGM and decided as early as the production of "Strange Attractors" that this season would be his last. Various options for continuing the story were considered such as a prequel feature film and a comic book, but so far the only addition to the mythology is in Morrigan Press's Role Playing Game.

How did Hannah know where to find Mister Smith? Perhaps God told Rose.

The sequence of events from the Founder being challenged to Jeremiah rejoining the Alliance troops is somewhat elliptical - why did Daniel's forces let him leave? What did they do to the Founder? Has anyone taken charge, or has the news of Daniel's non-existence just caused confusion?

On its own merits, this is a superb episode, but it loses some points as a series finale, if only for introducing so many new threads that will now not be taken up. The final sequence in particular seems carefully designed to allow another season to pick any one of a number of possible outcomes, while still providing some closure if the series isn't renewed - which is understandable but reduces its overall impact.