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I had mixed feelings about this ep, mostly because it started with a really shaky premise and much OOC stupid from the Guv, marching into a prison riot without any protection. Sorry, but my disbelief wasn't quite suspended. You can throw ghosts at me all you like, but OOC stupid is OOC stupid, no matter how good it looks. And the writing wasn't the awesomest, because there was a lot of padding and predictability. Overall, it may have been the weakest of the season so far, because of the general writing. There *were* a few cool revelations, though (but those were mostly to do with the main season arc, so this goes to show how the awesome arc is really making this season something special, despite weaker episodes).
However, things vastly improved once Mr. I AM SAM TYLER showed up. Thordy, that's his name. Fucking hell. That actor was good, too. That level of crazy is hard to pull off well, and yet we still got only hints. Gah! That whole thing is bringing out a crazy theory in my head: maybe they are all recordings. Like that myth about ghosts always being chained to some particular place and repeating certain movements, gestures, going through some particular trauma over and over again, and so on. And once Sam's personality and actions become a recording in Dead Copper Limbo, he can't be erased, and some other poor sod comes to take his place and play his "role" for the whole thing to stay together. So it's some fucked-up transmigration of souls kind of thing. And if Thordy was the last person Sam arrested, I bet he had something to do with whatever case it was that lead to Sam's death. And if we get even more insane, maybe Sam's soul left his body and somehow possessed Thordy, or maybe the suicide made everything splinter so hard that there are now splinters of Sam in Thordy and and and and... can you tell this show is making me think too much? This is brilliant, though. It's all a big, tangled knot of WTF and awesome.
And VIV. VIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIV D: Fucking hell, I am going to have nightmares about Keats now. The whole episode was really well directed and shot, so the bit with Keats coming down the corridor with his truncheon and his trenchcoat, whistling, the angel of death he is... GAAAAAH! *brrrr*. And if Keats and the Guv weren't fighting for Viv's soul there, I'm going to eat my hat. Seriously.
And ONLY TWO EPS LEFT. D: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! They had better be good.