We last saw the Tomorrow People (three of them at least) being frozen to the spot by evil head lackey, Jedikiah, after he and his two idiot sidekicks invaded the lab and somehow snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. How will our heroes escape from their chilly prison? And will anyone notice that Kenny was shot in the corridor?

For some reason, Jedikiah – who had three TPs and needed only the 4^th – decides to leave the three he had behind in the lab and just take Kenny. So now he has one and there are three still to collect. I think he’s a man who prefers the chase to the bit where the dogs rip the fox’s throat out.

Yay – everyone is fine, if a little cold. Nothing another turtleneck won’t cure.

John explains that the gun he so manfully brandished is a stun gun (because Tomorrow People can’t kill, you see?). Stephen thinks it is a bit of a cheat.

Carol is explaining something fluffy when she suddenly comes over all appalled – Kenny has gone. Even though she didn’t actually know he was there in the first place as they were in hyperspace when Kenny briefly popped his head in and got shot.

Another day, another ambulance. This one is taking Kenny to Jedikiah’s HQ. He’s unconscious (though it’s hard to tell the difference between conscious and unconscious with Kenny) and has a band thing fitted to his little head.

Back at the lab, John asks Stephen just what the ruddy hell he thinks happened last night? Hmm? Answer.

Stephen tries to take the silencer band off. It hurts like hell.

TIM has a plan – John and Carol might be able to remove the band if they take opposite ends if it at the same time. "Before it kills Stephen" blubs Carol in that way she does whenever she has any lines not involving smiling.

They carefully approach his head… will this work… will it… will it…? Yes it does.

Stephen is fully functional again and can get back to work trying to contact the dead. Or Kenny. Whichever is easier.

Stephen is encouraged to think back to last night. This is an excuse for (a) using some old footage and (b) trying one of the new colour filters they’d bought.

While that’s going on, we finally get to meet Jedikiah’s boss – the Cyclops. A convincing looking fellow who is so mean he won’t buy his subordinates colour televisions for their evil consoles.

"I regret to report 75% failure on this stage of the operation" says Jedikiah. That’s a really strange way of saying he chose to leave three of the four helpless Tomorrow People behind in the lab for absolutely no reason other than he was grumpy and wanted to go home.

Jedikiah has had enough – the ingenuity of the TPs is too much for him (I'm not joking – this is his claim) and he wants to go and find telepaths on another planet. Besides – also not a joke – the police might attack at any moment.

And here is the Cyclops in all his macho glory. How utterly flabby.

He’s watching Lefty tie Kenny to a chair. At least I assume he is – he fades out pretty quickly so it might’ve been a mistake.

Ginge joins them for a quick taunt of the prisoner and is cheesed off when the door shuts behind him. Have our two knuckled-headed bikers been betrayed?

Carol and John want to go and rescue Kenny but Stephen doesn’t want to go with them. He’s afraid the Cyclops will make him do bad things again. Carol’s technique of persuasion seems to be staring at Stephen’s 14 year old groin and simpering. It works and he puts on his jaunting belt like a good little TP.

Meanwhile, Jedikiah is cutting his losses by planting a time bomb in the house. He’s a weird enemy – having basically won the whole game, he decides not to bother winning and then opts to run away, even though the three remaining TPs are almost certainly on their way to the house to rescue the bait Jedikiah can’t be arsed using as bait. My head hurts.

Ginge wants to know what the ruddy hell is going on so Jedikiah shoots him. Lefty doesn’t need shooting – he’s simple.

Weirdness breaks out.

The TPs arrive at the house and do some creeping in the shrubbery. They can’t get through to Kenny but nothing new there.

They abandon their dignity and jaunt inside.

They quickly find the room where Kenny, Ginge and Lefty were being held. It is disconcertingly empty now.

And yet somehow they’re still in there. Wacky.

Somehow – and I don’t know how – they suddenly know there is a time bomb near by. Stephen suggests it might be a clock but John says no – it’s definitely a timing mechanism. A genre which almost certainly includes clocks.

Clever – maybe the boom microphone that’s suddenly in shot helped them hear the time bomb’s mechanism. They used telekinesis to pull the mic down and that was what lead Carol to this particular bit of wall. Yes – that’s definitely what happened.

This is the explosion. It’s crap. No one dies so let’s move on.

Jedikiah reports to the Cyclops who coughs like a 40-a-day smoker (or a "light" smoker as he would’ve been called in the early 1970s). This is one unwell alien criminal mastermind. With no external genitals.

Back at the lab, Carol and Stephen talk about cyclopses while John mourns the loss of their only lead. And Kenny. But mainly their only lead.

Meanwhile, wherever the hell they are, Ginge is giving the door a right ear-full. He doesn't notice the door open and Jedikiah's stomach entering. Jedikiah insults Ginge. He thinks he’s a very poor example of a very poor species. One that is going to be replaced soon.

And to prove his point about how rubbish humans are, Jedikiah reverts to his true form.

A crappy, tubby robot.

Ginge is appalled.

The show’s educational remit gets a couple of minutes now as TIM gives them (and us) a lecture on the Cyclops in Greek mythology.

Robot Jedikiah puts Kenny in the twirly machine they put Stephen in a couple of weeks ago. The sickly Cyclops watches as Kenny is spun round and round. It’s actually an improvement over his normal performance.

Ginge decides the best way to get free is to tinker with the electronic circuits that "Tin Can Tommy" (i.e. Jedikiah) has carelessly left behind as part of the door mechanism.

Back at the lab, a message is coming through on channel 4. It’s from the Cyclops. Nothing will happen to Kenny if they obey his instructions. He gives them some coordinates and tells them to jaunt over there within an hour or never see Kenny again. Hmm – on the one hand it’s quite easy to jaunt but on the other, never see Kenny again. Decisions, decisions.

Back wherever they are, Kenny opens the door but Ginge’s celebration is short lived. They aren't in Kansas anymore.

They aren’t even on Earth.

They’re on a piece of junk, floating in the heavens.

Things are heating up – the TPs have put their space suits on. They’re quite flattering from certain angles.

In their cell, Ginge apologises to Kenny for the mess they got him into. They thought Jedikiah was "on the level" and just a local nutter who kidnapped children. Now they know he’s a robot from another world who kidnaps children, they want nothing to do with him. Damned racists.

Ginge asks what Jedikiah wants with him and Lefty. Kenny says "It’s not you he wants – it’s us" and that’s your cliffhanger. A mumbled recap of the last four episodes. Sometimes I wonder if they want us to tune in next week.