With the Angels is a great delight, even if this is only half of it. It reminds me of John Dorney’s heyday writing in Doom Coalition and Ravenous, where he would effortlessly juggle high-concept action and in-depth character work in one episode and make it look excessively easy. This has a lot in common with something as audacious and sprawling as Songs of Love or The Odds Against — it’s fairly vast in scope with lots of ideas, but it still has a very good character backbone to it.

This is the first Naomi, Harry and Seven story in two years, and it feels a little bizarre to get back to them immediately as if no time has passed at all. It always perplexes me how effective a trio they are together — Naomi doesn’t feel like a woman from the 70s and never has, and Harry is simplistic as ever, but the emotional stuff in the back half of this episode utterly gobsmacked me.

Throw in the Weeping Angels (which unlike many other monsters, are yet to be done wrong by Big Finish) being utilized in a fantastically unique way and this may just be the sleeper hit of the year if Part Two wraps it up as finely as Part One.