Sanctuary: Season 2, Episodes 4-6

Episode 4 Hero - There's a Superhero in town and whilst the team try to find out more about him there's also the discovery of a large, newly hatched egg to look into.

A stand alone episode with reasonably straightforward plots that, this time, are not kept totally separate from one another; you do actually feel like both are going on at the same time. There's some definite deliberate humour injected here which works as far as it goes, and in nicely balanced by a 'new girl Kate' subplot which actually has a bit of edge to it and is the best 'introduction to her character' yet.
Overall not bad, with Kate getting the best of it, but I'm missing Druitt and Tesla... and the ending really is a bit "Everyone has a laugh after the action's over" like at the end of each Star Trek episode with Jim, Spock and Bones!

Episode 5 Pavor Nocturnus - Magnus wakes up a few years into the future to discover a post-apocalyptic world where infectious 'zombies' roam the world and most of her team are long dead.

Though this is pretty obviously going to somehow be reset at the end of the episode it still has a tension to it that I'd been waiting for. The muted colours it's shot in add a deliberately downbeat look to it, the sets use more real props and less green screen to get an extra grittiness and the zombie creatures really are suitably scary - my investigations lead me to believe this is actually the only 15 rated episode of the season but obviously that means 15 applies to the whole set
Cast wise the change in character of Will between his usual self and future self is excellently done and Amanda Tapping plays Magnus just perfectly (maybe helped by the fact this episode is being co-written by the series' creator) as she searches for the cure the 'regular time line' her never did.
It is very reminiscent of the "I am Legend" story which has, of course, been done before but this episode is still edgier and more adult than anything else so far (one scene has been stated by Amanda Tapping as the toughest she's ever had to do in her career). The ending has a nice little reveal to it but basically is simple and it works rounding off an excellent, well crafted darker episode.

Episode 6 Fragments - A normally docile abnormal attacks a Sanctuary reseach scientist and the team investigate why but the scientist's husband cares less about why and more about making sure it won't happen again.

A nice little investigation style episode though it gets a bit too CSI: Sanctuary in places and, sadly, is a bit too easy to guess the general direction the outcome will take, in my opinion... maybe I've watched too much crime TV! However, the season is now really starting to miss the more individual "non-team-player" attitudes that Druitt and Tesla's presence gave the early episodes.
A decent enough episode which uses the skills of 'the team' well and does have some relatively mature themes but I'm a bit disappointed with the there being no sign of a new new arc following the apparent end of the Cabal, no new secrets being revealed that would lead to changes and no real character development except in the simplest of senses.