If the second episode of the season was fine but pedestrian, episode three is certainly a step up - with some excellent visuals and some twists that I didn't see coming.
With their new ally, Maureen (Molly Parker), John (Toby Stephens) and Don (Ignacio Serricchio) try to locate and bring back an engine - but they're unsure as to just how much they can trust Scarecrow to stick to their plan. Will (Maxwell Jenkins) explores the ruins further and discovers some facts about the species that created the robots. Meanwhile, Judy (Taylor Russell) arrives back with Captain Kelly (Russell Hornsby) but as one of only two adults, should he assume a command role? Particularly if he disagrees with Judy's decisions.
In the last episode, I noted how daft it was to move the sleeping humans in their machines, given that there was a cliff to get down. Evidentially agreeing with me, the show chose to miss out the scenes of them parachuting down and instead show them all in the ground and comment on it. That was the only real point of contention though in an episode that I thought was pretty good. We still don't know what happened to the race that built the robots, but we do now know that they built them in their own image. I liked the story between Judy and Captain Kelly, and I also liked how it played out, as I'd have assumed that it would have been a humans over computers storyline, so the fact that science and not instinct was right was refreshing. I really liked seeing some of the old June Harris again, with the urge to kill, to save her own life coming to the front again.
The best story though, was the one with Scarecrow and the unexpected resolution to that adventure. Again, I didn't see it coming and it changed not just the end of the episode, but also how I thought the rest of the season might play out.