To read our reviews of episodes 1-3 of Powers season two, click here, episode 4 here, episodes 5-6 here, episode 7 here. To check back on all of our Powers coverage, including reviews of season one, click here. The review below contains spoilers for the previous episodes of Powers, as well as spoilers for episode eight.

Buckle up. After episode seven disappointingly cut ties with the first half of season two — starting what feels like a third season of Powers — episode eight, titled Chasing Ghosts, takes away comfort zones and stirs the pot with an intense series of disparate events that significantly changes the trajectory of where Powers is headed. It still feels like a major shift away from the arc of the initial six episodes, but the ante has been upped in game changing ways. Walker is doing extensive research on newly revealed villain, Morrison — AKA The Ghost. All of his findings put Morrison?s status as deceased more than 40 years earlier, corroborated by statements made by SuperShock and Retro Girl at the time. Turns out that they lied, or at least fudged the truth to assuage the public when a body failed to materialize. There isn?t much time to process this before Walker collapses on the ground with one of his ringing headaches as SuperShock calmly looks on. Scenes that follow make it clear that Supershock has some idea of what?s going on with Walker, and still thinks of him as a fellow power. In fact, I think that SuperShock?s line saying ?...