Elsewhere, Cat runs into Kryten and sparks off one of the week’s main plot points, as the pair become ‘quantum-entangled’, giving the episode its name. It’s an interesting science-fiction concept from writer Doug Naylor, as Cat and Kryten find themselves increasingly synchronised and prone to coincidence. It’s an idea that’s also initially quite an amusing one, albeit one which inevitably suffers from a law of diminishing returns – as Rimmer points out later in the episode, it does start to get annoying, and like any joke (or at least, any joke not uttered by Stewart Lee) it’s never as funny as the first time you hear it; it certainly becomes more of a plot device than a running gag as the episode reaches its climax. That said, it’s a very impressive and perfectly-timed performance from Robert Llewellyn and Danny John-Jules, which helps sell the idea.

While Entangled is very much an ensemble piece, it’s nice to see Robert Llewellyn with some proper comedic material for him to get his panel-beaten head around, for perhaps the first time since Trojan. There’s a lot for him to do in the first half in particular, with highlights including the spoon-drying scene and the scene in which he confronts Lister, both of which have been heavily trailed by Dave in the weeks leading up to the series.

Actually, that would be one of my main complaints about the first half of the episode; it feels as though we saw all of the funniest bits months ago. This is, of course, no fault of the episode itself, and it’s likely that the majority of the audience will be coming to these scenes for the first time, but it’s unfortunate that so much of the trailered material came from the same one, though a testament to how strong some of these moments are.

And while we’re on the subject of Dave, is it just me who’s finding some of the ad break positions a tad bizarre? Last week’s Lemons cut out in the middle of a key scene, and this week’s in the middle of an effects shot. Obviously without ad breaks we wouldn’t have a series at all, but some of the choices feel unusual, to say the least.

Going back to the episode itself, the opening scenes feel far less peripheral to the episode than some have in recent weeks, although again the scenes are all two-handers, with the crew not being united until over a third of the way through the episode. Whilst it does allow for some solid jokes and strong character exchanges, at times it does lend the show a slightly empty atmosphere. When the main four are finally together, however, they’re firing on all cylinders, with Cat once again stealing the evolved lion’s share of the laughs.