Get ready for a lot of false leads, wasted time, and inexplicable ‘twists’ that invalidate not just this week’s adventure, but pretty much the last nine weeks.

We begin right where we left off: with Bo being forced to practice endlessly, Channing still in Skouras’ clutches, and Skouras momentarily distracted by a new TK girl, a homeleess runaway named Dani.  She’s supposed to be under “discrete surveillance” (I guess that’s what you call watching somebody after you’ve broken in on them and waved automatic weapons in their face. But hey, that was a week ago.) Skouras tried to sweet-talk her (has Kyle McLachlan ever been able to sweet talk anybody? Come on, the guy’s been creepy since The Hidden, not to mention Twin Peaks. Which we miss. Still.)

Bo’s ever-changing powers shows her a full-blown vision, a premonition of an Asian teenager – a violinist —  having a car accident because her tiger-mom pushed her too hard. (Too much practice? Just like Bo? See what they did there? Wow.) Bo becomes obsessed with helping the unrecognized teen and won’t even practice her TK unless they help. It’s so cute: Tate actually thinks he can argue with her.  But we do learn that Winter’s whole network is shattered and his safe house blown by Channing’s capture. So he draws more attention to himself by setting fire to his HQ and fleeing with his own ally, the lady Doctor Leeds, in tow.

Oh, look! The FBI Task Force That’s Never Accomplished Anything ( the TFTNAA) is back, working with Skouras to interrogate Channing. (Let’s not get picky about laws or warrants or anything; that crap is for normies), while Bo ONCE AGAIN wanders away without telling Tate, this time to find that the violin prodigy who just happens to live right across from her (inevitably) warehouse safehouse. (God, the only TV kid less trustoworthy than Bo is that annoying child Carl on The Walking Dead who will not stay in the house.) (Hey, a new crossover: SAFEHOUSE 13).

Commercial! Which leads to a side-thought. Doesn’t anybody at JC Penney’s ad agency know that there’s no such word as “jew-luh-ree”? Never mind; we’re already on to Botox…

Skouras sends one of his clumsy B-Team psychics in, to strip-and-rinse Channing’s mind. You can tell she’s under stresss ‘cause  there’s a fish-eye lens. Meanwhile, Skouras has somehow convinced Dani to go to the Country Club Prison for Gifted Teens (must be that ‘charm’ thing of his). The Traitor Assistant befriends her and hears her entirely uninteresting backstory.

Tate, finding Bo through no obvious means, does the first smart thing he may ever have done: to keep the car-crash premonition from coming true, he slashes two of the tires on the car that’s destined to crash. Then he lies and gets free food. That Tate! What a card! A friendly meal at the Korean Tiger Mom’s tell us nothing we don’t already know and shows us the premonition a second time –now with extra explosions! – and reveals the face and license plate of the car what struck ‘em. Armed with this info, Bo tells them the Tiger Family about her premonition, while Skouras’ B-Team psychic doesn’t get anything from Channing. It’s past the bottom of the hour, as we discover that Bo, Jr. – ‘scuse me, Dani – can lift things almost as well as Bo.

“Psychic powers” on Believe are just kind of a grab-bag taken from back issues of X-Men comics. If you can move things with your mind, then you can read minds, too. And tell the future. And make people’s head explodes. Or anything else the plot requires, at least for that week. Dani is no exception. Though she’s shown no telepathic ability so far, just TK, she’s put in front of Channing to pull out info with her brainpan, while Bo uses TK to jack with the DMV computer to get the name and address of the guy who hit the prodigy’s family (so now she can muck with proprietary DMV software/hardware at will, too, though she’s only 10 and doesn’t know how ‘puter work so good.) We are then subjected to more bickerage between Bo and Tate, which Bo wins (as always).

Super-Dani roots data about Winter’s safe houses and back-up safe-houses (so clever), and turns it over to the TFTNAA. Its leader does finally point out that there are no actual lawyers in site, but nobody cares: let’s just go to commercial before we raid the back-up safe house.

Tate intercepts the crash-car driver. Oh! He’s about to drive to his own wedding (why doesn’t Tate just knife this guy’s tires to hold him up, just like he did the Tiger Family? No reason, except it would interfere with the pre-arranged plot. Tate apparently forgets that he’s America’s Most Wanted, and harasses the guy ‘til the cops show up, and he flees. And trust me, this isn’t the last logical lapse in this episode. It’s just beginning.

Elsewhere at this same moment, The Task Force raids the back-up safe house, which promptly blows up.  Apparently Winter’s ‘no-guns’ policy does not extend to hi-yield explosives that can kill you just as dead, because he puts them out in plain sight so you can, like, youknow, dodge them before they detonate. But more important: in the confusion after the ‘splosion, Skouras goes missing.

Across Town, Bo invites herself along to the Fatal Recital – just so she can completely fulfill the prophecy she’s been trying so hard to avoid.

After the commercial: Skouras is dragged into Winter’s presence, so Winter can offer him a deal. Why not call him, as he has in the past? He’s easy to find, after all; they’ve talked before. Because it wouldn’t serve the plot: face to face is SO much more dramatic. And get this: in this dramatic one-one one, in Episode 9 of 12, with no hints of it earlier, Winter tells Skouras that he knows there’s another program – one Skouras has created with ‘other entities’ – and he says he’ll tell the US Government about it unless Skouras shuts down Orchestra and stops hunting Bo. Whaaaat? Why didn’t he play this card earlier? Like in Episosde 2, when it was clear that Skouras would go to any lengths to get Bo back? No good reason. None. At all.

And just to complete the logical disconnect: Over in Bo’s B-story, (Bo-Story?) the envisioned moment of the car-crash has finally come, exactly as she pictured it, with Bo in the back seat just as she was in the vision at the beginning of the hour. But this time Bo uses her now-familiar mind-power to keep the cars from colliding. But they do stop and meet and the bridegroom just happens to be a conductor, who gives his card to Prodigy girl. Happy ending! Yay! Now you may ask, why didn’t Bo see herself using the power the firfrst time? And why wouldn’t she have used it if she saw this coming at ‘em? After all she was there in the vision. Again: no reason! Just soe she’d have an hour to wander around!

And back with Winter: he turns Skouras back over to the TFTNAA, who lives up to its name: they do not arrest Winter, they sullenly exchange Channing for Skouras with nothing more than a small threat…and then Skouras takes the FBI agent’s gun and tries to shoot Winter, succeeding only in shooting Channing, the poor woman. And all the FBI Agent seems to do is yell at Skouras for bad behavior before they all scurry away, leaving behind a clearly badly wounded woman.

Meanwhile, the traitor in Skouras’ midst is caught by Super-Dani, newly loyal to the Skouras cause, who strangles Dr. Traitor with her TK, tells she knows she’s a trailor, and then leaves her alive and walks away. Why not just kill her? Why not keep her secret knowledge to herself? No reason. NONE AT ALL.

See, this hour made a lazy kind of Bo-sense up until the last fifteen minutes. Then, as usual, none of it held together. The car collision B-Story, we discover, could have been avoided from Scene One. Skouras, we are told for the first time, has a second program that he’s had all along for no discernable reason. Winter, it is revealed, could have blackmailed Skouras from a distance rather than put himself in jeapordy; in fact Winter could have blackmailed Skouras weeks ago, when he still had an organization and money, and kept Bo safe all along. And the late-arriving Dani, Bo’s Evil Twin, reveals herself and does not kill the one person she should. Because…

No. There is no Because in this show. There is only Believe. And I believe we have only three more episodes…