Whole lot of running, hiding, and horsing around, with only one loser this week: Miss Channing.

We begin with Bo using her telekinesis to sculpt water-shapes in the air. Ya gotta love CGI. Her power’s getting stronger. Meanwhile Tate, who couldn’t stand the kid last week, now asserts himself as the new Alpha Male ‘cause he’s, like, her Dad. And because she’s using her power, Roman Skouras’ deus ex mach – excuse us, his telekinetic tracking device that just happens to have been invented right now and just happens to be able to track any TK events anywhere and even tell you who tk’d it – “like a fingerprint!” — leads his hit-team to Bo in North Philly.

Bo & Co escape on a rickety board-bridge between buildings that Bo demolishes after they escape. (Why does Tate feel compelled to pick her up and carry her like a baby? Not only does it add weight to the unstable escape-bridge, it’s like this 10-year-old can’t even walk. There’s a real strange concept of kid-hood in this show; she’s constantly see-sawing between being a clueless over-sheltered baby to a smart-ass street kid, from a superhero to a weakling.

More change-as-you-go: Skouras’ traitorous right-hand woman Zoe, who’s already tipped off Milton Winter before and smuggled out drugs to save Bo, suddenly decides she’s not going to tell Milton about the TK tracker, even though he already knows. Why? ‘Cause don’t ask questions, that’s why. So Winter has to make a 180 – now she can’t use the TK he said it was essential for her to use in the last scene. Whoa, plot twist, dude!

Ahh, the task force we haven’t seen in weeks is back! But track their effectiveness: one acidic phone conversation with Skouras, one frustrated “we know she’s in Philly!” conversation…and that’s it. They never show up, never see her, never…well, anything.

Deus ex Machina, Part 2: Winter’s ally Miss Leeds has instantly built a computer chip that hides Bo’s specific TK from the tracking machine – but only hers, making her effectively invisible. And of course for it to work, they have to send Channing back inside Skouras’ project, Orchestra, to install the chip in the mainframe. (Boy, you’d think if this ex-Orchestra hacker Leeds could reverse-engineer the tech and build the chip in a matter of hours, she could build it so it worked remotely, but…hey, STORY, baby, STORY.)

Commercial .. and we consider what a shame it is to throw away this plot twist. It actually would have been nice to see a few tense weeks of chase-and-escape while the tracker actually worked, instead of just throwing the tech out in the space of a couple of minutes. But never mind, back to work…

OF COURSE there just happens to be an “abandoned sewage line” that runs right under the high-security Orchestra facility that only Channing knows about.  What is this, Gotham City? We are re-told what we already know: that Bo can read people’s minds/emotions/story lines as well as move crap, but apparently it’s only the TK that’s detectable. It doesn’t interfere with this week’s B-Story, when she vibes a nice Dad, sees the murder he’s planning and shows it to him. No prob there.

Channing sneaks into Orchestra By the way, this secret access is not only the cleanest abandoned sewer we ever saw, but is also big enough to accommodate their newest SuperVan. How lucky!

The B-Story Dad, who seems to own a hardware store, confronts the bad guy, Mr. Simpson, the nice-scary rep for King Loan Shark himself, a character right out of Goodfellas Central Casting. And yes, he actually says, “Nice family. I’d hate for anyting to happen to them.” Is there some kind of book of clichés, maybe an online database, where you can just cut and paste this crap?

Commercial, so here’s the question: How come Winter’s mini-organization can continue to afford a succession of SuperVans and tech, but can only put up Bo and Tate in an endless success of crap-hole abandoned warehouses? Priorities, Winter!)

So while Channing’s going all Mission Impossible and breaking into the Orchestra facility, and then, just to stretch a thin concept to an hour, Believe does what it always does:fills time with Bo and Tate bickering and characters telling each other stuff that they and we already know. As in Bo confronting B-Story Dad again to confirm what we already know: he didn’t kill Mr. Simpson the loan shark, but Mr. Simpson will be back. Dad explains it was Wal-Mart’s fault he went to the loan shark, and Tate whines. Déjà vu, man.

Tate and B-Story Dad take Bo to Loan Shark’s mansion to try and talk him into more time. Two grown men taking a little girl into a dangerous situation, without guns, because a 10-year-old says to. Because, you know, it’s Bo. The result? Tate agrees to acquire some special breeder horse –yes, horse – for Loan Shark, and the debt will be forgiven.

Does this make any sense? Of course it doesn’t. It’s Believe.

Back in Orchestra, Channing replaces the chip, nearly gets caught, but doesn’t.

And apparently Bo’s immovable moral compass does not (You can’t take that money! You can’t lie to those people! I can’t hurt that bad man! That’s wrong!) extend to theft of someone nice innocent man’s million-dollar property. She has no trouble using her TK power to help steal, and the “blocking chip” seems to work. While back in Orchestra, Zoe and Channing run into each other, and in a scene that’s only interesting because its bathed in blue fluorescent light, C talks Z out of turning her in.

Trust me: Mission impossible it ain’t.

But it does alert the long-missing FBI Task Force. They’re on their way to the victimized horse-farm.

The hardware van with the kidnapped horse inside is stopped by a single cop. Bo and Tate take the horse out the back and ride away over the countryside. B-Story Dad takes off, leaving the cop behind. And oops, Channing doesn’t get out of Orchestra. In a key scene they didn’t bother to show us, the bad guys apparently caught her on camera and welded her escape route shut. She’s trapped and caught.

Commercial again, and here’s a question: does Tate not have a phone? Because he never bothers to call Winter and tell him their whole loan shark/horse theft story, and now they’re lost in the woods and he doesn’t even think of whipping out the phone for GPS. Doesn’t matter; after a really really funny scene where Tate breaks a rib (ha ha ha!), he and Bo just happen to stumble onto the estate of the Loan Shark who wanted the horse in the first place.

The B-Story is resolved, Bo and Tate bicker some more just to round out the hour. And let’s COMPLETELY FORGET that the cops knew enough to stop this guy’s hardware van with the horse in it, and then fled the scene. That’s never mentioned again. And let’s ALSO complete forget the FBI Task Force, who is once again a day late and a dollar short. They apparently never make it to Philly. Let’s just focus on this last bit of nonsense: Channing is in custody with Orchestra, but Winter says the “scrambler chip” is still in place and Bo is safe. But Channing was caught because she was seen on surveillance footage in the building, going into the computer room. What would they NOT run a systems check, see what she was there, find the chip, etc. etc.? And how was it that the surveillance cameras didn’t catch her tete-a-tete with Zoe, where the traitorous assistant let her go?

Guess that’s for next week, along with the introduction of a new pretty girl named “Dani” in the last twelve seconds. Another psychic superheroine? Whatever. Channing captivity is, essentially, the only thing that happened this week. By the end we’re right back where we start, with Bo massaging water-shapes for practice without thought or fear of reprisal.

Round and round she goes, and where she stops…we already know.