Who gave this episode the green light? I actually hate it more than episodes 1-12, and I hate those more than burning myself with hot oil. I mean, really. This wealthy kid rapes some girl. Good thing she's just some poor person with no power. No, wait! It turns our her stepfather is an immortal with his own paramilitary strike force! Tough luck for the rich kid! To complicate things more, Duncan just happens to be at the kid's mansion when said stepfather shows up! Apparently, he believes that the kid should be put on trial and that the stepfather has no right to seek his own vengeance on the boy. I mean, never mind the fact that the kid has diplomatic immunity and that it's really difficult to make a rape case stick in court. If I ever make a TV series, remind me to alogether avoid the issue of rape.

i should have read the reviews. this really is a lame episode and should be skipped.

i know what a quickening is but they should have changed the name. quickening makes it sound like by now duncan should be like the flash from the comics or something. i mean he kils an immortal in every episode but one (the one with Xavier st. cloud, he only cuts of st. clouds hand). i mean if it really was a quickening he would get faster every time. just saying hahaha

The premise of the "Nowhere To run" is that the main characters are trapped in a mansion under attack from a para-military group lead by the father of a rape victim. The supposed rapist is one of the people trapped inside, and the father wants revenge.The main problem with the episode Is that it tries to do way too much off screen, most importantly the main characterizations and developments were nearly entirely off camera.Take for example an early scene where the survivor group discovers that they are trapped. You would expect there to be emotional denial, or at least some stress on the characters, but they all accept it immediately as fact and start preparing defenses.Another example is a pair of scenes where the rape victim appears and tries and convince her father to leave and not kill anyone. She disappears until her next scene where she does a complete reversal and wants murderous revenge against her attacker. All character development off screen.The second problem with the episode is that the cinematography really was terrible. Possible due to the limited size of the site/set they were working with. But that doesn't excuse the final battle, which could only have been a poor choice by the director in the use of wide shots for close physical combat.

Twenty minutes in, I would have given it 2/5 stars. The earliest action sequences were awkwardly staged, and the whole beginning felt extremely rushed, with serious decisions and character moments passed over. Tessa in particular gets shorted; after 20 episodes, we know she's not a fighter, and not given to violence, but we get very little with her character's reaction, just a very short scene as she and Duncan are prepping traps, which comes fairly late in the game. Also, any kind of defensive movie, whether it's Die Hard, Fortress, or Home Alone, requires a sense of the ground that's being defended. Die Hard was absolutely brilliant with establishing shots that didn't feel gratuitous, but established the landmarks that allowed the audience to understand where they were and what they were seeing. Here, we never got a very good sense of the house, and where the action was at any given time. (Not that I expect an episode of any TV show to be up to the Die Hard standard. Still, even for TV this was a serious weak point.)However, the episode really recovered from that point. The action sequences and pacing improved significantly, and the twist with Lori's skewering of her immortal stepfather's motives was very welcome. I can't even begin to count the number of shows where the rape/murder of the tough-guy protagonist's wife/girlfriend/daughter gives him an excuse to be violent without alienating the audience. (Braveheart, many Bond movies, Firepower, etc.) It was interesting to see the dark side of this pointed out, that ultimately, it wasn't about the girl at all, it was about HIM. This take is bolstered when ultimately, it's Lori who gets vengeance for herself, in the context of saving her stepfather. It winds up being a satisfying episode, despite the flaws. Kudos.