Let's be brutally honest - Curtis (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) was probably never anyone's favourite Misfits character and, despite being the sole original cast member to have stuck around for this fourth series, he's felt like something of a spare part so far.
But that all changed in Sunday night's episode 4.04, which sees the former athlete further pursue a steamy liaison with 'trainee probation worker' Lola - Lucy Gaskell makes for a superb femme fatale, dark and alluring one moment, then all vulnerable and wide-eyed the next.
As we later discover, Lola has a very dark past and a string of twisted relationships behind her, including one with the obsessive Jake - Andrew Gower is underused here, but happily brings the same memorable creepiness to his character that he did to Being Human's Cutler earlier in 2012.
For her own mysterious reasons, Lola fakes an attack, claiming that Jake's her physically-abusive ex, sending an angry Curtis straight at him... like a bullet. Yes, the confrontation goes badly wrong and Curtis ends up shooting Jake dead. Worse still, Lola vanishes and the rest of the Misfits crew have no clue who she even is...
For what feels like the first time this series, the new Misfits gang come together to help Curtis, who's decided to use his power and resurrect Jake in the hope of finding out more about the absent Lola. This sterling scheme naturally doesn't proceed according to plan - though his friends are initially unaware, Curtis is bitten by the undead Jake and is transformed into a zombie himself...
Fighting off his animalistic urges, Curtis ultimately uncovers the truth about Lola - she's an aspiring actress who was transformed into her vampish alter-ego by the storm and is now deeply out of touch with reality - she's a tragic figure, forced into a never-ending cycle of death and lust against her will.
