Revival Season 1 Episode 4 Review: Run Along Little Lamb — Trust No One, Not Even Yourself

Let’s get this out of the way first: Revival Season 1 Episode 4 is a lot. 

We’re talking hidden rings, conspiracy theories, off-the-books registries, burner phones, coded language, mystical radio frequencies, attempted murders, actual murders, and yes — an almost-date night interrupted by a full-blown gunfight.

It’s not elegant. It’s not quiet. But it’s definitely moving — fast, emotionally, and with no brakes.

The episode title, “Run Along Little Lamb,” isn’t just a creepy line from Blaine Abel — it’s a warning.

Everyone’s running. Em from her past. Dana from her instincts. Wayne from his conscience. And Aaron? Well, he’s just running out of time.

What began as a personal mystery — how did Em die? — has now exploded into a full-blown conspiracy that ropes in secret registries, masked figures, and a whole lot of very bad decisions. 

It’s messy in a way that feels both intentional and a little overwhelming, because for the characters, it is overwhelming. Nobody has the whole story, and that includes us.

At the center of the chaos is Em, who’s no longer playing it safe. That slow-burn, wide-eyed confusion from earlier episodes has officially burned off. 

Her hair’s shorter. Her patience is gone. And her need for answers is sharper than ever. She doesn’t want to be told she’s fragile. She doesn’t want to be protected. She wants the truth.

Unfortunately, that truth involves her former professor and secret lover, Aaron, who is unraveling by the minute. 

His alibis don’t hold up. His wife, Nithiya, who may be dying of cancer, is being kept in the dark. And the man is literally burning evidence in the fireplace. It’s all very “this man is hiding something,” and Em can feel it in her bones — bones that no longer forecast her future.

Rhodey continues to be the show’s unlikely heart: awkward, loyal, and oddly poetic. When Em says she’s never had a massage, he doesn’t flinch. He presses harder, knowing she won’t break. 

And that’s the thing — Rhodey sees her not as someone to tiptoe around, but as someone who deserves the fullness of life. The irony of it all? Em had to die to finally start living. I just hope her new attitude hasn’t already pushed him away.

That’s the tragedy that runs through this episode. Not just Em’s — but Nithiya’s, too. She talks about how illness changes relationships. How people who love you suddenly see you differently. 

Her scene with Em is quiet and piercing. Two women carrying different kinds of pain, different kinds of invisibility, finding a brief connection in a world that no longer makes sense.

Wayne, meanwhile, is doubling down on everything he believes to be true — order, structure, protocol — right up until one of his closest friends reveals she’s a reviver. And she asks for the same grace she once gave him. 

It’s a crushing scene. Wayne denies her. And he knows it. “Oh my god,” he says after she leaves. That’s guilt. That’s recognition. That’s what happens when “us” becomes “them,” and suddenly you realize you’ve been on the wrong side all along.

It all comes to a head in the final act — a scene that plays like a thriller, a tragedy, and a nightmare all at once. 

Em meets Aaron in the woods, demanding the truth. She’s done running. She wants to know what happened. Then, a gunshot. He collapses. Dana appears. Another shot rings out — Dana’s hit. Em returns fire.

It’s chaotic, but it fits.

By the time Em cradles Dana on the ground, both sisters bleeding and breathless, the emotional weight of four episodes crashes down. 

We’ve gone from quiet grief to high-stakes violence in less than a month — and yet the core questions remain the same: Who hurt Em? What did revival actually do to her? And can you ever really go back to being the person you were before you died?

The answer, at this point, seems to be no.

Revival Season 1 Episode 4 isn’t the show’s cleanest hour, but it may be its most volatile and revealing. It’s about what happens when secrets boil over, when people stop pretending, and when survival stops being enough, and the need for meaning, clarity, and agency takes over.

There’s still no single villain. There’s no big monologue to explain it all. There’s just desperation, unraveling loyalties, and a sense that the lines between the living and the dead are getting blurrier with every passing hour.

For Em, survival was never the goal. Living was. And now, she’s doing it on her terms — even if it means blowing everything else up in the process.

And yet, for all the chaos, Revival continues to ask the kind of questions that quietly stick with you. What does it mean to wake up in a world that sees you as something else — less human, more dangerous, always other?

The episode plays with this idea in ways both literal and symbolic: flyers on doors, stamped IDs, forced registration. The town is shifting into surveillance mode, and the message is clear — if you’re different, you’re a threat.

But the real danger, as this episode shows, doesn’t come from the revivers. It comes from the people too scared to understand them, the ones who label before they listen, and from the systems built to contain what they refuse to confront.

Em’s not asking for sympathy. She’s asking for truth. And that demand — unfiltered, raw, and justified — is what makes this hour land, even when it’s messy. Revival isn’t just about the dead coming back. It’s about what’s broken when they do.

But what about you?

Is Revival scratching your sci-fi itch? Does it make you think about who you are and who you’ll become when the going gets tough? Drop a comment below to share your thoughts.

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