This is a sequel to a previous story, so yeah, it's Mark Gatiss writing it again.
In the previous story a chap failed to perform a ritual to bring back a dead ancestor. Guess what happens here? It's that, plus some padding scenes that don't amount to anything and don't progress anything interesting.
A "damp squib" of a story, as they say. For some reason, Liz Shaw is even more into the occult now, taking part in rituals, not just saying "they believe in it so let's use that", now it's "let's use this book to summon a spirit". Science? What's that then?
We do get a lot of returning cast, with repeat characters (and a convenient twin sister to allow one actress back), although Mark Gatiss doesn't grace us with his janitor character (probably didn't want to shave his head again).
There are other P.R.O.B.E. stories that came out much later, but this is it for the late 90s. If I get a hold of the others, we'll see...
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