'His Dark Materials' Season 2, Episode 5 Recap: "The Scholar"

As His Dark Materials reaches the back half of the second season, the main plot thread continues to focus on Will and Lyra as they plan out a high stakes heist to get the alethiometer back from Boreal.

This week's A-plot is all about the two of them prepping, talking through, and then pulling off this heist (though not the way they'd planned.) It's also a chance for Will to get better acquainted with his new toy, practising cutting holes and sealing them back up, as the two map out how the city of Cittàgazze overlays the city of Oxford in another temporal plane.

Mrs. Coulter: "What do you mean she runs a department?"