Knight Rider"A Hard Day’s Knight”
Original Air Date: Oct 15th, 2008
EV - TwoCents Reviewer
EV@thetwocentscorp.com
So…if you could give your significant other a poison that makes him/her speak only the truth, would you do it? Just for kicks? Well, poor Mikey Knight has no choice in this rockin’ episode of Knight Rider.
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Original Air Date: Oct 15th, 2008
EV - TwoCents Reviewer
EV@thetwocentscorp.com
So…if you could give your significant other a poison that makes him/her speak only the truth, would you do it? Just for kicks? Well, poor Mikey Knight has no choice in this rockin’ episode of Knight Rider.
The episode starts with Mike and KITT following a quote unquote messenger boy. This guy hands the case off to some other kid, who ends up getting caught by two other people who are after it, too. As to who they were, that was never quite clarified…Homeland Security, maybe?
The case is empty, save for an “Have a nice day” sign in it. Messenger Boy meets up with another guy who isn’t quite who he seems to be, and hands him a little case. I say that, because the other guy is just Mike in a mask…and his car? Oh, it’s KITT…but in van mode! Seriously not kidding. KITT has a van mode….
Mike and KITT take the carrier pigeon back to the KittCave, where a pair of contact lenses that are the same as Messenger Boy’s eyes and a voice patch that is actually absorbed into the throat, that has the same voice pattern as this guy’s voice, are made.
So, Mike is now effectively the new Messenger Boy. The case was actually a phone and it gave direction to the drop place where Mike is to pick up package…Mike and KITT follow them to an industrial warehouse where Mike meets up with another guy and his goons. This guy, as we later learn , is Walton Axe.
The contact lenses and voice patch works flawlessly and Mike is given new directions and case. Then the real killer comes, literally. To insure Mike’s loyalty to this job…one of Axe’s goons POISONS Mike and tells them that in three hours this stuff will shut his central nervous system down and he will die, BUT, if he does this job right…they’ll meet again and give him the antidote.
Obviously Mike is pissed off about this, I would be too. The poison is a hallucinogen, with a nice little mix of a truth serum mixed in. Mike HAS to tell the truth while under the effect of this crap. The new case he had been given had a pass to Tech for Tomorrow science fair, which head techie Billy gushes over. After the contents are documented, Mike takes the case and heads over to a real nice park, where someone else will pick up the case, and then Mike will have to follow that person.
Mike, however, is deteriorating rapidly, and suffers a bit of a fit while watching the case. KITT snaps him out of it and informs him the case is moving. This person is a relatively pretty girl in impossibly high heels. This leads to a car chase…which ends in her swerving to miss a direct hit with a semi and sending her car into a spectacular crash, in which, she dies.
Mike gets back to HQ, and is preparing to go to the science fair himself…and do a pretty sensitive job: “kill” the CEO of Innovative Technology, Darren Richards, with a synthetic gun that was found in the dead chick’s car. Actually, Mike will just fake the killing. Food coloring bullets in the gun…that kind of thing.
Mike arrives at the convention and puts on a pair of tracker lenses, designed to show him who he has to “kill” AKA Darren Richards. After telling KITT that he is the best soldier he has ever met, Mike pulls the gun and “shoots” Richards. Now, he has to get out and fast, but in his condition, that isn’t going too well.
Agent Ruvai and Zoe have moved in by this time, and have taken care of the “wounded” Richards. Mike races to get the rendezvous point where he will at last get the antidote…but, he’s dying. Making one last call to Sarah, he tells her he loves her and then falls dead, KITT confirming that for Sarah.
Mike can’t be dead…he can’t be! KITT, in Attack Mode, pulls over as Sarah pulls up and she proceeds to defib Mike’s heart into life again. They are now in a parking structure, racing to stop the bad guy’s car. Remember this baddie is Walton Axe…who wanted this Richard’s guy dead because he had accounts in an offshore accounts that would gain substantial funds with the death of Darren Richards. A helicopter is spotted overhead and appears to be Axe’s transport out.
If he gets on that helicopter, Mike will really be dead. The back of Axe’s van opens up and a goon begins to fire a huge gun at KITT. The bullets contain a small charges and are doing a lot of damage to KITT’s nanoskin. Using his grappling hook, KITT pulls a classic American Graffiti move and yanks the back wheel axle off the van and puts it out of commission.
Mike again has slipped into unconsciousness and needs the antidote NOW. A short fire fight follows, with Sarah getting her bad ass on, until Agent Ruvai and her fellow agents pull up and subdue everyone. Of course, bad boy Walton Axe refuses to cooperate until Sarah puts her gun to his head. He complies finally…only to drop the antidote, causing the vial to smash. Agent Ruvai smashes his nose in and Sarah wipes up some of the antidote with her shirt. KITT takes over the process of analyzing the substance after Sarah rubs her shirt on his chemical analyzer unit.
The next few minutes are tense, but in the end, the episode ends happily. It was a crazy episode. Seeing Sarah take over as the hero of the show wasn’t something I agree with, though. It’s Mike and KITT. They’re the main heroes of the show. But hey, if it makes it more exciting, go for it. My TwoCents on it. Yours?