Knight RiderKnight of the Living Dead
Original Air Date: Nov 5th, 2008
EV - TwoCents Reviewer
EV@thetwocentscorp.com
HAP-PY HALLOWEEN! Ahem… well, nearly a week late, but better late then never, I always say. The reason…Knight Rider’s Halloween episode is a week late because of Senator Obama’s thirty minute campaign commercial last week, which preempted the episode. Anyways, Halloween…Knight Rider. It had plenty of tricks and some treats involved. It starts out with the age old “It was a dark and stormy night…” The crew is gearing up for the company’s Halloween party.
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Original Air Date: Nov 5th, 2008
EV - TwoCents Reviewer
EV@thetwocentscorp.com
HAP-PY HALLOWEEN! Ahem… well, nearly a week late, but better late then never, I always say. The reason…Knight Rider’s Halloween episode is a week late because of Senator Obama’s thirty minute campaign commercial last week, which preempted the episode. Anyways, Halloween…Knight Rider. It had plenty of tricks and some treats involved. It starts out with the age old “It was a dark and stormy night…” The crew is gearing up for the company’s Halloween party.
Mike sends in a pretty wicked video with a huge scary clown face going 3D on the screen and makes everyone scream. He, Sarah and KITT are in a plane flying back in the same storm that is raging back at HQ. Speaking of HQ, Dr. Graiman and Zoe are doing their nightly rounds…and oh, what’s this. There’s a door that shouldn’t be unlocked that is…And what’s inside? Why, a dead lab tech! So, everyone thinks Mike’s pulled another prank, but it’s not Mike. He thinks its an elaborate Halloween prank by Dr. Graiman or somebody. Naw…this dude’s dead for real…and whoever killed him? Accessed Knight Research’s mainframe. That means…this intruder has EVERYTHING about KR…at his/hers fingertips.
Top it all off? The intruder is still in the room…and shoots on Dr. Graiman and Zoe, who both go down…Zoe dives for cover and knocked Dr. Graiman down, who hit his head on the floor. Now there’s an armed and dangerous intruder somewhere in the HQ…so, it’s put into lockdown. No one in, no one out. No communication in or out either. That means KITT, Mike and Sarah can’t communicate with HQ. That doesn’t sit will with the three and Sarah attempts to get in through a “backdoor” in the lockdown protocols. This…prompts KITT to ask Sarah…if there’s a back door…to him? Sarah won’t answer per say…but says that if her father DID put a back door into him…he must have had a good reason.
KITT doesn’t take it well, but KITT’s problems are just beginning. Back at HQ, Billy is attempting to recreate the conversation that probably occurred before this tech was killed in order to see who the killer is. This is done by residual sound and voice waves….it’s complicated. Dr. Graiman finally wakes up and reveals to Torres…the intruder activated KITT’s auto-destruct mechanism. KITT has a self-destruct? Apparently Torres didn’t know either and doesn‘t like it, but Graiman says he refuses to have another car on his hands…should something go wrong…like this. They have less than thirty minutes to stop it, but heh, problem! KITT, Mike and Sarah are in a freaking plane, above a freaking ocean…grant it Sarah was able to get through the back door…but the only way to stop the auto-destruct sequence, is by having the person who activated it, deactivate it via a palm scan. They got to find the killer.
KITT’s auto-destruct is foolproof…it can’t be stopped readily. Only thing to do…is to download KITT’s files in to a backup brain and dispose of his shell into the ocean. Ouch. KITT’s being…his essence, the personality he has become, won’t be saved. Ouch again. KITT is angry, feeling betrayed for having such a mechanism put in him without his knowledge. But he agrees, with Mike and Sarah’s promise that they will take care of him. The download commences.
Meanwhile, Billy has finished his part. He’s taken care of all the voices that should have been in the room at the time of the murder and only one voice is left. The shooter’s. They play it. It’s…Agent Revai’s? No freaking way! Yep, and although Dr. Graiman, Zoe and Billy believe she’s being set up, Torres is forced to take her weapon and confine her to quarters. The other three set out to find what really is happening.
Back in the plane, Sarah sees that KITT’s auto-destruct is really a bomb made out of his own parts. Take out the parts that make it up and the problem is gone. THAT, however would take exactly 40 more seconds than they have and that’s with skilled mechanics. Might as well try. KITT seems to be taking it relatively well…but then he has to go and play some of his beloved memories, all of which include Mike and Sarah. Go ahead and say “aw“, ‘cause I did…
After reviewing other video feeds and taking a second look at the voice, Billy, Zoe and Dr. Graiman all see that Agent Revai was in the b-ball court at the time of the shooting and the voice print shows signs of being manufactured. So, Carrie’s off the hook, but the real killer is still loose…and most likely still in the room where the shooting was. Agent Revai, Torres and a few other toughies go back and investigate the room. They find a cut out in the wall, hidden by a chair…and dude! Zoe is inside!!
The other Zoe is the killer, made up to look like Zoe. And she has all of KITT’s files. So, then there’s a showdown between, Agent Revai, Torres, the fake Zoe, Billy and the real Zoe. The real Zoe knocks the fake one out and her palm print is scanned. The self destruct is deactivated! Whew…good thing too, because Mike and Sarah had given up on trying to get the bomb out manually and their window to dump KITT had passed. The only way they could have gotten out was to jump from the plane. Unfortunately, before Torres can get any info out of the fake Zoe, she bites a cyanide pill she had in her mouth and dies.
Now THAT…was one helluva Halloween! I really don’t think I have to say how much of an improvement this episode was over the others. Touted as the “formula-breaking episode” for this series, it lived up to that and more. It was emotional, action-packed, humorous….all the right things in all the right places. My TwoCents. Yours?