Nov 06 2008
Knight Rider Episode 1-6
TV.com: Knight of the Living Dead - The team must discover the identity of a murderer inside their own organization, when the body of a Tech is discovered. Mike and Sarah have their own concerns when they are stranded on a commercial flight and KITT’s self-destruct program has been initiated.
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Recap & Review: Halloween comes a week late to the Knight Rider Foundation. This episode was set to originally air last week, but Barack Obama bought air time in Knight Rider’s time slot. For Halloween, Mike is set to scare his friends anyway he can. We see him first get the crew back at the office while he and Sarah are flying back from a mission. His second prank is on Sarah, and these two share another awkward moment together with KITT’s assistance.
Mike seems to have more plans for his favorite holiday, but trouble hits headquarters first when Zoe and Sarah’s dad find a dead body in the computer room. After a little more looking around, it is determined they have an internal breech. One that might cause Zoe and Sarah’s dad their lives. The last thing Mike and Sarah see before their connection breaks is gunfire.
At headquarters, chaos breaks out. There is an emergency lockdown initiated by someone inside. When this happens, Sarah and Mike are cut off from communicating with headquarters, and their flight is choppy. Mike and Sarah want to communicate with their contacts at the Foundation, but the only way to do that is to get around KITT’s protocol. Sarah tries to do that, but it almost gets the two of them killed when an air pocket lets KITT free. Sarah knows there is a backdoor in KITT, but this doesn’t set to well with the car. It actually seems to bother him.
Once Charles wakes up, he tells his co-worker that KITT’s self destruct program has been initiated by whoever broke into the computer mainframe. It will go off in less than thirty minutes, and there is no way to stop it from going off before it times down. This puts Mike and Sarah in danger in their plane. They are nowhere near any place that they can land. Sarah is able to reestablish contact with headquarters, and she is told about the self destruct. The only person that can shut down the self destruct is the person that put the program in motion.
Sarah tries to find a way around it, but there is nothing she can do. KITT is the first to suggest that they dump him out of the plane before he explodes. They decide to save KITT’s files and download them back to headquarters. While they are working on this, they are still trying to find out who started the process in motion. They find out it was Carrie, as it is her voice that comes out during their search. She is asked for her weapon, but she is less than willing to give up her gun.
Meanwhile up in the plane, Sarah decides to try to remove KITT’s self destruct manually. KITT knows that once his data is uploaded, he will lose his memories. This is one smart car. They have made a KITT that actually has feelings. Chaos is still going on at headquarters, as they find out Carrie is being set up by someone just before the killer sets fire to one of the rooms. Graiman proves that Carrie is innocent.
While they are sending KITT’s files, KITT finds information on KARR. Michael thinks something is weird about everything that is happening, and he tries to stop Sarah from uploading KITT’s files. It is is too late though, and the team keeps looking for the killer. In their search, they find Zoe tied up, and there is a fake Zoe taking the files downloaded from KITT. They are able to capture the killer, and just moments before the self destruct will go off, they are able to stop it.
This episode was a bit chaotic. KITT having feelings is a bit disturbing to me. It reminds me of Star Trek and Data. Fans of that series will understand that connection. The entrance of KARR also doesn’t set well with me because if I remember correctly it did use to be another car and not some kind of cyborg. This series seems to be changing things from the original series, and it might be changing things a bit too much. What did you think of tonight’s episode of Knight Rider? For daily tv listings, check here .
