| Lit Fuse Season One, Episode Seven Plot: The team run into a New Mutant whose electrical powers are mutating beyond her control. A bounty hunter working for the GSA has her boyfriend prisoner, but she's feeling an unnatural desire for Brennan. Where will it all end? Good points: Walt Whitman. And Eckhart developing a healthy sense of humour about his agents. Bad points: A deathly boring guest star. |
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| In The Presence Of Mine Enemies Season One, Episode Eight Plot: Computer generated news service Proxy Blue starts blabbing about Eckhart, and he isn't too pleased. Result: the GSA kidnap Jesse's hacker girlfriend to try and shut it down. Good points: Probably the best script Tom's had all season, with a bit of a look into the deeper recesses of the GSA. Bad points: Plot holes you could drive a truck through. And too much repetition. |
| Crime Of The New Century Season One, Episode Nine Plot: Fargo-esque shenanigans as a New Mutant boy is kidnapped. Good points: One of the more complex plots this season, with the story having a wider scope than just Mutant X and the GSA. Marc Donato (also in "The Sweet Hereafter") manages not to be too irritating. Bad points: Too much goes unexplained, mainly Eckhart's links with the CIA. |
| Dark Star Rising Season One, Episode Ten Plot: A special forces unit are dying off one by one after being given mutant powers. Good points: The first appearance of the hapless Dr. Harrison. Adam and the appliance of science. Bad points: Ralf Moeller's inability to act. |
| Whiter Shade Of Pale Season One, Episode Eleven Plot: One of Adam's gizmos is stolen by an invisible thief... Good points: In the running for title of "Best episode of the season". Goes into the pasts of both Adam and Eckhart, and gets Tom out of the office for once. Good fight too. Bad points: The genetic resequencer appears to be a Zip Drive. And will we ever find out who Catherine's father is? |
| Double Vision Season One, Episode Twelve Plot: Emma is split into two people - one good, one bad - by an energy blast. Good points: Lauren Lee Smith getting some screen time. And *that* scene with Eckhart. Bad points: Adam figures out what's happened in about five seconds, and there's no moral dilemma at all about essentially killing two people to save one. Oh, and hasn't Eckhart learnt to duck by now? |
| Blood Ties Season One, Episode Thirteen Plot: Jesse's secret agent father turns up, on the run and with a stolen disk. Good points: Guest star Art Hindle is pretty good, as is Chick Reid giving Tom an ear-bashing. Brilliant dialogue. Bad points: Jesse's loyalty is never really in doubt. If Nexxogen changed the security codes, how did they get into the computer in the first place? And the Zip Disk returns. |
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