Nobody Does It Better
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Knight Rider:
Season 1:
Nobody Does It Better
Nobody Does It Better
Elliott Stevens, CEO of Milton Electronics (which makes video games) comes to the Foundation to ask for help. Someone has been stealing the source code to several games, and Stevens wants to know who. Michael and KITT narrow the list down to a man named Julian Groves, since Groves has two addresses in town. Besides Michael, someone else has been following Groves as well - a female private investigator named Flannery Roe. Roe has been photographing Groves and tapping his phones for his wife, who believes Groves is having an affair. Groves has been going to two locations - a tennis club (where his supposed lover, Connie Chason, is an instructor) and a nearby lake for "fishing trips." While tracking Groves, Michael instead decides to find out more about Roe, but she turns the tables on him in front of a cop and Michael lands in jail. Eventually, Michael and Roe decide to stay out each other's business - that is, until the following night, when Groves is to meet with Chason. Michael goes to Groves' other address but finds only Roe, who is shocked to find Chason dead. Michael knows Groves was too scared to deal the source code directly, so he was using Connie as a "middleman" to go through with the deals. It turns out that the bartender at the tennis club is the man who murdered Chason, but Michael still doesn't know who he is working for. Michael learns that since Chason's death, Groves has been staying at the cabin by the fishing lake, and the bartender arrives there as well. Roe is there also, and the bartender ("Armand") kidnaps her, but not before KITT is able to head him off. Michael stops him, but something doesn't fit. On a hunch, Bonnie pretends to be a friend of Chason's who has the source code in a briefcase, and she invites Stevens to make a deal with her. Stevens is indeed the man behind the thefts (he knew he was going to be replaced as CEO, so he was secretly selling the source code to another company to get a job there), and before he escapes, Michael and KITT stop him.
THOUGHTS:
-Very nice episode, flows nicely.
-Fun with Devon and the video games throughout the episode!
New feature on KITT:
+Not really a new feature, but this is the first time we see KITT's IR scope from KITT's point of view.
FAVORITE QUOTE:
"You wanna stop playing 'junior private eye' for one minute and listen to me?"
-Michael to Roe (I was thinking this the whole episode)
NITS:
-Why doesn't KITT warn Michael when Armand sneaks up behind Michael in Roe's office?
-KITT is flat on the bottom during the first turbo boost.
-In many shots, it's raining outside KITT but Michael's window is open (for the camera to look through).
-The shots of Michael yelling "yeah!" before the turbo boosts are used twice.
-The camera gets really muddy during the second turbo boost.
-At the end of the episode, it looks like Devon is "playing a video game" on a blank screen!
By Scott McClenny on Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 9:48 am: This epsiode also features a grown up Tony Dow as
Groves.Actually it would have been hard to picture
Wally Cleaver as anything but a misguided worker
doing what his boss tells him to do.
Flannery Roe seems like rather too much of a fake name.Did she get it out of a book?
My favorite qoute was KITT's"If I had nerves they
would have been jangled by now!"as they make yet
ANOTHER turbo boosted jump!
The only bad thing was that the twist at the end didn't seem to imaginative or original.I think it would have been more interesting if either Groves or Roe had been behind it all as we wouldn't have expected it as much as the way it DID turn out.
By Andreas Schindel on Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 8:20 am: It's raining hard. Or, should I say, It's hardly raining? There are plenty of shots, where
* the rear window is *very* wet, and the front window is wiped altough it is totally dry
* the weather is changing very fast
* the road is wet - turn left - now the road is dry.
By constanze on Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 8:26 am:Andreas,
as long as its not a dark and stormy night.... 
Must be that charmed life Michael leads. 
By KK on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 6:56 pm:Did anyone note that the break-in theme at the opening of the episode was a nod towards the 007-esque title?
-Kurt
By Merat on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 8:56 am:"Flannery Roe seems like rather too much of a fake name.Did she get it out of a book?"
It's probably a play on Cannery Row.