April's young niece, Becky, returns from a vacation very sick. She caught pneumonia abroad, but the doctors there gave her the wrong medicine and now she is in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant. After searching the medical databases, Michael and KITT find a possible donor in Julio Rodriguez. When Michael gets to Julio's address, he finds that Julio is a member of a gang called the Vendadores and has supposedly killed the leader of a rival gang called the Conquerors. Eventually Michael finds Julio hiding out in a church and convinces him to get out of there. They only get as far as a roadblock, where Julio escapes from KITT - his girlfriend has been kidnapped by the Conquerors. After creating a diversion and gaining access to the gang's cabin, Michael deduces that the new leader of the gang killed the previous leader and made it look like it was Julio. Satisfied with the new leader's confession, the Conquerors agree to let Julio's girlfriend go and Michael takes Julio to the hospital. Once there, Julio eventually agrees to give Becky the transplant and everything goes well.
THOUGHTS: -Overall a great episode, with the themes of "family" and "being scared of what's unknown" playing throughout.
-Maybe not intentional, but there's two really funny moments in this episode. The first happens when Santos gains access to KITT...Michael just gets in the passenger side, turns to Santos and says "Hi! want some licorice?" The second happens at the end of the show. Now I know Becky is 10 and anyone who knows her would want to have fun with her, but at the end of the show Michael "zooms" Julio around the hospital like he's the same age! I have a hard time believing Julio is younger than 18!
New feature on KITT: +"Police car lights" and sounds and such
FAVORITE QUOTE: "Maybe...we can be scared together?" -Becky to Julio
NITS: -Three times in the episode, the shots of KITT starting up are from the first season (blank red voicemod rather than blank).
-When Julio exits KITT the auto-roof doesn't open the whole way.
-One shot of KITT driving in the rain (towards the end of the episode) shows a different scanner on KITT (it's like only the top half of the scanner is working, either that or it's a smaller scanner).