In this episode, another passenger aircraft gets destroyed by a piece of crazy science gone wrong as a man literally turns into a beast while in the toilet. Insert joke about EasyJet here.
Anyway, some comments on this:
- Are in-flight movies for everyone still a thing now everyone's got phones and access to at-seat entertainment systems?
- $4 for headphones would be pricey now, let alone then.
- Spitting out your own teeth, lovely!
- Knowing about animal nipples is generally of little use except if you're a vet or you go to some really weird quiz night.
- "Bishop's House of Horrors" is a great way to answer the phone.
- Import-export is so often a front for dodginess in TV-land that the perfectly legitimate people in that business must roll their eyes.
- OK, the situation probably justified it, but generally speaking dealing with a medical emergency trumps intelligence gathering.
- The Sensory Deprivation Tank should also be called the "Swimsuit Dunham Tank". Because it gives an excuse for the suited Olivia to disrobe.
- That member trip got gnarly fast. At least she's not walking around those memories in a bikini, it looks rather nippy in there.
- So, John Scott was undercover. That must make Olivia feel a bit better.
- "Being fearless doesn't mean you're being safe" is a good mantra. I might use that one.
- 500 Euro notes, the villain's denomination of choice for big money transfers.
- Of course Hicks (we had one of them in Alias!) proceeds to start turning during the undercover mission. Fortunately, Walter Bishop is on hand to sedate him.
- This is a far more episodic show than Alias - there's very much a "case of the week" thing there. I wonder how this would have been made today.
- At least they're lamp shading how many dire situations they're encountering.
Conclusion
A good, but not necessarily great episode. Apart from giving Olivia closure over her pretty much dead boyfriend, nothing of great consequence happens here.
7/10
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