Brimfin
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This week: KITT-Y goes berserk. Yes, this episode has a futuristic car, though not as fancy as the KNIGHT INDUSTRIES TWO THOUSAND, and with a female voice to boot. It starts out well. Our lead character Federal Police Marshall Stu Clemens spots a man robbing an ATM. He flees, but Stu isn’t concerned. His partner will get him. Sure enough, his car arrests and fires an immobilizer ray on the crook allowing Stu to arrest him. But when the guy mouths off to her, she zaps him with another immobilizer beam. Stu is worried so he takes her in for a checkup. Unfortunately, the story takes a little nosedive here. The idiot mechanic working on her spills his coffee into her system. Just when it was looking like it was something in her programming starting to go astray, maybe a god complex developing or something similar, it turns into just a coffee-spill-induced short circuit.
A10, as she is called, gets a list of criminals to be on the lookout for, including one Sheldon Kruger, a murderer and Arbutus Jones, who kidnaps and murders women but so far has hidden the bodies and eluded capture. She polishes off the first name while Stu is in a diner. She stops Sheldon, finds him guilty, and executes him on the spot. Stu arrives as A10 is vacuuming up the ashes into a container in the car. The Captain lets him know this may mean a promotion. The only trouble of course is that it later turns out she nabbed and executed the wrong guy. However for now, she is on the trail of Arbutus Jones, who has kidnapped the former lover of Stu - Diane Harmon. Even though she should report that Stu is personally involved with the victim, she doesn’t – making Stu trust her all the more.
Arbutus sends them on a false trail leaving a dummy with a note behind. A10 smashes through the wall and zaps the dummy until it starts on fire. However, she has seemingly logical reasons for it. The guy left something on the dummy to make it seem like it was human; that’s why she rushed in. When she tried to taser him she didn’t sense a drop in his activity so she kept zapping him.
They follow another lead, but she breaks down at kilometer 12, so Stu has to run to kilometer 16 and call for a mechanic. One arrives and enters the car only to have her call him an intruder and apparently disintegrate him. (We never see what happens but he vanishes off the grid afterward.) But he apparently got her running first, because Stu is able to return and drive her away. But then the precinct captain tells him about A10’s little boo-boo of executing the wrong person and eating her mechanic. He wants her brought into the shop right away and promises he can download the info to another car. But A10 has spotted Diane in Arbutus’s car still alive, so he cuts off the call and goes after her instead. All things considered, I can understand his decision.
They arrive and Stu tries to chase Arbutus. He falls for an old ploy. When he tells him to stop, Arb says “Let me think about this – NO!” and then shoots him. Temporarily down, it’s up to A10 to stop the rapist-murderer. Unfortunately, she mistakes him for Sheldon Kruger and his female accomplice (even though I never remember hearing that Sheldon even had a female accomplice) and kills both of them. Stu cradles her in his arms having lost the love of his life in an attempt to save her. The host says, “Stu took a risk of using an unstable machine to save the woman he loved, but his decision proved tragic. Welcome to paradox.” Well, actually, that’s not how it ended. Instead, she starts to compute that no – Stu is Sheldon Kruger, even though Sheldon 1’s ashes are in her car and Sheldon 2 is dead in front of her. It’s totally idiotic even for a malfunctioning computer. But wait, there’s more! Later on, a new female police officer has been assigned A10; even assuring us it’s the same A10 and not a similar model by showing us that Stu’s favorite squeezer stress reliever – given to him by Diane – is still there, before the office casually tosses it out. When she stops and steps out to eat somewhere, A10 accuses yet another passerby of being Sheldon Kruger. So, let me get this straight, even though A10 has killed two innocent civilians, one mechanic, and one marshal, they still put her back into service again without a massive overhaul? This went from idiotic to insane! It’s like watching a bad horror movie.
So what could have been an intriguing story of a computer being given too much power and wielding it too freely becomes a simple – ooops, I spilled coffee into her circuits and now she thinks everyone is Sheldon Kruger. I can only give it 6 green stress reliever squeezers, with an alien face on front and clearly a Sci-Fi logo on the back.
A10, as she is called, gets a list of criminals to be on the lookout for, including one Sheldon Kruger, a murderer and Arbutus Jones, who kidnaps and murders women but so far has hidden the bodies and eluded capture. She polishes off the first name while Stu is in a diner. She stops Sheldon, finds him guilty, and executes him on the spot. Stu arrives as A10 is vacuuming up the ashes into a container in the car. The Captain lets him know this may mean a promotion. The only trouble of course is that it later turns out she nabbed and executed the wrong guy. However for now, she is on the trail of Arbutus Jones, who has kidnapped the former lover of Stu - Diane Harmon. Even though she should report that Stu is personally involved with the victim, she doesn’t – making Stu trust her all the more.
Arbutus sends them on a false trail leaving a dummy with a note behind. A10 smashes through the wall and zaps the dummy until it starts on fire. However, she has seemingly logical reasons for it. The guy left something on the dummy to make it seem like it was human; that’s why she rushed in. When she tried to taser him she didn’t sense a drop in his activity so she kept zapping him.
They follow another lead, but she breaks down at kilometer 12, so Stu has to run to kilometer 16 and call for a mechanic. One arrives and enters the car only to have her call him an intruder and apparently disintegrate him. (We never see what happens but he vanishes off the grid afterward.) But he apparently got her running first, because Stu is able to return and drive her away. But then the precinct captain tells him about A10’s little boo-boo of executing the wrong person and eating her mechanic. He wants her brought into the shop right away and promises he can download the info to another car. But A10 has spotted Diane in Arbutus’s car still alive, so he cuts off the call and goes after her instead. All things considered, I can understand his decision.
They arrive and Stu tries to chase Arbutus. He falls for an old ploy. When he tells him to stop, Arb says “Let me think about this – NO!” and then shoots him. Temporarily down, it’s up to A10 to stop the rapist-murderer. Unfortunately, she mistakes him for Sheldon Kruger and his female accomplice (even though I never remember hearing that Sheldon even had a female accomplice) and kills both of them. Stu cradles her in his arms having lost the love of his life in an attempt to save her. The host says, “Stu took a risk of using an unstable machine to save the woman he loved, but his decision proved tragic. Welcome to paradox.” Well, actually, that’s not how it ended. Instead, she starts to compute that no – Stu is Sheldon Kruger, even though Sheldon 1’s ashes are in her car and Sheldon 2 is dead in front of her. It’s totally idiotic even for a malfunctioning computer. But wait, there’s more! Later on, a new female police officer has been assigned A10; even assuring us it’s the same A10 and not a similar model by showing us that Stu’s favorite squeezer stress reliever – given to him by Diane – is still there, before the office casually tosses it out. When she stops and steps out to eat somewhere, A10 accuses yet another passerby of being Sheldon Kruger. So, let me get this straight, even though A10 has killed two innocent civilians, one mechanic, and one marshal, they still put her back into service again without a massive overhaul? This went from idiotic to insane! It’s like watching a bad horror movie.
So what could have been an intriguing story of a computer being given too much power and wielding it too freely becomes a simple – ooops, I spilled coffee into her circuits and now she thinks everyone is Sheldon Kruger. I can only give it 6 green stress reliever squeezers, with an alien face on front and clearly a Sci-Fi logo on the back.
