You know they didn't have enough material for a two-part episode when the second part's recap of last week's episode takes fully six and a half minutes. That's what they did here.
As we finally get to the new scenes, Max was looking at books on a shelf to kill time waiting for news about the baby when he sees Dr. Kruger holding a pistol at him in the mirror. He ducks as Kruger fires, then pulls out his own revolver and fires four times-right into the mirror before being surprised that his would-be assassin is standing behind him. I groaned thinking "I hope Max isn't going to be an idiot for this whole episode." Now I wish to make clear that when Max walked to the bookshelf, he knew Kruger was behind him and the mirror was a small oval one with a frame, not something that looked like a window or doorway to another room. If not for these important details, we could understand shooting at the mirror.
Max escapes and saves 99, but they can't beat the bad guys to their car-she cannot run, remember-so they hide in a small closet. I enjoyed this scene, where they find the door automatically locks and they can't go back to the hallway, so Max climbs through a trap door in the ceiling, finds the same closet setup and climbs again to the roof only to find a room without a door. 99 says to come down fast so they can work on something else. Max starts to descend and falls to the bottom floor, emerging unhurt. They wanted to show him falling, but they used a dummy. This is clear if you watch the dummy right leg while it is falling. You can see the foot up near the shoulder, which couldn't be unless Max, or a stunt double, has a knee that bends in the reverse direction of everyone else's knees. The whole leg isn't bent upwards, only the bottom half.
The scene at the correct hospital is one of this episode's best, especially as the Chief wants to introduce Larabee to 99's mother as a buyer from out of town. Larabee asks the Chief as they make plans to go over to "Mom," what town he's supposed to be from and the Chief just tells him to come with him. As soon as introduced, 99's mom asks Larabee, "What town?" The honest Larabee says, "I don't know yet."
I enjoyed the way the Chief found a way to hold Simon the Likeable when he entered the hospital. Neither he nor Larabee could get themselves to arrest him, but the Chief found a clever way to put him on ice.
Max and 99 then arrive, and as 99 is admitted, the three KAOS people from the fake hospital show up, in their hospital whites, and we have a lobby version of an Old West Shootout, with Max, Chief and Larabee facing the other trio. We now have a cartoonish fight including the "nurse" doing her mild karate chops to everyone over and over. It appeared the actress kept pulling her punches, or her chops, as she seems to almost be giving a friendly chop, which would explain why all three kept jumping back into action right afterwards.
Twice during the fight, the nurse calls out to Max that he has a baby, first a boy, then a girl, as we learn 99 had twins. Comically, the fight stops with everyone-CONTROL or KAOS shaking Max's hand in congratulations, before the fight resumes.
Well, our heroes all subdue the three bad guys, but now Simon the Likeable is about to get away. Here I won't reveal who stopped him, but I'll just say it's probably the person you would least suspect coming to the rescue (no, it's not one of the newborn babies.)
There wasn't as much in this half that was stupid, so I bump the grade to a 7 here.
As we finally get to the new scenes, Max was looking at books on a shelf to kill time waiting for news about the baby when he sees Dr. Kruger holding a pistol at him in the mirror. He ducks as Kruger fires, then pulls out his own revolver and fires four times-right into the mirror before being surprised that his would-be assassin is standing behind him. I groaned thinking "I hope Max isn't going to be an idiot for this whole episode." Now I wish to make clear that when Max walked to the bookshelf, he knew Kruger was behind him and the mirror was a small oval one with a frame, not something that looked like a window or doorway to another room. If not for these important details, we could understand shooting at the mirror.
Max escapes and saves 99, but they can't beat the bad guys to their car-she cannot run, remember-so they hide in a small closet. I enjoyed this scene, where they find the door automatically locks and they can't go back to the hallway, so Max climbs through a trap door in the ceiling, finds the same closet setup and climbs again to the roof only to find a room without a door. 99 says to come down fast so they can work on something else. Max starts to descend and falls to the bottom floor, emerging unhurt. They wanted to show him falling, but they used a dummy. This is clear if you watch the dummy right leg while it is falling. You can see the foot up near the shoulder, which couldn't be unless Max, or a stunt double, has a knee that bends in the reverse direction of everyone else's knees. The whole leg isn't bent upwards, only the bottom half.
The scene at the correct hospital is one of this episode's best, especially as the Chief wants to introduce Larabee to 99's mother as a buyer from out of town. Larabee asks the Chief as they make plans to go over to "Mom," what town he's supposed to be from and the Chief just tells him to come with him. As soon as introduced, 99's mom asks Larabee, "What town?" The honest Larabee says, "I don't know yet."
I enjoyed the way the Chief found a way to hold Simon the Likeable when he entered the hospital. Neither he nor Larabee could get themselves to arrest him, but the Chief found a clever way to put him on ice.
Max and 99 then arrive, and as 99 is admitted, the three KAOS people from the fake hospital show up, in their hospital whites, and we have a lobby version of an Old West Shootout, with Max, Chief and Larabee facing the other trio. We now have a cartoonish fight including the "nurse" doing her mild karate chops to everyone over and over. It appeared the actress kept pulling her punches, or her chops, as she seems to almost be giving a friendly chop, which would explain why all three kept jumping back into action right afterwards.
Twice during the fight, the nurse calls out to Max that he has a baby, first a boy, then a girl, as we learn 99 had twins. Comically, the fight stops with everyone-CONTROL or KAOS shaking Max's hand in congratulations, before the fight resumes.
Well, our heroes all subdue the three bad guys, but now Simon the Likeable is about to get away. Here I won't reveal who stopped him, but I'll just say it's probably the person you would least suspect coming to the rescue (no, it's not one of the newborn babies.)
There wasn't as much in this half that was stupid, so I bump the grade to a 7 here.
