When Duncan gets injured in a hit and run (which has nothing to do with the rest of the story), it somehow results in a crazed doctor kidnapping him and taking him to his torture basement.
You can tell it's the first season: The show's still asking questions that later seasons will deliberately ignore. The premise is one that will be quietly sidestepped when Anne comes aboard in Series 3.
The opening sequence shows two shadowy characters (one of whom looks like Richie?!) beating a guy up and speeding off. What's going on? Don't bother asking, because we'll never find out.
There's an intriguing idea in here: Duncan is seen critically injured in hospital and when he wakes up unharmed, doctors have questions. Unfortunately, any interest is lost when we're introduced to the episode's villain, Doctor Wilder, who seems to have no motivation beyond "He's a whack job." There's a few lines about changing genes and this might not be so bad if he was inspired by Duncan, but apparently he's been kidnapping people and dragging them to his basement to experiment on them in the name of mental research for some time already. What he's been doing with them and what he's hoping to achieve is another question the episode can't be bothered to answer.
The episode also suffers from the fact Duncan spends three quarters of it unconscious or staggering around barely conscious, with Tessa and Richie chasing their tails and Randi basically acting as protagonist.
Things pick up in the last 10-15 minutes as Tessa provides a good foil to Duncan, Richie decoys the latest rubbish police officer (each one seems to be denser than the last) and Randi once again just misses out on the story of a lifetime. But it's a slog getting there, with a subplot of Duncan being accused of murder being chucked in to not really go anywhere.
Sam from Free Fall makes his second and final appearance.
You can tell it's the first season: The show's still asking questions that later seasons will deliberately ignore. The premise is one that will be quietly sidestepped when Anne comes aboard in Series 3.
The opening sequence shows two shadowy characters (one of whom looks like Richie?!) beating a guy up and speeding off. What's going on? Don't bother asking, because we'll never find out.
There's an intriguing idea in here: Duncan is seen critically injured in hospital and when he wakes up unharmed, doctors have questions. Unfortunately, any interest is lost when we're introduced to the episode's villain, Doctor Wilder, who seems to have no motivation beyond "He's a whack job." There's a few lines about changing genes and this might not be so bad if he was inspired by Duncan, but apparently he's been kidnapping people and dragging them to his basement to experiment on them in the name of mental research for some time already. What he's been doing with them and what he's hoping to achieve is another question the episode can't be bothered to answer.
The episode also suffers from the fact Duncan spends three quarters of it unconscious or staggering around barely conscious, with Tessa and Richie chasing their tails and Randi basically acting as protagonist.
Things pick up in the last 10-15 minutes as Tessa provides a good foil to Duncan, Richie decoys the latest rubbish police officer (each one seems to be denser than the last) and Randi once again just misses out on the story of a lifetime. But it's a slog getting there, with a subplot of Duncan being accused of murder being chucked in to not really go anywhere.
Sam from Free Fall makes his second and final appearance.