User Reviews

Meeno Peluce was one of the best kid actors of his day but in this episode, as he approaches his gangly teen years, his rebellious schtick is get annoying rather than cute.

He's a computer whiz ahead of his time. His character is probably a multi-billionaire in the twenty-first century. Wanting his abilities "the other side" has seized his parents and he's scared if he helps the Agency they'll be shot.

Unable to cope, Lee ropes in Amanda to look after the kid, leading to ever deeper complications until they're all prisoners in the arcade room of an empty mall.

Me, I always loved empty malls. In the days before mall-walking became a thing, I loved showing up before the gates went up on the shops. Apart from nostalgia like that (and for antique video games, and record albums) this is an annoying episode but it keeps moving with a force Lee and Amanda can't control.

The only name guest star in this episode, if you can call him that, is Meeno Peluce, who we knew from a few years before this as the son on Best of the West ... a short-lived but amusing Western spoof.

Here he plays a math genius who Russian spies want to use to break a US code book, and they keep getting employees of a satellite design company in trouble to get them to cooperate ... and the episode starts out with the murder of an employee who chose not co cooperation anyway.

Scarecrow finds the kid hiding in a closet in his parents' house, and where the murder occurred to convince them to play ball. Why the deadly spies couldn't look his closet is not explained. LOL

The episode is typical for the series, and you watch it more for Bruce and Kate than for the plots, which tend to push the limits of credulity quite far.