Grade: A

Notes of Interest:

• In case you didn't get it the first, or second, or third, or nth time, the song on the piano is "Heart and Souls" - it explains the importance of that song in "The Insurance Man Always Rings Twice."
• This episode has to occur at least a week or so after "Film at Eleven." The only way I can justify Theo's 180 degree turnaround is that some time must have passed, and Michael's been on his best behavior since the bank fiasco - maybe since the threat's died down and Michael's making good on his promise not to do anything nuts, Theo is feeling a little guilty.
• In "On the Town", we learned that the project was funded by a select group of Senators, now it's in the hands of a Pentagon committee.
• Theo's solution for "jump-starting" Michael's brain with the paddles seemed weird as hell. Anyone out there with enough expertise to let me know if it's at least somewhat feasible?
• Ha! We finally get an explanation for what the townhouse is doing in Manhattan! Although the "hide-in-plain-sight" philosophy doesn't seem to be that effective.
• Continuity alert #1: Michael said in "The Insurance Man Always Rings Twice" that Lisa hates her parents. But if her father died of a heart attack, doesn't that just leave her mother to hate, or did her mother remarry?
• The flashbacks can't have occurred too long before Michael was hit by that train; unless he continued to have Dr. Francis write his prescriptions for the photosensitivity syndrome, Michael would have probably told his family physician after a while in order to obtain refills much more easily.
• The nameless agent has known Theo for years, which leads me to believe he's worked with the Doc for years - but doing what? And will they please give this character some sort of name? Of all the recurring characters, he's popped up the most.
• Continuity alert #2: At the end of "Over Easy," Michael and the Doc were in a taxi with plenty of police cars and flashing lights. If the flashing lights of a bunch of cop cars roused Michael here, why didn't they affect him then?
• According to a recent post on one of the mailing lists, it really was snowing like that when they shot that scene in front of the Wisemans' home. Aside from a little computer imaging to clean the snow up, all of that was the real thing.

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