Almost Human: Are You Receiving? (2013)
Season 1, Episode 3
10/10
Nobody Messes with my Coffee Warmer!
25 November 2013
I was wondering how long it would take Kennex to use the Olive Oil on his leg. Of course, he'd rather tell Dorian that he was eating a Greek salad. But then Dorian can keep Coffee at exactly 165 degrees F, just by holding two electric leads in his fingers.

This episode has the Alfred Hitchcock quality of making you think it is about one thing, but really being about something else.

But still, hostages are being tossed off a 25th story window like Rag Dolls and Kennex and Dorian are the only ones who can even get close.

They have an ally in the building, a receptionist (Yoshie Bancroft) whose Sister is visiting when the crooks invade. To get her to calm down, Kennex tells her basically the story of Walter and Peter Bishop falling into the Ice of Reiden Lake and The Observer Saving them. It's that story, but the names are different.

The Invaders get Maldonado (Lili Taylor) to blank out all communications in the area, because that's what the cops are expected to do. But this is what the crooks wanted to happen.

Because this whole episode is a Macguffin. The crooks really don't want what they asked Maldonado for, they want something else.

The pieces start falling into place halfway through, when Dorian gets shot in the head and Kennex has to fix him with Chewing Gum, they find a little plastic lens with the word "Start" on it, and a device that makes one crook look like another more dangerous crook.

The funny thing here is what the goal of the crooks actually is - It's an substance - something that you would find in Iron Man's Chest.

No Rating system yet, 10/10- as usual. This show has got some good writers, and producers from both Fringe and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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