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Episode #30 (385-854) – The Usual Suspect Original Airdate – February 22nd, 2003 Virgil inadvertently makes an enemy out of a school tough guy when he mistakenly believes the fellow to be Dakota’s latest metahuman monster. Media by Bird Boy | Credits: Supervising Producer Alan Burnett Producer Denys Cowan, Swinton O. Scott III Associate Producer Bobbie Page Written by Len Uhley Directed by [Uncredited] Music by Richard "Wolfie" Wolf Animation by Koko Enterprise Co., LTD. Voices: |
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| Review A new metahuman monster is trashing downtown and Static and Gear suspect it is Marcus, a troubled teen Sharon is counseling. According to his ex girlfriend Tamara Marcus has quite a temper and Static then sees the monster trash Tamara's boyfriend's car he figures that when Marcus gets angry he turns into the monster. Virgil goads Marcus into flipping out by dissing him and Marcus gives chase. Gear radios that Marcus CAN'T be the monster because he was in counseling with Sharon when the last attack took place. The monster appears and Virgil figures out it is Tamara who was framing Marcus for breaking up with her. Static and Gear vow to not go after someone again until they are sure they have the right person. For a "Don't judge a book by its cover" episode I think this was kind of lame. For one thing, other than teasing Marcus Static and Gear never did anything to Marcus that could be considered out of line and trash talking is hardly real abuse. I mean, on cop shows like Law and Order detectives smack around the wrong perp all the time. That just strikes me as something that would normally happen in the course of an investigation. One thing I really liked about the episode was Sharon. I think it's great that she's growing as a character enough to help troubled kids and actually stop cooking for Virgil. But she hasn't grown enough to stop chasing Virgil when he's being annoying at the end. She's right. Not a jury in the world would convict her. The animation like most of season three was pretty good. I miss the rubbery look of the early episodes but the show looks so nice now that I can hardly complain. The story itself was kind of dumb and the episode isn't the greatest. But a show can't hit them all out of the park all of the time. Story: **1/2 |