03/12/2008
Posted by Ed Arnold as General, NBC, Reviews at 10:24 AM UTC

Now that My Own Worst Enemy has been canceled, it seems to finally be interesting. Edward is hot on the twisted trail of his parents killer and it leads him to go rouge and accuse Trumble, the head of Janus, of having some involvement in their deaths. After kidnapping and pistol whipping him, it becomes clear that killer is on the loose and in Rio. Trumble forgives him and sets up an opportunity for Edward to get his revenge.
Sadly, Tom/ Raymond dominate the episode. Tom’s wife is the victim of a carjacking and smashes one of the robbers with her car. In order to protect the company and any exposure, Raymond the dumpy super-spy and not Tom the dumpy family man has to take car of the wife and the chicanos who robbed her.
After some general meaningless scenes involving a nasty Camero and Henry’s son its clear that the whole family element of this series was flawed from the beginning. I just can’t seem to care about these people.
Henry heads to Rio hoping to change back into Edward in time for the revenge killing. Its evident that Henry is going to have to be the triggerman. In order to get maximum unneeded drama, Henry approaches the killer while he’s overlooking a newly born grandchild but can’t pull the trigger. While relaxing with a bottle of tequila in the hotel, Edward gets attacked by the killer. After a struggle, Edward takes him out with the broken bottle.
Trumble’s shady dealings continue and as the episode ends it seems he has once again used Edward for his own purposes. This is a legitimately interesting way to go for this series. Sadly, it took them seven episodes to get to the point where I was properly interested. There was noticeably less switching back and forth between Edward and Henry and I think it helped the show. The whole idea of these split personalities are fairly lame and the less we deal with it, the better.
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