“The Night of the Brain” gets us back to would be world conquerors, underground lairs, fistfights, and lots of gadgets. Even with all that, it is still a mediocre episode.Jim is manipulated by a mysterious figure into being present at the murder of two of his old friends without him having the ability to prevent their deaths. Clues lead him to e captured an brought to the underground lair of Braine, a super genius and never once uses the word “snarf.” but he does wat to take over the world and needs Jim’s help.
Braine’s plan is to replace the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, France, Spain and Russia with doppelgangers. He will then instruct them to launch a planetary. He plas to create a new world from the ashes with himself in charge. But he eeds the security protocols of the White House in order to kidnap the world leaders in the first place.
Needless to say, he is unsuccessful. Braine does, however, go out with a bag when he tries to run Jim over with his armored wheelchair/tank which explodes in as much of a fireball as ’60’s television special effect scan muster when he crashes into a wall. A rather inglorious ed.
It is not much of an episode, either. Why kill two of Jim’s friends to lure him to Braine’s secret lair? Why not just kidnap him instead? For that matter, if Braine can create perfect duplicates of world leaders, why not just pull their strings instead of starting a devastating war? Braine is making things much harder than they have to be. No wonder he was dumb enough to crash his wheelchair.There is a lot of action in “The Night of the Brain,” but I am underwhelmed overall.
Ratig: ** (out of 5)
