Sunday, October 14, 2012

Mission: Impossible - 5x21 - A Ghost Story

    The team wants to get a man to reveal where he buried the body of his son, who was contaminated with a new nerve gas, in order to prevent the formula from falling into the wrong hands.  In order to accomplish this, they want to make the target think that he's being haunted by his son's ghost.
    A good episode, especially near the end.  There are a few twists that weren't needed, but they redirected the ending just enough to make it not predictable.
    I think I had a few reservations about the technology in this episode.  In one case, they use two lasers to create some illusions.  The lasers have been integrated into the target's bedposts.  While the replacement posts are identical, they have a shiny, glass lens instead of a curved wooden surface at one point.  This seems sloppy for the team.  I suppose that the audience needed to know it was there.
    I also felt like the villain wasn't sufficiently established.  I'm not sure why that was.  We see him kill his son at the beginning of the episode.  Then he talks about how his son needs discipline.  But most of it, he's not continuing his pattern of evil as strongly as I would like.

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