This Friday on 'TR 2070' ep 16 'Restitution'

Noooo! Moralez. Well it looks like he is going to pull through so we can move on.
Chicken surprise: Looks like hospital food of the future makes hospital food of today look gourmet.
I really didn’t understand why the captain told Nagal the information that the Rekall guy had been kidnapped and was being held for ransom. I understand that the information had to get to Nagal to keep the story going but by having the captain just hand that information to him on a silver platter made the captain look very inept. Also, makes the writers look either lazy or also inept.
So Olivia has not known who David is for a day or two. So our fine hero totally panics! But let us just move on from him not giving Olivia’s body any time to heal organically. What I learned about the future in this episode is a woman can be a robot expert but she is not allowed to make her own health care decisions. Why is Olan asking David if he wants her to give this new experimental drug to Olivia? It is not his business unless Olivia wants to discuss it with him and include him in HER decision making process.
The whole scene with Hume, Nagal and Farve looked so ‘we wrote and filmed this in the backyard’. This series has a lot of moments that are like watching a UCLA film student movie.
Poor Rekall they now need another head of security!
Question: If they returned Olivia’s memory why didn’t it go all the way back to her Carol personality and not her made up life as Olivia?
7 out of 10

We begin this episode with a tutorial on how NOT to transport an important person to safety. First, just have one person escort him without a fancy armored vehicle into an open Mars port. Oddly enough, that part goes fine. It’s when the heavily armed vehicle and guard arrives that all falls apart. Some scurrilous rouge had replaced the guard. He shoots poor Morales and then whisks Brandt away easily. The good news is that at least Morales doesn’t die. He’s only had a little bit to do in previous episodes. It would have been a shame for him to go out like that.

David isn’t doing much better trying to revive his wife’s memories. He brings her violets and talks to her but his best results come when his pager goes off and she seems to have a slight reaction to it.

Brandt’s kidnappers contact the CPB and demand $40,000,000 for Brandt. I know this is the future, but even with inflation that’s still quite a chunk of change. Farve reminds them that negotiating with kidnappers sets a dangerous precedent; Erenthal says there’s even a law that will give you 20 years for negotiating with a kidnapper. Okay, so if someone kidnaps my wife and demands money and I agree to pay it to get her back I risk 20 years in prison for it. Glad I don’t live in that future. But anyway, CPB is above the law so they agree to pay the ransom but of course plant a tracker on the money. The crooks scan the suitcase with the money and realize it has a tracker, so they shoot the suitcase instead. Stamping it "rejected" would have sufficed. Calley later complains that Erenthal was more concerned with protecting the money than getting Brandt back. I mean the nerve of some people, right?

David is then contacted by a cool wise-cracking chick who sets up a meeting between him and Nagle. Nagle oozes about the delicate creation of wine and Hume just guzzles it down in one gulp; he’s not exactly the cultural type. So Nagle offers him a super-enzyme, similar to the one that Olan had suggested might stimulate Olivia’s memory but about 500 times more potent. This one is rigged to self-destruct in two hours, but he’ll give him the long-lasting version if he’ll just – you know – kind of slip Brandt over to him. David has Olan run some tests on the enzyme and it seems to be the real deal. He contemplates trading off Brandt for the enzyme, but of course they need Brandt first.

Confident that David will deliver Brandt to him or that the kidnappers will kill Brandt (sort of a win/win for Nagle) Rekall tells the kidnappers to go take a flying leap. They call back the CPB and say the price has gone up to 50 mill. Erenthal skillfully negotiates it back down to 40, but they can’t use a tracker on the money now. He okays the plan and David and Ian manage to get Brandt back, but lose the money and the kidnappers. David then says, “Sorry, Ian” and shoots him with a stunner gun. Okay, he’s a traitor but he’s no dummy. Before he hands Brandt over to Rekall he wants to make sure the enzyme works. He hides Brandt in a box on a large cargo ship, until he can have Olan test the enzyme. He gets the OK from her and takes Rekall to the ship. But it turns out he’s not really a traitor; Ian is waiting there in ambush and they take down all of Rekall’s men except Nagle, whom David pursues. When he is cornered, David tells him he had no choice but to be taken in. But of course, he does have an alternative – suicide by cop. He aims his sophisticated sleeve gun that looks like it came right out of THE WILD, WILD WEST and shoots at David, who responds with a bullet to Nagle’s head. Well, unless Nagle has a clone, that’s the last we’ll see of him.

As we wrap up, the good news is not only is Morales upgraded to stable condition but Olivia seems to be recovering her memory. Or is she? Everything she tells David is something he already told her, she just sounds more enthused about it now. She does add the line that she remembers him going away a lot, but she could have gleaned that from the line he told her about calling his pager their birth control. Maybe she just figured – hey, he’s cute and I’m not getting any younger. Let’s fake it. Time will tell if her recovery is real. (Oh, I'm sure it is. But wouldn't it have been a hoot if David's dad had walked in and she had said, "Hey, orderly, get me and my husband some champagne." And then David had said, "No, he's not an orderly. He's..." and then she said, "I'm sorry. I meant Doctor!")

Random thoughts: Even today we have tracking devices and criminals try to elude them in clever ways. Seems in 2070 you just plant a tracker and hope the crooks don’t have a tracker detector. Since they did have one, they just put no tracker at all the second time. $40 million goes to the crooks because they can’t come up with some alternative like maybe slightly irradiating the money. Gee whiz.

It’s been a crazy week for me that I’d rather not go into detail on, so this is all I had time for. As for the show - a little slow in parts and heck, wasn’t that lucky that they had an enzyme to reverse Olivia’s amnesia? They should have gone for more realism – like having her get conked on the head. Everybody knows THAT’S how you cure amnesia! But I’ll still give it 8 bouquets of violets, which don’t always spark memories but at least usually smell nice.

Who are you referring to as the Captain? I'm not sure Martin is a captain

Some observations about this weeks show;
The Olivia memory thing is puzzling. Olivia was a construct person constructed by Rekall so why should she have any memory of her life with David once the implant is removed? Of course she doesn't seem to have memory of Carol either , her true persona , so maybe that has been erased when she became Olivia.
So the restorative she took would work on recently destroyed memory cells i.e. her life with David.
It's still possible that her earlier persona might come back as well, which could put David in a awkward position. I'm not sure his marriage to her is legal,you can't marry someone who doesn't really exist.
Though I imagine rekall provided necessary documentation to establish her as real.
I'm not sure Nagel deserved to die or even be betrayed by Hume ,he was a slimy pain but the CPB had nothing on him ,his death smacks of judicial murder.
Hume shooting Favre was I presume a set up worked between them ,it was a nice little twist ,a good episode again,
9/10

"Representative of the Assessor's Office" equivalent to

In this one we're reintroduced to Brandt and Nagle. Brandt is essentially in a form of protective custody because he's going to testify on CBP's case. He's kidnapped and held for ransom by some unknown entity. We cut back to Olivia and she's still in the hospital and still has amnesia. Mr. Nagle is reintroduced and we see he's at odds with the CPB to get Brandt. The CPB has to give $40 million to the kidnappers to get Brandt back so the chief sends Hume and Farve out with a tracking device. The kidnappers pick up on the tracking device and shoot at it and scare away Farve and Hume.

Meanwhile Olan is working on some kind of protein stimulator for Oliva but fears it's too weak to do much good. Mr. Nagle from recall meets with Hume and shows him a more powerful protein strain that will cure Oliva. In exchange Nagle wants Hume to give him Brandt.

Hume and Farve meet with kidnappers a second time and they give them the money and get Brandt back in return. In a shocking twist Hume stuns Farve and makes off to do the switch with Nagle. Hume meets up with Nagle. Hume does a switcheroo and double crosses Nagle and we see Farve get into the action as they take down Nagle and his crew. I think there was also a move in there where they get the money back from the kidnappers. Hume goes back to the hospital and finds that Olivia is back to normal and everything is fine.

Random thoughts:

*This was a good one with some good twists and turns.

*There's a lack of continuity on this show and we see it with Nagle and Brandt. When was the last time we saw those guys?? I was trying to remember their storyline for the first 20 minutes.

*This show is so damn dark visually that's it's hard to make out what's going on or people's faces.

*I forget how Hume captures the kidnappers and gets the money back because there was so much going on.

*Nagle should have been used much more often on this show because he made a good villain.

*It seems like they had 4-5 two part episodes in mind when they made this show.

Good episode, i give it a 8/10