Human Target Episode Guide Episodes 001–025
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Human Target Episode Guide Episodes 001–025 Last episode aired Wednesday February 9, 2011 www.fox.com c c 2011 www.tv.com c 2011 www.fox.com The summaries and recaps of all the Human Target episodes were downloaded from http://www.tv.com and http: //www.fox.com and processed through a perl program to transform them in a LATEX file, for pretty printing. So, do not blame me for errors in the text ^¨ This booklet was LATEXed on June 28, 2017 by footstep11 with create_eps_guide v0.59 Contents Season 1 1 1 Pilot ...............................................3 2 Rewind . .7 3 Embassy Row . 11 4 Sanctuary . 15 5 Run ............................................... 19 6 Lockdown . 23 7 Salvage & Reclamation . 27 8 Baptiste . 31 9 Corner Man . 35 10 Tanarak . 39 11 Victoria . 43 12 Christopher Chance . 47 Season 2 51 1 Ilsa Pucci . 53 2 The Wife’s Tale . 57 3 Taking Ames . 61 4 The Return of Baptiste . 65 5 Dead Head . 69 6 The Other Side of the Mall . 73 7 A Problem Like Maria (1) . 77 8 Communication Breakdown (2) . 81 9 Imbroglio . 85 10 Cool Hand Guerrero . 89 11 Kill Bob . 93 12 The Trouble with Harry . 97 13 Marshall Pucci . 101 Actor Appearances 105 Human Target Episode Guide II Season One Human Target Episode Guide Pilot Season 1 Episode Number: 1 Season Episode: 1 Originally aired: Sunday January 17, 2010 Writer: Jonathan E. Steinberg Director: Simon West Show Stars: Jackie Earle Haley (Guerrero), Mark Valley (Christopher Chance), Chi McBride (Winston) Guest Stars: David Meunier (Tom), Keith Martin Gordey (Suspicious Man), Toshi Haraguchi (Mr. Saito), Michael St. John Smith (McNamara), Hiro Kanagawa (Lt. Peale), Donnelly Rhodes (Guerrero’s Friend), Tricia Helfer (Stephanie Dobbs), Mark Moses (Hollis), Artine Brown (Latino Thug), Anna Cummer (Hostage Woman), Peter Kent (Burly Guy), Pey- man Zaynaljan (Thug #2), Takeshi Kurokawa (Japanese Busienss- man #2), Alvin Sanders (Lowell), Adrian Hough (James Dobbs), Mike Desabrais (Assassin Steward), Adrian Holmes (Negotiator), P. Lynn Johnson (Older Woman), Roy Hunter (Businessman #1), Sean Allan (Lydecker), Danny Glover (Limousine Client) Production Code: 296758 Summary: Chance switches places with a guy to save him from being blown up by an angry former employee. Chance then rescues Stephanie Dobbs from a horrifying train crash. After Ken Lydecker fires a salesman, Hol- lis, Hollis wires himself with a bomb, goes back to the office, and takes every- one hostage. The police negotiator con- vinces Hollis to release everyone except Lydecker, who Hollis has tied up and hooded. After the other hostages have left, Lydecker asks if Hollis done... but the voice isn’t Lydecker’s. The real Ly- decker is outside, safe. The man standing in slips out of his bonds and stands up: it’s Christopher Chance. He points out that Hollis made threats instead of taking action, giving Lydecker enough warning that he hired Chance. Hollis insists that Lydecker deserves to die because he fired him, but Chance notes that no one deserves to die. He advances on Hollis, who is so surprised that he forgets to fire. Chance disarms him and Hollis takes out the activator for the belt of explosives that he’s wearing. Chance asks if he really wants to blow himself up, and Hollis announces that he plans to run outside and get as close to Lydecker as possible, and then take him and everyone else out. Chance points out that Hollis is again making threats instead of taking action, and fires a single shot at the explosives belt. Outside, the police and the hostages duck back as the building blows up. Four Weeks Later Chance is checking his injuries at his loft apartment and office when his partner Winston comes in. Winston is less than thrilled that Chance accepted a 25-year-old bottle of Japanese whiskey in payment, but Chance insists it’ll appreciate in value. Winston wonders why Chance didn’t disarm Hollis when he had the chance much earlier in the situation, but Chance insists that he knew that the retaining walls would contain the blast and the fuse delay would give him three seconds to get to cover. Winston goes to meet their contact in the San Francisco police, Lt. 3 Human Target Episode Guide Peale, who has a new case for them. He tells Chance to stay put and recover from his injuries and let him deal with new clients. The prospective clients are Stephanie and James Dobbs. Stephanie explains that someone has targeted her for assassination, and planted an explosive in her car. Thanks to her car me- chanic, she found it before it was set off. Peale admits that the police aren’t authorizing necessary protection. When Winston wonders what Stephanie does, she explains that she’s the chief engi- neer for McNamara Engineering in charge of the Montery Line, the first American bullet train. It’s launching shortly and Stephanie wants to hire Chance to flush out the killer so she doesn’t have to live in fear. Chance comes in over Winston’s objection that they’re not taking new clients. Once Chance confirms that the train goes 200 miles an hour and he’ll get to ride on it, he agrees to take Stephanie’s case. On the day of the launch, Stephanie arrives at the station and Chance goes undercover as her translator for the Japanese executives. Much to Stephanie’s surprise, Chance speaks perfect Japanese and impresses the executives. Afterward, she asks him how he learned Japanese and he tells her about his grandfather who befriended a steward... and then admits the entire story is a fabrication. As they board, Chance explains that he’ll be able to deal with the killer in a confined space with no escape, and that in three hours the issue will be resolved, one way or another. The bullet train leaves the station and heads for Los Angeles. Chat talks with Tom, James’ co- counsel. Tom warns that Stephanie is a lousy boss but she keeps her job because her husband runs interference for her. Chance steals Stephanie’s phone and calls Winston, and has him check the phone logs to see if Stephanie is hiding anything. He also tells Winston to bring in Guerrero to check the corporation records. Winston doesn’t want Guerrero involved but Chance figures they can trust Guerrero as long as they pay him. As they talk, Chance notices a man watching Stephanie and fingering something in his pocket. Guerrero is at a diner when two thugs come to see him. They try to warn him off the investi- gation of their employer, a bank director who is making shady loans. When Guerrero refuses to back off, they offer to take him out back and beat him. He agrees, but warns them that later he’ll hunt them down and kill them in their sleep. They hastily back off as Guerrero takes a call. Winston calls Chance back to confirm that he’s hired Guerrero for the job. He passes on that Stpehanie’s phone logs show she received a number of calls from Mark Hoffer, a Sacramento re- porter. Stephanie sits down and realizes that Chance stole her phone. The man who was watching Stephanie comes over, but introduces himself as Bill Arnold and says he’s there to apologize for opposing her project. As they talk, a steward brings Stephanie a glass. Chance notices that the ice cubes in her glass are a different shape from everyone else’s. He quickly gets her away and Arnold inadvertently drinks from her glass. As Chance gets Stephanie out of the reception car, Arnold clutches at his throat and collapses. He gets her into an empty car and tries to bar the door, and figures that the killer will come after them since the poison attempt failed. A Sacramento newspaper editor, Lowell, gets into his car and discovers Guerrero waiting for him. Guerrero asks for information on Hoffer and Lowell reveals that the reporter is dead. Guerrero calls to tell Chance that Hoffer was killed in a car bomb explosion, the same type of bomb on Stephanie’s car. Chance confronts Stephanie with the news and she finally admits that Hoffer was investigating improprietaries at McNamara. They cut back on safety features, and Stephanie secretly blew the whistle on them to Hoffer because she didn’t have any other choice. Once Hoffer published his story, McNamara properly financed the safety features. Chance figures she’s hiding something else but Stephanie claims that’s the only secret she has. As they talk, Stephanie hesitates and then says that she can hear the brakes squealing. Someone comes through the door and Chance grabs the man when he comes upstairs. It’s Tom, who tells them that Arnold is hanging by a thread and may not make it to L.A. He wonders why Stephanie pulled the emergency brakes in the last car, and she says that she didn’t. Chance sends Tom back to the reception car. Winston finds Guerrero using his computer at the office to check Hoffer’s hard drive. He insists that Guerrero will be gone when the mission is over, but Guerrero ignores him. When Chance calls to tell them what Stephanie told him, Guerrero leaves to see if he can find something on the streets about McNamara Corporation. On the train, Stephanie speculates that the killer panicked and pulled all of the emergency breaks. However, not all of the batteries are hooked into the computer and triggering them all 4 Human Target Episode Guide at once overwhelmed the computer control system.