The First Time
Airdate: 11/7/83
Summary: The parents of a prodigy child are kidnapped and held captive in an attempt to coerce him and Lee and Amanda are charged with keeping him safe- which turns out to be very difficult.
Take Cover: Lee is undercover and a down-on-his-luck employee of the ACM corporation, Ricky Joe Jackson. Amanda gets sucked into his cover for a moment as "Mrs. Ricky Joe."
Spy Speak: Lee: "Yes, Amanda...danger...excitement...intrigue." Amanda: "Oh, shut up!"
Weapons of Mass Distraction: This time it's Alexi, not Amanda, providing a distraction by turning on the arcade's strobe lights.
Shouldn't I know How to Hit?:
Stay in the Car:
Partners in Crime Fighting: Lee to Billy, about Amanda: "She's got motherhood carved on her bones." Amanda to Alexi, about Lee. "He's one of the top agents in the country."
We're Not Involved: Amanda makes the comment that Lee could buy her affections with the giant stuffed panda which he later leaves on her doorstep, but they're not involved.
Black Book Babes: Lee: "I've got this kid..." Amanda: "By 'kid,' do you mean those girls you date?"
In the tag, Amanda is seen giving Dean a massage.
This is the first time that it's mentioned that Dotty is seeing Dr. Fred Bain, the chiropodist. In the way she gushes about him and Amanda's obvious surprise, we can assume that this was Dotty's first date with him.
Whopper of the Week: Amanda tells her mother that she joined a big sisters program to explain Alexi's presence in their home. She also blatantly lies to Dean in the tag when he talks about "what happened at Pepper Tree Mall" in saying she hadn't heard a thing about it.
Denial, Thy Name is Dotty: Dotty believes Amada's "big sister" story until Alexi himself tells her the feds have him in protective custody. "WHY do the feds have him in protective custody?" Dotty never gets her answer.
Dean should be added to this category for this episode because he willingly believes Amanda's lie that she was too busy with the boys to have paid attention to the news.
Mother Knows Best: This one is full of Dotty gems. "Why do the Feds have him in protective custody?" She also explains to Amanda that feet are an erogenous zone and that feet strangle in shoes, courtesy of her date, Dr. Bain. In another scene, she makes a crack about hiding the silver from Alexi, but in the same conversation tries to encourage Amanda to get the boy to trust her, though she does compare children to Chihuahuas.
Boys Will Be Boys: Phillip and Jamie get lessons from Alexi in how to shoot craps and how to roll drunks.
Dean "crapped out" against Jamie and informs Amanda that because of that, Jamie will be going with them on their movie date.
At various times throughout the episode, all of the adults in this episode become frustrated by Alexi's antics.
New Normal: While Lee empathizes with Alexi, he has real trouble connecting with him. Amanda notices when Lee buys the boy extravagant presents. Amanda: "What are you doing, going for Father of the Year?"
Leaps of a Logical Mind: Amanda figures out that the arcade is where the trouble is going down.
Rescue Me: Both Lee and Amanda are in trouble this week and left tied up in a closet, from which they rescue themselves.
Only the Good Die Young: Jeff Clemens is murdered early on in the episode.
Bad to the Bone: Becker, Wilson and Coughlin are holding Alexi's parents, Vassily and Galina Kalnikov hostage in exchange for Alexi's use of his 185 IQ to break into the ACM computers and steal top-secret satellite plans.
Cracking the Case: Between Lee's cover, Alexi's high IQ and Amanda's logic, they are able to shut down the gang of baddies and free the elder Kalnikovs before the villains are able to obtain the information they're after.
Francine Fun: When Lee balks at the idea of sending Alexi to a juvenile center, Francine quips, "We could always clap him in irons."
Continuity: We see glimpses of Lee's rough childhood. First in his argument with Alexi when he mentions losing his parents and being raised on multiple Army bases, again in the way he feels sorry for Alexi in not wanting him to go to a group home and finally in his conversation with Amanda, but just when it seems he's about to open up, "Did I ever tell you about my childhood," he catches himself at seeing Amanda's curious expression and clams up.
A bit of a continuity glitch exists in the above because Lee tells Alexi he was four when his parents were killed, but when we get to "Unfinished Business," which resolves the issues surrounding the elder Stetsons' mysterious deaths, it's clear that he was five in both the dates of the flashbacks and Lee's memories of that time. However, this could be attributed to the fact that it's clear in the later episode that Lee's memories are very vague.
Lee's insistence on not sending Alexi to Dozier Hall and complaining about the conditions there suggests that he might have spent some time there as a child. It is well-known that there is a two-year gap from when his parents died to when his uncle took him in. See A Relative Situation.
Amanda seems excited and a bit amused by Lee's purchases for Alexi which belies her later assertion in "Santa," that she doesn't approve of expensive presents for her own boys. More on that in that episode.
Summary: The parents of a prodigy child are kidnapped and held captive in an attempt to coerce him and Lee and Amanda are charged with keeping him safe- which turns out to be very difficult.
Take Cover: Lee is undercover and a down-on-his-luck employee of the ACM corporation, Ricky Joe Jackson. Amanda gets sucked into his cover for a moment as "Mrs. Ricky Joe."
Spy Speak: Lee: "Yes, Amanda...danger...excitement...intrigue." Amanda: "Oh, shut up!"
Weapons of Mass Distraction: This time it's Alexi, not Amanda, providing a distraction by turning on the arcade's strobe lights.
Shouldn't I know How to Hit?:
Stay in the Car:
Partners in Crime Fighting: Lee to Billy, about Amanda: "She's got motherhood carved on her bones." Amanda to Alexi, about Lee. "He's one of the top agents in the country."
We're Not Involved: Amanda makes the comment that Lee could buy her affections with the giant stuffed panda which he later leaves on her doorstep, but they're not involved.
Black Book Babes: Lee: "I've got this kid..." Amanda: "By 'kid,' do you mean those girls you date?"
In the tag, Amanda is seen giving Dean a massage.
This is the first time that it's mentioned that Dotty is seeing Dr. Fred Bain, the chiropodist. In the way she gushes about him and Amanda's obvious surprise, we can assume that this was Dotty's first date with him.
Whopper of the Week: Amanda tells her mother that she joined a big sisters program to explain Alexi's presence in their home. She also blatantly lies to Dean in the tag when he talks about "what happened at Pepper Tree Mall" in saying she hadn't heard a thing about it.
Denial, Thy Name is Dotty: Dotty believes Amada's "big sister" story until Alexi himself tells her the feds have him in protective custody. "WHY do the feds have him in protective custody?" Dotty never gets her answer.
Dean should be added to this category for this episode because he willingly believes Amanda's lie that she was too busy with the boys to have paid attention to the news.
Mother Knows Best: This one is full of Dotty gems. "Why do the Feds have him in protective custody?" She also explains to Amanda that feet are an erogenous zone and that feet strangle in shoes, courtesy of her date, Dr. Bain. In another scene, she makes a crack about hiding the silver from Alexi, but in the same conversation tries to encourage Amanda to get the boy to trust her, though she does compare children to Chihuahuas.
Boys Will Be Boys: Phillip and Jamie get lessons from Alexi in how to shoot craps and how to roll drunks.
Dean "crapped out" against Jamie and informs Amanda that because of that, Jamie will be going with them on their movie date.
At various times throughout the episode, all of the adults in this episode become frustrated by Alexi's antics.
New Normal: While Lee empathizes with Alexi, he has real trouble connecting with him. Amanda notices when Lee buys the boy extravagant presents. Amanda: "What are you doing, going for Father of the Year?"
Leaps of a Logical Mind: Amanda figures out that the arcade is where the trouble is going down.
Rescue Me: Both Lee and Amanda are in trouble this week and left tied up in a closet, from which they rescue themselves.
Only the Good Die Young: Jeff Clemens is murdered early on in the episode.
Bad to the Bone: Becker, Wilson and Coughlin are holding Alexi's parents, Vassily and Galina Kalnikov hostage in exchange for Alexi's use of his 185 IQ to break into the ACM computers and steal top-secret satellite plans.
Cracking the Case: Between Lee's cover, Alexi's high IQ and Amanda's logic, they are able to shut down the gang of baddies and free the elder Kalnikovs before the villains are able to obtain the information they're after.
Francine Fun: When Lee balks at the idea of sending Alexi to a juvenile center, Francine quips, "We could always clap him in irons."
Continuity: We see glimpses of Lee's rough childhood. First in his argument with Alexi when he mentions losing his parents and being raised on multiple Army bases, again in the way he feels sorry for Alexi in not wanting him to go to a group home and finally in his conversation with Amanda, but just when it seems he's about to open up, "Did I ever tell you about my childhood," he catches himself at seeing Amanda's curious expression and clams up.
A bit of a continuity glitch exists in the above because Lee tells Alexi he was four when his parents were killed, but when we get to "Unfinished Business," which resolves the issues surrounding the elder Stetsons' mysterious deaths, it's clear that he was five in both the dates of the flashbacks and Lee's memories of that time. However, this could be attributed to the fact that it's clear in the later episode that Lee's memories are very vague.
Lee's insistence on not sending Alexi to Dozier Hall and complaining about the conditions there suggests that he might have spent some time there as a child. It is well-known that there is a two-year gap from when his parents died to when his uncle took him in. See A Relative Situation.
Amanda seems excited and a bit amused by Lee's purchases for Alexi which belies her later assertion in "Santa," that she doesn't approve of expensive presents for her own boys. More on that in that episode.
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