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Final episode of Knight Rider shows the wear of a four season 80s series in terms of content. Rosalind Cash is a career con artist, taking the persona of a type of voodoo priestess, supposedly putting those under her spell with knowledge of a special crown found during the archaeological mission of John Vernon, with Henry Gibson his associate, and Charles Davis a jeweler holding it in safekeeping for a certain exhibit. When Michael Knight stumbles upon a scene in progress where Davis is "guided" by the hypnotic device of an earring, commanded by an amulet diamond necklace around Cash's neck, he watches the jeweler leap from the window to his death without conscious understanding of what he was doing. Cash has two security guards under the spell as well, provided significant strength which is put to use when throwing Knight around! The jeweler's daughter comes from St Louis to investigate his suspicious suicide. Gibson lays on a sleazy Southern accent and when he is shown to be in cahoots with Cash it is no surprise. Still no honor among thieves, and the crown's value comes between Cash and Gibson. Vernon is a jerk as always, himself put under the spell and forced to put a bullet in his skull. Knight obviously gets the earring and is told to go to a building set for demolition! But never fear, Edward Mulhare will discover how to disable the spell's frequency and give Knight a chance to stop Cash. KITT doesn't get a lot to do and Patricia McPherson wasn't even on the final episode. Christie Houser is the cute, bubbly jeweler's daughter that Michael takes a shine to. Peter Parros rides his bike to the demolition site and loses his motorcycle when hopping into KITT at Knight's urging, but that's about all the plot has for him. The corny plot has some decent suspense but Knight dealing with voodoo is kind of an unfortunate closing episode for what had been a nice ride for The Hoff.

I am old enough that, as a young child, I watched Knight Rider when it was brand new. I loved it then, and I love it now - probably much more now, as it drips with 80s nostalgia for me.

I have been watching the whole series through and as a whole it's been one heck of a ride. I've enjoyed it immensely. However, this last episode, Voo Doo Knight, was a deeply disappointing conclusion to a wonderfully fun series.

For starters, there isn't a single cool stunt in the entire episode - not even a chase scene. KITT does almost nothing except scan the inside of buildings to tell Michael who's inside. The only action we see at all is Michael getting thrown across the room a couple of times. They obviously had a tight budget for this episode.

Then, the storyline is just really weird. A lady who claims to be a "voodoo princess" with a magic necklace is supposedly controlling people's minds when they wear one of her special earrings - but it is never explained how. Devon said it uses some kind of high frequency waves (which KITT of course can jam) but how does this connect with her necklace? Is it really magic or some kind of really sophisticated technology? If it's technology, how did this con artist get her hands on it? The writing is terrible.

Plus, we see two people commit suicide in this episode, which doesn't exactly add to the fun factor.

RC3 does absolutely nothing in this episode, Devon does very little, heck even Michael does little until the very end. Basically nothing much happens except jewelry getting stolen and archaeologists being murdered through mind control. Astonishingly, in this series finale Bonnie doesn't even make an appearance!

The only bright spot of this episode was the character of Elizabeth Wesley, who was cute as a button.

I understand that at the end of the series they had run out of money. But even if there was no money for one more good-old Turbo Boost, surely they could have come up with a better send-off for these characters than this strange and boring episode. I feel like it was a disrespect to the actors to just leave the show on a low note like that. It would have been much better just to have a retrospective episode where they talked about their favourite memories working for FLAG. Oh well.