Max attempts to track down a young woman’s father and has to bail out one of her friends when he gets into trouble with gangsters.

There’s something not quite right about this episode, and that is that it doesn’t really have a main plot. It’s as if the hunt for the woman’s father wasn’t enough so more weight was given to Max’s friend’s plight. Now, although this is the stronger (and indeed funnier) of the two plots, it makes the episode unsure whether it wants to be a comedy or a tragedy.

When the father is found, the outcome is a surprise but lacks dramatic tension due to attention being diverted elsewhere, so we don’t get to know any of the players involved in this unfolding drama. There’s swift and effective justice in the end from Max, but you don’t feel you’ve had any emotional involvement in what’s happened. Even Logan shrugs it off like a ‘these things happen’.

The only thing that keeps the episode watchable is seeing Max and Original Cindy take a group of gangsters for a ride, playing on their sexuality by dressing and acting like bimbos, taking their money and then kicking some ass in great style. It’s great fun, especially when they explain that their friend has used up all their goodwill, but one good bit in an episode isn’t a good success rate.

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