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Fight or Flight

Aired 2007-07-12 60 min 7.3/10 our take

Episode Summary & Review

Summary

Oleg, Michael’s landlord, asks him to help Cara, a waitress in one of his clubs, after she stops showing up for work. It turns out that Cara, a single mother, is being threatened after she witnessed a drug dealer brutally beat up a man. Michael then attempts to have Cara and her teenager daughter Sophie to move to Buffalo, New York. Thoough Cara agrees to the moving, Sophie refuses to leave town, as she feels unhappy of leaving everything behind that she knows, including a school prom that she wants to attend.

Our Take

A transition episode that sets up more than it delivers. Necessary, not thrilling.