We commonly think of drugs being something that the nefarious seek to steal from the outside; this plot is almost the opposite and shows this vulnerability. What would be common in some future episodes would be something devious taking place at one of Hart's industries. As is often a stereotype in similar shows, there's one strong villain and one weaker one, the former ruthless and the latter prone to slipping up. Karen Austin plays the strong role with a vengeance, although some of her decisions were suspect. Her first was tampering with the company coffee to get to Jonathan, which didn't camouflage her involvement too well, and the latter was her using the test chamber to do the hot and cold on the Harts at the end, showing ingenuity beyond a simple shooting. Some noteworthy occurrences of this episode: Jennifer takes the lead at one point, showing her moxie and equal partnership; Jonathan does some goofy faces for Jennifer, one of which becomes part of the opening in future shows (as I recall); both do an excellent job with their facial gestures of trying not to recognize the other when Jennifer goes undercover to inspect Jonathan's chemical plant; and there's a snappy one-liner, almost reminiscent of Roger Moore's James Bond. If you're watching this DVD one at a time, the overuse of the song "Now" becomes irritating by this point of this DVD.
Review of A New Kind of High
