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Plot; After a brush with death, Michael decides to retire and eventually reunites with a lost love.

When I say "Emotionally compelling television", a few things probably come to mind for you, but one of those isn't likely to be Knight Rider unless your last name happens to be Hasselhoff. But ask any fan of the series and they'll tell you that this episode from the series' fourth and final season ranks among its best, and is easily its most powerful dramatically. Before I begin I must say that the latter has to be put into the context of the fact that the show is about a guy in a Member's Only jacket who fights crime with his sentient, talking 1982 Pontiac Trans-AM.

I grew up with Knight Rider, but by S4--with its Super Pursuit Mode and requisite "The show's ratings are falling, let's add an annoying kid" teenage sidekick--I was long gone. But having recently made my way through a selection of S1, I do remember the character of Stephanie "Stevie" Mason from an episode entitled "White Bird", where we learn that she's the love of Michael's life before he became the Knight Rider. All of that helped to add a little weight here as things turn tragic for the star-crossed couple. This is by no means high drama, but by the standards of the show it's a relatively serious and thoughtful story with a focus on our hero and not stunts and pyrotechnics.

Actor David Hasselhoff reportedly pleaded with producers to make this the final episode of the series, and it would've made for a bittersweet yet appropriate capper. They disagreed, and the series went on for another half season, ending instead with an episode about robbers under the influence of a voo doo princess. Gonna have to agree with The 'Hoff on this one, guys.

In this thrilling episode Michael seems to be genuinely torn between the gorgeous Stevie and his erstwhile employer FLAG. After a close call with death thanks to a Blofeld type character yet again Michael decides to call it a day.

He reunites with his long lost love and sets up a wedding that quickly ends in tragedy not totally dissimilar to the 1969 Bond movie On her majesty's secret service. While it took James Bond another movie (Diamonds are forever) and another actor (Sean Connery) and a gap of 2 years to get revenge of sorts on his wife's death Michael does it in double quick time by dangerously meeting up in a basically gauntlet type situation as cleverly pointed out by KITT. He turns the tables on this set up and after avoiding a bunch of missiles that only James Bond could achieve he finally reminds the bad guy that he would rather see him do a long spell in prison than merely kill him.

In the end scene Michael finally decides to return to FLAG on a beach similar to the one where James Bond meets Tracey at the start of On her majesty's secret service . A poignant scene in a truly tragic and simultaneously fantastic episode.

This episode threw me for a loop, hit me in the feels, bamboozled me, like why did they even have to go there?! Sad storyline that was actually well acted.

I agree with the first review that this episode has Michael in probably his worst situation yet. Michael gets near-fatally shot while trying to capture some villains at the very beginning. These guys are ruthless, and will not stop till Michael is out of the picture.

While in the hospital, Michael nearly gets strangled by one of the main villains partners. Michael falls into a deep depression, and considers if he should continue with his life as a crime fighter, or leave the foundation.

At giving Michael some hope during his depression, Devon reunites Michael with his wife as Michael Long, Stevie.

Reunited, Michael realizes Stevie is meant for him, and the gap between them getting married is the foundation.

So he leaves the foundation so he can leave the fear of fighting crime behind him, and so he and Stevie can get married.

The same man at the beginning also attempts to blow up Michael's and Stevie's beach house with a remote-control airplane with explosives on it meant to kill both of them. But with a quick reaction from KITT to warn Michael that if the plane continues on the path it is heading for, it will explode into the house. Michael bee-lines it yelling for Stevie to "get out there". They both nearly miss getting blown up with the house by just hitting the beach right before the plane makes contact.

Stevie and Michael get married, but the marriage comes to a nasty and brutal end when Stevie gets shot and killed while taking a fatal bullet meant for Michael. The man who's shot Stevie took for Michael was from the man Michael got near fatally shot at in the beginning.

Crying and in tears begging for Stevie not to leave him, Stevie slips away.

Devon and RC try to catch him, but the villain is to quick. He hops in a van with his partners firing guns out the back of the van!!! All in a rage and with fiery anger in his eyes, Michael refuses help from the Foundation in catching these guys. He is destined for revenge to the man who murdered his wife, and who was still out for him.

Michael looking deadly, and not to be messed with finds the place where the main villain and his partners are hiding out thanks to Devon and Bonnie giving them an address from looking up research on the guy.

Michael burns rubber into the place, gets out of KITT, runs after the guy and tackles him.

Michael with his rage and anger, proceeds to beat the living hell out of the guy in cold blood.

KITT racing over demands Michael to stop beating the guy up, or he will not be able to live with himself.

Michael then picks him up, and slams him against the wall saying that if he's lucky, he will be executed after the trial, but if he's not executed he will watch his life slip away behind the mirror of a prison cell.

Then we see Michael on the beach feeding the birds, realizing his home is the foundation with Bonnie, KITT, RC, Devon. And so off him and KITT drive into the sunset.

This episode was certainly a great episode filled with action, sadness, ear, anger, and a side of Michael we have not seen yet throughout the series. We see Michael at his ruthless trying to get deadly revenge on a killer who murdered his wife, and was out for him.

And this episode was indeed the series finale but was not aired as the last episode which it should have been because it was in fact the series finale.

What is in fact aired as the last episode was Voodoo Knight which was a silly non serious episode that dealt with Voodoo. It was obviously not meant as the finale as it offered no closure to the show.

Scent Of Roses which did air in the middle of the season should of aired when Voodoo Night aired as the very last episode.

This episode is what made Knight Rider end with a bang,and sets us up for Michael's retirement time which we will see in the following movie Knight Rider 2000, in which apparently IMDb users hate. As I do too!

In a sense glad it was not or it would had ended on a downer. IMHO, wished that the series ended with Michael getting that long time vacation and starting a family with his long time love and true love Stevie, now a singer after leaving witness protection

He is injured over on a case and that the assassin that he unmasked will do nothing at all to get his way and wanting Michael dead. And will do so at the expense of loved ones.

But he leaves the FLAG knowing he is burned out and seen it all. And when Devon sees Stevie and Michael lights on up. Planning to spend the rest of their lives together despite resigning.

May never had been a Devon fan and at times felt he could had treated Michael with more respect instead of burying case after case and knew that Michael could not come and go as he pleases like KITT.

Kind of wish for an happier ending. But sadly you will have lots of tears coming.

I enjoy this show on a nostalgic level, but I have difficulty believing a guy marries the love of his life while he knows a bad guy who wants him dead is at-large.

It's selfish and it's difficult to believe that Michael, Stevie, Devon, Bonnie, and RC are all that dumb. It's Michael's fault she's dead, and the nature of 80's episodic television is that there's no long-term price for him to pay for that horrible lack of judgment.

In a show not known for great writing, this is the worst.

This would've made a perfect last episode if it had a happy ending for Michael and Stevie. But unfortunately it didn't and in the end it seems to me like an episode that's been rather hurridly put together with the main purpose to kill off Stevie. For instance the episode includes a scene where MIchael and Bonnie is reviewing a video taken by KITT from when MIchael was shot to try and identify the main purpetrator, Durant/Kurt Rolands. However in this scene we get to see a clear picture of Durant in the video (which obviously must've been a mistake from the director/producer), however Michael totally ignores that fact, and the image they actually get of Durant in the end is from a reflection on a suitcase.