Human Target - Embassy Row, S01E03

Now, I know I said I wasn't going to watch Human Target, and I'm not really, but it was on and I was being lazy and it was on...it's not the worst show in the world. My opinion, though, remains the same - there are better shows on TV.

In this episode, Christopher Chance (Mark Valley) has a different challenge. An old friend was poisoned, so now he has to finish his friend's work and save both himself and his friend's brother (Sean Maher) from dying of poison as well.

It was interesting so see Chance in a different situation, one in which he has less control. The episode also contained another awesome fight scene when Chance and FBI agent Emma Barnes (Emmanuelle Vaugier) first confronted each other. But, while it was awesome, any desire to watch the show based on the action sequences were then destroyed when Chance and Barnes escaped by making a ridiculous jump on a motorcycle, and then climbed over a wall while being shot at by machine guns, with Chance nearly dead from the poison, without getting shot. Not credible, people.

We did finally get a hint of plot continuing from one episode to the next, as, after Barnes and Chance parted, she ran his prints and wants to find him again. Meanwhile, Chance claimed that leaving his prints behind was a mistake because, as he said, "risk everything for woman? What [is he], 14?" So there is a potential love story going on, which could be exciting.

So, again, Human Target isn't a waste of time, but missing it is not a tragedy either.