Episode 104: K.R.O.

Team Knight Rider
Episode 104: K.R.O.
Air Date	27 October, 1997
Written by	Steven Kriozere
Director	Spiro Razatos

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The team must intercept an evil predecessor named K.R.O. from exacting revenge on its creator, who aborted the project after the car and its driver went out of control.

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Plot[]

A computer overrides the controls of a DC-3 transport plane, forcing it crash land after the two pilots escape with parachutes. James Marland, hand-picked to replace Devon Miles and oversaw the revamping of F.L.A.G. asks Kyle for a favor: investigate the crash before the regular autorities do. Since it is not official TKR business, Kyle offers the mission on a volunteer mission. Only Jenny agrees to join him. Kyle, Jenny and Danté find the crash site, and they hear gun shots. They find two hunters who were nearly killed by what appears to be a man inside a sports car.

The car is identified as K.R.O., the Knight Reformulation One, a black Ferrari designed by F.L.A.G. to replace KITT and Michael Knight. Like the current TKR vehicles, K.R.O.'s personality was extracted from its driver, in this case, Martin Jantzen. Martin was hand-picked by Marland to replace Michael Knight but he was later discovered to be unstable, and K.R.O. adopted the same character flaws. Kyle goes to speak to Jantzen, who is in the White Sands detention facility. While the rest of the team attempt to stop K.R.O., Kyle resents Marland's failure to tell them that K.R.O. was on the crashed plane.

During a high speed chase in attempt to stop K.R.O., Beast is nearly destroyed after his rear axle is taken out by K.R.O.'s missiles. Without telling Kyle, Jenny sends Trek to speak with Marland to find a weakness in K.R.O. He gives Trek a CD containing software that will wipe out K.R.O.'s programming, but it must be installed from inside the car. Trek is able to get inside, but K.R.O. activates his security system and demands that an exchange be made, Trek for Martin. The exchange is made.

Martin and K.R.O. go after James Marland to seek vengance. Trek and Erica bring Marland to a junk yard, hoping all the metal will confuse K.R.O.'s scanners. It doesn't. Martin and K.R.O. are tricked into following a holographic image of Marland, and Danté pushes them into a giant steel box. Marland fills the box with molten metal. Both Kyle and K.R.O. try to save Martin, but Martin, in a moment of true comradery, allows himself to die alongside his car.