Main cast: Scott Valentine (Joe), Ingrid Held (Catherine), and Page Fletcher (The Hitchhiker)
Director: Bruno Gantillon

Joe is living the high life. He has a chauffeur and he buys luxury designer clothes such as Renoma… wait, Renoma? Things really were different back in the 1980s and early 1990s, I suppose.

Thing is, Joe is also Living a Lie: he’s a bartender and, when asked, claims that he made the extra dough through wise investments. In reality, he is uses pilfered credit cards for his purchases. These credit cards are pinched from the customers he tends to at the restaurant where he works.

One fine evening, wealthy-looking Ted Bruce walks into the place, and despite the maître d’ Denise’s efforts to keep Joe away from the clients, Joe manages to schmooze up to that man and pinches the man’s credit card.

The problem here is that Ted is not whom he claims to be, so Joe using the man’s credit card opens up a whole lot of problems he really doesn’t need in his life.

There are two problems with this episode.

One, Joe sees Ted gets shot before his eyes, and thinks it’s an awesome idea to then assume the man’s identity to live the high life. He’s then horrified that he’s now the target of the killer. I mean, he saw the man got gunned down—what does he expect when he assumes the man’s identity?

Two, the whole twist makes little sense because it relies way too much on things just happen to come together perfectly for the bad guys. This episode depends heavily on me not thinking while I’m watching it. Well, me not thinking even more than usual, that is.

It’s a shame that this episode is a dud in the script department, because Scott Valentine makes a pretty good grifter and the rest of the cast also deliver performances that are above average for this show. If the story had been any better, this one would have knocked it out of the ballpark.

Then again, “if the story had been any better” is basically the anthem for this show!