The Hulk Breaks Las Vegas

It was so nice to see old Vegas as it never will be again and that's almost the best I can say about this episode. Why they ever decided to shot it in Las Vegas is a big question because you can see clearly that it was never shot over there. The use of blue key teared this episode down. Oh yes, there are a lot of shots of Vegas but never with our guests in it and if they do it's as stated blue key. That they used blue key while driving that I can take but to see the hulk running before a blue key was a bit laughable.

Still, it's a classic episode were by coincidence David runs in a men being hit by a car. Getting involved with the man rescue he has been given a voice recorder. From there David runs in trouble but not only that, Jack McGee, the reporter, is close on his heels because he's related to the victim.

There's even a scene were McGee finally comes in front of the hulk, asking him of he know David Banner. It's very close that the alter-ego has been revealed.

A bit weak in story and of course that particular part with the blue key.

Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 1,5/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

A season 1 episode has David working in a casino in Las Vegas when he happens to witness an attempted murder of a journalist investigating a money scandal involving the casino owners. Helping the guy into an ambulance and lending a hand on the way he agrees to pass on some information to a fellow journalist. As fate would have it, the fellow journalist is Jack McGee; the ruthless reporter who's relentlessly seeking David's green alter ego.

The best episode on the first season has some outstanding Hulk action and a well written and suspenseful near confrontation between Banner and McGee. I find that whenever McGee plays a big part the episodes go from good to outstanding, Jack Colvin simply excels in the part.

With a title like that, it's hard not to expect something lowbrow. But this is close to the best episode of the season. Why? Because Jack McGee is actually in the plot! David chances to be on hand to help an investigative reporter who was the victim of an attempted hit, and the reporter asks him to deliver some evidence to a friend of his - who just happens to be dear Mr. McGee. Uh oh for David.

The episode doesn't insult your intelligence by spending a lot of time on this predicament; obviously, David is going to honor the (possibly) dying man's wishes and try to deliver the evidence without actually meeting McGee face-to-face. Nor does the drama end there, because that evidence is just one small part of exposing a crooked political boss. McGee remains a core character throughout, for once serving as more than just an excuse for the series to keep changing locales.

But it gets even better: McGee actually meets the Hulk for the first time in this episode. Nor is the encounter a predictable contrived scenario where McGee sees the Hulk doing something and mistakes it for further proof of the creature's homicidal nature. Without spoiling anything, it's a beautifully handled moment which actually advances the story of the series.

The one problem to this episode is that it makes it apparent just how obligatory the attractive female character is in the series; the lady in this one does absolutely nothing significant to the plot. There's also the usual case of the transformations into the Hulk being too convenient, and the episode doesn't really aspire to masterpiece level. But it is a good example of the sort of tale this series should be telling.

David Banner(Bill Bixby) is working as a shill(a low point in jobs) in a Las Vegas casino that is owned by a crooked man(played by John Crawford) who is after a reporter who has accumulated a mass of evidence against him. He plans on turning this over to Jack McGee(Jack Colvin) but is attacked and run over before he can. David rides with him in the ambulance to help, but finds himself entrusted with tape-recorded evidence to get to McGee, which obviously will put his freedom in jeopardy, as both their lives are still threatened by the crooks, who also want the evidence. Fine episode makes good use of McGee and its location, creating suspense in a familiar crime situation.

An investigative reporter, Ed Campion (Dean Santoro) has managed to uncover a number of details about the mafia activity in a Las Vegas casino where David is working. The bad guys are on to him, having tapped his line. ...

When the mob seriously injures the reporter, putting him in coma, David inadvertently becomes involved in delivering his notes to his reporter friend: Jack McGee!

Meanwhile, Campion's wife (Julie Gregg) has the task to deposit the evidence in a safe place until Jack McGee (Colvin) can recover and publish it.

The Hulk certainly breaks Sin city in this involving episode- David Banner almost is in view of reporter McGee (at one point he's in the car with McGee, but the latter is unconscious), and in the end he and the Hulk are both in a landfill, ready to be filled up. There's a great scene where McGee tries to talk to the Hulk and he's about to transform back to David- whether he does fully in front of the reporter you have to watch to find out!