David Banner(Bill Bixby) is working for a seemingly nice old lady named Lucy Cash(played by Jeanette Nolan) he is boarding with in Atlantic City. Unfortunately, she is really a criminal mastermind, as she used David to unknowingly transport explosives, and he is caught by an FBI agent(played by John McIntire) who subsequently discovers his true identity, but offers him a deal: he'll forget about David being caught if he helps him capture Lucy. He is reluctant, but when Lucy later discovers his secret, she threatens to go to Mr. McGee if he doesn't cooperate with her! What is poor David to do? Multi-plotted story sees David in a tougher spot than usual, but of course the Hulk saves the day.
4 Reviews
A very difficult matter for David to overcome.
AntonCvetan10 November 2011
Personally, I think this is a stellar third season episode. Not wanting to give a lot away, this episode has I think one of the biggest surprises in the series and how that surprise is played out.
The two major guest stars, John McIntire and Jeanette Nolan, give wonderful performances. Having just found out that John and Jeanette in real life were married makes this episode even better. And this wasn't their only film credit together. They both lent their voices to Disney's "The Rescuers" and "The Fox and the Hound" and played a married couple in one my favorite childhood movies "Cloak & Dagger" starring Henry Thomas (Elliott from "E.T."), Dabney Coleman (WarGames, Tootsie, You've Got Mail), and Michael Murphy (Angel's father from "X-Men: The Last Stand").
10/10
The two major guest stars, John McIntire and Jeanette Nolan, give wonderful performances. Having just found out that John and Jeanette in real life were married makes this episode even better. And this wasn't their only film credit together. They both lent their voices to Disney's "The Rescuers" and "The Fox and the Hound" and played a married couple in one my favorite childhood movies "Cloak & Dagger" starring Henry Thomas (Elliott from "E.T."), Dabney Coleman (WarGames, Tootsie, You've Got Mail), and Michael Murphy (Angel's father from "X-Men: The Last Stand").
10/10
Criminal Mastermind
flarefan-819062 May 2017
Warning: Spoilers
This one is really bizarre, a mixture of drama and spy thriller that comes out a lot more campy than it was clearly intended to. It's startling that this came from the pen of the series's story editor Andrew Schneider, who also wrote "Homecoming", one of the Hulk's most down-to-earth and believable episodes.
David is hired as a handyman for an elderly woman named Lucy Cash, but as it turns out she's actually a criminal mastermind who's using him to make deliveries in lead up to a big heist. David gets nailed by the feds, who coerce him to act as their inside man (or else they'll release his picture and recent pseudonyms to the press). Things get even more uncomfortable for David (as suggested by the title) when Lucy and her nephew find out both that he's working with the feds and that he's the Hulk, and try to get him to act as *their* spy.
Meanwhile, we learn that the lead fed, an elderly gentleman, is pursuing this case out of a romantic fixation with Lucy. This is supposed to charming and cute, but frankly it's just disgustingly creepy. Lucy is also supposed to be sympathetic by the end, but both she and the feds pile on so many lies in an effort to get David on their side that after a while you automatically assume that anything they say is a lie. That not only makes it hard to sympathize with these characters, it makes you feel like you're not in on the storyline.
In the end, the Hulk saves the day with some campy hero/damsel-in- distress imagery which is just cringe-inducing, especially in context. This episode has its fun moments, but its attempts at human interest miss the mark by a good 200 miles.
David is hired as a handyman for an elderly woman named Lucy Cash, but as it turns out she's actually a criminal mastermind who's using him to make deliveries in lead up to a big heist. David gets nailed by the feds, who coerce him to act as their inside man (or else they'll release his picture and recent pseudonyms to the press). Things get even more uncomfortable for David (as suggested by the title) when Lucy and her nephew find out both that he's working with the feds and that he's the Hulk, and try to get him to act as *their* spy.
Meanwhile, we learn that the lead fed, an elderly gentleman, is pursuing this case out of a romantic fixation with Lucy. This is supposed to charming and cute, but frankly it's just disgustingly creepy. Lucy is also supposed to be sympathetic by the end, but both she and the feds pile on so many lies in an effort to get David on their side that after a while you automatically assume that anything they say is a lie. That not only makes it hard to sympathize with these characters, it makes you feel like you're not in on the storyline.
In the end, the Hulk saves the day with some campy hero/damsel-in- distress imagery which is just cringe-inducing, especially in context. This episode has its fun moments, but its attempts at human interest miss the mark by a good 200 miles.
Wrong
sully-1394718 February 2022
Warning: Spoilers
This was not filmed in Atlantic City NJ. I grew up there and nothing in this episode is Atlantic City except the sign and street signs and opening pictures are Atlantic City. I 1 one part it say Chicago Furniture none in AC, the docks aren't like that in AC. Clearly this was Filmed in Los Angeles area with Atlantic City used as some film shot. I THINK mainly they said AC to promote tourism. If you google or Wikipedia AC it doesn't say anything about Hulk being filmed there.
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