Season 2 • Episode 18
LatestLoubar is back-with a vengeance! His assignment: to kill the Chinese Trade Minister. Using Rollie's identity, and three days stolen from his life, Loubar constructs a perfect frame. Unless Rollie stops the assassination, his life as a free man is over. But there's more to Loubar's bid for revenge, and his dark and twisted act will change the lives of Rollie and Angie forever.
Rollie Tyler, a special effects expert, helps his detective friend solve crimes by making criminals see what they want to see. But what is real and what is illusion?
Practical Effects
Pre-CGI wizardry that makes you miss when effects required actual craftsmanship.
Acting
Cameron Daddo's Australian accent doing heavy lifting as 'generic American everyman.'
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is one of the rare TV-to-movie spinoffs that became a series—Bryan Brown originated Rollie Tyler in the 1986 film FX and its 1991 sequel, but was too expensive for weekly TV.
Shot in Toronto but set in New York, this exemplifies '90s Canadian television's obsession with pretending to be American while every exterior shot screamed 'this is clearly not Manhattan.'
CA
