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Title: Along Came a Spider

Date Viewed: 4/21/01

Details:

Morgan Freeman

Monica Potter

Michael Wincott

Director: Lee Tamahori

Score: +

The Review: Morgan Freeman (p)reprises his Alex Cross role from Kiss the Girls (which co-starred Ashley Judd), only this episode happens to be chronologically earlier in the character's life, just after he's gone into temporary retirement following his partner's death. We watch the kidnapping of a high mucky-muck's daughter; Cross is called in to profile the situation, and is immediately teamed up with another agent. There are more than enough twists and turns on the conventional kidnapping for ransom plot.

It's a sign of the times when encrypted text concealed in GIF files becomes a plot element, and is not at all jarring.

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