Episode 6: Firefall .
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This is one of those episodes that I never really warmed to first time round, but on several re-watches later it kind of grew on me. At first the story seems a little ludicrous as the spirit of a dead arsonist and classical music fan Frankie Markoff, is killed in an arcade. His then restless spirit gets cut up by a car while being taken to the cemetery, the car in question has conductor Ryder Bond inside, so the spirit of Markoff tries to take over the body of Bond, mean while people are spontaneously combusting.. Once you except the premise, of the story, its kind of a fun episode, with some great dialogue, especially between Carl and Maria the gypsy who he obviously double crossed before in the past. While the series was never ever explicit, the aftermath scenes of burned bodies is pretty effective, although they cutaway from the burned corpse's pretty quickly, whether that's due tv censorship or not we will probably never know. There's also some rather creepy scenes where the spirit who now resembles Bond keeps popping up through windows etc grinning inanely, waiting for Bond to fall asleep so he can take over his body...As episodes go its pretty good, and any story that ends up with Carl digging up a corpse cant be all bad now can it..