The Topaz Connection

About 04:20 into the episode when Devon and Bonnie walk up the stairs, there are several model pictures on the wall, I believe one picture is of Brooke Shields, but I'm not sure, if someone can verify it. I uploaded a screen shot. I would like to know but I can't find any information. Maybe it's of a different model, but every time I watch this episode I see the picture at the top of this stairway and immediately think Brooke Shields. I don't think she is credited to any Knight Rider episodes, but at this point I am just trying to meet the quota for the minimum of six hundred characters required.

Nothing notable about this episode, the story was mildly entertaining and the acting expected. Some cool stunts but on the whole wasn't very interesting.

Philip Royce a character loosely modelled on Hugh Hefner is a glamour magazine publisher who is found dead but not before he contacted Devon Miles over an expose he was planning codenamed Topaz.

Michael Knight helps his daughter Lauren investigate his death with clues lying in Royce's computer but they need to break the password as the bad guys circle around Lauren and kidnap her.

Some dodgy pharmaceutical drugs lie at the heart of the story. KITT is photographed with a model, Michael and Lauren have romance in Las Vegas. Just to stay topical a cover of Down Under is on the soundtrack. Men at Work's song was number 1 in January 1983 in the US charts.

Michael Knight is investigating the death of glamor magazine "Escape" publisher Phillip Royce who had contacted the Foundation to expose a story he referred to only under the codename - and has a bit of romance time to boot.

Some good action sequences boosts this routine episode such as the scene where Michael tries to stop the plane from taking off by shoving his jacket in the rudder and the final car chase - not an outstanding episode, which is bogged down in romance, but it's watchable.