The title should have given it away! After several weeks of top notch Dresden Files episodes, The Other Dick was a massive step in the wrong direction.
Playing like a blend of later season Charmed and Murder, She Wrote, pretty much everything that could have been wrong about this story was.
Starting off with a twist that even Jessica Fletcher could have foreseen: Harry is plot-twisted into taking a private eye course so he can stay working as a consultant for Chicago Police Department, only his tutor goes and gets himself murdered under mysterious circumstances. This leads Harry to team up with the tutor's assistant, Claudia Black (of Stargate SG-1 and Farscape fame), to find the killer.
All the good work of recent episodes is thrown out the window as, for instance, Harry uses modern technology (a snazzy compact camera) without any handicap and a major character issue is introduced that could be a big problem in future episodes (the dramatic effect ley lines have on Harry) if it isn't forgotten as quickly as you can say: midichlorians.
The plot is so unnecessarily complicated that Bob is required to deliver an embarrassing infodump just before the third act so both Harry and the viewers have a vague idea about what's going on - if they even care by this point. Claudia Black certainly doesn't seem to - she drifts through The Other Dick with a confused look on her face, as though she's trying to find the way off set ... or at least her agent!
Even much of the magic feels wrong in this episode - such as Harry's force shield, which seems to take a different form every time it's used, and his flippant rewriting of the name on the detective agency door at the end - and once again we are 'treated' to a cut-price human-form demon (despite a good monstrous tease from a transforming Bob earlier).
A very disappointing C- grade story with little to recommend it, unless you are a die hard Claudia Black fan.
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