Alright, I’ll admit it I’m a nerd at heart. I’m always a sucker for a good superhero movie or television show. With Heroes relegated to the great TV Land beyond, NBC latest entry is the series, The Cape.
Starring David Lyons as Vince Faraday/The Cape, the series, set in the fictional metropolis of Palm City, follows Faraday, an honest police detective who is considering leaving the city’s corrupt police force. He witnesses the murder of the city’s new police chief by a mysterious individual known as “Chess.” Faraday accepts an offer to work for the private security firm of billionaire Peter Fleming, who is petitioning the city to privatize their police and public safety operations. An e-mail from the anonymous investigative blogger “Orwell” leads Faraday and his partner Marty Voyt to a cargo train owned by Fleming’s firm that is smuggling explosives. Unfortunately, Voyt has set up Faraday and delivers him to Chess, who is Fleming himself.
Fleming frames Faraday for the police chief’s murder and sends his security teams after Faraday in a chase (televised by local news stations) that culminates in an explosion. The entire city (including Faraday’s family) now believes that Faraday is Chess and that he died in the explosion. Faraday survives and is taken in by a traveling circus turned bank robbery ring. Their leader, Max Malini, trains Faraday to use a special black cape to defend himself against his foes. The circus folk convince Faraday that he cannot reveal himself to his wife and son without endangering their lives. Faraday decides to fight Palm City’s corruption and clear his name by taking the guise of his son’s favorite comic book hero, “The Cape.”
Featuring the amazing Keith David as Max Malini, the ringleader of a circus gang of bank robbers who mentors Vince after he saved him and trains the cop to become The Cape, this Batman-esque series could develop into a huge hit for NBC if the stories can remain interesting.
The Cape airs Monday night at 9pm on NBC
Watch the pilot episode of The Cape below
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