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* WelcomeEpisode: Michelle Castle is newly hired for Serendip to be Austin James' secretary. Being sent to his warehouse/home/[[MadScientistLaboratory laboratory]] kicks off the two-character {{Ensemble}} series.
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Originally airing on 7 March 1988, "Computer Logic" is a [[MultiPartEpisode two-part]] {{Pilot}} episode. The episode begins with Michelle Castle watching a training/recruitment video for Serendip in an otherwise empty movie theater. It's [[WelcomeEpisode her first day on the job]], and she wants to make a good impression. Waiting at her desk, one of the Directors of Serendip exits his office yelling about Austin's water bill. Turning on Michelle, he sends her to get Austin to pay the bill himself or she's fired.
Austin is mostly interested in why a stranger died nearly on his doorstep, but before the Police coroner is willing to give him any information, he has to help solve the mystery of how a woman died of exposure when her body temperature was lower than that of the environment.
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!!This episode provides examples of:
* BatDeduction: Austin deduces a number of things about Mickey that he fails to provide his reasoning behind, such as how he knows about her allergy to chocolate, or how he knew her mother had surgery recently. The most reasonable deduction he makes is that she's broke and needs a job.
* DramaticChaseOpening: It's late at night and David Hofstadter is being chased by someone with control of electronic devices; neon lights flicker on and explode, power lines crackle with electricity, and [[HackTheTrafficLights traffic lights show green for all traffic]].
* EurekaMoment: When Mickey tells Austin that the broken rose petal reminds her of a piece of glass, he finally makes the connection to what happened; this episode's death was caused by liquid nitrogen.
* EverythingIsOnline: Someone is able to turn televisions and radios on and off at will, HackTheTrafficLights, and make neon lights explode. [[spoiler:In the next half of the episode, it's revealed to be an {{AI}} named Crossover, who has been given access to the power company and it is apparently able to control electronics by adjusting how much power is sent to them.]]
* HackTheTrafficLights: An unknown force causes the traffic lights to malfunction, causing the death of David Hofstadter because the intersection showed green for all lanes and a truck hit him.
* ISophagus: Mickey tells Austin about being able to hear voices in her head as a child that nobody else could hear. His response is to shine a flashlight in her mouth to examine it. He concludes that she must've had braces at that age and asks if she lived near a radio tower (actually, it was a airport). Accourding to Austin, it's a well-known phenomenon for retainers to pick up radio waves.
* LastRequest: During the DramaticChaseOpening, David Hofstadter runs into the street in front of a truck. The driver quickly gets out to try helping David, but they're too late. David's last words are for help from Austin James.
* {{Limerick}}: In this episode, Austin's passcode for the warehouse he lives/works in is the final line of a limerick. The passcode is designed to be [[OnlySmartPeopleMayPass hard to guess]] ([[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion it doesn't even rhyme!]]) so that people can't get in to bother him.
-->There once was a poet named Gunderson,\\
whose rhymes were exceedingly cumbersome.\\
With each botched refrain,\\
his complaint was the same,\\
[[spoiler:How do I get into these situations?]]
* MeasuringTheMarigolds: Mickey challenges Austin on his tendency to reduce everything he experiences to numbers, rather than caring about it. He responds by pointing out what he's done to help people and concludes that they have different definitions for "love" since they disagree on how it can be expressed.
* AnOddPlaceToSleep: The first time Mickey meets Austin, he's waking up from inside a cupboard that he's turned into a sensory deprivation tank. He claims to need it in order to calm his brain enough to fall asleep.
* OnlySmartPeopleMayPass: When Mickey is trying to get into Austin's private workspace, the electronic lock issues a {{Limerick}} challenge that appears to be testing the visitor's intelligence but is actually designed to be impossible to solve. There's a response that will unlock the door, but its exact form can't be arrived at by logic or any other systematic process. [[spoiler:Mickey gets through by sheer luck; confronted with a puzzle she barely understands and has no idea how to solve, she mutters a dejected remark--which happens to be the required pass phrase.]]
-->'''Austin James''' (recording): There once was a poet named Gunderson, whose rhymes were exceedingly cumbersome. With each botched refrain, his complaint was the same, Blah, blah... blah, blah... blah, blah, blah! You have ten seconds to give me the last line to get in. Otherwise, go away.\\
'''Michelle Castle''':[[spoiler:...How do I get into these situations?]]\\
''(door opens)''\\
'''Austin James''': How did you get in here?\\
'''Michelle Castle''': Me? I... uh, I finished the {{Limerick}} at the door...\\
'''Austin James''': That's impossible! Nobody can finish it. It's too idiosyncratic. [[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion It doesn't even rhyme!]] I made it to keep people out.
* {{Pilot}}: Also used as the {{Premiere}}, this episode is a two-parter to show [[WelcomeEpisode Michelle Castle's first day on the job]], and the unusual situations that Austin James finds himself in.
* ShoutOut:
** ''Literature/BookOfGenesis'': While enraged over the water bill, Serendip's CEO speculates that Austin is trying to recreate the biblical flooding of the Earth.
** ''{{Franchise/Batman}}'': When the Serendip CEO sends Michelle to Austin's home, he calls it the Batcave, referencing the President's choice to hide himself away instead of running his own company.
** Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart: Austin tells his SmartHouse to play Mozart's symphony #35, in D major while Michelle is introducing herself to him.
* SingleSpecimenSpecies: Steve is a species of spider that exists only because Austin decided to mutate his great-grandmother with gamma rays and released her to the basement to observe the effects.
* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: The {{Limerick}} password to Austin's warehouse doesn't rhyme at the end like limericks are supposed to. This is intentional, as he doesn't ''want'' people figuring it out, preferring to keep them away. The lack of a rhyme is foreshadowed within the poem itself, with "botched refrain".
* TeaserOnlyCharacter: The man who was being [[DramaticChaseOpening chased in the first episode's teaser]] dies near Austin's warehouse.
* ToBeContinued: The {{Premiere}}, being a MultiPartEpisode, ends the first episode with "to be continued". The original airing presented the two episodes back-to-back.
* TheUnsolvedMystery: Austin is working on solving the murder of Donald Stonheim, a pilot who died while circumnavigating the Hudson Bay in 1921 and recently recovered. The police believe it to be an accident, but Austin noticed something in the left posterior fontanelle which indicates that Donald died before the crash. He plans to solve this mystery purely from the inside of his workshop, discovering motive, method, murder with the power of observation.
* WelcomeEpisode: Michelle Castle is newly hired for Serendip to be Austin James' secretary. Being sent to his warehouse/home/[[MadScientistLaboratory laboratory]] kicks off the two-character {{Ensemble}} series.
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Austin is mostly interested in why a stranger died nearly on his doorstep, but before the Police coroner is willing to give him any information, he has to help solve the mystery of how a woman died of exposure when her body temperature was lower than that of the environment.
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!!This episode provides examples of:
* BatDeduction: Austin deduces a number of things about Mickey that he fails to provide his reasoning behind, such as how he knows about her allergy to chocolate, or how he knew her mother had surgery recently. The most reasonable deduction he makes is that she's broke and needs a job.
* DramaticChaseOpening: It's late at night and David Hofstadter is being chased by someone with control of electronic devices; neon lights flicker on and explode, power lines crackle with electricity, and [[HackTheTrafficLights traffic lights show green for all traffic]].
* EurekaMoment: When Mickey tells Austin that the broken rose petal reminds her of a piece of glass, he finally makes the connection to what happened; this episode's death was caused by liquid nitrogen.
* EverythingIsOnline: Someone is able to turn televisions and radios on and off at will, HackTheTrafficLights, and make neon lights explode. [[spoiler:In the next half of the episode, it's revealed to be an {{AI}} named Crossover, who has been given access to the power company and it is apparently able to control electronics by adjusting how much power is sent to them.]]
* HackTheTrafficLights: An unknown force causes the traffic lights to malfunction, causing the death of David Hofstadter because the intersection showed green for all lanes and a truck hit him.
* ISophagus: Mickey tells Austin about being able to hear voices in her head as a child that nobody else could hear. His response is to shine a flashlight in her mouth to examine it. He concludes that she must've had braces at that age and asks if she lived near a radio tower (actually, it was a airport). Accourding to Austin, it's a well-known phenomenon for retainers to pick up radio waves.
* LastRequest: During the DramaticChaseOpening, David Hofstadter runs into the street in front of a truck. The driver quickly gets out to try helping David, but they're too late. David's last words are for help from Austin James.
* {{Limerick}}: In this episode, Austin's passcode for the warehouse he lives/works in is the final line of a limerick. The passcode is designed to be [[OnlySmartPeopleMayPass hard to guess]] ([[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion it doesn't even rhyme!]]) so that people can't get in to bother him.
-->There once was a poet named Gunderson,\\
whose rhymes were exceedingly cumbersome.\\
With each botched refrain,\\
his complaint was the same,\\
[[spoiler:How do I get into these situations?]]
* MeasuringTheMarigolds: Mickey challenges Austin on his tendency to reduce everything he experiences to numbers, rather than caring about it. He responds by pointing out what he's done to help people and concludes that they have different definitions for "love" since they disagree on how it can be expressed.
* AnOddPlaceToSleep: The first time Mickey meets Austin, he's waking up from inside a cupboard that he's turned into a sensory deprivation tank. He claims to need it in order to calm his brain enough to fall asleep.
* OnlySmartPeopleMayPass: When Mickey is trying to get into Austin's private workspace, the electronic lock issues a {{Limerick}} challenge that appears to be testing the visitor's intelligence but is actually designed to be impossible to solve. There's a response that will unlock the door, but its exact form can't be arrived at by logic or any other systematic process. [[spoiler:Mickey gets through by sheer luck; confronted with a puzzle she barely understands and has no idea how to solve, she mutters a dejected remark--which happens to be the required pass phrase.]]
-->'''Austin James''' (recording): There once was a poet named Gunderson, whose rhymes were exceedingly cumbersome. With each botched refrain, his complaint was the same, Blah, blah... blah, blah... blah, blah, blah! You have ten seconds to give me the last line to get in. Otherwise, go away.\\
'''Michelle Castle''':[[spoiler:...How do I get into these situations?]]\\
''(door opens)''\\
'''Austin James''': How did you get in here?\\
'''Michelle Castle''': Me? I... uh, I finished the {{Limerick}} at the door...\\
'''Austin James''': That's impossible! Nobody can finish it. It's too idiosyncratic. [[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion It doesn't even rhyme!]] I made it to keep people out.
* {{Pilot}}: Also used as the {{Premiere}}, this episode is a two-parter to show [[WelcomeEpisode Michelle Castle's first day on the job]], and the unusual situations that Austin James finds himself in.
* ShoutOut:
** ''Literature/BookOfGenesis'': While enraged over the water bill, Serendip's CEO speculates that Austin is trying to recreate the biblical flooding of the Earth.
** ''{{Franchise/Batman}}'': When the Serendip CEO sends Michelle to Austin's home, he calls it the Batcave, referencing the President's choice to hide himself away instead of running his own company.
** Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart: Austin tells his SmartHouse to play Mozart's symphony #35, in D major while Michelle is introducing herself to him.
* SingleSpecimenSpecies: Steve is a species of spider that exists only because Austin decided to mutate his great-grandmother with gamma rays and released her to the basement to observe the effects.
* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: The {{Limerick}} password to Austin's warehouse doesn't rhyme at the end like limericks are supposed to. This is intentional, as he doesn't ''want'' people figuring it out, preferring to keep them away. The lack of a rhyme is foreshadowed within the poem itself, with "botched refrain".
* TeaserOnlyCharacter: The man who was being [[DramaticChaseOpening chased in the first episode's teaser]] dies near Austin's warehouse.
* ToBeContinued: The {{Premiere}}, being a MultiPartEpisode, ends the first episode with "to be continued". The original airing presented the two episodes back-to-back.
* TheUnsolvedMystery: Austin is working on solving the murder of Donald Stonheim, a pilot who died while circumnavigating the Hudson Bay in 1921 and recently recovered. The police believe it to be an accident, but Austin noticed something in the left posterior fontanelle which indicates that Donald died before the crash. He plans to solve this mystery purely from the inside of his workshop, discovering motive, method, murder with the power of observation.
* WelcomeEpisode: Michelle Castle is newly hired for Serendip to be Austin James' secretary. Being sent to his warehouse/home/[[MadScientistLaboratory laboratory]] kicks off the two-character {{Ensemble}} series.
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