FOX has basically patented the high-concept procedural show. “Sleepy Hollow” and “Minority Report” are essentially case-of-the-week shows, but they feel like they're twisted just enough that they could emerge from nowhere else than FOX. To that end, “Second Chance,” which is kind of a hybrid of “Self/Less,” “Robocop” and “Law & Order,” fits on this network that often thinks outside of the box more than its network counterparts. In some ways, that’s what makes “Second Chance” so disappointing. The idea isn’t horrendous, and it’s on the only broadcast network where I think it could work. The execution on the other hand? Shocking.
75-year-old Ray Pritchard (Philip Baker Hall) is a hard-drinking, bitter, retired detective who barely gets out of his chair anymore. His son, FBI Agent Duval Pritchard (Tim DeKay), tries his best to reach out to the grumpy old man, but there’s not much of a relationship there anymore, even though Jimmy clearly feels some affection for his granddaughter. The younger Pritchard is working a case of corruption—although not working it hard enough, according to dad. It turns out his father may have a point when the bad cops that Duval was investigating go and kill the poor guy, throwing him off a bridge.
Meanwhile, billionaire tech twins Mary (Dilshad Vadsaria) and Otto Goodwin (Adhir Kalyan) are developing a breakthrough technology. They have figured out how to transplant someone into an entirely new body (a la “Self/Less”). And it turns out that Pritchard is the ideal candidate. They give him a younger, better, stronger version of himself (played now by Rob Kazinksy), and Ray gets a new life. He has to regularly return to the Goodwins for treatments to keep the “transplant” from falling apart, and it turns out that the twins only did this to use his blood to cure her incurable cancer. I didn’t even mention that Otto is a recluse, or that the twins have developed their own language.
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