Knight Rider 2000 is a 1991 television sequel movie to the television series Knight Rider. It is included in the Region 1, Regionand Regionversions of the Knight Rider Season One box set. The movie served as a pilot for a proposed new series, but despite high ratings, the plan was abandoned.
Thomas J. Watts Mitch Pileggi a former cop turned psychotic killer, has been released from the prison and assassinates the mayor. Police officer Shawn McCormick Susan Norman confronts the masked Watts holding the next mayor hostage at gunpoint. She shoots Watts, who flees. Shawn finds the handgun used in the murder and hides it, not knowing what to do. The citys new mayor demands the gunman be found, but his fellow councilmen reprimand him for disarming the police and setting up the cryoprison where the inmates sleep away their sentences and emerge the same people as before.The Knight Foundation created from a combination of the original seriess Knight Industries and the Foundation for Law and Government offers a possible solution the Knight 4000. Devon Miles Edward Mulhare and his partner, Russel Maddock Carmen Argenziano, are green lighted on the idea, but the city wants to see a working prototype of the 4000 in thirty days. Devon decides to bring in Michael Knight David Hasselhoff as the test driver. ........
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