I'm going to watch KR2008 soon and HELLO??? ONE OF YOUR POSTS SAYS MIKE KISSES KITT3??!?!?! Is there a clip online somewhere? I need to see ASAP 😭 idc if it's a joke lemme see car kisses.
IT IS SO ABSOLUTELY TRUE. IT DRIVES ME BONKERSSSS OMG😿😿😿😿 have so much fun when you watch the show EEEK!!
this clip is from episode 4 here: https://archive.org/details/disc-4_202411 on the internet archive! (it’s on disc 2 on the post XD)
A KR08 piece. I forget which episode this is meant to tag, but it's just also trying to get into KITT3's head.
The command center, for once, is empty. Or as empty as it can be, with security protocol dictating that at least one member be occupying it at all times, especially in the dead of night. Tonight, it is Mike Knight as the lone sentry. A curious development-- a deviation, even, in his behavior. Perhaps Mr. Graiman's absence is an influence?
You ache to know. Silently, you switch on your scanner lights, upping the output until the stretch of the stone bunker you're facing is crimson. Mike's heart rate increases immediately. His breath, once even, hitches, and he turns to face you.
"I thought you were asleep," Mike says. "What's up?"
He abandons his post by pushing out of the chair and coming to stand by your fender. His left hand ghosts across your roof line, but the rest of him is held at arm's length. He looks strange, stretched out like that, like he's nervous to get close.
You consider drawing him in with humor. But the hour is late and he may be exhausted enough to grant you some mercy with your prying.
"You do not usually take the night shift," you say. "Particularly after arduous missions like today."
Mike tilts his head back. This is what he does, you know, when he is posed with a fact he wasn't expecting to confront.
"I just knew I wouldn't be able to sleep, KITT. I got a lot of guns pointed at me today."
Indeed.
You do not know how to compute that. He always has guns pointed at him. Up until this moment, you hadn’t considered it disturbed him.
"So you would have trouble sleeping," you surmise.
He smiles, head still tipped back, gaze fixed on the ceiling. His boots shuffle across the ground, bringing him closer to your chassis, which you start warming to the touch. The nanites are one of the few things that listen to you and you alone.
“Yeah. Yeah, but who doesn’t in this line of work?”
You briefly run the numbers. Not because his rhetorical question forces you to, but because you are curious. You only have organic data on the Graimans, Mike, and the few operatives blessed to have joined You previously. Sarah rarely sleeps soundly. Statistically, disturbed sleep is apparently common in “this line of work.”
Fascinating.
It is so utterly out of your control.
Yet you ache to be of assistance. You crunch ever more numbers and find yourself wanting. Mike leans more heavily against your body, until his torso is flat against your door, arms folded over your roof. He is warm. Perhaps he finds you warm, as well.
“You should rest here. I have been told my seats are quite comfortable.”
They should be, anyway. You can manipulate their form at will.
Mike laughs a little. It echoes. You capture the sound.
“Won’t I get in trouble for sleepin’ on the job, KITT? I thought you didn’t like it when I slacked off.”
You do not like it. His inability to focus on the job left you taskless and bored at the best of times. But just a month ago, he’d flatlined in your care, and just eight hours ago, he’d almost left you again. Conclusion: concessions must be made. Humans operate poorly when their needs are not met.
You open the driver’s door. Mike laughs again, hearing it, and strides around your hood. His hand drags lightly across your scanner cowling, sending reams of data through your processor. All of him leaves flashpoints of color across your matrix as he caves in to your plea and settles into the driver’s seat.
Several unformed ideas and thoughts skim your brain. You dismiss them harshly.
“Good night, Mike,” you murmur into the sound system.
He mumbles something in acknowledgement, but he’s asleep the moment his head drops back against the seat.
KITT had.. gotten lost, and that was an understatement.
He had been sent out to pick Mike up from a bar one night, and that was when his so called ‘firewalls’ had dropped just for a few mere moments.
Just long enough for someone to hack into his systems that were normally heavily encrypted to protect them.
They didn’t steal any information, but they did, essentially, do a complete reset on KITT as a whole. His connection to the SSC was severed, and he found himself in the middle of nowhere, with no idea how he had gotten there, or what exactly he was doing there.
But that wasn’t all.
He no longer knew anything besides his name, the Knight Industries Three Thousand.
What that meant? He didn’t know.
So he remained on the side of the road, confused, and conflicted on where he was supposed to go. He was completely, and utterly, lost, in more ways than one.
Last night I dreamt that they brought back Knight Rider 2008 for another season (for whatever the fuck reason) and it started off by bringing back KI2T, circuits and vehicle wholly, and of course they started bickering with KI3T. "Why have I been replaced with this nonsensical beast??" "Michael would not have let this happen!" Etc...
The reason that KI2T was brought back as a whole was to a). share their past memories on missions that were blocked behind a password wall that no one except the OG Michael Knight (hoff) and KI2T possessed or knew about (and that KI3T could not for the life of them work around - "primitive encryption that modern machines didn't know how to break", and the Hoff had forgotten the password through not using it over the past few decades) and b.) to add to the team and get upgrades(kind of a type of fanservice?? I would be 100% for this lol - seeing KI2T apart and "dead" in the KR2008 pilot, I honestly cried lmao)
I unfortunately woke up before a major plot point was revealed, but would LOVE a bonus episode of KR2008 like that.
Gonna tag @volbeast and @knightthreethousand because I don't just want to yell into the void about this lol
