The Merry Adventures of  Robert Hood    Directed by  Sigmund Neufeld, Jr. Written by Richard C. Okie Synopsis:  AJ is horrified to find almost $9,000 charged to his credit card without his knowledge. Rick is innocent this time and AJ goes to the bank to demand it be taken off his card. To his surprise, the person he starts complaining to bursts into tears. Instantly  repentant, AJ takes the lady out to lunch when her stern boss tells her  she's holding up the other employee lunches. While eating,  the lady, Marion, tells AJ that this is the ninth time someone's credit  card has been charged fraudulently and that her boss had threatened to  fire her if it happened again. She loses track of time and returns to work  late. When her boss comes to yell at her for being late, he surmises the  fraud has happened again and proclaims tomorrow will be her last day  working there. AJ is smitten  by Marion and decides to investigate what's going on with Rick. They get a  lead that takes them to a warehouse that is full of goods bought with  stolen credit card money. The brothers see someone and split up to investigate. Rick is grabbed from behind by a large man and is dragged  off. AJ comes across  a nimble fellow who disarms him with a whack from a staff. He tosses AJ  another staff and challenges him to a duel. The man is very gallant and  helps AJ up after he's gotten a good hit in. They end up dueling on a beam high above the ground when AJ manages to get him off balance. AJ tries to keep him from falling, but he only falls into a dumpster and is  unharmed. When AJ comes  down to arrest this fanciful character, he finds himself surrounded by  men, including the big one holding Rick. The man  introduces himself as Robert Hood, and explains he is stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. In addition, he's willing to let the Simons  go as long as they don't turn him in. AJ is not  impressed, however, and tells Robert that he's cost an innocent woman her job. Robert is troubled and asks to be taken to her. Incredulous, the brothers walk out with Robert unharmed. It turns out that Robert used to work at the bank and has a crush on Marion. Marion is confused - what he's doing is noble, but wrong. Robert decides the best way to make amends is to unmask her boss, Mr. Nottingham, for the embezzler that he evidently is. AJ is reluctant to break into a bank, but Rick, Marion, and Robert show him that she has not only his passwords, but  keys to the bank. AJ relents and off they go to steal information from the bank. The passwords  do the trick and Marion and AJ discover the nonexistent people that Nottingham has been using to give out loans - to himself. Nottingham catches the four of them in the act and intends to kill them, but Robert's band of men, Abby, and the FDIC show up to arrest the villain. Robin and  Marion decide to go back to Sherwood to make a new life. AJ has loved and  lost again. Review: If ever an episode needed a 'dream' ending, this one did. I tried to like this one, I really did. I enjoy swashbuckling tales for the most part and  I should have been in viewer heaven. But I wasn't. I  can suspend disbelief, but there's a breaking point, and unfortunately  this one hit that point and kept going. I can buy that there's a guy named Robert  Hood who's obsessed with the Robin legend. I can believe he steals from the rich, gives to the poor, enjoys dueling with staffs, uses Mr. Locksley  as a pseudonym, and has a merry band of men including a big guy with a name very close to 'John'. That I can suspend disbelief for. But  the fact that Robert just happens to have a crush on a gal named Marion who happens to come from 'Sherwood', and happens to  get fired under AJ's nose by a man who happens to be named  Nottingham is way too much. I'm afraid I have to agree with Abby on this one - it's too out there. . I couldn't help hearing a little voice in the back of my mind saying 'Oh, come on!" They didn't have to go  that far. She could have been named 'Mary', a very common name that's similar to Marion. She certainly didn't have to be from Sherwood. And the  boss could have been named anything; he had evil written all over him. The  names got under my skin big time. But  that's not the only thing that bothered me. Not only did they make  Nottingham an idiot, but the FDIC, too. Nottingham should have been caught long ago if he was as sloppy as he's made out to be. I'm  employed by the credit card calling center division of a bank. Security is  the most important thing for employees. Everyone has different passwords  to get into different parts of the system and they're changed all the  time. You can't even play Solitaire without entering a password. We don't even have the piles of money a normal bank does, and yet our security  makes Nottingham's carelessness laughable. An employee who has keys to the bank comes to him with the passwords to the most implicating evidence of his fraud  and asks what they're for....and he doesn't CHANGE them???? No way! Plus, when he's firing this employee for a supposed security breach, he lets her  keep her keys? If he was indeed that dumb, the FDIC could have caught him  any time they pleased, yet they were supposedly having a hard time doing exactly that. I'm  sorry, but these plot holes and convenient coincidences drove me crazy. I could have gotten over this if at the end anyone, let's say Abby for fun,  bolted straight up in bed, looked at the book she was reading and threw it across the room, saying "I have got to get out more!" before going  back to sleep. Or Rick saying, "Last time I let AJ talk me into reading a  book!" or AJ saying, "I'm never eating Rick's chili surprise before bed again!" Something, anything to let me accept the parts of the plot that  bugged me. But no, they were serious, darnit. I was hoping for so much more from the writer that gave us May the Road Rise Up. No, I don't hate the whole episode. There  were some fun interactions between brothers and Robert was charming  enough.The first scene where AJ is play acting with the hat rack is priceless. I also enjoyed the scene where the brothers try to tell Abby  about what's going on and she throws them out of her office, along with  several other cute exchanges That's what makes it so hard for me to spend the hour bothered by the huge chasms in the story. I'll give it three Camaros, because they tried. But I still think that if it had been a dream  sequence, it would have gotten at least five.   3 out of 5 Camaros        ©"Simon & Simon" and all of its characters'  copyrights are held by Universal City Studios, as are all pictures and  quotes on this site unless otherwise noted. This site is completely nonprofit - I don't get a dime. On the contrary, it is my hope that  the copyright holders will make more items available for sale so others and I can spend more money!