After the very promising premiere of Mike Tyson Mysteries, the second installment opens comfortably enough with everyone hanging out at their clubhouse. It’s a lazy day as Marquess is skimming the pool and Pigeon isn’t helping much in the matter before they receive their mystery of the week. It’s promising that this quickly, in their second episode, it already feels like these guys have the formula down, as we’ll likely begin each episode in this familiar setting. Tyson is pretty convinced that his daughter is a robot due to her ability to simply understand the mission at hand, but he’s also unable to even hammer her name down correctly, so he might not be the best judge of character here. Once at IBM, the team learns that a major chess match (Judgment Day) is going on, with the tiebreaker between Gary Kasparov and a computer, Deep Blue, acting as the focal piece of the mystery. Tyson’s ignorance in both of the episodes that we’ve gotten so far has been a surprising highlight that hasn’t gotten tiring yet, but to see him punch out Kasparov because he’s confusing a grand master of chess with the grand wizard of the Klu Klux Klan is extremely satisfying (as is his admission that if he had access to a time machine, he would also punch out an Adolf Hitler, which economically ends up becoming a crucial plot point). The villain that we get here, Mr. Thomas Watson, the founder and CEO of IBM, very adeptly plays the shadowy business figure, who’s pulling all the strings here. He’s essentially holding Deep Blue hostage and forcing him to win these chess matches in order to raise IBM’s stock prices, and if he doesn’t, the computers are going to get blamed for some very bad crimes. As anyone might have suspected, Deep Blue is actually running off of the stolen brain of Bobby Fisher, which is of course highly illegal in the world of chess. In doing so, he’s finally able to give Mr. Fisher peace and silence after all of these tortured chess-playing years. But even though the gang was able to solve the mystery and help out Bobby Fisher, the Manchines that run IBM are still out there, slowly, surely, taking over the world… Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all news updates related to the world of geek. And Google+, if that’s your thing!
