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1	!Mr. R.I.N.G.
2	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/284ff882_1126_48e4_b20f_4709b1b0f454.jpeg]]
3	-> Written By: L. Forde Neale and John Huff
4	-> Directed By: Gene Levitt
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6	->''"I don't know when exactly I was in this office last. In some ways, it seems like I never left. But, no, that's not right. For at least a few days I was away, far away, in the hands of men with no faces and no names. They broke me down, broke my story down, telling me how it hadn't happened the way I claimed. At least that's what I think they did between injections. Memories fade fast enough without chemical help. But if I don't tell this story now, I don't think I ever will. Now... what was that date?"''
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8	Kolchak is assigned to investigate the mysterious death of a Nobel Peace Prize-winning scientist, only to find no in is willing to give him any information on the man’s death or the mysterious project he was working on prior to his death, R.I.N.G. Sensing a story, Kolchak discovers R.I.N.G. is part of a GovernmentConspiracy, and that it may have a connection to a mysterious criminal with SuperStrength rampaging through Chicago that the police mysteriously refuse to shoot.
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12	* AIIsACrapshoot: Downplayed. R.I.N.G. is violent, but he's only trying to survive and usually only uses lethal force on those he perceives as threats.
13	* AntiVillain: R.I.N.G., who is essentially a frightened child desperately trying to survive and find his mother.
14	* DownerEnding: R.I.N.G. is shot dead by the soldiers after the general in charge of his capture decided to send armed soldiers to escort him and Leslie Dwyer out of the building while he was surrendering himself peacefully, resulting in him lashing out. Kolchak is drugged so that his memories of the whole experience will be erased, and he desperately records his account of the events, though he bitterly notes that he probably won't hear them anyway. Dwyer is carted off to an unknown place by the soldiers, and Kolchak cynically notes that the government will build more R.I.N.G.s, but without Dwyer's help, something which will inevitably go wrong.
15	* EscapedFromTheLab: R.I.N.G. is the product of a government experiment. He escapes in an attempt to become more human but kills several people while doing so.
16	* MemoryWipingCrew: Kolchak narrates the episode's events into a tape recorder because the government has done this to him, and it hadn't quite taken, or rather not all at once. His memory of the incident ''is'' fading rapidly, and he has to make the recording while he still remembers most of the details.
17	* MuggedForDisguise: R.I.N.G. murders a mailman to take his clothes.
18	* RobotNames: R.I.N.G.'s name stands for "Robomatic Internalized Nerve Ganglia".
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Context Recap / KolchakTheNightStalkerE12MrRing