It's so weird to get "new" episodes (Viva Zapatos and Sub Zero) of a series cancelled, 11 years after the fact. Although Viva Zapatos is a lot better than The River, it's still an average episode. This one finds Mario Lopez as Lazaro Chaveco, a Cuban soccer player who defects to America. His agenda for doing so is questionable since he may or may not be doing this to commit terrorist acts in the US. Overall, the acting was horrible as Mario's Koo-ban accent at times was his interpretation of Al Pacino in Scarface. Bah. As bad as Mario was in this, I'm pretty confident in what truly killed this show was.....


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Chris Owens

I thought the last episode with him was just a one-off. Apparently they were grooming him to be Danny's new partner. Really? Him? His acting here was atrocious and makes Hayden Christensen in Stars Wars look....awesome! The acting is so bad here that Chris Owens makes himself in the American Pie movies look Oscar worthy. Props to Danny (Peter Dobson) for making fun of Chris Owens "beard".

That brings to a close, Cover Me. The final scene with the picture frame was a nice way to end the series. I wonder if the writing was already on the wall and they shot this scene to reflect that. Getting the chance to re-watch this series again, it's was very clear that the show really started going downhill after they moved from San Diego to Utah.