The Only Moment From Last Night's Life On Mars That Gives Us Hope

newVideoPlayer("/lompsyops_io9.flv", 506, 423,""); Last night's Life On Mars was mostly forgettable tripe, except for this one moment. Our trapped-in-the-1970s cop Sam Tyler gets a weird Russian explanation for those miniature robots he's been seeing. Is this going somewhere?

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