Teddy Rist’s son “Bobby” died leaving him and his wife devastated. Thinking of the past crying for her son, Teddy’s gorgeous wife spent most of that year sitting on her son’s bed. On the other hand, Teddy threw himself into any adventures, or any blind drunken festivities that assures to take him away for few days, hours or minutes. He has remained extraordinarily efficient, though he thoroughly manages the professional part with his company’s partner Philip Maidstone and his wife, Olivia. Teddy found that the vaccine is at the airport in the hands of a corrupt officer, he bribe the officer and get the vaccine; he got on a helicopter on his way to village when DEA agents forced his helicopter down and beat him. Now as I told you earlier, in yesterday’s episode Teddy Rist visited Nigeria to finalize a business deal, which involves money and oil, where he and his assistant got caught in a brutal storm and there he saw a scared Nigerian boy, whom Teddy Rist rescues instinctively. But this is not the point where video game begins it was then when Teddy finds out that boy came from a destroyed village, which needs a shipment of vaccine desperately. He promises to get that vaccine to the village. The adventure continues while the dying child and a beautiful innocent Harvard-educated doctor wait in the village for the vaccine. The adventure is good and performances are excellent but at the same time, it feels like that some video game developers create the action.
How a wealthy person grows a Conscience, a show intended to stage the beginning of real human sentiment. Teddy Rist, the playboy billionaire hero of “The Philanthropist” on NBC, is finalizing an oil deal in Nigeria when a near-death incident tears away his self-satisfied smugness. James Purefoy played the role of Teddy Rist in NBS’s “The Philanthropist”. Putting aside the rather obvious problem with the “only the rich white man can save us” concept, the fact that this boy is the motivation for Teddy’s struggle for redemption felt a bit forced to me. I don’t mind coincidence, I just don’t like quite this much of it. I would have believed that Teddy needed redemtion without the boy being involved at all. Delivering the vaccine to the village would have been enough. His need to “do something” is still quite understandable given the tragic death of his son. No need to beat us over the head with it.
