It’s been a hard road for The Cape. The show has been struggling, but they aren’t giving up without a fight. This week, The Cape knocks things into high gear with a two-part episode that is guaranteed to kick things up a notch. But will it be enough to raise this show from an early grave?

Episode 7, “The Lich: Part I” begins the way most good stories do, with a man trying to rent a truck. But when the young woman runs his credit card, the system shows him as deceased. When she confronts the man, he blows dust in her face and apparently kills her. But he leaves her with the cryptic message: “Rejoice, my lamb. For he is risen.”

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Goggles (Pruitt Taylor Vince) and Hicks (Chad Lindberg) are a unique team of assassins. Goggles is a wheelchair-bound tech genius. Hicks is the killer, a menace with gun or knife. The team arrives in Palm City, where they are hired by Peter Fleming (James Frain) to kill The Cape. He offers to pay double if The Cape is dead in 24 hours.

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When you’re reading comic books, you accept the truism that everyone has a dual identity. It doesn’t matter if the person is a hero or villain, you can be certain that beneath that mask, there’s another person.

NBC’s The Cape has been pretty good about giving a duality to its major characters. So it’s no surprise that when Mena Suvari pops up on this week’s episode “Dice” as Tracey Jerrod, she also has another identity.

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Vinnie Jones as Scales, Summer Glau as Orwell in "Scales on a Train." Photo by: Jordan Althaus/NBC

Any new television series would be proud to say its success is like a runaway train by its fourth episode. And Monday night’s episode of The Cape gave us a runaway train filled with money and the city’s wealthiest people in an episode that had to be called “Scales on a Train.”

One thing that makes The Cape such a fun show is the caricature-like villains who populate Palm City. In this episode, we get a chance to better know Dominic Raoul, a.k.a. Scales (Vinnie Jones).

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David Lyons as The Cape, Keith David as Max Malini in "Kozmo." Photo by: Michael Yarish/NBC ©2011.

Last night, The Cape aired in its regular time slot, following last week’s two-hour premiere. In the third episode, titled “Kozmo,” we finally get some backstory on the cape, carnival leader Max Malini (Keith David) and Orwell (Summer Glau).

The story begins in Russia as a man known a Gregor Molotov (Thomas Kretschmann) is being imprisoned. A prison official pulls a gun and declares that even “Gregor the Great” cannot escape a bullet to the head. Though bound in a straight jacket and thrown into a cell, Gregor seems unconcerned. Soon the prison guards find everyone dead, the prisoner gone, and a single word scrawled on the wall in blood: “KOZMO.”

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