I guess they finally had to come up with a predictable show that was pretty much crap. The writing on this one was so lame. He gets hit by lightning and lives without massive burns on his body. Then it effected his colorblindness. Then the female detective tries to tell him he is her friend. RIGHT! Like the police wouldn't leave this guy behind like a lepor. Then the woman from the bar, "I hate when men do that, patronize us!" Yeah, then the write crap like this, also. He is wearing a wire but we can't know that until she tries to cut him with a knife the size of a short sword from six inches away while he is on the ground, but misses. And where did they come up with that oversized fire poker that one broad hit him with?
"...They just aren't smart enough to figure out a woman would be smart enough to pull this.!", Pull this? It isn't practical jokes, it is murder and that doesn't really take a whole lot of brain power to attack people one at a time who are unarmed. Wow, that takes a real brain trust, huh? This was the worst episode of John Doe they made. As soon as they took away his brain powers, they handicapped their own ablitiy to make the show interesting. Too bad.