Sarah Graiman is a 24-year old Ph.D candidate at Stanford University, following in her genius father Charles' footsteps. But when men attempt to abduct her, Sarah receives a mysterious call from K.I.T.T. warning her that he's a creation of Charles, who also invented the first K.I.T.T. 25 years ago -- and that her father is in serious danger.

Sarah and K.I.T.T. track down her best friend from childhood, Mike Tracer, a 23-year-old ex-Army Ranger, whom Sarah hasn't seen since he left home at 18. Having served in Iraq, Mike is now jaded and lost and initially resistant. Eventually he agrees to help Sarah and the two set out to discover who's behind the attempt to procure K.I.T.T. and find Charles. Along the way, Carrie Rivai plays the agile yet tough FBI agent who has a long- standing friendship with Charles and Sarah. Due to those ties, she is brought into the mix to help in the search.

Look out for the original K.I.T.T. in Charles Graiman's lab at the beginning of the show. We also see a Knight 2000 steering wheel and the classic California KNIGHT plate.

Mike Traceur was born June 10, 1983, is 6'3" tall and weighs 185 lbs. His last known address was 3385 Ave D., Los Angeles, CA. 90039. His DMV number is 1946491.

K.I.T.T.'s system is largely solar-powered, and recycles 91% of its expended energy, allowing a ratio of 167 miles travelled for every gallon of fuel burned.

Susan Gibney was is perhaps best-known as Dr. Leah Brahms on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Although her character is immediately a huge part of Knight Rider mythology, she never appeared in the original Knight Rider series.

By his own admission, Dave Andron wrote the first draft of this script in eleven days. He told Knight Rider Online (off-site link, target opens in new window): "They came to me in mid-August with the would-you-like-to-do-this thing, and I had a full shootable script locked on November 3rd at midnight, right before the [strike] happened. You're talking about two-and-a-half months to come up with the idea, do the outline, go through all the notes. I wrote the first 110-page draft in eleven days. And we whittled it down and whittled it down, and I think it wound up being something like 79 pages. Even then, I had a 90-page script that everybody loved, then we got our budget. And everybody said take 10 pages out. Change that scene and change that scene. It's such a hectic process anyway. But there's more going into that than most people would ever know. But Dave Bartis and Gene Klein, the other executive, were amazing along with Doug Liman... we got them a script in 2 months that they were really excited about shooting. We couldn't rewrite anything. What we shot is very, very close to the original script."

Due to budgetary and time constraints, a sequence featuring Mike, Dylan and their race car was excised from filming. It's alluded to in the epilogue when Dylan tells Mike to "avoid crashing" K.I.T.T.

The Graimans were originally named "Kamen".