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 Bionic
Woman :
Season 1
Title / Air Date: Sisterhood/ 10th October
2007
Writer: David Eick
Director: Steve Boyum
Summary:Jaime is tasked by the Berkut
Group to watch the daughter of a Canadian defense
contractor. At the same time, she must decide
whether or not she is going to help Sarah Corvus,
the first bionic woman, save herself.
  
Guest stars: Kevin Rankin - Nathan;
  
 
Re-occurring characters/plot points: We
learn Sarah Corvus' sister was killed in a car
accident, similar to Jaime's accident, Sarah was
driving; Athony Anthors tells Sarah she needs
Jaime to save her life; Jaime learns to switch
her 'GPS tracker' on and off at will. Jaime is
no longer a bartender and tells Becca she is a
'consultant'.Sarah's Bionic eye has a red focusing
reticule.
Best line of dialogue..... Jaime: Canada?
Do they even have an army? and Becca: Jaime, they
make my butt look amazing. You can't put a price
tag on that.
Misc facts:
Reviews:
By SEAN ELLIOTT, Senior Editor / IFMagazine.com
The pilot of BIONIC WOMAN was really strong and
last week’s episode was OK, but this third
episode ‘Sisterhood’ was a great blast
off point for viewers who maybe came into the
series a bit late. (Of course, I’m pretty
sure you can go on NBC.com and download episodes
that you missed.)
Part of my complaint with this series had been
that it’s incredibly tough to work a drama/genre
show into something that is both normal and extraordinary.
It’s tough to develop characters with extra
abilities that we can identify with as an audience
and actually care about week to week. This episode
finally allowed the series to combine the action
aspects along with the family feel, so that Michelle
Ryan had something to build from and react to.
The interaction with her sister was great in this
episode and we got to see a little bit behind
the original BIONIC WOMAN’s past.
This was the point where I really legitimately
started liking and rooting for Jaime Sommers;
not that I disliked the character before this
point, but I really finally started to get a sense
of human connection with a character that I otherwise
was watching to see how many cool effects and
stunts she could do. Writer and producer David
Eick is fleshing her out while simultaneously
developing Jamie’s confidence in her own
powers.
Katee Sackhoff returned in this episode, and even
though almost every critic said that she overshadowed
Michelle Ryan on the pilot episode, I felt that
this time the interest was more balanced. By this
point we’ve been through a bit more with
Ryan’s character, and while Sackhoff’s
demented BIONIC killer Sarah is fun to watch she’s
become more like the character of Faith in BUFFY
THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. Sarah is the bad girl we all
really enjoy seeing, but we’re also kinda
glad when she leaves because she always seems
to stir the s**t.
The dastardly Mark Sheppard as Dr. Anthros is
hanging around again in this episode as well,
and he’s an actor that I can never really
get enough of. He’s just so good at being
bad that he makes every moment that he is on screen
fun to watch.
Of course, the BIONIC fight sequences in this
week’s episode were great fun and I really
just can’t wait to see Jamie cut loose.
Grade: A-
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