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 Bionic
Woman :
Season 1
Title / Air Date: Trust Issues/ 14th November
2007
Writer: Kerry Ehrin
Director: Alex Chapple
 
  
Summary:— When an assassination plot
against a controversial head of state on United
States soil is discovered, Jonas assigns Jaime
and Antonio to thwart it. But when Jaime overhears
a disturbing conversation by Antonio and the assassin,
she is conflicted on whether she can trust her
partner, which leads to a deadly confrontation.
Meanwhile, Tom and Jaime’s relationship moves
forward and she invites him over to the house
for dinner to meet Becca .
  
Guest stars: Roger Cross - ; Kevin Rankin
- Nathan; Julian D. Christopher - ; Jordan Bridges
- Tom;
Re-occurring characters/plot points: Antonio
Pope is back, in the final of his 5 scheduled
appearances. Tom is also back and Becca cooks
dinner for him and Jaime.
Best line of dialogue.....
Misc facts:
Reviews:
By SEAN ELLIOTT, IFMagazine Senior Editor
Well three cheers for false advertising. NBC
had been promoting this week’s BIONIC WOMAN
as if Jaime had to outrace a bullet to save someone
she loved. Instead she was actually protecting
a South African leader who rules through torture
and terror. Of course there was one fatality at
the end of a bullet, in terms of someone that
Jaime cares about, and that person was Antonio
Pope (Isaiah Washington). When his character hit
the ground after being shot you could hear the
sound of every gay fan of the show thrusting a
fist into the air.
I’m glad that Washington is finally off of
BIONIC WOMAN. He didn’t need to be back on
network TV quite so soon after his repeated hatemonger
epithets that he uttered left, right, and center
within earshot of more civilized people. I’m
not sure whose brain abortion was responsible
for his casting, but he added nothing to the series,
besides a bad taste for some of us who only consider
him to be a bigot.
Which leads me to the fact, that if you are trying
to get your viewers to be sad about the death
of a character, you should chose someone who will
actually engender feelings of sympathy and not
victory over the fact that they are dead…but
enough on that subject…my rant is over and
now I can enjoy what is left of this series in
peace.
This episode had some really nice play between
Jaime, her sister, and Jaime’s new boyfriend
CIA agent Tom. I’m really developing a fondness
for these characters and I am more than just a
little eager to see how long both Jaime and now
Tom can keep up the guise of not being special
agents for the government in front of Jaime’s
sister.
This was mainly an episode about killing off one
specific character, so not a whole hell of a lot
happened otherwise. From what I’ve been told
there may only be one or two more episodes of
BIONIC WOMAN left that were finished before the
writers’ strike in Hollywood, so it is anybody’s
guess as to where we go from here.
B
FAN REVIEW
The Berkut Group are assigned to protect a visiting
African dictator from a potential assassin but
could the killer be close to home?
This is one of the strongest episodes yet with
compelling performances from both Michelle Ryan
and Isaiah Washington and a twisting, turning
script by Kerry Ehrin that keeps the viewers guessing
till the very end. Both Pope and Jaime's CIA boyfriend
fall under suspicion during the course of the
story, and the resolution, while not exactly original,
is effective and allows Jaime the chance to grow
as a character.
Tom comes across better than in previous episodes
thanks to a bittersweet dinner date with Jaime
and Becca, It's a little lazy of the writers though
to try and suggest Tom might be untrustworthy
for a second time in three episodes, it seems
as if they are struggling to come up with new
ideas.
In the same scenes Lucy Kate Hale proves that
Becca can be a great addition to the cast when
the writers aren't going out of their way to make
her a moody teenager.
The rest of the regular cast are a little overlooked
this week unfortunately although there is a rather
cute scene where Ruth buys a pot plant for her
office after a conversation with Jaime. It's an
interesting metaphor for the effect that Jaime
seems to be having on the Berkut group as a whole,
giving new life to their rather stark, military
lives.
This episode can also boast one of the best stunt/
effects sequences yet, with a superb pre-credits
showdown between Jaime and a moving car.
4/5
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