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Written by: Robert Rovner, Jon Cowan
Directed by: Paul Shapiro
Rating:
The One Where: Jaime and Antonio fly to Paraguay, where a CIA operative has been captured by a group who are threatening to behead him. Turns out he has a flash drive full of encrypted schematics of Jaime’s bionic systems...
Verdict: Rather like watching an episode of this series’ bionic predecessor, Jake 2.0 – except less fun. Far too much time is wasted on Jaime agonising about lying to her sister, or bonding with her over the washing up – dull, dull, dull. With this episode, you get the feeling the series has plateaued, and that if things don’t pick up, it might soon be flatlining...
Highlight: The bit when Jaime leaps through the air dodging bullets is really cool. More demonstrations of her bionic abilities, please.
Nitpick: Funny that Sarah doesn’t hear the Berkut guys coming to capture her, considering that she has bionic hearing. She must be concentrating on her poker game really hard...
WTF? A small group of Paraguayan terrorists have laser-beamy motion detection things protecting their hide-out? Right... If they did, wouldn’t the beams be more effective devices if they were invisible?
LMAO: The words “I love you” are juxtaposed with ultraviolence – a cliché last used three episodes back.
Best Line:
Jaime to tech geek Nathan (as he fixes her toe): "Do you have a foot fetish?"
Richard Edwards
