Bionic Woman
Bionic Woman

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Miss Alli: C+ | 485 USERS: C+
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Faceoff

Jaime asks him how bad the wound is, and he explains that in a normal person, the body tries to "repel" a foreign object (such as, for instance, a bullet). But because Jaime's bionic, her body is set up to try to integrate such things, as it did with her various parts. Jaime doesn't understand how this is so bad, but Stevens tells her that the anthrocytes are moving the bullet around, and it could go anywhere and damage her other organs. Her anthrocytes aren't very smart, it seems to me. He tells her he has to remove the bullet. This all comes off as vaguely pervy in a way that's a little hard to explain. I think the bullet stands for something, but after that, things kind of go blurry.

Somewhere, Antonio is in his car having a chat with Jonas, who's back at HQ. Jonas frets that Jaime could be dead, but Antonio says she isn't. They bicker about whose fault it is that she's in this situation and about the stupidity of Antonio's "give ourselves up" plan. Jonas orders Antonio to go find Jaime, and to never treat her as if she's "expendable" again. Antonio says he'll get her. I'm not really sure what they're trying to do with this Antonio person. He seems like a (1) boring (2) asshole with (3) no particular motivations or character traits that I can discern. You can kind of tell that this Isaiah Washington thing was kind of crammed in at the end here, because there's just nothing to this character.

Sommershaus. Becca eating ice cream and listening to music. Predictably, Law School Friend comes to the door to return some shoes, and she knows nothing of the trip to Napa she's supposedly on, so Jaime is busted vis-à-vis the big lie about where she's going. Becca looks wounded. I don't know about you, but I think she might just go live with Dad.

Jae is at Berkut, working behind a curtain of plastic, as you do, when Jonas pays him a visit. Jonas wants to know what Jae is looking for, and Jae says he's looking for the proof Starbot wants that there are available upgrades that can help her. Jae is upset, because there isn't any information on upgrades that he can find, and he's thinking Jonas didn't tell the truth. Jonas says there are upgrades; he just doesn't have them. They were being kept...ta-da!...on a flash drive in Paraguay. Ding!

Cut to Jaime's anthrocytes, working away on her bullet in The Fantastic Voyage close-up, and then Stevens is hacking away at her shoulder while she apparently dozes. But it turns out she only looks asleep, because when he asks her how she's doing, she says she's been thinking about lies she's been told and been telling. She asks Stevens how he can "make peace with it," but he says you can't. You do your best, and "sometimes, you pay a price." He tells her that he helped with something that ultimately led to a bombing that killed a bunch of civilians. So he left and came to Paraguay, it seems, to "atone" by helping people. Now, the CIA only asks for an occasional "favor," but he only successfully deciphers things if he can live with the consequences. Jaime points out that if he'd given her up, they might have let him go, but he says that would have been no good for anyone. Jaime points out that her hand is twitching, and he seems to know what that's about, but he's hesitant to tell her.

Bionic Woman

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