"Bionic Woman" The Education of Jaime Sommers (2007)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Director:

Jonas Pate

Writer:

Liz Heldens (written by)

TV Series:

"Bionic Woman" (2007)

Original Air Date:

24 October 2007 (Season 1, Episode 5)

Genre:

Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

Jaime has to go to college to investigate a professor working with terrorist organizations.

Plot Keywords:

Adopted Sister | Remake | Female Protagonist | Prosthetic Body Part | Sister Sister Relationship

Cast

Michelle Ryan	...	Jaime Sommers
Miguel Ferrer	...	Jonas Bledsoe
Molly Price	...	Ruth Treadwell
Lucy Hale	...	Becca Sommers (as Lucy Kate Hale)
Isaiah Washington	...	Antonio Pope
Kenneth Welsh	...	Prof. Howard Samuels
Jordan Bridges	...	Tom Hastings
Kevin Rankin	...	Nathan
Lara Gilchrist	...	Carly
Erin Karpluk	...	Robin
Matthew Smalley	...	Pvt. Matt Walsh (as Mathew Smalley)
Valerie Tian	...	Aoki
Juan Riedinger	...	Student Sean
Trevor Addie	...	Parkinson's Patient
Shafin Karim	...	Nadeem

Runtime:

43 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

USA:TV-14 | Netherlands:12

Filming Locations:

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Trivia:

The "fake" British accent that Jamie during her undercover mission at college is actually Michelle Ryan's true accent that she speaks in real life.

Goofs:

Factual errors: Jamie says she wanted to be an Irish literature major at Harvard. Irish literature is merely a single course at Harvard, not a major.

Movie Connections:

References "Felicity" (1998)

The Education of Jamie Sommers is a more fun "Bionic Woman" episode

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

In this, the first Katee Sackhoff-less episode, Jamie poses as a British transfer student in college in order to investigate a possible suspect-a professor-of whoever is responsible of planting some chip in some returning Iraq soldiers that make them kill their superiors. She also falls for a teaching assistant who also becomes a suspect. Meanwhile, Antonio is tracking a Middle Eastern foreigner who's also suspected of selling these gadgets...This is the first we hear Michelle Ryan speak in her natural English accent and it sounds a lot better than her American one (That scene when she is talking on the phone with one of her handlers while still speaking in that accent as she's walking all alone was a highlight of the episode especially when that handler admits how turned on he is by it! A similar thing happens when a guy she falls for admits the same thing after he hears her "normal" voice.) Entertaining scenes of her just enjoying her "college fantasy" like switching with her roommate-a young Asian girl-her science assignment for one on James Joyce which gets Jamie an A. With this episode there also seems to be a sense of fun missing from most of the previous ones though many of those were compelling to watch. Since this ep aired two weeks ago, I'll probably review the next one soon...