Bionic Woman

Bionic Woman Faceoff Reviewed

Written by Brenda on October 17th, 2007

This episode starts off pretty strong, much like this previous episodes, however in this episode we see Jamie going after her sister and breaks a toe while she finds her sister making out with some guy. We then find Sarah playing a game of poker which was a setup to bring her back to the institution. The episode starts off extremely strong again with Jamie and Antonio are off to Paraguay off to save an American captive. We get to witness a lot of Jamie learning her skills something that has been a point of interest since the begining of the show.

One of the things we have seen quite often in this show is Jamie being lied to. Antonio tells Jamie that they are going to Paraguay for saving a man, however when they get there they see that wasn’t necessarily the plan and Jamie won’t have any of that and saves the guy on her own getting shot while she is at it. The man she saves (name I am not sure of) happens to be a surgeon so he manages to remove the bullet from Jamie’s shoulder. What was interesting was the information that comes out of this, and that is that the files he wasn’t supposed to read, showed a five year plan, but instead five year life span for a Bionic. That is not the news Jamie was hoping to hear.

The man that Jamie helped ends up ditching her with all of the information that could make more Bionic’s and help her get more then five years. This sense of trust echoes throughout Faceoff, and in fact much of what you find with Jamie and her sister has echoed the issue of trust, something that has actually worsened with each week.

Faceoff was the kind of episode that started off strong and ended with a bit to be desired. I enjoyed the episode that’s for sure, however I did want to see a bit more insight into Jamie and Sarah. Sarah is captured and then somehow the metal that restrained her wasn’t thick enough and she was out free again. All in all another great episode for Bionic Woman, which makes us look forward to see where this episodes developments take us next week.