TV Review: Painkiller Jane - "Toy Soldiers"
Published April 23, 2007
Speaking of freaky, the vehicle is some electricity-shooting tank. The guy zaps an SUV in his way, but a soldier throws a concussion boom bomb underneath the vehicle, which pops the guy out. The good-guy crew shoots him. "He's dead," someone says. "Secure him," comes the reply from team leader Andre McBride," thinking he's like the other dead people who've come up alive.
The dead guy ends up back at HQ, and Dr. Seth says he's been frozen and dead for five weeks. Aaron Hawkins, 27, is the frozen guy. He died naturally of complications due to a hereditary cardiovascular condition. A dicky heart. Doc finds out over the last few weeks nine other dead guys have been reported missing from graveyards. All guys. All otherwise very healthy.
Team Vicodin is now at a graveyard and standing around an open grave. Evidence shows, "It wasn't broken into guys, it was broken out of."
"There's a woman behind this," says Connor King, a team member.
"Or a football coach. If they were alive they'd make a great offensive line."
"Or an army."
They think this zombie crew is being raised by a Neuro who can bring them back from the dead. And the mini "undead strikeforce" as it's called (hah) may be heading towards attacking the president. Speculation is this guy, Hawkins, didn't get up possibly because the Feds interrupted the exchange early. The audience calls this post hoc fixing a script error. Neuros need to be close to work their influence on minds, as happened last week, or on body this week.
In the episode that could be subtitled Late Discovery, I also just realized Doc's surgery room is in a rail car.
Jane Vasco likes books. They’re real. Something to hold onto. She and Amanda are talking at her place.
"I know I said you were a lot like other people, but I'm not so sure about that."
"Is that why you invited yourself over? To try to figure me out?"
Thus ensues bit of a clumsy back and forth along the lines of "There's something about you. Something you're trying to hide from everyone."
Painkiller Jane needs relief and cuts the night short. Vasco, angry with herself, with a little alcohol in her, has to retest what she's already seen — that she can heal herself. She runs a corkscrew all the way down her forearm. Her skin cleanses and the cut disappears in under three seconds. Wine gulps ensue.
McBride tries to talk someone - Secret Service? — out of the presidential visit. Unsuccessfully.
Somehow Nerd detects that a corpse is walking out of the graveyard at Lawnmore Cemetery. The caretaker is wearing a com-set at Riley's request and following the guy. SFV heads to the cemetery, a nighttime scene. The caretaker has followed the guy to a warehouse and Strikeforce is there now, too. Vasco sees a guy trying to climb into some building on a long ladder. She kicks it out from under him and the big guy and her get into it. She's getting some good punches and kicks in, but the guy keeps on coming. It's hard to see in the light whether he's got injuries.
- TV Review: Painkiller Jane - "Toy Soldiers"
- Published: April 23, 2007
- Type: Review
- Section: Video
- Filed Under: Video: Television, Video: TV Recap, Video: SF, Video: Action
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- Writer: Temple Stark
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This is on Tuesday night as well. I had the thought earlier today that I like calling this "TV Recap" better. However, I should either do more of a review, which with me would just be a lot of nitpicking, or change title to "Recap" in the future.
Is this too long. Too much detail? I'm thinking yes on both but could be wrong.
- Temple, thinking out loud here