TV Review: Painkiller Jane - "Catch Me If You Can"
Published May 11, 2007
They get some of his order forms and while the address is no help - his sister's - they see a doodle of three crescent moons. Maureen makes the connection back at Vicodin HQ; the logo is from a pair of trendy Tosrona sneakers and their trendily closed factory is downtown.
The team, being very focused, decides they really need to go after the crazy guy with guns so he doesn't injure and maim with his stockpile of weapons. Jane looks at them all skeptically. They all dutifully trudge over there and it looks like the same place where the final scene unfolds. There's even an orange door and we know he dies in front of one.
Everyone's inside, with flashlights. They're all in camo and it all amounts to nothing. He's not there. "So much for the doodle clue," Maureen says in a weird moment where she voiced the exact phrase I was thinking.
Friday, 5:05 p.m.
Ethan's wearing a gas mask, sitting somewhere with the images and scenes flashing all all around him, again.
Riley's lifted fingerprints off the receipt from the gun place and discovers a treasure chest of aliases and info. PJ stands near and Nerdboy snaps a glance at her own treasure chest.
"Brinkers Men's Gym," and John Robbins flash on the screen.
Riley continues his infatuation, and she uses it to get him away from the computer and in search of "audio files" of Ethan's calls. In what we who can't think of any other words to use, this was overplayed, ham acting. Riley literally stumbles away to please her.
Jane scribbles down the gym info and deletes it. She's going there alone to protect her team. They believe that everything is predestined, and she's determined to live the freewill lifestyle that says things can change.
Ethan and Jane do a little dance around rows of lockers. PJ wants to bring him in, but he says it's too late for him to break out of his fate, but she needs to "find a way to take one link out of the chain." What, like taking him and chipping him? Or imprisoning him temporarily?
She has a chip gun but he doesn't want to be changed. About to ignore him and his whining about living in a world where pain rules, she's all set to lunge when a couple of bouncer-types come in saying she's not allowed in a men-only gym. Though she could probably find a way to kick their asses all the way down Main Street and back, she leaves quietly.
Saturday, 2:14 a.m Subway HQ
PJ takes the "break" part of breaking the chain seriously. She knocks out team members Riley and Connor King with a syringe full of something suitable. And while they're out she lays waste to Riley's computers, so he can't track Ethan or her. And this isn't pull a spark plug so the car won't start damage, this is serious baseball bat to the head, heart, and gonads force. (Doesn't Riley have backups? Arrogant geek.)
- TV Review: Painkiller Jane - "Catch Me If You Can"
- Published: May 11, 2007
- Type: Review
- Section: Video
- Filed Under: Video: Action, Video: SF, Video: TV Recap, Video: Television
- Part of a feature: Painkiller Jane
- Writer: Temple Stark
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