TV Review: Painkiller Jane - "Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself"
Published May 16, 2007
Back at subway headquarters, PJ doesn't say exactly what she saw, but she does say she saw a woman who disappeared when McBride came up behind her in the room. Maureen asks if she got a look at the woman's face. PJ stutters and says "No, it all happened so fast and she was gone."
Through NSA satellites, Riley "Nerd" Jensen pops up someone on his computer who has repeatedly been seen outside the safe house. It's not the woman PJ saw. "It almost makes you believe in ghosts," says Connor through a macho smirk.
McBride says they'll all have to stay at the place to analyze what's going on. Well, not all. In McBride's house (No. 28 - as in Amityville's 28 days?) he says he knows she hasn't told him the full story. "What you saw meant something to you. It's so simple, just tell me what you're not telling me."
She refuses and he dumps her off the case, because what she saw affected her too deeply, "so deeply you can scarcely talk about it and that makes you unreliable."
"I'm the one who heals and recovers quickly, remember?" she asks him. "Only on the outside." This wins best line honors.
Back at the house, things are going from worse to even worse. For instance Riley has a black bandanna around his head looking like a wishy-washy underfed pirate. He starts mumbling about horror movie trends and how he seems to be primed for prime time poltergeist activity. He's in the basement setting up wires for his single laptop. As he talks to himself, he backs into a bird cage scaring the crap out of himself. He makes a few pathetic stumbling motions with a knife he has in his hands. The cage still has a dead bird in it.
Then he starts hearing a whining cry. "Spirit of the dead child," he says. "That's the worst. It's always the worst." It sounds like a cat to me, but turns out it's a doll at his feet he's stepped on.
As his nerves start to settle down, suddenly over their radios, McBride sounds the alarm: "Security breech in the kitchen." They all rush in, guns drawn - and it's Vasco grabbing a bite to eat. She looks at the guns and the reaction: "Okay, I don't eat too much."
Riley finally identifies the woman. It's Anna Robson, who's been around the house ever since her husband, Carl, was brought to the house for questioning. While he may have been there, official FBI records don't show he was there, and in fact his identity and other records have disappeared for some reason.
"So, the broad's a neuro?" asks Connor, who has more lines in this episode than the first four put together. Joe Waterman, the training guru member of Strikeforce Vicodin, is not a part of this episode , and he wasn't around for the last one.
- TV Review: Painkiller Jane - "Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself"
- Published: May 16, 2007
- Type: Review
- Section: Video
- Filed Under: Video: Action, Video: SF, Video: TV Recap, Video: Television
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- Writer: Temple Stark
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I hear you. It's hard to get into for sure because there are cringeworthy moments. The only reason, well two reasons I stick with the show is that I'm ever hopeful that its potential can be reached. As I said up there, the characters are starting to get somewhat richer - and we are only five episodes in.
The other is that I do reviews of the show. I'm really going to have to find a way to record it though, because it's ruining my Fridays something terrible.
There aren't too many people watching it right now.
Oh there is a third reason - Loken's tall. I can almost look her in the eye ;-) But I'm also not interested at all in just focusing on her looks in a review. It's just to easy and feels cheap. I have mentioned her height a few times, though. (5'11")









Ya know, I've tried, but I cannot seem to get into this show....