TV Review: Painkiller Jane - "Trial By Fire"
Published June 20, 2007
It is a flimsy frame job – by Connor’s defense team against Connor. Riley later "finds” the original contract document online and finds it’s been modified and created recently rather than when Connor had the storage unit a few years ago. Morgan arranged the frame job.
“I don't like your tone,” Connor’s attorney Richard Stanley tells McBride as the latter is getting pissed at the lack of support. Great response: “You're not supposed to.”
McBride, going way out on a limb, says he’ll stalk Stanley for the rest of his life if he has to, and the country has spent a lot of money to do that well.
Riley tries to find information on Samuels under the theory that they were the intended target with the others burned as cover. Somehow in his digital travels, Riley finds pictures of a beautiful woman - Ellen Drake - and mumbles, "If this isn't a reason for murder…" as he pastes himself into a picture with her.
Turns out yes and there’s Blue Ridge Motel video footage to prove it. Ms. Drake owns up to the affair on the stand and it’s discovered Lucy has $500,000 worth of life insurance, just purchased. And, she’s low-risk as she doesn’t ride a bike like he does.
Richard Stanley finally gets a pair and interrogates him fiercely - and Samuels sets the courtroom ablaze. He’s the neuro. Connor, hand-cuffed, runs across and deep-sixes the guy to the floor with a body slam.
The moral of the story is Strikeforce Vicodin members realize they’re a team and everything is warm and fuzzy. Or at least warm OR fuzzy. "He is cute, isn’t he?" Jane repeats again, about Connor. And I only mention that because it looks like in the next episode Jane becomes pregnant. It's billed as "the episode that changes everything." She discovers a part of her power she never knew about.
Next episode, airing June 22, “Lauren Gray” where Jane poses as a (pregnant?) model who is turning young women into old corpses.
- TV Review: Painkiller Jane - "Trial By Fire"
- Published: June 20, 2007
- Type: Review
- Section: Video
- Filed Under: Video: SF, Video: Action, Video: TV Recap, Video: Television
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- Writer: Temple Stark
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Attention, this show is good now. For those who watched this show a couple of times and rightly felt sick and kinda disgusted after doing so, heads up.
This show is much better now. Give it a second chance and then tell me what you think.
I'm actually enjoying reviewing the show now - though a few more interested and commenting souls would help oh so much as well.
- Temple