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Pilot

Episode Number: 1    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Wednesday September 26, 2007    Prod Code: n/a
Jaime Sommers is a normal, hard-working woman caring for her younger sister and managing a love relationship. Her life is complicated further after she is involved in a horrendous car accident, leaving her with injuries so severe she can only be saved using bionic body parts with amazing abilities beyond Jaime's control.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Laeta Kalogridis
Director: Michael Dinner
Star: Michelle Ryan (Jaime Sommers),  Will Yun Lee (Jae Kim),  Molly Price (Ruth Truewell),  Miguel Ferrer (Jonas Bledsoe),  Lucy Kate Hale (Becca Sommers),  Chris Bowers (Will Anthros)
Recurring Role: Katee Sackhoff (Sarah Corvus)
Guest Star: Mark A. Sheppard (Anthony Anthros),  Alicia Thorgrimsson (Doctor #2),  Jenn Forgie (Nurse),  Heather Doerksen (Mother),  Roan Curtis (Little Girl),  Dominic Zamprogna (Med-Flight Tech #1),  Jacqueline Samuda (Med-Flight Tech #2),  John Mann (Drug Dealer),  Aaron Douglas (Prison Guard),  Thomas Kretschmann (The Man),  Conrad Coates (Doctor #1),  Craig Lubzon (Sleazy Bar Patron)

Notes

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International Air Dates:
Australia: Thursday, October 4th, 2007 on Network 7
Denmark: January 7th, 2008 on TV3
New Zealand: February 3rd, 2008 on TV3
India: February 12th, 2008 on Star World
United Kingdom: March 11th, 2008 on ITV2
Netherlands: July 3rd, 2008 on rtl5 (edit)
This episode was nominated for a 2008 Golden Reel Award for "Best Sound Editing in Television: Short Form – Sound Effects and Foley." (edit)
This is the only episode in which the actor who plays Becca is credited as Lucy Hale. In every other episode she's credited as Lucy Kate Hale. (edit)
Bionic Woman marks Miguel Ferrer's return to the Cybernetic Crime Fighter genre. He also portrayed Bob Morton, a rising star at OCP, in the 1987 film Robocop. (edit)
Thomas Kretschmann is billed as a Special Guest Star in this episode. (edit)

Quotes

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Jaime: What do you want from me?
Jonas: I don't know, maybe you died 3 days ago and you just haven't realized it yet.
Jaime: Is that a threat?
Jonas: There are no free agents here Miss Sommers. Sooner or later, you're gonna have to make a choice. It goes something like this: heads, you lose; tails, you die. Welcome to the game. (edit)
Sarah: (lighting up a cigarette) The anthrocytes in our blood can filter out any impurities in our lungs. Fringe benefit of being a freak. (edit)
Jae: Sarah Corvus is a time bomb. We both know it.
Anthony: Well, time bombs only matter to those who have time. (edit)
Ruth: We're here to talk about our feelings.
Jaime: How do you feel about me being kept here against my will?
Ruth: I was speaking editorially. Actually, we're here to talk about your feelings.
Jaime: Something no one seems to have any regard for.
Ruth: Curve balls will do that. (edit)
Jonas: Jae can you train her?
Jae: Um, the last one we screened, tested, and there was psych evaluations, and she was a soldier. Look where that got us.
Will: We always talked about non-military applications. Here's our chance.
Jae: Your opinion isn't valid here, you're too close to the subject.
Will: This from the guy who played house with the last one. (edit)

Trivia

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It's interesting to note that this series starts with the same mood the original series ended with. In The Bionic Woman (1976) Jaime Sommers was a proud agent of the OSI until the last episode "On the Run" where she ran away from the organization to have a normal life. In the new series Jaime Sommers does not trust the organization at the beginning and she obeys orders unwillingly; she will trust it as the story evolves. (edit)
When Jaime Sommers attempts a first jump from one rooftop to another, you can clearly see that she is wearing high heels, but as she climbs over the parapet wall, you see that her high heels have disappeared. (edit)
In the crashing scene we can perfectly see from the camera inside the car that the truck hit the entire side of Will's car. However, in one of the following outside shots, the truck just hits a small portion of it and in a totally different angle. (edit)

Allusions

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Superman:

A little girl looks out her car door while her mother is distracted and tells her about the girl outside running as fast as the speeding car, and is then told not to make up stories. This is reminiscent of Lois Lane as a child in the original Christopher Reeve "Superman" movie looking out the window of the train and telling her distracted mother there's a boy outside running as fast as the speeding train, and being told not to make up stories. (edit)
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8.6
Great
Pilot
"Average"
a decent pilot
Continue » Posted Aug 18, 2008 7:37 pm PST
10.0
Perfect
Pilot
"Pilot episode"
the start of something amazing
Continue » Posted Mar 16, 2008 5:24 pm PST
9.4
Superb
Pilot
"Exciting"
Great ep!!!
Continue » Posted Mar 16, 2008 11:00 am PST
9.0
Superb
Pilot
"Pilot episode"
Pretty good!
Continue » Posted Mar 1, 2008 10:14 pm PST
7.5
Good
Pilot
"Revealing"
The episode where Jaimie Sommers becomes Bionic Woman
Continue » Posted Feb 3, 2008 1:41 am PST
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