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The Education of Jaime Sommers

Episode Number: 5    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Wednesday October 24, 2007    Prod Code: n/a
Jaime's new mission requires her to attend college posing as a British transfer student in order to investigate a professor suspected of illegal activities. However, her task becomes complicated when she falls for the teacher's assistant, who is also a suspect.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Elizabeth Heldens
Director: Jonas Pate
Star: Michelle Ryan (Jaime Sommers),  Miguel Ferrer (Jonas Bledsoe),  Molly Price (Ruth Truewell),  Lucy Kate Hale (Becca Sommers)
Recurring Role: Isaiah Washington (Antonio Pope)
Guest Star: Jordan Bridges (Tom Hastings),  Kevin Rankin (Nathan),  Shafin Karim (Nadeem),  Sunita Prasad (Nadeem's Girlfriend),  Lee Majdoub (Student Buyer),  Kenneth Welsh (Dr. Howard Samuels),  Valerie Tian (Aoki),  Lara Gilchrist (Carly),  Erin Karpluk (Robin),  Matthew Smalley (Pt. Matt Walsh),  Juan Riedinger (Student Sean),  Trevor Addie (Parkinson's Patient)

Notes

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Isaiah Washington is billed as a Special Guest Star. (edit)
Featured Music:
- "Recoil" by Ani Difranco (during the closing scene) (edit)
International Air Dates:
Australia: November 7th, 2007
Denmark: February 4th, 2008 on TV3
New Zealand: February 24th, 2008
India: March 11th, 2008 on Star World
Sweden: April 4th, 2008 on TV6
UK: April 8th, 2008 on ITV2
The Netherlands: July 31st, 2008 on RTL5 (edit)
Michelle Ryan, who is from the U.K. in real life, gets to drop her "American accent" for the first time in the series. (edit)

Quotes

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Nathan: (to Jaime) So typical of this place - they spend $50 million on you, then won't spring for a Bluetooth. (edit)
Jaime: This is an insane amount of information to process this quickly.
Nathan: You just have to pull up that Harvard part of your brain.
Jaime: The part that never went to Harvard is much bigger. Besides, I was gonna major in Irish Literature.
Nathan: Well, then, you dodged the bullet when you didn't go because you'd have ended up a hundred grand in debt and still a bartender. (edit)

Trivia

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When the neurotransmitter is being demonstrated by having the subject juggle, they also prove its ability to reduce pain response by burning the subject's hand with a blowtorch. Though the neurotransmitter could have the ability to reduce pain, it should not have the ability to actually stop his skin from burning, but for some reason it does and there is no skin damage. (edit)
The line "How's your British accent?" is an in-joke. Michelle Ryan is British. (edit)

Allusions

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Nathan: He had you Manchurian Candidated!

The Manchurian Candidate is a novel (1959), which has been adapted into a film twice (in 1962 and in 2004). It is about a son of a prominent political family who has been brainwashed into becoming an unwilling assassin for the Communist Party. (edit)
Title

The title is a reference to the show The Education of Max Bickford, which is about the college professor named Max Bickford.
As an additional relation, Katee Sackhoff (Sarah Corvus) plays Nell Bickford, the daughter of the title character. (edit)
Bionic Can Opener:
Jaime: So I'm a glorified fax machine?
Nathan: Come on, don't sell yourself short. You can also open cans.

This is a reference to the original Bionic Woman series, where Jaime uses her bionic arm's fingernail for a utilitarian purpose to cut open a can's top. Calling a bionic person "a glorified can opener" is also a common event in similar stories. (edit)
Jaime: I feel like Felicity.

That refers to an American TV series called Felicity. It is about a girl who threw all her plans for the future away for a boy she didn't even know. (edit)
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7.0
Good
The Education of Jaime Sommers
"Above average"
Still not pushing the envelope
Continue » Posted Apr 22, 2008 4:50 am PST
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The Education of Jaime Sommers
"Fine example"
I loved it!
Continue » Posted Mar 11, 2008 7:26 pm PST
8.0
Great
The Education of Jaime Sommers
"Fine example"
Jamine get an Education in butt kicking!
Continue » Posted Nov 12, 2007 7:50 am PST

kyravon
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2.9
Terrible
The Education of Jaime Sommers
"Bottom of the barrel"
I'm done w/ this show!
Continue » Posted Nov 10, 2007 8:56 pm PST

OliverSmiff
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7.7
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The Education of Jaime Sommers
"Above average"
The first episode where it finally feels like we're getting somewhere.
Continue » Posted Nov 5, 2007 6:02 pm PST
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