I have to admit, the story in this episode was a little better. It had a little more substance, and there was actually a twist ending. But I still don't like the fact that this show is called Painkiller Jane, but the shows not really about her. This episode she bent her pinkie back, breaking it, to show the doctor that she was talking to that she was special. And that was the extent of her abilities. That would be like calling Family Ties, Spider-man. They could say that Alex P. Keaton was Spider-man, but you don't get to see him in costume because they want to focus on his family life. There would be vague references to him being Spider-man, but nothing concrete, and nothing that would take away from the story about the family. Do you understand what I'm saying? This show really should be called Neuro-Hunters! Or maybe even Hackers! Because sometimes it seems like the tech-guy in this show contributes more to the story than Jane does. Like I said, this one had a decent story. I just think that since the shows named after her, they should use the character more. This one was about a neuro that could pass along a nightmare to anybody she touched. But truth to tell, I don't even think she knew that she had that ability. She was in a boating fatality when she was 8, in which both her parents were killed. She was found by the Coast Guard drifting in a life raft. So she's been in a mental facility ever since because of her deep psychosis. Well this Doctor that was treating her, fell in love with her. I don't think the feeling was mutual. In fact I think she barely knew he existed. I think that he thought that she was living in constant fear and agony because of this dream. But I think he may have actually been projecting on her because he wanted her to stay there with him. So he finds out that she can transfer this dream to others, and convincing himself that it's relieving her of pain and suffering, he starts doing it to multiple people. But I don't think the dream actually bothered her as much as he thought it did. And I don't think she even knew she was transferring it. Anyways long story short, they arrest him because they think he's doing it, but he's not a neuro. So they have to figure out who he's protecting. When they find her, they find out that he's in love with her. Jane show's him, by breaking her finger, that they can fix her. Something he's never been able to do. He agrees to go along. So he goes to her, supposedly to bring her to them, but when he's with her he asks her to give him everything, all the pain, the whole nightmare. By the time they get to him, he's a raving basket case. Jane asks her, "Do you realize what he just did for you?", and the girl answers, "Isn't that the nice doctor from the hospital?" So he either truly wanted to take all her pain, or he knew it would make him so far gone that he wouldn't have to face what he'd done. Also this episode the doctor on the team discovers that Jane's DNA markers are very close to that of the neuros. McBride, the leader of the team, doesn't want him to tell her because I'm thinking that he's afraid that she'll be more sympathetic towards the neuros. A behaviour that she's already exhibited a couple of times. Like I said, this one really wasn't a bad episode. I just want to see more of the title character and her abilities. I mean it is on Cable, after 10pm, so they can pretty much do what they want. Right? Anyways, please let this show get better.
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