ORBzine - Jake 2.0 TV Review
Season 1
Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 1]
The Tech
Shown 10 Sep 03
This is the pilot ep. Jake is a nerd [NSA tech support] who is accidentally infected with nanites.
He becomes the nerdy version of the 6 Million Dollar Man . His love interest is an investigator.
Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 2]
Training Day
Shown 17 Sep 03
Jake doesn't have instincts of a secret agent.
A terrorist [an english-accented arab] has an EMP bomb.
Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 3]
Cater Waiter
Shown 24 Sep 03
The PRC steals US tank designs.
Bai Ling is the Agency's contact in Embassy.
Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 4]
Arms and the Girl
Shown 1 Oct 03
Jake is on a stakeout, and dates an arms dealer's daughter.
Does the ep have Morality? It pits CIA murder squads and the US military-industrial complex against the International Free Market.
Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 5]
The Good, The Bad, and The Geeky
Shown 8 Oct 03
There is an anarchist hacker conspiracy, so Jake goes undercover.
One of the conspirators is Carly Pope [Jake's co-star Sam McPherson from Popular].
Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 6]
Last Man Standing
Shown 15 Oct 03
Jake attends a friend's wedding. His blonde pal has a new BF.
The lady Doc is Jake's date.
Agent White [ Dark Angel ] stalks Jake.
Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 7]
Jerry 2.0
Shown 29 Oct 03
There's a new intro [the latino boss does a v/o].
Militia bombers are active in DC.
Worse, Jake's slacker teen brother Jerry is in town.
Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 8]
Middleman
Shown 5 Nov 03
The Doc has a Boyfriend.
A Villainous kidnapper is in town.
Jake and the blonde hot up.
Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 9]
Whisky Tango Foxtrot
Shown 12 Nov 03
The Black boss woman is ex-Army. She was in the Wolfpack - a black-ops team suspected of stealing nukes.
Jake must pal up with troopers like Lochlyn Munro [ Jason vs Freddy ] for General James McDaniel [ Taken].
Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 10]
The Spy Who Really Liked Me
Shown 19 Nov 03
Laura Harris [the blonde from The Faculty ] steals US Nerve Gas.
The ep has cynical bookends about Jim Byrnes [ Highlander ] committee.
Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 11]
Prince and the Revolution
Shown 10 Dec 03
Jake plays BG to a college student who is an African Prince. There's a Revolt in his country, and Jake develops a cynical view of NSA.
Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 12]
Double Agent
Shown 17 Dec 03
The Agency is after an ex-KGB woman renegade. They re-hire a retired 6 Million Dollar man, Lee Majors.
She's too beautiful, young and photogenic to be a convincing Soviet fanatic - she should be 44 years old.
There's a lot of Foreshadowing of the eevil of the NSA.
Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 13]
Blackout
Shown in UK, not USA
Jake wakes up, with amnesia and a wife.
There's a virus in the NSA mainframe.
Dumont [reference to Valmont and Cruel Intentions].
The ep increases Jake's mistrust of the NSA, and is open-ended ...
Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 14]
Get Foley
Shown in UK, not USA
Jake becomes an amnesiac pit-fighter [Monty Cora style]. The doc babe goes to help him [against orders]. Her Oriental assistant [ Grace Park ] covers for her.
Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 15]
Dead Man Talking
Shown in UK, not USA
Cameron Bancroft [ Codename Eternity ] is on team, to rescue Clayton Rohner [ G Vs E ].
Rohner is the boss's ex. Makes you wonder what the policy on intra-Agency relationships is.
Jake ends up in a coma, but can control things - like HAL did in 2001 .
Jake 2.0 [Season 1, Episode 16]
Upgrade
Shown in UK, not USA
A Yakuza assassin [Robin Shou - Mortal Kombat ] is after an Ambassador.
He wanted to shag Tracey, who's shocked he's not a eunuch.
