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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 261637" data-attributes="member: 23">Deadly Ringer (Parts I and II) (continued)Meanwhile, Jaime, having failed to convince people that she’s really Jaime Sommers, is told she’s to see the governor, but is taken to the prison infirmary where she is loaded with sedatives (in her left arm, of all the lousy luck), told she is going to get her “old” face back the next day and then locked in a padded cell by the crooked Dr Harkens played by none other than Jessica Tate. It’s interesting to see Katherine Helmond in a straight role, and she’s effectively unsettling. The padded cell/too weak to move/impending surgery scenario is the stuff of horror, and the scenes around it some of the grimmest this series has produced. There are definite shades of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, the film version of which was less than a year old at this point. Here, as there, some of the staff are less than ethical. A prison guard, Dr Harkens and a couple of her minions are all well aware of the switch that’s happened. Harkens even plans Jaime’s death due to a combination of heavy general anaesthesia and the drugs with which they’re keeping her sedated, and she orders Jaime’s food to be drugged to ensure she’s too out of it to fight back. It’s pretty dark. Things get almost psychedelically surreal as Jaime becomes disorientated and hears Harkens’ voice echoing round the padded cell, calling Lisa’s name over and over. She attempts to move to break out, but can’t muster the strength. By the time she’s wheeled in to prepare for surgery, it looks like the writing’s on the wall. But once alone she reveals the uneaten sandwich, and makes a break for it. In a brilliant bit of symmetry, scenes of Jaime breaking door handles and locks are interspersed with images of Lisa using her new powers under Rudy’s supervision. I just love how the net kept closing in and Jaime wasn’t cut a break. Once escaped, she faced being pursued by dogs and armed guards; getting stuck in quicksand. The lot. There’s a great scene where, exhausted, she reaches a fenced compound with an emergency call box inside. She’s trying to muster the strength to leap the fence when she sees a gap in the fence on the other side. She kind of throws her arms up in defeat, makes a little “meh” sound and shuffles slowly round to the gap. Even finally reaching Oscar by phone wasn’t the end of the ordeal. Having been told that Lisa had escaped and was under the delusion that she was Jaime, Oscar told her to stay put but then arranged for her to be collected. It’s a predicament all right. Jaime’s response to this played against all my expectations. Bumping into a man who was terrified of her, she convinced him to tell the authorities she had a gun and insisted that Oscar came to speak to her. Even once he’d arrived, Oscar didn’t believe her until she asked him ask her a question without the bullhorn: a request that was meaningful only to him. I could well and truly feel Jaime’s relief once the penny dropped with him. continued...</blockquote>

Verification: Who played JR Ewing?