Recap: Rudy and his fellow OSI buddy, Ray Fisk, are off to enjoy a day of fishing in a tiny coastal town named Paradise Cove (conveniently located just twenty minutes from Ojai). Ray gives his wife Norma a kiss goodbye, and then he and Rudy head over to a large pier while clutching their fishing poles. A few minutes later, a really fake looking bright red flying saucer that gives off a weird lawnmower type buzzing noise appears in the sky and hovers over the pier [not coincidentally] exactly where Rudy and Ray are standing. A stunned crowd quickly forms...and everyone looks on with horror, including Norma who witnesses the otherworldly spectacle via a pair of binoculars. Oscar happens to arrive in Paradise Cove at that exact moment, and watches as the flying saucer spotlights Rudy and Ray with a bright red beam, zaps them into the spacecraft, then flies off.
Jaime is at home, hanging with Max and watching the local news coverage about the alien abduction. She spots Oscar on the news footage and decides she'd better head down to Paradise Cove and rope herself into what will surely become an impromptu OSI mission before Oscar does it for her. Jaime finds Oscar sitting in the back of a police cruiser, comforting a tearful Norma. When he spots Jaime, he excuses himself to tell her all about the big red flying saucer that just abducted Rudy Wells and Ray Fisk. Jaime's like, "OMG! Not Rudy and some Ray guy!" ... and on the other side of the parking lot, a reporter named Casey from the national wire service has noticed Jaime's arrival, sees her conversing with Oscar, and decides it would be well worth his time to track her movements. Oscar hooks Jaime up with Bill Robbins, the OSI's Domestic Operations Chief, to try to crack The Case of The Flying Saucer That Took Rudy and Some Ray Guy. Bill takes Jaime to what looks like a barn in the middle of nowhere, but is actually the entry point to an underground OSI control center and computer lab for tracking UFOs...and, not coincidentally, we learn that Ray Fisk was the OSI agent who programmed all of the computers. A woman (Nena) working at one of the UFO tracking workstations looks alarmed and informs Bill that the bright red flying saucer that the Martians used to abduct Ray and Rudy has suddenly gone off her radar.
The camera pans over to a dismayed looking Rudy, who's watching an unseen man gleefully plopping down thick stacks of cash atop the table in front of him. Sadly, there's no sign of any Martians. Norma Fisk is besieged by reporters when she arrives home, and for some reason allows Casey inside for an interview. He acts skeptical of Ray's "abduction" and asks her whassup with his UFO computer project at the OSI, and Norma angrily denies that her husband works for the OSI and yells at Casey to get the hell out. Rudy watches the unseen man, who turns out to be Ray Fisk, as he places the thick stacks of cash into a briefcase. He then telephones Norma to tell her, "It's all set" and that he feels like a very rich man. Jaime wanders along the beach, bra-less in a cowl neck blue sweater, as she retraces the flight path the flying saucer took before it disappeared from radar. When she spots Casey following her, she decides 'why not needlessly showcase my top secret bionics to this nosy reporter who could blow the lid off the OSI's Bionic Project?' and leaps atop a cliff overlooking the ocean so she can smugly wave down at him. Casey scrunches his face confusedly, but climbs up after her. He asks what exactly her connection to Oscar and Bill Robbins is, and she refuses to answer, but says she'll allow him to tag along as she tries to figure out what in blazes just happened to Rudy and that Ray guy. Ray calls Norma to inform her that it's time for them to deliver the other half of the plan. He tells her that everything is all worked out, and that they'll be set financially for the rest of their lives. Jaime and Casey continue to wander down the coast. Casey finds the hat that Rudy was wearing at the time of his disappearance and declares it proof that the flying saucer was a hoax, which he's pretty sure is being perpetrated by the OSI. Norma pulls out an envelop from a secret hiding spot in her bookshelf and slips it into her purse. She then gets into her car and drives off. Jaime and Casey are still ambling along the coastal area when they spot Norma's car speeding in their direction. Jaime tells Casey that the road she's driving on leads only to the canyon, so she can't help but wonder what the woman is up to. Moments after Norma arrives in the canyon, the bright red flying saucer appears overheard, looking hilariously fake against the backdrop of the picturesque canyon. It hovers over Norma and beams her aboard...and Jaime gasps and says the beaming is exactly as Oscar described after he witnessed the "abduction" of Rudy and Ray. She activates her bionic ear and hears Ray excitedly tell Norma that soon they'll be able to start their new life in South America.
Nena tells Bill Robbins they just got another UFO signal, and that it's currently flying towards the coastal canyon. Casey tells Jaime there has to be a reasonable explanation for the appearance of a bright red flying saucer, and accuses her of being part of a government cover up. He then races off in the direction of the barn/secret underground lab, while Jaime rolls her eyes and is all, "Whatever, dude" and bionically jogs after the flying saucer. Casey arrives at the barn/secret underground lab, but then contorts his face into an expression of surprise when he sees that the flying saucer is headed in a totally different direction. Jaime watches the flying saucer land, which she learns, through the magic of '70s TV special effects, is really a helicopter encased in a bright red hologram. She watches as Ray, Norma, and the pilot disembark and greet another bad guy, Spencer, who's been guarding Rudy inside a secret hideaway. Ray hands Spencer a file folder of secret intel on the OSI's underground lab, and then the four go inside the hideaway. Rudy glares at Norma with an unmistakable look of disgust...while Spencer thanks Ray for handing over the OSI intel, then steers him and Norma over to a walk-in freezer where he's been keeping their money on ice (pun intended). Before Ray and Norma can question why Spencer would be storing their money in a giant freezer and not inside a briefcase like TV villains usually do, Spencer shoves them both inside the freezer, locks the door, and turns the temperature setting to super frigid. Jaime climbs into the helicopter and presses a button labelled projection, which activates a red hologram around the aircraft in the shape of a flying saucer. Casey makes his way to the hideaway and sees Jaime sitting inside the hologram-encased helicopter and assumes that she's in on the hoax. He runs over to her and is all, "Ah-ha! Busted!" The bad guys inside the hideaway hear someone starting up the helicopter and race outside to see whassup. They draw their guns on Jaime and Casey, then march them inside the hideaway, knock them unconscious, and drag them into the freezer, where Ray and Norma are starting to turn into human blocks of ice. Once Jaime regains consciousness, Rudy warns her (via her bionic ear through the freezer wall) that her bionic limbs won't be able to function once her wiring freezes up. Seems like a really bad design flaw for a bionic spy who might one day be expected to embark upon missions in Arctic type weather. Ray contritely tells Jaime and Casey that he feels really bad about what's happened...and now that he's been double-crossed, wishes he could undo his treasonous acts against the OSI. Jaime's like, "Uh huh, go fuck yourself, Fisk" and asks Casey to distract the Fisks so she can bionically kick open the freezer door without anyone noticing...but it becomes a pointless exercise when her bionic legs poop out after having been exposed to the extreme cold for so long. Through the wall, Rudy advises Jaime to ask her gentleman friend if he wouldn't mind giving her limbs some [platonic style] rubbing so they can get warm enough to default back to their fully functional bionic settings.
Spencer and the pilot are ready to fly off and take Rudy along with them 'cause they regard him as "a valuable piece of property". The local sheriff calls Bill Robbins to report that Norma Fisk is missing...and Bill's like, "That's weird, I haven't Jaime in awhile either. I wonder if the two disappearances are connected." Casey warms up Jaime's limbs to the point that she's ready to bionically kick her way out of the freezer...and this time she doesn't bother going through the exercise of distracting the Fisks while she demonstrates her top secret, superhuman abilities 'cause what the hell is the point pretending that the jig isn't totally up at this late stage in the series? Jaime, Casey, and Rudy flee the hideaway, and the bad guys decide to follow them in the helicopter and shoot at them while carefully avoiding offing Rudy. Back at the secret underground computer lab, Nena spots the fake flying saucer on her radar again and carefully tracks its flight path. Jaime pulls a switcheroo on the bad guys by putting on Rudy's jacket and sending them on a wild goose chase by racing bionically through the canyon. When the bad guys realize that the person running is Jaime and not Rudy, they start shooting at her - just as the police arrive on the scene. Jaime rolls down a small cliff, then grabs the nearest rock and bionically hurls it at the helicopter. She damages it so badly that black smoke starts pouring out of the engine, and the bad guys are forced to make an emergency landing and are swiftly arrested by police. After Casey files his new story about the fake UFO, he asks Jaime out for dinner. The two chat about the Fisks, both of whom were charged with treason, and then Casey asks Jaime whaddup with her superhuman strength. Jaime just smiles and refuses to answer as Casey continues to pepper her with questions during the drive over to the nearest restaurant. Thanks for reading! If you are enjoying TVofYore's recaps, consider thanking me by buying me a "coffee"!
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