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July 24, 2009
By Joe Diliberto Posted: Jul 24, 2009"If something seems too good to be true, it's best to shoot it, just to be sure." — Fiona, BURN NOTICE
No one who saw this week's episode of ROYAL PAINS will ever look at breast implants the same way again. Roselyn Sanchez (ex-Pilar, AS THE WORLD TURNS; ex-Elena, WITHOUT A TRACE) played Sofia, whose insanely jealous husband had a GPS tracker implanted inside her body when she underwent breast-augmentation. When she underwent an MRI, the powerful magnet (50,000 times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field, FYI) nearly ripped the metal device out of her chest! A huge, deformed lump appear in Sofia's cleavage; it looked so painful! Hank swooped into action and removed the device, but it ruptured, giving Sofia radiation poisoning. The twisted kicker to it all? Sofia interpreted the implant in her implants as a sign of how devoted hubby Javier was to her.
Sofia wasn't the only person afflicted with an unconventional malady. The enigmatic Boris (played by Campbell Scott) appears to have a secret disease he won't talk about. Based on his interest in Katie's research with sharks, I'm going to guess some type of cancer. Oh, the fact that Boris keeps a shark in his basement inspired one of the best lines of the night (from Hank): "I feel like I'm living on a Bond villain's property." We also got to see a few more of Divya's secrets. Hank's super-hot physician's assistant met Raj, the fiancé her mother lined up for an arranged...I mean, "strategic" marriage. Sadly, there appeared to be no chemistry between them. Which must have been the case with Jill and Charlie, her ex. Did we already know Jill used to be married? Considering how mercenary Evan is, it's no wonder he name-checked Grey Goose, Facebook and even He-Man and the Masters of the Universe! (Only the vodka brand bought an actual commercial, though.)
BURN NOTICE has been conspicuously stingy with the "How to Spy" tips lately, which makes me wonder if some watchdog group has been complaining. If anyone is concerned about terrorist groups learning any new tricks of the trade, I'll remind you that the show always leaves out a key ingredient or step, so that unsupervised children cannot replicate the feats of Michael Westen and co. That being said, the Spy Tricks returned this week, and the tutorial on how to take out street lights with a cell phone was pretty cool. But that bit about making blood squibs with C4 and bottle caps sounded a bit too dangerous to even dare trying at home. (Yeah, like you have access to C4, anyway...) I was disappointed to see Nicholas Lea, who was so wonderfully evil as Krychek, the "rat boy" traitor of THE X-FILES, wasted in an essentially generic part. Lea should be reserved for a Big Bad role.
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