'The Return of the Bionic Woman' (Part 1) (Story Code '43020') by Kenneth Johnson

Learning of Oscar’s plan, Jaime agrees to use her advanced hearing and strength to expose the counterfeiting ring. She persuades Steve to accompany her on the mission, and the two of them manage to gain entry to the counterfeiters’ headquarters; they then set about breaking open the safe so that they can retrieve the criminals’ counterfeiting plates. However, things do not go as planned, and Steve soon finds himself facing a heart-breaking situation…

Lee Majors (Colonel Steve Austin), Richard Anderson (Oscar Goldman), Some time ago, Steve was led to believe that his fiancé, Jaime Sommers, tragically died after her bionics malfunctioned. However, unknown to him, Doctor Rudy Well's assistant, Michael Marchetti, kept her alive by using experimental cryogenics. Jaime finally comes out of her coma and begins her slow recovery, but is hampered by amnesia. When Steve catches sight of Jaime apparently alive and now a hospital patient he confronts Oscar and Rudy and demands to know the truth; Rudy reveals that Jaime was only saved by Marchetti's radical experiment, and still has a long way to go before she makes a full recovery…


Directed by Richard Moder
Produced by Kenneth Johnson
Executive Producer Harve Bennett
Based on the novel by Martin Caldin

TX (US): 14th September 1975

Notes:
*Featuring Colonel Steve Austin, Oscar Goldman, Doctor Rudy Wells and Jaime Sommers

*Steve now sports a rather frightening moustache, which stays attached to him throughout the third and fourth seasons