Cost
According to the opening credits of The Bionic Woman, the cost of Jaime's bionic implants was "classified". This lack of specificity has sparked frequent debates amongst fans as to whether it is appropriate to call her "The Six Million Dollar Woman". The scripts reveal only a few contradictory clues. In the spin-off's opening story "Welcome Home, Jaime", she suggests to Oscar that she must have cost as much as Steve. He replies, "Well, not quite. The parts are smaller, after all." In a later episode, when she, Oscar and Rudy are trapped on a desert island and trying to get some food out of a tin, Oscar says, "Make way for my six million dollar can opener."
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