Crime heals all wounds on ‘Painkiller Jane’

What kind of show do you get when you combine story elements from “Blade Runner,” “Heroes” and “La Femme Nikita,” produce it on sets that look like hand-me-downs from a “24” knockoff and give it a title that sounds like a throwaway tune written by Lou Reed on a bad day?

“Painkiller Jane” (9 p.m., Sci Fi) stars Kristanna Loken in the title role. She’s a surly DEA agent with a rather large chip on her shoulder – something, it seems, to do with the early death of her mother. But let’s not get carried away. “Jane” is not about three-dimensional character development. That would only get in the way of the nonstop and only occasionally coherent action and violence.

After a drug bust goes down badly, or rather weirdly, Jane finds herself recruited by a shadowy government agent who is on the hunt for “Neurons” – genetically unusual humans with strange skill sets. Neurons have unique powers, like the ability to induce hallucinations, or read minds, or make people do really dreadful things like throw themselves from the 46th floor of a skyscraper.

It turns out Jane may have some peculiar traits of her own. Much like the “CSI” franchise, it seems Jane just can’t die. A fall from a building leaves her slightly cranky and in need of a stiff drink, but it’s really no biggie. She takes a licking and keeps on ticking. Does this enhance her status with the Neuron-hunting party? Or make her one of their prey? I’ll never tell.

¢ In other fantasy news, “Stargate SG-1” (7 p.m., Sci Fi), the longest-running sci-fi series in TV history, enters its final 10-episode season. “Stargate Atlantis” (8 p.m., Sci Fi) enters a new season, with Jack O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) and Richard Woolsey (Robert Picardo) hanging on after surviving the Replicators’ bloody coup.

¢ Season two of “The Henry Rollins Show” (8:30 p.m., IFC) kicks off from Israel, where the former Black Flag founder and frequent USO show performer chats with Israelis about their country’s politics, religion and pop culture.

¢ A new episode of “SpongeBob SquarePants” (7 p.m., Nickelodeon) goes to the heart of one of the show’s great rivalries, the lifelong feud between Plankton and Mr. Krabs. A three-hour “SpongeBob” (4 p.m.) sets up the showdown.

¢ FBI agents (Shawn and Marlon Wayans) go undercover in female disguise in the 2004 comedy “White Chicks” (7 p.m., Fox). The film received uniformly poor reviews. “Variety” provided one of the most favorable: “As lowbrow comedies go, it pretty much delivers.” “Film Threat” was less kind: “It’s such a dumb movie, it’s hard to believe it wasn’t an SNL sketch first.”

Tonight’s other highlights

¢ A ghost feels out of place on “Ghost Whisperer” (7 p.m., CBS).

¢ The 2005 documentary “Hitler’s Secret War on America” (7 p.m., Discovery Times) recalls Nazi efforts to produce warplanes capable of crossing the Atlantic.

¢ A friend’s wife dies under grim circumstances on “Raines” (8 p.m., NBC).

¢ A minor league baseball player’s death just doesn’t add up on “Numb3rs” (9 p.m., CBS).