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« on: October 10, 2009, 02:41:46 PM » |
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This week is less about Echo and more about a serial killer.
Our episode starts with a young man, Terry, playing with some mannequins, or at least that’s what you’re supposed to think. When one of the mannequins sweats and another tries to crawl away, it’s obvious that Terry is a sick boy. Drugging the poor girl, he drops the syringe and drags her back towards the others. Bad move man. The girl picks up the syringe and stabs him in the ankle with it. As punishment he decides to beat her head in with a croquet stick. Down one doll, Terry takes to the streets in search of a new one, but is hit by a car while stalking his prey. Guess that drug messed him up good.
At the Dollhouse, Ballard searches for Echo only to find her standing before him nude in the shower, naughty Ballard. After some sexual innuendos Ballard offers Echo a treatment. Meanwhile, Boyd and Adelle discuss the now ‘missing’ Dr. Saunders and Victor chimes in to ask where she is, the man in the next room needs her help. Heading over to the room, Adelle asks Topher if they can wake him up and we get some more sexual innuendos. Boyd points out the more obvious argument, should they wake him up, since the man skipped his last bail hearing and has been missing ever since.
Back to Echo and Ballard though, her new engagement is as a student, Kiki Turner, of a liberal arts instructor at Clarefield College. When Ballard asks about the R on the engagement, we learn that Echo’s to be the sex fantasy of an ‘egghead academic’. Don’t be jealous Ballard.
With the brain scans now done on their new patient, Topher informs Adelle that he’s not as innocent as she believes. Presenting Adelle the scan, he educates her that the dormant parts of the patient’s brain are where empathy, compassion and an aversion to disemboweling puppies is stored. Adelle asks if he’s certain and Topher replies that ‘certain enough that I have ethical problems walking him up’. Just to drive home the point, Boyd points out that Topher has ethical problems. If you haven’t caught on yet, the new patient is our psycho serial killer Terry.
Meanwhile, Ballard takes Echo on a shopping spree in the Dollhouse’s personal Macy’s, or whatever store you want to compare it to. Poor Ballard sits in the waiting area next to another handler, sitting reading a magazine, who mentions he won’t even do this for his wife. Ballard pulls out his FBI training. Sorry Ballard, but just because you’re a big shot ex-FBI agent doesn’t mean you don’t have to take your daughter clothes shopping.
Now back to Adelle, I feel like I’m writing a ping pong match. Bradley, Terry’s uncle, arrives at Adelle’s office. Asking if the Dollhouse can revive him, Bradley is persuaded by Adelle to divulge more information about his nephew. Bradley gives all the dirty details and the knowledge that out there somewhere is women in need of rescue. Adelle agrees, but only if he is questioned on her terms.
Echo, looking all childlike and cute, exits the dressing room and Ballard get his naughty groove on again. Boyd enters and tells Ballard that he is taking Echo and Ballard is to help investigate Terry. One last naughty look toward Echo and he happily leaves.
Victor, having been implanted with Terry’s memories, wakes up only to be black bagged. Ballard, now leading the ‘investigation’ questions Bradley’s assumptions about the missing women and their connection with Terry. At the college, Echo receives an F on her paper and approaches her professor, the egghead academic. Back at the Dollhouse, poor Terry is complaining about his comfort when Ballard walks in and takes a low blow at the boy’s name. It’s not his fault, blame his parents. Ballard does his interrogation thing, while Adelle sends Bradley down to look at his nephew. Presenting Terry with an image of himself in a coma, Ballard gets under Terry’s skin, especially when his uncle enters the video. Some editing between Echo and Terry keeps us up to date, but when Ballard comes to update Adelle, they are tricked and Uncle Bradley breaks Terry out of the Dollhouse.
Despite his uncle’s help, Terry ungratefully smashes his face into the steering wheel and escapes. Adelle seems happy about this new development, until Topher informs her that Victor’s GPS tracking was taken out for his surgery and Saunders left before it was put back in. Meanwhile, the girls are waking up in a cage somewhere in Hollywood. Adelle decides that even with Ballard tracking Terry on foot, they need some other assurance and tells Topher to come up with a way to remote wipe Victor’s brain.
Echo, now getting into the groove of things with her professor, puts on some music and starts dancing. Our ping pong editing continues as Topher calls Boyd to inform him of the remote wipe with some added exposition for us viewers, Terry enters a night club and Topher broadcasts the wipe. Something goes wrong though, and Kiki and Terry change bodies.
Terry, now in Echo, stabs the professor and drives off past Boyd, who informs the Dollhouse of the change. Meanwhile, Victor as Kiki is doing so dirty dancing in the club, which I just don’t want to mention much more. Ballard, hot on Victor’s trail, rescues him from the night club and heads back to the Dollhouse. Terry finds the women about to escape and attacks them, but Echo gains control just in time. Meanwhile, Topher manages to get the system back online and track Echo’s GPS. Echo, now fighting for control, tells the women that the girls need to kill ‘him’ and just as they are about to the Dollhouse stops them.
Back at the Dollhouse, Adelle and Ballard discuss Terry’s release to a general hospital and Echo comes adding ‘goodness gracious’ (Terry’s signature line).
This week’s episode is mostly filler, but an interesting one all the same.
It’s a little scary to think that they can just dump such dangerous minds into anyone.
What did you think of the episode?
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