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« on: October 03, 2009, 10:26:33 AM » |
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This week on Dollhouse Echo is assigned to be the mother to a small infant, but when things go awry Echo takes her motherly programming a little too far.
When Echo is assigned to be the mother of a small boy, Topher comes up with a new way of programming that not only changes the mind, but also the physical body as well. Not a minute later we see what he means as Echo wakes up in the middle of the night, sneaks into a nearby room, and breast feeds her new child.
The next morning, while trying to make coffee for her new beloved husband, she gets this sneaking suspicion that something is amiss with him. Concerned with his behavior, Echo confides in Sierra that she’s afraid he is having an affair, since he seems distant from her and the baby. It quickly becomes obvious that Echo is unaware of the Dollhouse and the fact that she is not the child’s mother.
At home, Echo decides to sneak into Nate’s office to find evidence of her suspicions. All she finds is heartache and when Nate returns home to find Echo in the kitchen with all of his wife’s pictures spread across the kitchen table he has to lie, convincingly. He says that he knew the woman before Echo and that he loved her, but she died. Aware that this whole engagement was a terrible mistake he tells her to head to bed, things will be better in the morning. Only we understand the meaning of this all.
In the middle of the night Echo wakes, hearing her husband on the phone, misunderstanding the conversation in which Nate demands they get rid of her and he’ll get rid of the child.
Meanwhile, Senator Perrin is getting nosey and someone is supplying him with information. Adelle, on the other hand, visits November to discuss possible leaks of information, a diagnostics visit and her contract release from the Dollhouse.
Back on Echo’s front, she makes a break for it with Jake and is intercepted by Nate. Her husband’s new found interest in their child has her scrambling for excuses, but when it’s apparent she can’t leave Echo contacts Sierra for help. As Sierra arrives at the home the Dollhouse steps in and escorts her away and Ballard enters the home in search of Echo, but is deceived and she escapes.
Adelle, now dealing with kidnapping, has to console Nate, who blames the Dollhouse for the current events. Adelle points out that Echo loves the child and that if he wanted he could have hired a nanny, but instead wanted a mother, which they provided.
Echo, now aware that she is being followed, goes to the police for support. Ballard and Nate arrive at the station where Nate declares that she is not the mother and Ballard takes Echo away screaming.
Back at the Dollhouse, November is having a diagnostic check when Ballard enters with Echo, still screaming. After the whole ordeal, November and Ballard discuss the reality of the emotions that the actives feel and she asks if she was ever like that. Remembering the day he told her off, he lies and says he’s new and doesn’t know her.
When Echo awakes Topher wipes her memory, but something goes wrong and she knocks him unconscious. Meanwhile, Senator Perrin is going over the files that were left at his doorstep. At the Dollhouse, Topher and the others realize that changing Echo’s physiology caused the wipe to be a failure. Knowing Echo is headed for the baby Adelle calls Nate to warn him, but is too late. Echo takes the child, but Nate explains that when Karen died in child birth he blamed Jake and needed someone to love him, that is why he had her made. Aware enough to understand that she isn’t the mother Echo hands the baby to Nate and leaves.
Ballard and Echo’s final words leave us questioning if what the Dollhouse is doing is morally ethical.
What did you think of the episode?
Do you think that there is a moral boundary that shouldn’t be crossed, playing with other’s emotions?
Who do you think is supplying Senator Perrin with information?
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