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« on: October 24, 2009, 07:51:00 AM » |
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This week’s episode starts with the fuzzy image, but bloody image of Topher stating her was just trying to help her.
With the flash of a camera we are taken back to a year ago, where Priya is helping sell jewelry for a woman on the beachfront. As the conversation advances a man, “prince” of sorts, approaches; returning for another piece of jewelry, Priya asks what he’s doing with it all. The man asks if it would be possibly for her to make a large painting for him and hands her his card.
Skip forward, Priya is now having gallery show with the piece that she was commissioned to make. Bored of the idol talk, Sierra scopes out a nearby alcove of people and find that they are openly participating in sexual actions. Enter Echo. Echo engages Sierra in interesting conversation and mentions that she should stick with Nolan, the “prince”.
Over to Nolan, who is talking to a man, Harding, about the expense of such an event just to gain the affections of the pretty young lady. Harding suggests that they build him a doll with everything he wants, but Nolan refuses; wanting Priya. Harding decides to approach Priya and brings with him Victor, introducing him as a fine arts dealer from Italy. Priya and Victor immediately hit it off and she asks if he wants to leave. As the two head for the door, Nolan interrupts and won’t let her leave and it turns out he hired Victor to help promote him. When he tries to force himself on Priya, she slaps him and say ‘nothing in this world could ever make me love you’. That was until today, when Sierra enters and kisses him passionately. As she leaves he takes a picture with her own camera and throws it in a drawer along with other photos.
Now at the dollhouse, Victor approaches Sierra and comments on her bird painting, but something just isn’t right to her about the color black. Meanwhile, Topher is still trying to get the remote reset to work when Echo enters handing him Sierra’s painting. She says that Sierra doesn’t like the bad man who makes her sad. Interested in the information, Topher tries to find out more about the man from Boyd. Boyd dishes the goods on Nolan and suggests that Topher look into Saunder’s information about Sierra. After viewing Saunder’s files, which include multiple paintings, Topher heads to the records for Priya’s original information.
Meanwhile, Boyd is taking a watchful eye over Echo and notices that she is exhibiting behavior that is abnormal. All of a sudden, Topher grabs him and explains that Priya wasn’t psychotic when she arrived at the Dollhouse; she was drugged to be psychotic. Adelle overhears and confronts Nolan of raping poor Sierra and says that they will no longer be providing him with service. Nolan’s cocky response is that the Dollhouse will imprint her and send her to him forever. Adelle goes to Harding and refuses to send Nolan, but she is overruled and told do it or she loses her job.
Victor, on the other hand, is simply trying to help Sierra and heads to the shower where he’s caught emptying out all of her black paint canisters. As they start painting on each other with, Victor receives flashbacks of the military and drops to the floor.
Back with Adelle, Topher refuses to imprint Sierra, but Adelle says he must. She also drives home that everyone at the Dollhouse is chosen because their morals have been compromised, but states that he was chosen because he has none; he always takes care of his toys. And so Topher heads to Sierra and offers her a treatment.
Boyd, still not giving up his search, examines Echo’s sleep area and finds a book that she is reading. At that moment Adelle calls him, sending him to make sure that Topher follows his order.
Flashback to the day when Topher first met Priya at a health care clinic run by Nolan; in fact Nolan is Priya’s doctor and physician. Priya is for all intense and purposes is crazy, or at least that’s what Nolan’s planned her to look like so that Topher would take her to become a doll. A montage of images shows what Priya had to go thru to become Sierra, Victor waiting for Sierra’s return and Sierra showing up at Nolan’s for the last time. As Topher puts away the original Priya memories, Adelle enters and consoles him saying he had no choice to which he replies… no he didn’t. Meanwhile Sierra seduces Nolan, but it turns out she’s not Sierra or anyone else; she the real Priya.
At the Dollhouse, Boyd asks Echo about the book and tells her she should be careful, but Echo says she doesn’t care and warns him of something coming.
Priya, now in control for the first time, confronts Nolan about his actions and how sick he is. Then she mocks him saying that she fell for someone else (obviously Victor) and when he can’t take it any longer Nolan slaps her. The difference is, this time Priya can fight back and she does; killing Nolan after a brutal fight. At the Dollhouse, Topher waits and when he receives a call he heads to Nolan’s and finds him dead on the floor. Finding Priya hiding, he tries to escape with her and Boyd enters to help.
Topher, Boyd and Priya deal with Nolan’s body and fake that he left the country in a hurry without her. Back at the Dollhouse, Priya talks to Topher about everything that’s happen and asks if she was happy. As she looks out the window she see’s Victor, still waiting for her, and asks if her love for him is real. Topher replies that it is and that Victor loves her in return. As she lays down to get her memory wiped, Priya says she never wants to remember this day again and that if she ever wakes to skip it Topher agrees and she asks him if he can keep this day a secret. He says he can, but he doesn’t know if he can live with it. She agrees that she can’t, but luckily she doesn’t have to and with that he wipes her clean and returns her to Victor.
This is one of the more intense episodes of Dollhouse because it being extremely character driven. I really loved seeing more of Sierra and of her past. It was a really sad episode overall and really showed just how much Topher cares for the actives, especially those he’s feels personally responsible for.
Did you see this week’s episode? If so, what did you think of it?
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