DollhouseEchoes
Original Air Date: Mar 27, 2009
Angelique – Associate Staff Writer
angelique@thetwocentscorp.com
A couple of students in a high tech lab at the Rossum Building get affected by a drug, one of the only two vile of memory drugs is missing. The drug affects the ‘sleeping’ parts of your mind, the drug was still in it’s testing phase. One of the students Owen Johnson dies in the lab. Clive Ambrose, chairman of the Rossum Corporation asks Adelle for help, as he puts it he doesn’t need just one active but an army.
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A couple of students in a high tech lab at the Rossum Building get affected by a drug, one of the only two vile of memory drugs is missing. The drug affects the ‘sleeping’ parts of your mind, the drug was still in it’s testing phase. One of the students Owen Johnson dies in the lab. Clive Ambrose, chairman of the Rossum Corporation asks Adelle for help, as he puts it he doesn’t need just one active but an army.
ReplyDeleteSince Paul Ballard is put on suspension and is taken off the ‘Dollhouse’ case but he hasn’t stopped his research. Mellie returns to the ‘Dollhouse’ where Topher continues his tests on her, he actually tests the drugs which killed the student in the Rossum Building. He wants to research the effects so he can undo them. Something which become incredibly difficult for him when he as well as Adelle becomes affected by the drug as well. They are both high as a kite, while Mellie is completely breaking down.
Meanwhile Echo has a rendezvous with a previous client, when she turns on the television she notices a news item about the student who killed himself at the Rossum Building, it sparks a memory and the urge to visit the Rossum Building. She leaves the client and goes to the Rossum Building, where the other dolls are trying to control the situation.
In flashbacks we see that Caroline used to go Freemond, she broke into the Rossum Building with her boyfriend to proved that they where doing animal testing in the building. They where discovered and her boyfriend died when they where trying to escape. It seems as if that moment changed everything for Caroline. That was the moment that Adelle came into her life.
Mellie doesn’t like Paul’s obsession with the dollhouse or with Caroline, and she is still freaked out by the attack she wants to get away for a while. Paul hears her in the hallway and when he opens the door he notices the suitcases. He asks her if she would have told him that she was leaving if he hadn’t opened the door.
In this episode we revisited the first scene we ever saw of ‘Dollhouse’ the one where Adelle and Caroline are talking about Caroline’s options. This time however they showed us an extension of that particular scene. It becomes clear that Adelle has been doing a sort of dance with Caroline for two years before she finally got her to sign away her life. However it doesn’t become clear why Adelle took all that time to try and convince Caroline. That scene together with a couple of flashbacks in the episode made a little bit more sense why Caroline would make a radical choice like joining the ‘Dollhouse. At least is seems as if it was her own choice, but Adelle was pushing really hard. Though we got more information it also gave us more questions. I would like to see them answered but at the same time I also like the mystery.
Not only Echo/Caroline’s previous life is shown to us in multiple flashbacks. We also see some flashbacks which show us little glimpses into the previous lives of Victor and Sierra from before they joined the dollhouse.
I thought that the memories where erased, maybe that was just me and I had just interpreted it all wrong. But in this episode we found out that the memories are not erased but they are blocked. Which explains the returning of the memories. Somehow in the long run the method which Topher used to block out the memories of their previous life are dissolving. So that little things around them might spark flashes of their past life. The life the ‘dolls’ lost, the life which was replaced by a blank slate and a new personality for each new client who can pay enough to hire one of the actives.
I really think that Joss Whedon is right, episode six really does seem to be the turning point in the show. Well at least in my opinion these last two episodes got a lot more interesting. I like where this show is going. I will recommend this show to anyone, it is good.
And this episode is the best episode so far, it was funny ( hilarious actually ), interesting, revealing and dark. I mean the scenes with Topher, Adelle and Dominic all flying high as a kite where very good entertainment, I loved it. It was so funny!