We begin moments after the previous episode ended. In case you smoked a bit too much while watching last weeks ep, remember that Alpha (played by Whedon-verse fav, Wash from "Firefly") f'd up Victor's face and imprinted Echo with a new personality (we don't know what) and the two were last scene getting' all smoochie in the elevator.

Now, Dr. Saunders comes running out of her office all freakin' out and rambling about Victor getting attacked. Fortunately everyone immediately knows she's talking about Alpha and the gears are set in motion - the meds are sent in to help Victor (how many employees does the Dollhouse have? I'd like to know), and Topher is given the task of figuring out what imprint Echo now has.

Unfortunately for Topher it seems that Alpha has "buried" the imprint on Topher's computer. What I love about computers is that nothing involving them ever needs to make sense on a TV show, cause none of us really understand how computers work in the first place. If the show were about, say, Victorian England, it just wouldn't work...

LORD TOPHER: M'lady, I fear the dastardly Alpha has out witted me. He has buried the file.
LADY DEWITT: Buried? Where?
LORD TOPHER: Hmm? Oh, uh, under my other files I guess.
LADY DEWITT: Can't you just look through them until you find it?
LORD TOPHER: Mmm, yes, I suppose, but I have ever so many files. T'would take me a fortnight and we do not have the time!

But fortunately for us we're living in the confusing 21st century, so it doesn't matter. We're talking about equipment that doesn't make any sense to begin with. Alpha buried the file, and now it's gone. Nuff said. Topher needs to get creative. Boyd jumps into the discussion and is all, What about Echo's tracking device? But Topher is like, No dice, Alpha removed her GPS strip. And everyone's like, Damn, that Alpha thinks of everything!

During all this Dr. Saunders looks like she's going slowly insane. When the others leave she tells Topher that Alpha asked her if she'd always wanted to be a doctor and Topher suddenly gets incredibility suspicious looking (please remind me to play poker with this dude). He's like all, Er uh who knows the mind of a crazy person, right? And she's all, The person who made him crazy maybe. Then she walks away and Topher continues looking even more extra suspicious.

I'm telling you people, Dr. Saunders is a doll! Why won't you believe me?! (I'm choosing to pretend people are against me.) Now they're just making it obvious. Every episode I keep waiting for it to get revealed. But I think it's finally going to happen now.

Then we cut to the highway, where Alpha and Echo are cruising along in a car, talking to each other in southern accents. He's Bobby. She's Crystal. And they just went on a shopping spree. Echo starts rambling on about all the stuff they've been through together, like the first job they pulled when she was 13. Then Alpha starts having weird flashes and talking to himself. He drops his southern accent and informs Echo that they didn't know each other when she was 13, and his name isn't really Bobby.

She's all, Huh? The she gets distracted when she realizes that the woman at the store forgot to put her Tasty Couture shirt in the bag! Then she yells at the woman, who it turns out is bound and gagged in the back seat. Oo, fun. A hostage.

Then we get a graphic informing us that it's "A Few Years Ago." Flashback time. We're in a dollhouse handler van with Ramirez (Victor's handler) and another handler. They're buggin' out about how their dolls have gone off book, so to speak, and they're trying to get them back. They're on the horn with Topher and DeWitt, and Topher is all, I warned you that these two imprints are prone to paranoia!

Now some Roy Orbison kicks in as we segue to Alpha and Echo in a dingy warehouse. This is still the flashback. They have a dude named Lars tied to a chair. Echo dances sexily, silhouetted in front of car's headlights, while Alpha interrogates Lars.

« The Cougar: Name the Cat | Main | The Hills: Kisses! Loathe Ya Laterz!! »

Posted in Dollhouse by MightyWorm at 3:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Last Comment: justageek on May 13, 2009 08:57 PM.