BSG's Helo teams up with a pothead and finally finds the Dollhouse, Dominic returns (sorta), a little girl loves knives, and Alpha finally shows up!
Just like all good stories, we begin in a dirty alley. A scummy Bald Dude is searching through the trash in a dumpster when he finds... a human hand! Attached to a human arm! Which is presumably attached to a human! He's all, Whoa, and then suddenly the hand attacks him!
Cut to Echo reading The Brothers Grimm's "Briar Rose" (a variation on Sleepy Beauty, in case you're not up on your fairy tales) to a group of kids in an orphanage. Hmm... Well following the basic rules of television drama, "Briar Rose" will need to be our leitmotif for the episodes. So get ready for some allegory kiddos.
Echo is reading the "happy" ending where the prince shows and up makes out with the princess while she's in a coma, thus waking her up. Then a little girl in the crowd is all, That's crap! And Echo is all, Excuse me? And the girl is all, Don't you know what crap means? Echo got served.
This is Susan and she clearly doesn't like the story. She goes on a tirade about how stupid the story is because people don't just come rescue you in real life. Then she totally freaks out, grabbing the book from Echo's hands and ripping it up before being drug away by a dude (and I like to assume savagely beaten and sent to a secret CIA torture camp somewhere in Eastern Europe).
But I'm kinda with Susan here. It's a troublesome story. Isn't it kinda glorifying sexual assault? Cause last time I checked, doing anything sexual with a chick while she's passed out is a good way to go to jail, yo. I'm just sayin'.
Anyhoo, Echo is a little shaken up by Susan's outburst. And it turns out that Echo's imprint is also named Susan. Weird. The orphanage Boss Lady wanders up and says Echo-Susan's story must have reminded Orphan-Susan of something traumatic from her past, and Echo is all, I totally thought that might happen, that's why I read the story, that's how I roll, I like causing troubled children to flashbacks.
Meanwhile, at the apartment of our ex-FBI agent, BSG's Helo, that walking hole in the screen Mellie enters to find Helo packing up all his crap. He's moving out and this is the first she's heard of it. She's all, WTF, if I'd shown up tomorrow would you just have been gone without telling me? Then she starts pathetically pleading with him not to go and he's being kind of a dick to her, which is awesome cause she sucks.
Then Smellie (see what I did there) is all, I've never told you anything I don't believe with all my heart, and he's all, I'm glad you said that cause that's why I'm dumping you. Then she's all, Stop being so cruel, can't you see it's killing me? Then he leaves but she doesn't die, so I guess she was exaggerating about his cruelness killing her.
At the Dollhouse, Boyd has given DeWitt a thumb-drive. Seems it was hand delivered to the office, addressed to Dominic. Wait. How exactly was it hand delivered? Aren't they in some super impossible to find secret facility? Could the pizza guy just wander in? Well, either way, Boyd doesn't know what's on the thumbdrive. DeWitt is all, Let's just imprint one of the dolls so they know how to decode it. But Boyd is all, It's encrypted so only Dominic can read it, so DeWitt is all, So get Dominic to do it, and Boyd is all, That's funny, and she's all, Yo I'm serious dude, and he's all, But Dominic is in the Attic, and she's all, So what?
Looks like we're gonna be seeing Dominic again.
Back at Ye Old Orphanarium, Echo and Boss Lady talk about Crazy Susan (who I guess was not sent to a CIA torture camp like I'd hoped) while Susan is busy blacking out text in a storybook (oh, that's normal). Boss Lady is explaining that they keep putting Susan in foster homes but she gets into fights and loves stealing knives and shit. Her mom died of a drug overdose when she was little and she was left with the mom's boyfriend who was a "smalltime drug dealer part-time pimp." He thought he could start tricking her out when she got older but it turned out there was no reason to wait that long, "half the age, twice the price." Ew. Well, Echo is essentially a prostitute held captive by pimps. So they have much in common.
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Comments (2)
"Ah, balls."
Best line! I was totally thinking that. Millie is just annoying and needs to be re-programed, or maybe it is the actress that i cant stand.
1 of 2 | Posted by carol | Posted on May 3, 2009 10:31 AM
Y'know... Dollhouse is my current favorite show. And yeah, there's a lot of room for snark, but honestly I think you take things slightly too far. I don't know that I'll be reading your recaps anymore.
2 of 2 | Posted by crmsnkatt | Posted on May 4, 2009 10:43 AM