03 October 2009

Dollhouse

Echo is assigned to be a mommy. A breastfeeding mommy. Ew. Topher programmed her to lactate. I'm finally creeped out by this show.

She is suspicious of her husband and goes snooping around, finding pictures of the real baby mama, who has died. When the husband has a change of heart and wants to end the assignment, and Paul comes to collect Echo, she turns into Super Protective Mommy. She flees the house with the baby and freaks out when she's finally separated from the little life ruiner. They can't get her to willingly come in for a treatment so she's sedated.

When Topher tries to wipe Echo, she still carries with her the maternal instinct, and punches him in the face. She escapes the Dollhouse, wiped clean yet following instinct, heading for the kid. I like that maternal instinct has a built-in GPS to locate the house. She grabs the baby - and a knife - threatening the dad. He's able to talk her down until the Dollhouse team arrives, all whilst in the midst of a nighttime lightning storm... for the atmosphere, don't you know.

DeWitt goes to visit Mellie/November/Madeline, who you may recall was released from the Dollhouse in exchange for Paul's employment. She's still a fattie. And now she's a filthy rich fattie. Fattie returns to the Dollhouse for a diagnostic. She and Paul talk, and Paul is happy to see she's happy.

Finally, someone gives the Senator files on the Dollhouse. Don't know who, or what the files say, but he's definitely investigating Rossum Corporation now.

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