OBS staff member Krystal has brought us our weekly R&R of ‘Dollhouse’

Dollhouse Season 2: ‘Belle Chose’

This week is less about Echo and more about a serial killer.

Our episode starts with a young man, Terry, playing with some mannequins, or at least that’s what you’re supposed to think. When one of the mannequins sweats and another tries to crawl away, it’s obvious that Terry is a sick boy. Drugging the poor girl, he drops the syringe and drags her back towards the others. Bad move man. The girl picks up the syringe and stabs him in the ankle with it. As punishment he decides to beat her head in with a croquet stick. Down one doll, Terry takes to the streets in search of a new one, but is hit by a car while stalking his prey. Guess that drug messed him up good.

At the Dollhouse, Ballard searches for Echo only to find her standing before him nude in the shower, naughty Ballard. After some sexual innuendos Ballard offers Echo a treatment. Meanwhile, Boyd and Adelle discuss the now ‘missing’ Dr. Saunders and Victor chimes in to ask where she is, the man in the next room needs her help. Heading over to the room, Adelle asks Topher if they can wake him up and we get some more sexual innuendos. Boyd points out the more obvious argument, should they wake him up, since the man skipped his last bail hearing and has been missing ever since.

Back to Echo and Ballard though, her new engagement is as a student, Kiki Turner, of a liberal arts instructor at Clarefield College. When Ballard asks about the R on the engagement, we learn that Echo’s to be the sex fantasy of an ‘egghead academic’. Don’t be jealous Ballard.

With the brain scans now done on their new patient, Topher informs Adelle that he’s not as innocent as she believes. Presenting Adelle the scan, he educates her that the dormant parts of the patient’s brain are where empathy, compassion and an aversion to disemboweling puppies is stored. Adelle asks if he’s certain and Topher replies that ‘certain enough that I have ethical problems walking him up’. Just to drive home the point, Boyd points out that Topher has ethical problems. If you haven’t caught on yet, the new patient is our psycho serial killer Terry.

Meanwhile, Ballard takes Echo on a shopping spree in the Dollhouse’s personal Macy’s, or whatever store you want to compare it to. Poor Ballard sits in the waiting area next to another handler, sitting reading a magazine, who mentions he won’t even do this for his wife. Ballard pulls out his FBI training. Sorry Ballard, but just because you’re a big shot ex-FBI agent doesn’t mean you don’t have to take your daughter clothes shopping.

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This week’s episode is mostly filler, but an interesting one all the same. It’s a little scary to think that they can just dump such dangerous minds into anyone.

Did you watch last night? What did you think of the episode?