“Echo
herself will see no evil”
It’s a Waco episode.
A series of events unfold which are remarkably similar to what happened in
Texas back in ’93, which, as far as the script is concerned, makes this another
episode where the plot can just chug along in its deliberately predictable
fashion while we have a lot of arc stuff going on.
Mainly,
though, this is a chance for Eliza Dushku
to really show us her acting chops, playing a blind God bothering type. This
she does superbly whilst things go bang around her and the David Koresh of the episode twirls his moustache. Arc- wise, this
shows us once again that Echo, for an active, displays a huge amount of initiative
and balls.
The episode
ends with a rather interesting parallel as DeWitt refers to the “purity” of
what the organisation is doing, raising the interesting idea that it is just as
much of a cult as the organisation which it is investigating. We learn that the
organisation will work for such official government types as Senators which
implies that the organisation is, if not legal, at least tolerated to some
extent. There is also a rather amusing subplot concerning an illicit erection
on the part of Victor, an active, which leads to the viewing of much footage of
naked actives. Nice work if you can get it. Victor’s capacity for sexual
arousal is our first sign that it may not just be Echo who is different from
what the organisation seems to expect from its actives. Could it all go
horribly wrong?
Meanwhile,
in the slowest subplot known to humanity, Agent Paul Ballard continues, very
slowly, to amass information concerning Caroline. I’ve seen enough Joss Whedon shows by now to suspect that she may not necessarily
be Echo. She could be a clone, a twin sister or anything. Whedon never does the
obvious. Except when he does.
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