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Dollhouse :: Belle Chose (02x03)
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| Title: | Belle Chose |
| Episode #: | 02x03 |
| Production Number: | 2APK02 |
| Original Airdate: | Friday October 09th, 2009 |
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Oct 27, 2009 |
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When an important client of the Dollhouse, who is also a significant shareholder in the Rossum Corporation, asks for help with a relative who has been struck by a car and lies in a coma, Adelle volunteers the services of the Dollhouse's technical people to attempt to revive him. However, they soon realize the client's relative is a serial killer, and has several intended victims imprisoned. An active is imprinted with the relative's personality but things go wrong. Meanwhile, Caroline is assigned to become a ditzy female student for a Medaeval Literature professor with a fantasy of being seduced by one of his students.
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| Artist | Song Title | Played When | | •Little Boots | Remedy | When Victor/Kiki is dancing around the night club |
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Terry Kerran: Goodness gracious, but it is great to be out of doors.
| Adelle: Any progress on that case of our troubled missing ex-employee?
Boyd: Not really missing, is she? She left.
Adelle: Well, I call that missing.
Boyd: I call that leaving.
Adelle: One doesn't just leave this place.
Boyd: Claire did.
Adelle: Oooh, 'Claire', now, is it?
Boyd: 'Dr. Saunders'.
Victor: (overhearing) Dr. Saunders? Where is Dr. Saunders, please?
Boyd: She's not here, Victor.
Victor: There is a man, he's not his best. Dr. Saunders can help him.
Adelle: Thank you, Victor. We'll help him. (looking pointedly at Boyd) And we can also keep looking for Dr. Saunders, yes?
| Adelle: How's the patient?
Topher: Ahhh... Not complaining, considering he was hit by a car.
Adelle: Have we determined yet if his condition is reversible?
Topher: I have to finish mapping his neural landscape, but, if I can figure out how to sneak up behind his reticular activating system, give it a "goose", that might do it. It could also give him a man-reaction.
Adelle: I choose not to hear that.
Boyd: Do we really want to wake this guy up?
Adelle: Mr. Langton, have you no charity? We are working to re-unite a desperate family with their... wayward loved one.
Boyd: And by 'wayward', do you mean that they've been looking for him ever since he skipped his last bail hearing?
Adelle: A bail hearing over a minor matter which has since been resolved.
Boyd: And by 'resolved', do you mean...
Adelle: (interrupting, annoyed) Yes, yes... a judge was bought off. There is no need to continue to translate me. In any event, Bradley Karrens is not only a valued client he happens to be a major shareholder in our parent organization. If we can apply our resources to resolving his nephew's 'slight' medical condition.. we do it. (walking out) Report any progress.
| Echo: What is it, Thursday? Tell me I didn't miss Gossen's lecture. He's hard enough to understand even when you're there!
Ivy: You're fine. Paul, here, is going to make sure that you get there on time.
Echo: (very bubbly) Well, thanks, Paul! I'm Kiki.
Paul: (not impressed with the name) Kiki...
Ivy: First, Paul is going to take you on a little spree.
Echo: Shopping or killing?
(they both look at her with some concern)
Echo: Joke!
| Adelle: Good news on the coma front?
Topher: Well, yeah. The good news is that he's in a coma.
Adelle: I beg your pardon?
Boyd: Just show her what you showed me.
Topher: This is a brain (hands her a scan). A healthy brain...Frankly, an overly smart brain. It's my brain. And this... (hands her another scan) is Terry Karren's brain. See these dark areas, how they extend all the way out to here? Know why that looks like that? That's because Terry Karrens doesn't use that part of his brain. And that's where you'd find stored such things as empathy, compassion, an aversion to disemboweling puppies. Basically, this is what some of your more famous serial killer's brains look like.
Adelle: You're quite certain of this?
Topher: Sure enough that I have serious ethical problems trying to wake him up.
Boyd: Topher has ethical problems. Topher.
| (walking into the preparation area for sending actives out)
Franklin: Hello! (points at Paul) You're new! (smiling to Echo) ...and, of course, you're always new. (back to Paul) And who are we today?
Paul: She's Kiki.
Franklin: Of course she is... Excluse me (looks at datapad) Work order Echo. Echo! Echo! (looking around) Who's doing that? I am! (laughs at his joke) Right! Okay, so, not exactly a rocket scientist. Normally, that would be irony but here, one never knows. (looking around to his assistant) Ah, Stacy, why don't you take Miss Kiki here on back and stick her in the works?
Echo: Wait. Who's gonna pay for this?
Franklin: Aw, isn't that cute? On 'La Casa'.
Echo: (incredulous) Free?
Franklin: Oui-Oui.
Echo: (overjoyed) Did I win a prize?
Franklin: You are a prize!
(Echo squeals with glee as she gets led back to her makeover)
Paul: How long is this going to take?
Franklin: Changing their insides is nothing. 'Snip Snip'. The outsides -- that's art. (whispering) Art takes time. (points over to a chair) Magazine?
(Paul goes over, dejectedly, sits down in a chair next to another handler)
Handler: (looking at Paul) I won't even do this for my wife...
Paul: (sighs) I was trained at Quantico...
| Echo/Kiki: (confronting her 'professor' about an 'F' she got on her 'term paper') Professor! This...(drops paper in front of him) can't be right.
Professor Gossen: Ms. Turner...
Echo/Kiki: Kiki. Okay, so, I probably never should have taken this course to begin with, but... I figured it was mid-evil lit, not advanced-evil... how hard could it be? So, I skipped "Intro to evil" or whatever -- but, how is it that I get an 'F' when this guy that we're reading, 'Chauncy', can't even spell?
Gossen: (smiling at her absurd misinterpretations) It's 'Chaucer'. It's Middle English...
Echo/Kiki: Right, like 'Hobbits' or something.
Gossen: As I said, my office is open, if you'd care to discuss it.
Echo/Kiki: Yeah, I'd care to discuss it. I'm like the Scarlet Lady with the 'F' on her chest.
Gossen: (smiling again) 'A'.
Echo/Kiki: If only!!??
Gossen: (amused by the effectiveness of the active) The detail is... exquisite.
Echo/Kiki: Huh?
Gossen: Chaucer's detail. 'Alyson' is his most fully realized character.
Echo/Kiki: Well, then, he sucks, because... I don't get her.
Gossen: Really? Because I think I can detect a little 'Alyson' in you...
Echo/Kiki: Yeah?
| Paul: You know, Terry, when I was first told that this is what you did, abducted women who looked like the women you grew up with...
Victor/Terry: Who told you that?
Paul: ...I figured, hell, this sick little twist must've killed his family. It's the whole Norman Bates thing... But no! Your real mother and sisters and your aunt are also living in the family home... You know what that makes you? Very weird...
| Adelle: All our actives are tagged with a GPS strip. We can find them anywhere at any time. So. If there are survivors, Victor will lead us to them.
(later, confronting Topher)
Adelle: (clearly furious) What do you mean he wasn't tagged? Why not?
Topher: They took his GPS out before they started all that complicated facial reconstruction, the scar removal.
Adelle: But the surgery is complete.
Topher: Right, but Dr. Saunders is the one who signed off on having it taken out, and she kinda left before telling anybody to put it back.
Adelle: Lovely. So you're saying that we have imprinted an active with a serial killer and blindly let him loose upon the streets...?
Topher: I wasn't... saying that. (clearly realizing that's exactly what has been done).
Paul: Victor may not have a working GPS in his body but maybe Bradley Karrens has one in his car.
Topher: Whu-ho-hoaaa. Funny how my mind would never think to go there...
| Adelle: We cannot allow Victor to be used as Terry Kerran's vehicle for abduction and murder!
Topher: I'm, personally, against it.
Adelle: You need to free Victor of him.
Topher: Love to. He's not here.
Adelle: I do know this.
Topher: A remote wipe? (Adelle nods) It can't be done!
Adelle: It can be done. Alpha did it with Echo.
Topher: But he used a tonal interface. Serial killer Victor would need to have a phone, I'd need to have a tone, I'd have to get him to answer the phone... Do you have his number?
Adelle: Obviously not.
Topher: Wellll?
Adelle: Think of another way, think of it fast.
| Boyd: (answering cell phone) This is Boyd.
Topher: Hey! Boyd, it's Topher. We're trying something here, and so we're calling all the handlers in the field to let them know that I'm going to be taking the bio-link grid offline for a few seconds. So, uhhh, when your screen goes dead, uhhhh, there's nothing to worry about.
Boyd: Okay. What are you trying?
Topher: Ahhhh... A remote wipe?
Boyd: Why?
Topher: Well, Victor's loose, doesn't have a GPS, and apparently he's a serial killer.
Boyd: Ah.
Topher: So, what I'm going to attempt to do is go into his biolink feed, which doesn't tell me where he is but it does give me a way into his head. I'm going to reverse the signal, send a purgation tone, and blow his mind. He-he-he... literally.
Boyd: And what, just leave him out there in his doll state? Totally wiped?
Topher: He'll be an empty-headed robot wandering around Hollywood. He'll be fine. We'll find him.
| Adelle: Hello, Mr. Langton. How's your evening out?
Boyd: A lot like my evenings in.
| Adelle: Do we even know what happened?
Topher: My best guess, I had to access the bio-link grid for the remote wipe. I thought I isolated Victor but everything must've gotten scrambled.
Adelle: So we assume Terry Kerran's imprint somehow got transferred to Echo.
Topher: Either that, or my attempt to make her Hot for Teacher didn't really come off.
Adelle: If Terry is in Echo, where did Kiki go?
| (Victor, thinking he's a girl, has been dancing around suggestively, watched by a bunch of guys wondering why a guy so flamingly effeminate is in a straight bar. Victor goes over and flirts with them, utterly cluelessly)
Victor/Kiki: "As God me help, I laugh when that I think, How piteously at night I made them swink..." You know what that means? (the guy shakes his head) I have no idea but it's wicked filthy.
| (in Terry Kerran's room)
Echo: I think he dreams.
Paul: Not any more.
| (in Terry Kerran's room, observing his deceased body)
Echo: Goodness gracious.
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Episode Goofs |
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When the car with Victor/Terry and Bradley in it crashes, there's no visible deployment of the airbags, nor is one visible in the car when Victor/Terry gets out immediately after. It is highly improbable that this crash would not have activated the airbags, as it's almost exactly the optimal sort of crash they were designed to deploy in to substantially reduce injuries. It also seems rather odd that there is no one paying any attention at all to the crash as Victor/Terry gets out of the car and leaves it. Given the traffic level on the cross street intersection the crash took place in, someone had to have been stopped at the opposing red light and observed the accident.
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Cultural References |
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Title: Belle Chose
Belle Chose is French for "Beautiful Thing"
| Echo/Kiki: ...How is it that I get an 'F' when this guy that we're reading, 'Chauncy', can't even spell?
Gossen: It's 'Chaucer'. It's Middle English...
Echo: Right, like 'Hobbits' or something.
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) was an English author and poet, among other things, most widely known for being the first author of note to write in English rather than French or Latin. His most well known work is Canterbury Tales including The Wife of Bath's Tale.
J. R. R. Tolkien is the well-known author/creator of The Lord of the Rings, set in a place called Middle Earth, which tells a tale involving a fantasy humanoid race called Hobbits.
Middle English, not to be confused with Middle Earth, is the dialect of English spoken in the Middle Ages, before the Renaissance. That is, to say, the time of Chaucer.
| Echo/Kiki: I'm like the Scarlet Lady with the 'F' on her chest.
Gossen: 'A'
Echo/Kiki: If only!!??
Nathaniel Hawthorne published his magnum opus in 1850, titled The Scarlet Letter, which details the experience of a woman, Hester Prynne, in 1600s Boston, when it was run by the Puritans. She committed the crime of adultery, and, as punishment, was required to wear a red letter 'A' on her chest to mark her sin publicly for all to know.
| Paul: ...I figured, hell, this sick little twist must've killed his family. It's the whole Norman Bates thing...
Norman Bates is the antihero in Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1960 horror/thriller Psycho. The murderous Norman Bates operates a motel and lives with his invalid mother in a house nearby. One of the key plot points is that Norman has presumably killed his mercilessly overbearing mother and subsequently taken her personality as a part of a split personality on his part, and he perceives that his mother is the one doing the killing, though her rotting, mummified corpse remains in her bed unmoved since he took her life. Only a partial fit to Terry, but the connection is often made whenever a twisted familial bond is implied as at the heart of a psychosis.
| Location: Hollywood and Vine
This is one of the most famous intersections in history, and easily the most famous intersection in LA. The location of the drugstore called Schwabs, at Hollywood and Vine, was, from the 1930s to the 1950s, well known as a hangout for many actors, and there were many tales of stars and starlets being "found" there, mostly apocryphal or mythical. The most noted of these was 40s and 50s movie icon Lana Turner. As it became more of a tourist destination, it declined as a hangout for the movie industry. In 1983 Schwabs finally closed its doors, and the location, rather than being saved for historical reasons, was demolished in 1988 for a shopping/theater complex.
| Topher: Either that, or my attempt to make her Hot For Teacher didn't really come off.
The meaning is somewhat obvious from context, but the phrase gained a great deal of notoriety and popularity when used as the title for a very popular song and classic MTV video for Van Halen in the early-mid 1980s. It was listed as the 36th best hard rock song of all time by VH1in 2009.
| Victor/Kiki: "As God me help, I laugh when that I think
How piteously at night I made them swink..."
Kiki shows that she did, in fact, learn something from Professor Gossen. The quoted poetry is two lines from Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale
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