“Gray Hour” Written by Sarah Fain and Elizabeth Craft Directed by Rod Hardy The Story In the Dollhouse, Topher is fascinated by the way Echo, Sierra, and Victor always group together at mealtimes, even after wipes. Echo’s exciting new engagement is to pull a high-tech ancient Greek art heist. But halfway through the heist, their art expert bails on her and the other two guys with the merchandise, leaving them locked in the safe. She asks Boyd to intercept him while she gets them out, but then she suddenly gets wiped via phone signal. Now she’s blank slate Echo in a vault with two very annoyed and confused professional thieves. She’s very traumatized by her surroundings. Topher figures out Echo was remote wiped, so they imprint Sierra with the same imprint Echo had. She tries to talk Echo through getting them out of the safe, but it doesn’t work, and the alarm gets triggered. They end up in a shoot-out situation with the security guards. The nice, but possibly fatally injured guy, encourages Echo to try to escape. She doesn’t leave him behind, and she pulls him out with her under cover of a smoke grenade. The Dollhouse is still using Victor to get Agent Ballard off their scent. “Anton” wants Ballard’s help escaping from the other Russians, who now want him dead, but Ballard would rather find out what he can learn from Anton’s corpse when the Russians kill him. Adelle has Topher sign a form to upgrade his security clearance before she admits to him that Alpha is the one behind the remote wipe. “Gray Hour” is the best episode so far. Remote wiping and two actives getting the same imprint is much more interesting than just watching an engagement hit snags unrelated to the Dollhouse’s technology. Things I Liked
Things I Didn’t
The Characters Echo has good instincts about people. She likes Sierra and Victor, and she likes Wesley but not the more violent thief guy. She didn’t even have an imprint and she saved Wesley. I like Echo. I kinda don’t like Ballard after this one. I know Anton isn’t a real civilian informant and is actually a Dollhouse plant, but are we supposed to root for an FBI agent who deliberately throws his CIs to the wolves? That’s heinous. Topher’s paranoia is pretty funny. It seems to kick in mainly at the threat of someone smarter than him trying to mess with his work. Overall Rating 4.5/5
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