Carrying on from last week's brilliant Man On The Street, this is another compelling, complicated episode. A strong narcotic developed by the Rossum Corporation has been infecting students at a local university, causing them to lose all their inhibitions. DeWitt puts Victor and Sierra on the case, as security personnel and sexy disease expert respectively. Meanwhile, Echo is on assignment with the same guy we saw in the first episode but when she sees the university on the news she begins having flashbacks to her life as Caroline, who attended the same university.
Much of the episode is comprised of flashbacks. We learn that Caroline was an animal rights activist who, along with her boyfriend, broke into the Rossum Corporation's secret lab and uncovered a heap of information about experiments that they had been doing on humans for the Dollhouse. We also discover that Caroline's boyfriend was killed by Rossum's security guards and that this somehow led to Caroline being initiated into the Dollhouse.
Meanwhile, the narcotic begins having a funny effect on Topher (later Pantless Topher) and DeWitt and Mellie/November is withdrawn from active duty. We also get a glimpse of a new potential active, Sam.
All in all this was a solid episode, and the first one that's really blended drama and comedy together effectively. Olivia Williams was hilarious in her drugged state and there were so many quotable lines in her exchanges with Topher. We also got to learn a bit of Caroline's backstory and a suggestion of how she came to live in the Dollhouse - what happened in the two years between Caroline's break-in to the Rossum Corporation and her internment in the Dollhouse? DeWitt has been almost protective towards Echo for several episodes now and I hope we get to see exactly why this might be. The show finally seems to have found its feet after some major stumbles. Let's hope it continues the momentum.
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