The donor test for Caroline’s cousin alerted Rossum to her special physiology, however, the special bits weren’t plentiful. I can’t remember what the devil Boyd called them but Echo’s body creates something every time she rejects an imprint. So, when Rossum noticed Caroline’s special physiology, they really just noticed potential.
I figure Caroline started sniffing around Rossum and in the course of investigating her they discovered how gnarly her blood/spine/whatever was. They put her on the “bring her in alive” list. Unfortunately, once caught, they couldn’t figure out how to make Caroline reach her potential, they either didn’t know that rejecting imprints is the magic or they just didn’t know how to make her reject an imprint.
In any case, once they poke, prod, and reach a dead end, Boyd decides to make her an active - imprint her over and over again in the hope that eventually she’ll realize her potential. Which is actually a pretty logical last ditch solution - may as well farm work out of her if nothing else.
Echo was uninteresting until Alpha jump started things, that’s when Boyd goes undercover.
I didn’t get a “save the world” vibe from Boyd at all. He actually says that he’d rather be the destroyer than the destroyed and that only a select few will be saved. He absolutely wasn’t aiming to save the world, he only wanted to inoculate himself and a cadre of loyal followers.
The Rossum explosion was poorly done but I rather assumed that the snazzy, interesting bits of the company were underground like the L.A. Dollhouse. That’s my fanwank for the fireball that made the building wiggle.
Saunders/Whiskey/Claire/Clyde is a snarl isn’t it? I really like the idea that Whiskey/Claire popped Bennett because of her warped relationship with Topher. Remember the scene with Boyd packing a bag and Claire doesn’t want him to go? That’d be a pretty pointless scene if Clyde was in control at that juncture. I’m choosing to believe that it was Claire who shot Bennett. When the Rossum dudes in the black pj’s come shoot up the place, they kill staff and haul any stray actives back to Tuscon.
So our heroes get away but Saunders is spirited away and Clyde snaps up that shiny new body because Amy Acker is hot.
I’m really confused about the Rossum invasion of the L.A. Dollhouse, I couldn’t tell if they repelled the invasion or not, kind of half and half? Can someone explain that to me?
Another thing that bothers me, I only saw Epitaph I once, but I remember a flashback with Echo/Caroline and Adelle - E/C and Paul have returned to liberate ex-actives. E/C acts like she’s going to kill Adelle, wtf? Aren’t they all buddy-buddy same team now? Why are there actives there at all? Didn’t Adelle get’em all back to square one and booted out? I guess that’s probably something that’ll get cleared up in the next episode but I wondered if anybody had thoughts.
