Dollhouse 2.03

There we go, if I was to give last week's episode a rating, it probably would have been a 4 or 5 out of 10. This gets a solid 8 out of 10.

Although I'm not sure if that's a good thing, because the reason this episode was so engaging was that it hardly starred Echo at all. The teaser opened up with a serial killer. The whole serial killer situation was great. The director lady is using dollhouse resources as a favor, ex-FBI guy gets something to do, and Echo is placed in a role that Sierra usually is.

Eliza Dushku was hot, and the twist two-thirds of the way through the episode was unexpected. (Although it shouldn't have been, I knew something was going to happen when Topher said he was going to try a remote wipe, but I got distracted right at the moment it happened.) Although I was hoping they were going to take it even further. I was hoping that the mind of the serial killer was implanted into all the actives out in the field. When Echo's handler was on a phone call with someone else, I was hoping it was going to be a message that another active just tried killing the customer. That would have been great!

But alas, it was only a two person switch. The end is the payoff to that decision. We'll see where that leads us later on in the season (Most likely all the way to the season finale.)

And oh yeah... the ratings are back up a bit. Good. This episode gives more hope for the series.