Echo (Eliza Dushku) was on assignment as a breast-feeding mother to a baby whose mother died giving birth to him. And she loved that little boy, feeling it on a glandular level because Topher (Fran Kranz) is just that much of a genius. Of course, when the baby's father decided the arrangement was not working out the way he'd hoped, Echo (believing herself to be his wife, Emily) overheard his intention to get rid of her and the baby.
Well, let me tell you that there is no mother in the world, even if she's formed a poor attachment, who is going to let someone murder her and her child. And Echo had not formed a poor attachment with baby Jack.
So suddenly you've got a paranoid mother thinking that everyone is out to get her and her child, and then she sees her best friend, Sierra (Dichen Lachman), being escorted into a black van that she suspects has been following her. And she runs. She gets to the cops, but when they discover that she is not in fact the mother, she is separated from the child.
The kicking and screaming. The pain she felt. It did not matter that genetically she had no connection to that baby, she was his mother in all the ways a woman can be a mother, at least in her mind. She fought and fought.
Even when Topher wiped her mind, she fought. Not remembering a single thing about Emily or Jack, Echo went to get her baby back. Thank God the father finally manned up and wanted his child. Cared about his child enough for her to see that he told her the truth and that he would care for the boy and that he had more of a right to it than she did.
And Paul (Tahmoh Penikett) promised he could get Topher to make sure she did forget the pain, as he had done for Madeleine (Miracle Laurie). And for the first time, I stopped caring about Madeleine. Because I had loved Millie and November, but Madeleine chose not to feel the pain. And Echo insisted on the pain of all those feelings because otherwise she knew she was just empty.
If they keep delivering episodes like that, then there is no excuse for trying to cancel it. Dollhouse is amazing. Do you agree?
Dollhouse can be as great as Buffy or Firefly, but the ratings still suck. There's even talk of Fox pulling Dollhouse before the 13 episodes if it can't maintain a 1.0 rating.
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