Blog 22: Significant Scene

In the episode of Dollhouse called “Gray Hour” Echo is sent in as an expert in order to help three men steal some expensive art from a museum.  First, Echo befriends a large security guard at a hotel next door to the museum after she pretends to be getting harassed and possibly raped by a group of guys during a bachelor party in one of the rooms.  When the guard sees this he takes Echo into a safe room in the basement of the hotel where he says that nobody can find them and offers her a large amount of money just to not tell anyone what had happened upstairs.  Echo then beats him up and he’s unconscious.  Then, she lets the three guys come in and somehow they knock a wall down that lets them in to the storage room of a museum and they go on searching for what they came for.  This entire time Echo has been extremely confident and has gained complete trust in these men and they have seen what exactly she is capable of, and they believe that she is the “perfect” person for the job.  Everything is going great until one of the men; the art expert, leaves the vault with the piece of art they all came for.  Echo makes a call to her handler and tells him to catch him before he gets away.  During the phone call a screech of the same frequency used to erase the doll’s memory is heard and Echo no longer knows where she is, who she is, or what she is supposed to be doing.  This scene proves that nobody is perfect, even when they appear to be.