Time for team pressure!
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shallownessKilljoys 1.7 - Kiss Kiss, Bye Bye
The strongest episode so far, with developments on all sorts of fronts as the three Killjoys worked on two of their personal issues. Granted, I felt that the show’s fast pace was a problem in a few scenes, refusing to let a scene breathe, especially some big emotional ones.
Johnny was stupid enough to try patching the neural link thingy into himself, which just got him a headache and damaged it when Dr Silly Name had to pull it out of him, letting Dutch down. This meant that D’avin had to face his recent lover and find out she’d been in prison, because he’d been avoiding her calls because he was trying to break up with her. Neither of them covered themselves in glory in the face-to-face break-up scene, but she did give D’avin a clue—the details of another patient of the Bad Doctor’s.
This would eventually lead the team to a new location: Utopia, which had a sanitised BDSModding club/marketplace. Backing up a bit, D’avin and Dutch had already bonded over how their personal missions were about them trying to get some control over their identity. At the club, Johnny went off to find someone who could tell him that the neural link was biotech and came from outside of the quad and she knew someone who might be able to tell him more. D’avin decided to imbibe, and was soon high enough to tell Dutch she was pretty and make a move on her. She didn’t seem to mind, but they were interrupted because they needed to interview a former assistant of Bad Doc’s, who’d stolen some of her work. They stole it back, and then Dutch got arrested as soon as they arrived at Westerley.
Her from the Nine (who had appeared in this episode’s ‘previously’) said she’d break Dutch free in lieu of a future favour. Dutch negotiated 24 hours with the Bad Doctor. The Bad Doctor was surprised that D’avin could remember so much, but said she could theoretically reverse the memory blocks. Dutch counselled against D’avin making a rash decision.
On the ship, she talked to him about self-blame as a bad motivator and how she carried even worse things. When he learned she’d carried out her first assassination aged 8, he saw she had a point. A comforting hug turned sexual fast. It was good for them, less so for Johnny, who saw enough to have him rushing to the bar. He told the bartender his issues were more that his brother was banging someone he considered a sister (which I buy), and that both of them were terrible at relationships and so it was bound to damage their working triamic, and he’d probably side with Dutch.
Johnny was being vindicated by the post-coital talk, D’avin was initiating a high five and they were kidding themselves that sex would change nothing, when he got brain controlled by Bad Doctor. If he had to go berserker on someone, best that it was Dutch in one sense, even if he’s bigger and stronger than her.
Johnny had, of course, turned off his comms. When he returned to Lucy, Dutch was in a state, but had tied D’avin up and told Johnny to mind him as she went to deal with the Bad Doc. Of course, Johnny was too mad to be sensible, let slip where Dutch was headed and got too close to the still brainwashed D’avin who stabbed him (! was my initial reaction, but a second later, I was shaking my head at D’avin’s inability to stab his target fatally. I don’t buy that that was his humanity coming through, that was because they’re both main characters.)
Dutch got some answers out of Bad Doc – she’d been working for the Company, who wanted to know they could turn a soldier against his colleagues !? because of a looming threat from outside the Quad. When they learned that D’avin was outside, Bad Doc wasn’t worried because D’avin was brainwashed to kill his team. She underestimated how scary Dutch is with a gun. Our girl got them to switch off the brainwashing, bringing D’avin back to his senes and deciding to wipe Bad Doc’s memories (satisfying call) and destroy the evidence, tho surely Bad Doc’s new assistant could rebuild everything based on what he knows. Depends how terrorised he is by Dutch.
Lucy had obeyed Johnny’s last order to call a doctor, and of course Dr Silly Name turned up. Johnny was bleeding so much, Dr Silly Name had to use her real name, which had enough clout to get Johnny the treatment he needed, while giving him some of her own blood. Cue a montage where Johnny, surrounded by the doc, Dutch and the bartender got slowly better, while D’avin, guilt stamped all over his face, watched from a distance. Dutch eventually talked to him on the ship, learning D’avin could remember everything he’d done (I presume in this episode, not that time he turned on his squad.) Though Dutch accepted he hadn’t been in control, she decided there could be no more sexytimes because he reminded her too much of herself, or something. I didn’t quite follow that.
So, whew, yes, that’s a lot. They resolved the UST, but then threw in a whole big spanner called ‘trust issues’ with brainwashed!D’avin. I suspect whatever favour the lady from the Nine calls, Dutch and co. will not be blindly carrying out with no questions asked. There were more hints about the coming threat from outside, and Dr Silly Name is still an important player, and has a healer’s instincts.
The strongest episode so far, with developments on all sorts of fronts as the three Killjoys worked on two of their personal issues. Granted, I felt that the show’s fast pace was a problem in a few scenes, refusing to let a scene breathe, especially some big emotional ones.
Johnny was stupid enough to try patching the neural link thingy into himself, which just got him a headache and damaged it when Dr Silly Name had to pull it out of him, letting Dutch down. This meant that D’avin had to face his recent lover and find out she’d been in prison, because he’d been avoiding her calls because he was trying to break up with her. Neither of them covered themselves in glory in the face-to-face break-up scene, but she did give D’avin a clue—the details of another patient of the Bad Doctor’s.
This would eventually lead the team to a new location: Utopia, which had a sanitised BDSModding club/marketplace. Backing up a bit, D’avin and Dutch had already bonded over how their personal missions were about them trying to get some control over their identity. At the club, Johnny went off to find someone who could tell him that the neural link was biotech and came from outside of the quad and she knew someone who might be able to tell him more. D’avin decided to imbibe, and was soon high enough to tell Dutch she was pretty and make a move on her. She didn’t seem to mind, but they were interrupted because they needed to interview a former assistant of Bad Doc’s, who’d stolen some of her work. They stole it back, and then Dutch got arrested as soon as they arrived at Westerley.
Her from the Nine (who had appeared in this episode’s ‘previously’) said she’d break Dutch free in lieu of a future favour. Dutch negotiated 24 hours with the Bad Doctor. The Bad Doctor was surprised that D’avin could remember so much, but said she could theoretically reverse the memory blocks. Dutch counselled against D’avin making a rash decision.
On the ship, she talked to him about self-blame as a bad motivator and how she carried even worse things. When he learned she’d carried out her first assassination aged 8, he saw she had a point. A comforting hug turned sexual fast. It was good for them, less so for Johnny, who saw enough to have him rushing to the bar. He told the bartender his issues were more that his brother was banging someone he considered a sister (which I buy), and that both of them were terrible at relationships and so it was bound to damage their working triamic, and he’d probably side with Dutch.
Johnny was being vindicated by the post-coital talk, D’avin was initiating a high five and they were kidding themselves that sex would change nothing, when he got brain controlled by Bad Doctor. If he had to go berserker on someone, best that it was Dutch in one sense, even if he’s bigger and stronger than her.
Johnny had, of course, turned off his comms. When he returned to Lucy, Dutch was in a state, but had tied D’avin up and told Johnny to mind him as she went to deal with the Bad Doc. Of course, Johnny was too mad to be sensible, let slip where Dutch was headed and got too close to the still brainwashed D’avin who stabbed him (! was my initial reaction, but a second later, I was shaking my head at D’avin’s inability to stab his target fatally. I don’t buy that that was his humanity coming through, that was because they’re both main characters.)
Dutch got some answers out of Bad Doc – she’d been working for the Company, who wanted to know they could turn a soldier against his colleagues !? because of a looming threat from outside the Quad. When they learned that D’avin was outside, Bad Doc wasn’t worried because D’avin was brainwashed to kill his team. She underestimated how scary Dutch is with a gun. Our girl got them to switch off the brainwashing, bringing D’avin back to his senes and deciding to wipe Bad Doc’s memories (satisfying call) and destroy the evidence, tho surely Bad Doc’s new assistant could rebuild everything based on what he knows. Depends how terrorised he is by Dutch.
Lucy had obeyed Johnny’s last order to call a doctor, and of course Dr Silly Name turned up. Johnny was bleeding so much, Dr Silly Name had to use her real name, which had enough clout to get Johnny the treatment he needed, while giving him some of her own blood. Cue a montage where Johnny, surrounded by the doc, Dutch and the bartender got slowly better, while D’avin, guilt stamped all over his face, watched from a distance. Dutch eventually talked to him on the ship, learning D’avin could remember everything he’d done (I presume in this episode, not that time he turned on his squad.) Though Dutch accepted he hadn’t been in control, she decided there could be no more sexytimes because he reminded her too much of herself, or something. I didn’t quite follow that.
So, whew, yes, that’s a lot. They resolved the UST, but then threw in a whole big spanner called ‘trust issues’ with brainwashed!D’avin. I suspect whatever favour the lady from the Nine calls, Dutch and co. will not be blindly carrying out with no questions asked. There were more hints about the coming threat from outside, and Dr Silly Name is still an important player, and has a healer’s instincts.
