Female Trouble (Logan's doctor was from Manticore, but is she still working for them?)
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Female Trouble (Logan's doctor was from Manticore, but is she still working for them?)
She was designed to be the perfect soldier. She was trained to be a human weapon. But then she escaped. They came after her, and she knew they would never stop looking. She was lucky. A few months later, terrorists triggered an electro-magnetic pulse that wiped out America's cyber infra-structure. The U.S. became a third world country overnight. It was easy for a girl to disappear. Ten years later she's still looking over he shoulder. She's found an unlikely ally in Logan Cale. Born to a life of privledge, he's now an underground cyber-journalist crusading against a corrupt government. He wants to save the world, or what's left of it. She just wants to find the others like her. Together...who knows.
Logan cancels another date with Max to pursue treatments for the deteriorating condition of his lower body. When Max finds out about the treatments, she meets the doctor, Adrianna Vertheiz, who is the same doctor who did horrible experiments on the kids at Manticore. Max barely has time to ask questions before the doctor is nearly shot. Max recognizes the assassin as Jase, one of the X-5 children who refused to escape from Manticore. Soon, Logan reveals his condition and situation to Max. Max decided to help him, and impersonates Vertheiz to capture Jase. Jase quicly falls after a short fight, and Vertheiz finds that Jase is pregnant. Max asks Jase to choose freedom from Manticore, not just for her own sake, but also for her child's. Max leaves JAse and Vertheiz alone, but Vertheiz calls Lydecker and tells him about Jase and Max in hopes to make a deal for advanced genes to elongate her own lifespan. Lydecker arrives, and kills Vertheiz for Jase. He has Jase call Max while he sets the trap. When Max arrives, Jase secretly signals that danger is present. Max manages to escape with Jase. She meets with Logan again, and she tells him that even though Vertheiz was probably his only hope, everything will be okay since she will always be there for him. Max returns to Vertheiz's lab to make sure Logan's files are eliminated, but she sees that Logan is suffering from depression and suicidal impulses due to his condition. She rushes to his apartment, but luckily, although he had a gun ready, he was stopped by the injury of his upstairs neighbor. He decides to try and live with his situation. Later, Max sends Jase off to her new life in Mexico. As the episode ends, Max realizes that this night is the 11 year anniversary of the escape from Manticore. She sits alone on the space needle and drinks a bottle of champagne for her comrades, wherever they are.
THOUGHTS
-An excellent episode. Lots of twists and turns.
-Logan acts like a jerk in this episode. He continues to recieve treatments from Vertheiz even though he knows the research came from mutilated Manticore children.
...This all reminds me of that Seaquest 2032 ep where Dagwood finds the station where the Daggers were mutilated. The research could be used to cure diseases and help the human race, but he had to remember where the research came from. Watch the ep, and you'll know what I mean!
...And does all this mutilation stuff allude anyone else to the Nazi experiments on Jewish (, etc) children in WW2?
-At the end of last week's ep, Max seemed to know what was going on with Logan. In this ep, she seems clueless.
-Great scene where Cindy keeps telling Max how all men are dogs, and Max keeps saying she doesn't care about Logan. BTW ladies, not ALL men are dogs!
-Nice "next week on DA" commercial teasers. I especially liked the one with Max's face in front of the fire.
-Great "blow-kiss" from Max to Lydecker at the end!
-Loved the champagne scene at the end too. Just too bad Max had to be alone...
FAVORITE QUOTE
"I gotta ask you--Is it easier for you if I’m in the chair?"
-Logan to Max.
NITS
-Vertheiz charges Logan $10,000 for the first consultation and $5,000 for all additional ones. Logan tells her it's a little expensive. After all, it's the reason why he sold his mother's painting. All this time, especially in eps like "Art Attack" and "Blah Blah, Woof Woof," he seemed loaded.
-Logan's answering machine message has changed from "Rising." In that ep, it was just, "You've reached the number you dialed." Now it's more like, "You've reached the number you dialed. I'm not around. Leave a message after the tone."
-Max doesn't close the door behind her when sneaking into Vertheiz's lab!
-Impossible "jump-kick" move by Max and Jase in their first fight.
-Why didn't Jase just run into the lab or something, rather than smashing through the roof window and risking damage to herself?
-How convenient that Max just happened to clumsily drop Logan's files and read that he's suicidal!
-The drops of water hitting Logan's face come from Mrs. Moreno's room, one floor up from Logan's. Surprising, considering that in "Pilot," Logan's apartment was at the top of the building!
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-What happened to Victor, the lab tech who impregnated Jase?
-In Jase's flashbacks, there seems to be lots of kids in her deprogramming session. So why hasn't Max run into any other assassins?
By Butch Brookshier on Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 6:17 am: Nit: Normal says "Bip, bip, bip", even though he agreed to stop saying it after Original Cindy and Max saved his life in "Art Attack". Otherwise, good episode. Possible anti-nit: Chase dropping through the skylight was to startle Verthiez and make her freeze up for a few seconds, though I suspect it was more for the BILC factor.
By D.W. March on Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 9:15 am: I thought this was a good episode. I only noticed a couple of minor nits:
A lot of former Manticore people seem to be setting up shop in Seattle. Wasn't the Manticore project originally based out of Wyoming?
The doctor said that the X-5s that didn't escape were "reprogrammed" which I interpreted to mean "brainwashed." Of course, by the end, Chase is just fine.
When Max and Chase are escaping, why doesn't she just land her bike on Lydecker's face? That would slow him down a bit!
Another Vancouver reference but a subtle one: Logan lives in a leaky condo! (If you live in BC, you'll understand this one right away)
After playing the part of a spy last week, Lydecker seems to have become a soldier again. I wish they'd get on with it and just say what part of the secret government he comes from!
And last of all, two wonderments:
Did I hear another reference to Lydecker's angry female boss? When do we get to see her? I wonder if this is the part that Nana Visitor is going to be playing...
The doctor mentioned X-7s, which are presumably more advanced than X-5s. I wonder when we'll be seeing them?
By ScottN on Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 9:32 am:Did I hear another reference to Lydecker's angry female boss?
Yes. After Max and Chase escape, the other soldier mentions her to Lydecker.
By Butch Brookshier on Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 6:20 pm: Maybe Kendra is Lydecker's boss and the whole friendship with Max was just a cover. ;-)
By Mr Luxury Yacht on Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 5:49 am: D.W. March--
the reason why Max doesn't land her bike on Lydecker's face: physics. ;-)
If I were Lydecker, though, I'd have my people in Seattle again; since I'd have seen Max there twice.
By Brian Lombard on Tuesday, March 20, 2001 - 6:40 am: Just a note for future reference. According to the doctor's files, Logan's date of birth is November 11, 1988.
By trekkerxphile on Monday, May 21, 2001 - 11:41 pm: Two nits:
Logan lives in the PENTHOUSE. ("411 on the DL" proved this, I think.) As in top floor. As in how does he have an upstairs neighbor??
Max tricks Jace by pretending to be the doctor, letting Jace break through a skylight and starting the fight. Except that Jace should know it's not the doctor, because she has *enhanced eyesight* and the doctor looks *nothing at all* like Max!
By Rodney Hrvatin on Saturday, March 29, 2003 - 2:41 am: Not a bad ep- the bike jump reminded me of that tacky 80's show "Streethawk".
quick question- BILC??? what's that??•••• these people who use abbreviations no-one else knows..
By Electron on Saturday, March 29, 2003 - 4:46 pm:BILC