I appreciated the self awareness in this episode as well. Especially the last few interviews, where one woman said, tentatively, "having someone who could be exactly what you need.. maybe that would be ok," and the next one said, bitchily, "it's human trafficking. It's disgusting." I thought they were trying to show that people who have a problem with the show's premise are probably bitchy and unwilling to consider the hopeful side. But in the professor-type's interview he was like "no, people, this is seriously fucked up for a lot of reasons. It's really, really bad." I felt relieved.

Also: the fight was totally hot! And super realistic, I thought! Usually, someone gets hit and it's over, but in this one they were grunting and getting hurt and not giving up, and I liked it. Though, if she was just there to give him a message, I'm not sure why they had to fight like that at all. Maybe because he was going to fight her, and she had to dominate him so she could make him listen.

The FBI agent telling his pretty neighbor everything was ridiculous. Hello, unprofessional! Even if he totally trusted her, is he unconcerned about putting her in danger by telling her everything? This seemed pretty unrealistic to me, given his fanaticism about the case, and his conviction that the Dollhouse is majorly powerful. Also beating up the guy in his office? Completely unrealistic. Hello, you don't beat up your coworkers and keep your job.

The message imprint: maybe the girl working with Topher, the one he keeps sending to get lunch? She could have done it, but I kind of wonder if they put her there to give us someone to latch onto. Probably it happened some completely different way, she ate a sandwich a guy in the street gave her and it chemically changed the imprint or something.