Doctor Who: Marco Polo

The Roof of the World/The Singing Sands/Five Hundred Eyes/The Wall of Lies/Rider from Shang-Tu/Mighty Kublai Khan/Assassin at Peking

And now for a little history lesson courtesy of Doctor Who. We meet Marco Polo, at the time employed and/or held captive with a constant promise of release and the possibility of return to his home dangled before him like a carrot before a donkey. We also get acquainted with the mighty Kublai Khan.

My memory of this serial (and, indeed, a few serials to follow) is sketchy, but it involves tricking a Chinese emperor and fighting off would-be assassins as well as assisting Mr. Polo in his quest to finally be freed.

What I do remember about this serial (and, indeed a few serials to follow) is that at this point I don't actually care for the show. Yet. I have seen a couple of the new episodes and know that some of the old stuff must be good or at the least watchable. Season 1 is not quite there yet. The First Doctor does not seem at all impressively smart and says "hm" a lot.

But I'll be damned if I don't find the point when everything starts to make sense and I will understand why this show is such a cult phenomenon.

3/10

The Big Game of Thrones Meltdown (Yet Another One)

Did you miss me? Probably not because nobody is actually reading this. Oh well, such is life. Anyway, I am changing the way I am doing this (again) and will move away from standard reviews. I may do some yet, but this will be much more free form from now on.


Everybody is going mental again about the cruelty of Game of Thrones. Shouldn't we all know better by now. Personally, I chose to take things in stride. And as someone who has actually read the books and was less shocked in the past I find it somewhat thrilling that the writers of the TV show have departed from the books quite significantly. Even playing field, at last!

The biggest shocks of season 5, according to all the feels displayed all over the internet, are Sansa's rape, Stannis sacrificing his daughter to the God of Light and Jon Snow's death by his sworn brothers hands. Half the audience is still hoping he made it, magically. Yeah....no. But hey, people have been known to come back to some kind of life on GoT, so maybe there is hope.

Granted, Sansa got handed a very raw deal. That Ramsay Bolton (formerly Snow) is a real piece of work. (Care for a surprise? Go and watch the English sitcom Vicious. Here, Iwan Rheon (aka Ramsay Bolton) plays the hapless and slightly stupid character Ash, who is about as different from his GoT character as he can possibly be.) And what horrible timing! Just when the poor girl finally makes it to the broken tower to alert Brienne of Tarth that she really needs some saving here, Stannis decides to march on Winterfell.

Which brings us to the second big one. The Red Woman (now there's a character to hate on!) has at long last convinced Stannis to sacrifice little Shireen to the God of Light. They burn the child alive. And her mother, who actually brought that wretched Red Woman into all their lives in the first place, suddenly grows a conscience and wants this to Just! Stop! Stannis, trapped in his stubborn, regal skin shows barely any emotion but his distraught wife cannot live with herself after this.

The result of the sacrificial burning of Shireen is not at all what Stannis or the Red Woman expected. The vision Melisandre had was of burning Bolton banners. A clear sign that Stannis is to be victorious, surely. What happens after the sacrificial burning of his child is, in fact, the polar opposite.

And am I the only that mourns Stannis Baratheon? He was actually one of my favorite characters. Not that I believe him to be right. His belief in the visions of Melisandre were so obviously misguided but he genuinely believed that he was the rightful ruler of the Seven Kingdoms and any god would be on his side.

I am less sorry to see Jon Snow go, however horrified the community may be about this. He was actually one of my least favorite characters (right after the Mother of Dragons, which may have to do with her being portrayed by an only marginally talented actress). All the righteousness and goodness and hair! But, really, he knew nothing. Good riddance.

Thorne: Sleepyhead

British TV crime dramas focusing on the police side of things usually feature a damaged lead character. The damaged one in this is the Thorne in the title. 

Tom Thorne that is, who carries a secret from a previous case, shared with only one other person on the force. In the disappearance of several women in their 20's who later turn up dead or, in one essential case, alive but suffering from locked-in syndrome. Details from the previous case - a man that killed gay boys, then his three daughters - keep popping up and putting additional strain on Thorne and his working relationship with other law enforcement officers.

Obviously, as there is only one other person who knows what Tom did, he looks like he would be involved in the current case. To what extent he actually is a participant in what is happening is not clear (obviously, it will be clear in the end).

As many other British TV dramas, this is very very good. It appears that the best stuff the Brits produce they actually make for TV rather than the big screen. Seriously, they make shows in the quality of Luther, Broken Mirror, Sherlock on a regular basis, while their more popular movies are overly sentimental and drawn out. My opinion only, obviously.

The cast is fantastic, featuring David Morrisey as Tom Thorne (The Walking Dead's Governor), Aidan Gillen (Game of Throne's Littlefinger) and Eddie Marsan (one of Ray Donovan's brothers) as well as many excellent bit players.

There is another Thorne episode, called Scaredycat, soon to be watched by me.

8/10

The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst

You can't make this stuff up.

The life story of Robert Durst is so weird, it can only be true. This is the account of the man himself, made after the film All Good Things by the same film maker, Andrew Jarecki, which was based on the same events then discussed in The Jinx interviews. Giving those interviews and letting a camera follow him around may well be the worst decision Robert Durst ever made.

The details of the series have been chewed over often enough recently and all the connections to the Serial podcast have already been drawn, so I will not go there. Here are simply my own thoughts on the whole mess.

The Jinx is quite brilliant and very engrossing. Andrew Jarecki also made the exceptional documentary Capturing the Friedmans (if you haven't seen is, please consider this a recommendation to do so). Documentaries have been getting larger audiences in recent years, which is a good things. Life, after all, does tell the best stories.

The final punch of the show, of course, has a weird after taste. The timing of Durst's recent arrest coinciding with the airing of the last episode is curious, and accusations of holding back evidence for the sake of the sucker punch of that scene have flown, but I tend to give the film makers the benefit of a doubt. The inclusion of the team's discussions of the evidence they had in hand (the inciminating letter) even before Robert Durst muttered his confession to himself while wearing a live microphone and their sharing the evidence can be taken as an indicator, that they were acting in good faith.

In conclusion: watch more documentaries. Some of them are well worth your time and long gone are the times when reality banned on film are presented in a way that will bore you to tears.

9/10

Doctor Who: The Edge of Destruction

The Edge of Destruction/The Brink of Disaster

This feels like a filler. In the first part of the two-part serial next to nothing happens. The group comes to after the explosion that shook them at the end of The Daleks. They barely remember who they are at first and they turn on each other - or, it is the Doctor and Susan v. Barbara and Ian.

The Doctor is being his usual pompous self, only now with his had bandaged up because he cracked it open. The doors of the Tardis appear to open by them selves, which is of course impossible (!) and everyone accuses everyone else of tampering with the ship. Not sure how the two teachers would even attempt to do such a thing, considering that they are fairly new to this and don't really know how anything works, but whatever.

And...they magically change costumes. Or they do it off-screen within the matter of minutes.

In the second part, the Doctor wants the teacher off the ship. Little sentimental Susan, of course, goes all sappy and implores him to rethink. Then he suddenly realizes that they are in grave danger and he forgets all about throwing them out. Ian does a lot of fainting.

Eventually, the realize what is wrong with the ship. The Tardis has been trying to warn them of a problem all along (apparently, it is not sophisticated enough to communicate properly). The only problem is some switch and they fix it just before time is running out ("We have 10 minutes to survive!" - "10 minutes? As little as that?" - "Maybe less."). Aaaaaaah!!! So close!

In the end, the Doctor suddenly realizes the worth of the school teachers. Well, one, at least.

The set-up for the next serial is a huge footprint in the snow.

3/10

Doctor Who: The Daleks

The Dead Planet/The Survivors/The Escape/The Ambush/The Expedition/The Ordeal/The Rescue

The Daleks are awesome. They are cute and surprisingly cuddly for evil robots. They attack you with plungers (how great is that?!) and you can fool them by simply hiding inside one and pretend to be one of them.

Serial 2 of Doctor Who establishes the big nemesis of the Doctor(s) for years - decades, even! - to come. And a good thing, too.

The unlikely travel companions have to stick together to overcome a dire situation and save themselves from the evil Daleks. I still don't care for any of them but it's good to see them pull together and set their collective minds to work. Not that their togetherness seems to last very long (they forget they ever knew each other in the very next serial).

Not only do they have to fight off the Daleks, but also radiation (gasp!), thankfully they have been given vials of anti-radiation drugs just outside the Tardis by the Thals (not important). Phew!

This has cliffhangers! Firstly, the Dalek arm reaching out for Barbara (the female school teacher), and in the end AN EXPLOSION!

7/10

Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child

An Unearthly Child/The Cave of Skulls/The Forest of Fear/The Firemaker

I started watching Doctor Who not too long ago (yes, yes, late to the party). Actually, I went all the way back to the very beginning. The reason I finally did succumb to watching it is because I adore Peter Capaldi. Sure, I could've just jumped in with his incarnation of the Doctor, but where is the fun in that.

So, An Unearthly Child it is.

Here's a question: are we supposed to like the First Doctor? Because I really don't. Nor do I care much for his shrieky granddaughter Susan. The school teachers that come along for the ride are sort of bland, too. Not the best start, but this was made in a much more innocent time and the lasted, even though the timing for their first episode couldn't have been worse (aired the day after JFK was killed), so there must have been something out it. I feel that time has not been kind to the early days of the show.

The first adventure jumps all the way back to the days of the cavemen (or a planet with cavemen and their enemies). They really jumped in with both feet and one has to admire that. The story is, you know, strange and not very scary (remember: innocent times).

This all coming from someone that is probably slightly jaded from watching tons of mysteries and horror stories and the like.

Serial 2 then went on to introduce the Daleks! There's something to stick around for!

5/10

The X Files: Young at Heart

Yet again, Mulder gets hunted by someone from his past. This time it is one John Barnett. During his very first FBI case, Mulder had the possiblity to shot Barnett, who held a gun to a hostage. Going by the book, Mulder did not take the shot, which cost the hostage (actually, Barnett's original complice) and an FBI agent (father of two) their lives.

Not Barnett is back from the supposed dead - with certificate stating that he died of cardiac arrest four years previously - to take his revenge on Mulder. In the wake of the hunt - the FBI's for Barnett or whoever this may be claiming to be him, Barnett's for Mulder and his assorted friends - Mulder's fromer mentor falls victim to the culprit and Scully gets this close to being killed, as well.

As if this were not enough going on already, there is also the question of what really happened to Barnett and why is he not dead as he is said to be. Dead, cremated, ashes spread. In comes a Dr. Ridley (aka Dr. Mengele aka Dr. Frankenstein - so called by his peers), who has secretly been conducting human experiments in order to reverse aging.

Barnett is his only success story, young and healthy looking - except for the eyes, they look pretty dead. Somehow he had to grow a new arm for all this. They do explain the connection in a very civil and quite discussion, but the details escape me. Barnett's right hand - previously removed by Dr. Ridley - did grow back, but looking more amphibian than human. This has nothing to do with the story of the episode, really. It looks pretty weird, though.

In the end, Mulder does kill Barnett like he should have all those years ago.

6/10

The X Files: Lazarus

Again, the title tells you everything you need to know. No beating around the bush. A man dies and gets resurrected. In this day and age (meaning the mid-1990's) of advanced medicine, people are brought back to life all the time. What is rather unusual is that two people die at the same time and when one body is resucitated, the spirit/soul/personality of the other comes back to life. So, the first of a few body switch/shape shifting episodes The X Files have brought us over the years.

The formerly dead guy is Agent Jack Willis, a former lover of Scully (yes, former used to have a love life, as well). He has been hunting a thieving/murdering couple for a long time and gets shot along with Warren James Dupre, who now inhabits his body.

Mulder suspects something is wrong, of course. He knows that Scully and Willis share a birthday for example and Willis is right-handed. He tests this new Willis by asking him to sign Scully's birthday card (two months early) and Willis does so with his left hand.

Dupre is not really interested in pretending to be Willis. He just uses this situation as a means to an end. He want to find his wife again and when he does so, the duo decide to make a quick buck by trading Scully for 1,000,000 $. Dupre's wife, Lula, however, had actually planned to get rid of her spouse and sold him out to the FBI and that is how he got shot in the first place.

The moment she choses to reveal this to Willis/Dupre and Scully is when Scully is about to give him an insulin shot. Willis is diabetic, which Dupre doesn't know and he has drunk enourmous amounts of soda, and is now in dire need of the medicine. Lula steps on the saving bottle of insulin but makes a mistake eventually, when she believes Willis to have died and gets too close to throw the wedding ring at him. Willis snaps awake, takes her gun, and shoots her just as the FBI is taking down the door to rescue him and Scully.

The second death takes.

6/10

The X Files: Gender Bender

This is what it says on the tin - a person that can change from female form into male and vice versa. Of course, this is an alien we are talking about.

Oops. Did I just give away the ending there?

After five victims along the coast (starting up in Massachusetts and going South) are found that apparently died right after sex, Mulder and Scully start investigating around the town a case with the MO occurred. It just so happens that a group of the citizens of the small town they travel to are members of a sect called The Kindred.

Now, The Kindred have a certain touch. This is not a euphemism. They touch your hand in a certain way, you will let them bed you no questions asked. Scully gets dangerously close to one of them, who turns out to be the killers former best friend.

Other strange things happen around the group, like Mulder swears he recognizes some of the people from a photograph that is supposedly from the 1930s. Also, the members of the sect don't die, they are just prepped up for some sort of hibernation that brings them back good as new.

This case the agents do not solve. Or they do, but the culprit escapes them, because the sect "takes care of their own" and they do. They collect the wayward member and disappear into thin air.

Upwards.

This episode sees the first appearance of Nicholas Lea, but not as the role X Files fans will get to know him (and love him or hate him) in, Alex Krycek. Here he is a would be victim that gets picked up in a bar by the murderous man/woman/alien.

5/10

The X Files: Beyond the Sea

The kidnapping of two college students co-incides with a family tragedy. Scully loses her father (after having a vision of him sitting in her living room trying to tell her something without actually making a sound).

As if that alone weren't enough to keep the agents busy, a conviced serial killer, Luther Lee Boggs, awaiting his execution, offers up information on the recently kidnapped kids. How does he know? Through his 'psychic powers'. Mulder, knowing Boggs, does not believe for a minute that the guy knows anything other than what he may have learned simply by being involved in the actual crime.

He wants to be granted a permanent stay of execution, but Mulder does not play ball. Scully, however, has some rather weird encounters with Boggs, who channels her late father and speaks out warnings against certain symbols that are a little to close to actuality. Like, he would talk of a waterfall that Scully later sees (sort of, it is acually a sign for the Niagara Hotel) and warn Mulder to stay away from the cross (he doesn't, which doesn't end well for him).

So, for once, Mulder is the sceptic and Scully is the believer.

It is interesting to see their roles reversed. Mulder can't believe that after having witnessed so much unexplained phenomena, she choses to believe in psychic powers where he believes that there are none. Scully is uncomfortable with going against Mulder, with having to deal with supernatural signs, her father's passing.

Emotionally, she is a wreck, but once again she is left holding the reigns, because Mulder was shot and is in the hospital for the better part of the episode.

My favorite bits are the two times Boggs is shown going to the gas chamber, a walk during which he sees every person he killed standing in the corridor in a pretty b/w shot.

Hey, isn't that...?
Scully's father is played by Don S. Davis, whom I have only ever seen in US military uniform. He played Major Briggs, father of Bobby Briggs, in Twin Peaks. Looking through his list of credits, it looks like he was very comfortable in that uniform. He always appears to be a kind of authority figure, friendly enough but not willing to take shit from anybody (see the scene in Twin Peaks, when Bobby lights up at the dinner table and Major Briggs slaps him across the face without breaking stride and sends the cigarette flying onto his wife's dinner plate).

Luther Lee Boggs is portrayed by Brad Dourif. When this episode of The X Files aired he was best known for playing young Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a role that got him an Oscar nomination. He has since had a small role as Wormtongue in the second installment of The Lord of the Rings.

7/10

The X Files: Fire

It has been 8 months since I last watched an episode of The X Files. Which is to say it has been much too long. So, onwards to the next one in season 1: Fire.

Here, we learn a smidge of Mulder's past, back when he apparently had a social life or, more to the point, a love life. Onto the scene comes an annoyingly British agent from Scotland Yard, Mulder's former lover Phoebe Green. And, no, I don't much care for this character. She's not even all that nice to look at, with a destinctly 1990's tough-girl hairdo, often regarded as a lesbian tell (not by me).

The case is one of fire, that looks an aweful lot like spontaneous combustion but is definitely murder. The culprit is a man who appears to control fire, Lighting a cigarette, his hand, a building, or a person, through his thought. His targets are English gentlemen of distinction. He poses as 'Bob', the local caretaker at a house in the States (New England, near Boston).

Now here is another thing we learn about Mulder: he hates fire. So, this is not the best case to be working on, least of all with the tricky Phoebe, who rather enjoyes making Mulder squirm. Scully doesn't like Phoebe from the get-go. Bless her.

Anyway, in order to save some British Lord and his family from the previously mentioned 'Bob' (no, this is none of the FBI's business, really, but such is the power of Phoebe) Mulder will have to overcome his fear and literally go through fire.

The hero of the piece, however, is Agent Scully. Initially, she is excused from the case, because Mulder doesn't want her wasting her time on Phoebe's little games. But Scully being Scully, she cannot stay away and has a sneak in the file. She goes off on her own and follows her hunches and eventually finds the evidence that leads the team to the elusive killer.

Overall, an uneven episode, since the addition of an outsider to throw a wrench into the works of Mulder/Scully is just that: an outsider. There have been other, better guests before and after.

5/10

Black Mirror: The Waldo Moment

Waldo is a blue cartoon bear that - voiced by comedian Jamie - interviews politicians for his TV show. Wouldn't surprise me if this actually happened soon-ish. He is rude and a very uncomfortable interviewer, especially to one Liam Monroe. The producers of Waldo's show even go as far as gate crashing small local events Monroe is holding.

And then Waldo himself is put up for election. Something Jamie, who wants nothing more to be recognized for himself rather than as a cartoon bear, only reluctantly agrees to. The situation gets really complicated after a one night stand Jamie has with another candidate.

Not all the episodes can be great and this one was just all right. Luckily, Liam Monroe is played by Tobias Menzies, who is very easy on the eyes.

Could this really be the last of the series? I am so hoping that Black Mirror will continue in the near future (ha!).

6/10

Black Mirror: White Bear

My absolute favorite of the series.

Here, we follow Victoria as she stumbles through a neighborhood, while she tries to figure out what the hell is going on. She woke up in a strange place and everyone appears to be after her. Whoever is not trying to kill her is filming her with their cells. None of the bystanders are willing to help or only interact with her.

Then she chances upon a group of vigilantes helping her by saving her from the people hunting her. Or so it seems. Throughout Victoria has flashes of memory of a little child that she thinks may be hers.

The conclusion - or ending, as the story does not actually conclude - is awesome and delivers a devastating blow to the apparent heroine that she is not likely to recover from any time soon.

Less science fiction than the other episodes, although also set in the near future.

So, so good.

9/10

Film Quote

from Firefly

Black Mirror: Be Right Back

When Ash dies in an accident, his grieving girlfriend Martha is informed about a possibility to re-create his online presence in a way that it/he could communicate with her again. Ash was basically online 24/7 and has left sufficient traces on various sites and his personality, his humor, his voice can be pieced together quite easily.

So Martha and Ash's online presence start writing to each other first and talk for hours on the phone. It is more or less like a long distance relationship. Eventually, new Ash suggests to go a step further and Martha acquires a robot? likeness of her diseased boyfriend.

This creeps me out to no end.

And it creeps out Martha, as well. Turns out, she is pregnant with his child, though. In the end, a jump years into the future is made when the girl, turning 10 (I think) is allowed to visit Ash in the attic, where he is apparently kept. Also, he doesn't age.

Probably not the best of the series but quite possibly the creepiest.

6/10

Black Mirror: The Entire History of You

In this episode everyone records what they see through a lens and an implant. That way you can replay any episode from your entire life - maybe to look more closely at the picture that presented itself or to review moments and learn what you could maybe do different in similar situations. Of course, you can also show your daily adventures off to others and get their input.

This instrument then turns into an obsession for a husband who - on closer/second inspection - notices his wife laughing a little more loudly and readily at some other man's joke and how the way she looks at the other guy differs from the way she looks at the husband. From a drunken night and a very uncomfortable conversation, that even the babysitter is drawn into, this spins into a visit to the expected rival.

The situation gets entirely out of hand when the husband realizes that the other man is a former boyfriend of the wife, whom she was not completely honest about. What is more, there is a growing suspicion that the couple's child may not actually be his.

Like so many new electronic inventions that everyone partakes in, this total record of one's life can be both, a blessing and a course.

Again, very intriguing.

7/10

Black Mirror: Fifteen Million Merits

Of all the futures shown in Black Mirror (yes, I have already watched all episodes available at this point...lagging behind in the blogging department) this is the one that is the most disturbing to me.

Young people earn their keep by riding stationary bikes and live in rooms with vidiwalls surrounding them. The constantly popping up commercials would absolutely freak me out. You can use the merits you earn by riding that stationary bike to skip the ads, but you have to be careful to not use to many of them up as you obviously need them for something bigger.

That something bigger in this case is buying you way into the waiting room of a casting show. If you are unlucky, you don't look appealing enough to actually be called to the stage. This is no first come, first serve situation. Of course, looks and mass appeal are all that matters. It helps if you have some sort of talent, I guess but surely you wouldn't mind taking that top of, honey?

Again, impressive cast (this features Rupert Everett and Downton Abbey's late Lady Sybil).

7/10

Black Mirror: The National Anthem

You gotta love the Brits, for they make awesome TV shows.

Case in point: Black Mirror.

This show is not a continuous tale but rather a number of episodes set in some not-too-distant future, where virtual reality crazes have reached new heights and everyone's life takes place online as much as in the real world (sometimes more).

In the first episode, a princess (who, from what I can tell has some sort of It-Girl status and is beloved by the masses) is kidnapped and a video of her pleading for her life and reading out a message goes viral immediately. What the kidnapper(s) want(s) is for the British Prime Minister to have sex with a pig, an act which is to be broadcast live.

Despite the premise being so out there, the episode is impeccably cast and the act - when finally, inevitably committed - is sad and desperate.

Quite good, this.

8/10

The X Files: Eve

No aliens, no government conspiracy, but a weird, questionable experiment.

It all starts with a 10 year old girl named Tina, whose father is sitting on a swing in the backyard, drained of blood. She says something about bright lightning (Mulder loves that!). The agents fly in to talk to the girl and then get information about another case of the same nature - thousands of miles away. They go to meet with little Cindy and her mother. The husband/father died in the exact same way at the exact same time as victim no. 1. When the girl opens the door, Mulder and Scully are flabbergasted, thinking that Tina is standing before them. Tina, meanwhile, disappears from social services.

They learn that the two girls with help of a fertility clinic. When they were conceived, a woman named Dr. Sally Kendrick worked at the clinic but was dismissed because she carried on secret experiments. She tempered with genetic material. In the motel room that night, Scully picks up the phone to a weird clicking sound - the way of Deep Throat to contact Mulder. The two meet up and Mulder learns about the so-called "Litchfield Experiments" of the early 1950's. This was based on a Soviet program to crossbreed top scientists. The US results were groups of genetically controlled boys and girls called Adam and Eve, respectively. The learn that one of the Eves ("Eve 6") that is institutionalized. Eve 6 tells them that the Adams and Eves are prone to suicide and the only ones left beside her are Eve 7 and 8, one of which must be Dr. Kendrick. Nobody knows whether the two Eves may actually be working together.

Then Cindy gets kidnapped by an Eve and the agents learn where they are staying due to a tip they receive from a motel owner, who notices that a woman with a child comes to the motel, leaves alone and returns with apparently the same child.

In the motel, with the agents on the way, the Eve talks to the two girls (who become attached right away). She kidnapped them to raise them properly. It turns out , Cindy and Tina killed their fathers with poison at the same time ("We just knew," how and when to do it). Eve states that her generation showed first signs of erratic behavior showed at 16 and they only became homicidal at age 20. She is disappointed with the girl's early start but intends to help in their further development.

The girls, however, have other plans. They laced Eve's soda with foxglove and when the agents arrive, they find her dead and the girls hiding in the bathroom, claiming that the two remaining Eves tried to poison them. Mulder and Scully take it upon themselves to bring the girls to safety (road trip!). The girls suspect that the now orphaned Tina will be put into foster care, splitting them up again. They make a bathroom stop during which one of them poisons the agents' drinks. When Mulder goes back into the station to pick up the car keys he forgot on a table, he notices traces of an organic substance (possibly foxglove again) and keeps Scully from drinking more of her poisoned soda.

After initially running off, the girls are captured by the agents and are put into the same institution as Eve 6, and are now referred to as Eve 9 and Eve 10. In the last scene, the last free Eve (Eve 8) comes to call, as the girls "just knew" she would.

7/10