It’s all a big misunderstanding, as Darlene misinterprets various innocuous statements made by Tobias - a reference to “It’s a Wonderful Life,” a Steinbeck quote - as cries for help.īut by now, Tobias is sober enough to realize it is Darlene who really needs help. He says he drinks to numb the pain of encountering so many smiling children he knows won’t make it through.īy the time they arrive at Tobias’s house - Darlene agrees to give him a lift home in exchange for “borrowing” the car - Darlene is concerned that Tobias might take his own life. Like I said, he is extraordinarily drunk.) Tobias’s distinguishing characteristic, aside from inebriation, is his disheveled Santa costume, which he wears to cheer up children in Sloan Kettering’s pediatric cancer ward. (At least, he thinks it’s his car until he realizes hours later that it isn’t. Her companion on her journey is an extraordinarily drunk man named Tobias who catches her trying to hot-wire his car. But because Elliot has been so cruel to her lately, she would almost rather not speak to him again. She has important information to give him about the next step in destroying the Deus Group, the top-secret organization of power brokers led by the Dark Army’s commander, Whiterose. While Dom dreams her uneasy dreams, Darlene embarks on a quest to meet up with her brother Elliot, who has fled the city after being followed to his apartment by the Dark Army. The only deer we see in this episode, however, is roadkill. Its efforts are aided by the late Christmas Eve setting - the small hours after midnight when the world seems fast asleep, clearing the way for a sleigh drawn by magical reindeer. Robot” leaps deftly back and forth over the line of dream logic. That’s all too real.Įven apart from Dom’s actual nightmare, this episode of “Mr.
It was all a bad dream, except for the part about being under the thumb of a horde of vicious killers. Her anonymous partner gave up and logged out hours ago. Then she wakes up, in bed, laptop across her stomach.
Everything will be much easier, says the attacker, if Dom stops fighting: “Realize you’ll never be free.”ĭom’s struggles cease. The demon attacks, plunging Dom into the water of the bath and holding her under. Suddenly her one-night stand appears behind her, wearing the distinctive demon mask of the Dark Army. It would be romantic … if it weren’t for the fact that someone had to break into her apartment to do it. But when she steps inside, she finds the bath drawn and every surface covered with candles and rose petals. Things are going pretty hot and heavy when Dom excuses herself to use the bathroom. By then, this stranger has already asked to meet her in the flesh and make good on all their dirty talk now that Dom knows she’s a woman, she is prepared to take her up on the offer. So she’s surprised, and borderline delighted, when her mystery chat partner reveals she is actually a woman who gets off on playacting as a man. It is Christmas Eve, after all, and any balm against loneliness will do. When interrogation-room footage of her one-time quarry Darlene Alderson no longer does the trick, she launches a chat with an ostentatiously male-seeming anonymous partner - since she is gay, this is a clear sign she’s searching for any port in a storm. Agent Dom DiPierro is having a nightmare before Christmas.įorced to become a double agent against her own government by the Dark Army, which has threatened to torture her mother to death if she rebels, Dom returns to a pastime we’ve seen her indulge in long before that sinister hacker collective got its hooks in her: joylessly masturbating by the glow of her laptop.
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