This is probably one of my favorate episodes of the show, this is pritty much a characters study on the Nina character.
It's pritty much the classic story of the missuse of power and whenever power is missused there are always severe consequences. You feel sympathy but not complete sympathy for her character as we see her abusing her power from the present as she is using it not just on regular humans for her own selfish reasons, but also against her friends. This really made me dislike her because what she was doing was completely wrong. This unfortunately was the same case when she was a child at first it started out small but then it escilated. As things escilate in the present, we discover the truth of what she did to Tommy but also using her ablity to make Cameron train his gun on his friends, this really made me worried because Nina at this point was one step close to becoming a supervillian at that point and may be beyond help.
But as we see the truth finally crashes down on Nina as she finally sees the damage she's done. The scene on the building I thought was thrilling but also emotional as she is experssing her despair we see flashbacks of the present and past. The tragidy of her character is that she is broken. She is lonely and just misserable, she really wants to feel love and happyness but the problem is she is taking short cuts to aquire it and there are never any short cuts for these things. She even in one flashback we see her deluding herself by using the push power on her, it shows how badly she wants the happy scenario she's creating to be real even though she knows the truth it isn't. The moment when we see the final flashback of her father was heart sinking as we see he killed himself due to what her ablity did to his mind, it's just hard leason once again show why power must never be misused.
The sequence when Cameron saves Nina from suicide was thrilling, like how it was shot and the slow motion really giving you that feeling of just mere minutes and seconds sliping by slowly almost like in the game "Max Paine" with the bullet time ablity.
The ending was satisfying as we see Nina does learn her lesson and comes back to the team with no delusions but reality ahead.moreless
The team discover that the Alpha they're hunting is their missing teammate, Nina, whose powers are going out of control.
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Alphas: Pushed to the Edge
After a rough start, Nina's character was redeemed this week with a little help from her friends in a very necessary episode.
By Tim Surette, Aug 14, 2012
 David Strathairn |
Dr. Lee Rosen |
 Ryan Cartwright |
Gary Bell |
 Warren Christie |
Cameron Hicks |
 Azita Ghanizada |
Rachel Pirzad |
 Laura Mennell |
Nina Theroux |
 Malik Yoba |
Bill Harken |
 Morgan Kelly |
Tommy |
Guest Star |
 Rod Wilson |
Nina's Dad |
Guest Star |
Arlene Mazerolle |
Nina's Mom |
Guest Star |
Erin Way |
Kat |
Recurring Role |
 Mahershala Ali |
Nathan Cley |
Recurring Role |
 Steve Byers |
John Bennett |
Recurring Role |
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Bill: You lie detectored a guy with your ability just because he turned you down for a date?
Rachel: Maybe. Yes. Don't judge me. -
Gary: I'm gonna have to take off my towel.
Bill: No, no. Don't, Gary...
Gary: And you're gonna see my fruit.
Rachel: No!
Bill: His fruit.
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Kat: So... when do we get to do the cool stuff--you know, like track a perp, shoot a gun, rappel out of a helicopter?
Rosen: Well, fortunately, none of us have had to jump out of a helicopter yet. -
Bill: Look, one good memory is worth all the bad ones. Like the time I kicked your ass-remember that.
Kat: Yep. That's not a memory. It's made up. It's head trauma.
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Music: Tainted Love (Marilyn Manson), I've Seen All Good People (Yes)
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International Airdates:
Canada: August 13, 2012 on SPACE
UK: October 16, 2012 on 5*
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