Can Max fight her animal instincts? Is she just a killer on standby? I'm sure if that poor chicken had any say in the matter, it'd be a resounding yes to that second question.
This is definitely one of the strongest episodes of the season, quite possibly the entire series. Heavily rooted in the show's mythology, we're taken back to Manticore and shown just how brutal a place it really was. Alec, played by genre hottie, Jensen Ackles, is brought in to highlight the road not taken – he's the kind of soldier Max would have been, albeit a few cents short of a euro.
Things are becoming quite complicated for everyone, even Lydecker. His bosses aren't happy about his recent string of screw-ups (and rightly so) which leads me to believe he'll have to push up his endgame sooner than expected. This can't mean sunshine and lollipops for our heroes.
Logan's suspicions of Max grow throughout the hour, capping off with some hefty doubts about Max's ability to keep her 'predator' at bay. The whole nature vs nurture element comes into play, and Max proves she's got this b!tch down, but Logan may still need some convincing. Does he have a failsafe plan if there ever was a day Max lost control?
I know I've asked this a lot, but what happened to Jessica Alba? Max goes through some serious motions here, and Jessica really knocks out of the park. Likewise, Jensen really plays out of his realm – the psycho – and hits every beat. In fact, he does such a good job here they bring him back to play a completely different character next season…
All in all, this is a standout episode from Dark Angel. I'm feeling generous, so I'm awarding the show its first 10 rating. Hopefully it won't be its last!moreless
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Logan is tipped off by a friend at the morgue to a murder victim with a barcode on his neck and informs Max who investigates. But though the barcode belongs to an escaped X5, Ben, the body is not his. While Max is viewing the body, Lydecker arrives to confiscate it and close the investigation. Max realises she must find Ben before Lydecker does.moreless
 Jessica Alba |
Max Guevara "X5-452" |
 Michael Weatherly |
Logan Cale/Eyes Only |
 Alimi Ballard |
Herbal Thought (Season 1) |
 Richard Gunn |
Calvin 'Sketchy' Theodore |
 Valarie Rae Miller |
Cynthia 'Original Cindy' McEachin (Season 1-2) |
 John Savage |
Colonel Donald Michael Lydecker (Season 1) |
Robert Floyd |
Father Destry |
Guest Star |
 Jensen Ackles |
Ben |
Guest Star |
Colin Lawrence |
TAC Officer #2 (uncredited) |
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 Nana Visitor |
Madame X |
Recurring Role |
Geneva Locke |
Young Max |
Recurring Role |
Peter Bryant |
Bling |
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TRIVIA (2)
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TRIVIA: Ben's twin, X5-494 - named Alec by Max, is introduced in the season 2 episode "Designate This". Alec mentions the killings in that episode but only learns the full details in the season 2 episode "Hello, Goodbye" when Alec is arrested for the murders Ben committed, and he asks Max to tell him about his twin.
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TRIVIA: Ben, the 11th X5 mentioned and 6th one who appears, also escaped from Manticore and asks Max to kill him so that he isn't taken back. Plus Jack is the 12th X5 mentioned.
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(Max walks the confessional of a church)
Max: It's me.
Father Destry: You're not supposed to tell me that.
Max: Oh. So how does this bitch work? -
Ben: We never should've left. Everything made sense there.
Max: No... (touching Ben's hand) nothing made sense there. -
Lydecker: You think this is all some kind of joke. These kids are like puppies you can bring home and housebreak? They were designed to kill... coldly... efficiently... and happily.
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Ben: Don't tell me you don't wake up with the sound of your heart pounding in your ears--
Max: Shut up.
Ben: Or the taste of blood in your mouth.
Max: Shut up.
Ben: You're like a wolf in sheep's clothing, Max. You're hiding your instincts every minute of every day so that no one will know what you really are-- a soldier, a hunter, a killer.
Max: Shut up. (Max punches Ben in the face)
Ben: See? What'd I tell you? -
Ben (looking at Max): For one brief moment, you were what you were meant to be...a predator.
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Father Destry: We have to put our lives in her hands. (Ben looks up at Father Destry.)
Ben: Is your life in her hands?
Father Destry: She's always at my side.
Ben: She protects you?
Father Destry: She's always there to help me.
Ben: Then you've got nothing to be afraid of. (Ben reaches through the partition and grabs Father Destry by the throat) -
Father Destry: I haven't seen you around here before.
Max: You sniff out honeys in church? -
Original Cindy: You're going to kill it?
Max: I'm not going to wait around and let it die of old age.
Original Cindy: But look at his little chicken face. (Putting her finger up to the cage.) Hi.
Max: Must be my feline DNA 'cause when I look at this little face (Max looks at the chicken and then at Original Cindy) I see dinner. -
Original Cindy: What are you gonna do with it?
Max: Eat it. -
Ben: Nothing went wrong with me! I'm doing what I was made to do, what we were taught to do!
Max: Hunt people down to perform amateur dental surgery? I must've missed that class. -
Lydecker: She's not the girl next door. You have no idea what she's capable of doing.
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Max's flashback of Ben at Manticore.
Young Max: Tell us a story, Ben.
Young Ben: Only the best soldiers get to go to the Good Place. The ones who fail, you know what happens to them?
Young Max: They disappear.
Young Ben: To the Bad Place, where they open you up and drink your blood until you're almost dead. Then they leave you there, for the 'nomlies.
(Children are shown walking down a corridor in the basement following Lydecker, an X2 jumps to his door scaring the children.)
Lydecker: Keep moving soldiers, no one told you to stop.
(Returns to Young Ben.)
Young Ben: They crawl up from the basement through special tunnels, and when you're not looking, BAM! They break through the wall and drag you away.
Young Zack: Well what do the 'nomlies do with you?
Young Ben: They keep you as prisoner of war, and eat you up little, by little, forever.
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ALLUSIONS (2)
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The X5 kids told stories about the Nomlies locked in the basement. If they were bad, they would be fed to the Nomlies.
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Title: Pollo Loco
The title translated from Spanish means 'Crazy Chicken'.
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