Pegasus Girl – As the third episode of Orphan Black: Echoes begins, Jules wakes up in a hospital bed. She learns she has been in a coma for a few weeks and just transferred there yesterday. She notices a red substance behind her ear before passing out. Dr. Pam Teller (Marnie McPhail) checks on her a bit later. Pam explains she is there to help her get her memory back. She tells her that she was in a head-on collision with a driverless truck. Her parents were in the front so they didn’t make it. Her brain stopped on the way to the hospital causing brain hypoxia. Jules says she isn’t sad because they died. Instead, she is sad because she feels nothing and can’t remember them.

Jules is from Florida, but they were visiting Boston because her mom wanted to see Fenway. Her parents’ names were Monica and Nicholas Anderson. Pam thinks she is getting much better, but Jules (Amanda Fix) argues she is just reciting back facts. Pam insists her grandpa isn’t well enough to take her because he had a stroke. Jules says she wants to go home but there is no home. She gets a visit from Payton Lewis (Tehya Silbermann). Pam comes in and invites Payton to stay for Jules’s rehab. Jules thinks it should be just her and Pam today. Payton admits she used her as an excuse to come up there since she is meeting a guy who thinks she should model. Once they’re alone, Pam admits Payton was the only friend to reach out. Jules was counting down the minutes for her to leave.

Later, Jules tells Pam that she had a flash of her dog while making her bed. Pam tells her not to doubt herself because that was a recovered memory. Then, Jules learns that her foster family is coming to pick her up next week. Before Jules leaves with her foster family, Pam reminds her she has rehab on Monday. At her new mom, the mom says a woman should have her own bathroom. Wes (Liam Diaz) is trying to get his mom past this whole gendered paradigm. Neva (Alexandra Castillo) tells Jules that she can pick the color for her walls based on the samples. Before long, Jules ends up going to school. Jack (Avan Jogia) asks Lucy (Krysten Ritter) if she is sure about this. Lucy says the girl in the picture is her. If she recovered in this hospital, someone in there has to know something.

Jack insists Charlie will be fine without him because Tina is on it. Tina sees Charlie (Zariella Langford) looking at a handgun. Tina (Eva Everett Irving) tells him to come on before they leave the room without the gun. Josh (Izad Etemadi) gets himself and Kira Manning (Keeley Hawes) a treat. He tells her why he didn’t get back to her sooner. Josh asks if she is worried about the put. Kira questions him about the calibration accuracy of the machine. Josh claims the margin of error was zero because it was calibrated perfectly. Although it doesn’t make sense, Kira says they’re worried about her being dangerous. They talk about her having no memories. Josh thinks Kira is just bothered that they did it. Kira argues she didn’t want her out there in the world with no support and not knowing who she is.

She reminds Josh there is a place for him at Additive. Kira is thinking about retiring because she doesn’t trust herself anymore. Lucy tries to get information from the hospital. A woman nearby hears the receptionist say her name is Jules Lee. The receptionist threatens to call security before Jack interrupts and takes Lucy away. Marisol, who heard them earlier, approaches Lucy and Jack. She tells them that they looking for next of kin and never found anyone. Jules was discharged when she was placed with her adoptive family. Her neuropsychologist discharged her. She admits it was weird because she was a private hire and they usually don’t bring in consultants. They get Pam’s name before learning about Jules’s nightmare. Jules would say, “I can’t get the blood out.”

During class, Claire (Eman Ayaz) invites Jules to hang out after school. Claire says she will if Z can come and she doesn’t get possessive this time. Claire agrees before saying they can be poly. She wants to buy something from the pharmacist if Jules has made a new batch. As Jules messes with her experiment, she remembers something pink. Then, she is told she is wanted in the principal’s office. Claire apologizes to her before she goes. Pam questions why Jules wasn’t in school yesterday. Jules insists nothing is going on. She asks who sent her stuff back when she was in the hospital. Pam explains that Payton’s family sent a box of stuff to help with her recovery. Jules thinks the stuff in the journal is nothing like her. Charlie hangs out at the playground while Tina watches. Charlie remembers shooting someone with a gun before pushing a kid off the playground equipment.

When a police officer arrives, Charlie uses her phone to tell him that she killed someone. Tina claims she is blaming herself for her hamster’s death. The officer lets them go a short time later. Lucy looks at a picture of Tam and tells Jack she is not the woman who printed her. Jack gets a call about Charlie confessing to a job so he says they have to go back. Tom (Reed Diamond) and Emily (Tattiawna Jones) watch Lucy as he says she is hunting like a wolf. The autopsy came in for the man shot in the orchard. The angle of the bullet entry is canted from below. Tom thinks she shot him from a bended-knee position. Emily suggests the shooter was shorter than Lucy. She thinks they should reconsider their approach because lethal force may not be necessary.

Jules asks Wes to read her diary to see what he thinks. She looks up what was written in the diary and finds a book called Pegasus Girl. Jules wants to visit the author, David Stanley Eagerland, since she may not have written the diary. Kira visits Paul Darros (James Hiroyuki Liao) to say there is no evidence she is structurally flawed. She is surprised to learn that she is calling herself Lucy now. Kira wants to make sure they’re not going to hurt her. Paul claims he never intended to. Tina tells Jack what happened at the playground. Lucy tells Charlie not to worry because she did it to protect her. Charlie asks why they left him on the ground like he didn’t exist. Lucas Manning (Jaeden Noel) introduces his mom,  Kira, to Rhonda (Alice Hamid) who is from the Quaker meetings. Kira thanks her for donating blood today.

Jules takes Wes to a sketchy house in the middle of the night. Dave (Duane Murray) thinks they’re fans of his book. He admits he wrote the journal although they told him it was for a study. Dave thinks they’re still watching him. Jules wants to know who hired him, but Wes argues that they should probably leave. Kira is thanked for helping organize this today because they had tons of donors. As they leave, Wes tells Jules he can’t believe she is the print out of another human being. Jules suggests her whole life is a lie if the journal is a lie. Wes worries his mom and dad could be part of this too. Jack tells Charlie that she needs closure. Later, Lucy learns that her captive has returned. Jules thinks they should have a do-over.

They talk about being print outs. Lucy thinks Jules is a newer version of the print out. Jules believes Pam is involved. Lucy has nightmares too. She is in a bathroom and there is blood on the floor. When she looks in the mirror, she sees Jules’s face. The dream is their own memory. Jules may be able to help them see more memories. She explains that there is a study drug at school that causes the kids to “dream trip”. Jules makes the drug. She leaves to get the drug so they can do it together and see if they have any memories. Kira approaches Emily who left the CIA to work for Paul Darros. She suspects Emily is hiding something from her. Kira is told to find Lucy before they do if she wants to keep her safe. Once Jules makes it home, Neva tells her that they want to speak to her.

After a call from Pam, they’re worried about her because she has been having some “unhealthy disruptions” lately. Pam wants her to take pills described as antidepressants. Neva won’t let her leave without taking one. After pretending to take one, Jules goes to the bathroom to vomit it up.

 

Orphan Black: Echoes Review

Through three episodes, it has been genuinely difficult to care about Orphan Black: Echoes. The series has too much going against it to allow it to live up to the hype of the original series. For starters, the dialogue is absolutely horrendous, especially Dayton’s conversation with Jules in the hospital. With that type of corny dialogue, it is hard to know who the writers are trying to attract.

No one talks in such an infantile way. The performances are hit or miss. Even the usually impeccable Keeley Hawes doesn’t fit into the puzzle very well. It could be her being required to use an accent that isn’t natural to her. No one really stands out as being good and the same can be said about the characters. If any of the characters were killed in this episode, no one would shed a tear because there is no connection to any of them.

It feels like a soulless, weak replication of the original and a money grab to capitalize on the name. If the story was a bit more believable and the dialogue wasn’t so stupid, the series might be more tolerable. Otherwise, this is a series to leave on in the background while doing chores around your house.

This episode scores a 4.5 out of 10 mainly because of the infantile dialogue and lifeless characters. Recaps of Orphan Black: Echoes are available on Reel Mockery here. Find out how to support our independent site at this link. Learn more about advertising on Reel Mockery here. Discuss this show and others at the Reel Mockery Forum.