Episode Report Card Demian: A- | 121 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Is That All There Is To Utopia? Is That All There Is?
By Demian | Season 7 | Episode 13 | Aired on 2005.01.30
Straight Estates. The instant they've materialized, the Dolt stoops to retrieve the unusually evocative snow globe from where he'd dropped it in the earlier scene. "I need you to get a vision," he explains, fiddling with it. "I need you to see what really happened to Agent Brody." "I know what happened," Phoebe argues. "He's moved on to a better place!" AAAUAUAAAAAUAUAGH! "Maybe so," the Dolt allows, "but it doesn't change the fact that somebody killed him." With that, he pushes the snow globe into Phoebe's hands. She is, of course, instantly flung into a sepia-toned premonition of Brody's death, in all of it's painful, Uniqua-induced glory. "Oh my God," Phoebe breathes once she's snapped out of it. "She killed him." "The Avatars don't want you to know that," the Dolt confirms. "They don't want you to know why people just suddenly disappear." "Why are you doing this?" Phoebe sighs, pained. "Because it's the truth!" he shoots back. "They changed you so you couldn't feel the true pain of death. They want it to seem like it's a good thing so the next time it happens you don't even question it." "No!" she whispers. "Yes," he counters, "and it's going to happen again, as soon as they decide someone in the world is causing too much conflict." Phoebe protests that she can't return to the old way of doing things, and shouts the Dolt down when he attempts to argue further with her. "We made the world a better place, and we're going to live in it!" she insists. "Do you understand?" The Dolt silently eyes her as the image shrinks into...
...the wavery gunk in Avatar Central. The camera pans back as No Name shoots I'm Not Candy a look. "We just need to give him more time to understand," I'm Not Candy blurts. "We're running out of time," No Name counters. "If he turns them, then everything could be lost. I think it's time we faced the facts." I'm Not Candy growls in frustration.