Defiance Episode Recap, Season 2 Episode 11: Doll Parts

Episode Recap of Defiance, Season 2 Episode 11: Doll Parts

• Someone murders Deirdre (“Treasure Doll”) by pushing her off the arch. Amanda identifies the body, and has a flashback to when Deirdre encouraged her to keep running the NeedWant. Nolan tells Amanda he doesn’t have time to look for the murderer because he’s dealing with Irisa, so he deputizes Amanda, who gets to work on the investigation.
• Amanda questions Alak in the arch, and he denies that he was having sex with her. Berlin finds one of her old surveillance cameras there, but the memory card is missing. Berlin tells Amanda that she and Nolan aren’t involved anymore, ever since he thought he lost Amanda.
• Nolan finds Irisa’s camp and observes from afar, but Tommy finds him, and Nolan realizes that whatever infected Irisa has infected Tommy too. When Nolan taunts Tommy to shoot him, the metal strands that were in him come out of his mouth.
•  Tommy, back to normal, speculates that Irzu’s tendrils don’t work on humans. Nolan tells Tommy that the tendrils are sections of ark brain, Kaziri, an ancient spaceship buried beneath the city – an AI pretending to be a god. He also references the Votan rapture. Nolan has some positronic charges that will scramble ark brain.
• Amanda finds the camera’s memory card in Deirdre’s room. She also looks at Treasure Doll’s client journal and sees that Datak just visited last night, so she searches his place and questions him, and why he would need her services all of sudden. He says, “It was a family matter.” Amanda has a flashback to a conversation she had with Deirdre and figures out that Alak was sleeping with her.
• Irisa agrees to see Nolan alone. She lashes out against him, calling him a monster. They argue, and demands his daughter back, but Sukar steps in. Meanwhile, Tommy secretly sets up the positronic charges outside the tent, while Nolan picks a fight with Sukar and everyone watches.
• A servant girl shows Stahma a bloody microphone that she found under Alak’s bed. Meanwhile, Amanda and Berlin have gone to question Alak at work, and show him the video from the memory card of him and Deirdre having sex, and of him threatening to drop her off the arch. Amanda takes him to jail.
• Stahma goes on a food walk to bring food to dying. She offers to take on a man’s daughter as a handmaiden upon his death in exchange for something.
• Tommy tries to remotely set off the positronic charges while Nolan and Sukar fight, but it’s not working. Sukar gets Nolan in a headlock, and finally Tommy is able to set off the charges, which knocks out the Votans.
• Amanda has a flashback to a conversation wherein she encouraged Deirdre to fight for the guy she wanted. Alak insists he didn’t kill her. Just then, the dying man Stahma brought food to comes into the police station to confess to the murder, and hands over the bloody microphone as proof. Meanwhile, Stahma reports to Datak that she just go their son out of trouble. They realize neither one of them killed Dierdre.
• Alak comes home to find abortion poison and asks Christie about it. Christie tells him that Treasure Doll invited her to the arch that morning and put the poison in her drink, but she smelled it due to her heightened senses. As Christie turned to leave, Deirdre tried to attack her with the microphone, but Christie ducked, got the microphone from her, and hit her in the head with it. They fought some more, until Christie threw her through the arch window.
• As Nolan and Tommy drive back to town with an unconscious Irisa in the back seat, she wakes up and uses her powers to stop the car. As Nolan lays unconscious at the wheel, Irisa throws Tommy out of the car. Tommy tells her he loves her, and she stabs him in the gut. Irzu tells Irisa to cut Nolan’s throat, but she refuses, and walks off.
• Nolan wakes up, and has Tommy put pressure on the wound, as he fixes up a way to drag Tommy back to town. Meanwhile, Amanda watches as the Tarr household welcomes their new handmaiden.