A guy in an alley looks around in a dumpster for some reason, and when he moves some trash, he uncovers a hand. He looks more closely, but soon learns two things about said hand: One, it is attached to a rather muscular arm, and two, it's going to choke the life out of him. Now, I assumed on first viewing that this dude was a homeless guy looking for dinner, and were that the case, you could argue that the hand was simply acting in self defense. However, we learn later that the man is not in fact some random homeless guy who happened to be in the wrong dumpster at the wrong time, but was the specific target of the well-muscled owner of the well-muscled hand, so let me ask you this: How did the well-muscled owner of the well-muscled hand know this particular person would be rooting around in this particular dumpster on or about this particular hour? But anyway...

...Echo is reading the Grimms' Fairy Tale Briar Rose to a bunch of kids, all of whom seem to appreciate the story, save one girl who pipes up that the story is "crap," and goes on to point out that Briar Rose was a total moron for wandering through the castle touching random spindles despite having heard that one such spindle would poison her, "especially when I think she might have actually had a vague idea of what the hell a spindle is!" Girl's on track to be a recapper kind of early, but what the hell, there's nothing wrong with being career-oriented. Echo mildly suggests that Briar Rose's parents didn't tell her about the Curse Of The Poisoned Spindle, but the girl (her name's Susan, as is this particular personality of Echo's, which is no coincidence, as we'll learn) flips out, saying maybe if they had told her, she could have protected herself. After she grabs the book away from Echo and rips out some pages, she's forcibly extracted from the room, and then the female administrator of the place (an orphanage or child-services home, it seems) dismisses the other kids before opining that something in the story must have reminded Susan of what she's been through. I've been watching Golden Girls reruns practically nonstop since Bea Arthur's sad passing, so you won't be surprised when I give the administrator here the Rose Nylund Deductive Reasoning Award for her conclusion. Echo, however, tells Rose Nylund she thought the story might have that effect, as it always set her off when she was younger, and she was told there was a girl in this place she could help. "I was gonna ask you to point her out -- guess I didn't have to." Considering her reaction to the story made rabies victims seem untroubled by comparison, I'd agree.