...but on the stairs, Echo has a flash to the fight she had with Ballard, and suddenly yells for him to let her go. The brief pause is all Boyd needs to catch up with them, and Echo, presumably also recalling something of how to fight from her memory of that engagement, makes his job easier by putting an elbow into Ballard's back, knocking him over the railing and smashing an end table or something. Whatever else I may say about Ballard, though, he's definitely adaptable in a fight, as he throws a piece of wood from the table at Boyd, which affords him the time to get to his feet and then knock the gun out of his hand with a sweet spinning kick, and then it's on again, on, as Alan Tudyk would probably say, like Donkey Kong. Ballard gives Boyd a palm heel to the throat, which is really no laughing matter...

...as inside, Alan Tudyk keeps typing in an effort to neutralize the security systems. I hope he'll forgive me if I say that the fight stuff is a little more exciting.

Upstairs, Claire finds Victor and asks what happens. Victor: "People were fighting on me." At the risk of repeating a theme, wait until Comic-Con.

The fight continues, as does the typing. Boyd gets Ballard in a headlock and tries to talk some sense into him, saying they'll obviously never let Echo live on the outside, and by the way, even if he were to get her out, they'd hunt him down and kill them both. Ballard, however, would rather let his fists do the talking...

...as Alan Tudyk lowers the oxygen in the air and ups the carbon dioxide so the people who are asleep will stay that way...