...and then, up in the lab, the men are holding Alpha in the chair as Adelle is asking Topher just how the buggery bollocks this happened. Topher says he'll run a full diagnostic, and has all Alpha's personalities queued up to see if anything matches, and Adelle tells him in no uncertain terms that as soon as he's done, Alpha goes to the Attic. Alpha, confused, asks if he wasn't his best, and claims that he was making art, and I think he's referring to the scars, which is interesting, if chilling. Blevins tries to calm him down with the offer of a treatment, and it initially seems to work, but after the extra muscle leaves, Topher starts the process -- but Alpha tries to get out of the chair. Blevins knocks him back in, but Alpha kicks him across the room as he does. Alpha screams as the treatment starts, because apparently, Blevins fell into some computer equipment and activated something that shouldn't have been, and the effect is that Alpha's getting all his previous personalities dumped into him at once. So... after all that, his composite event was just an accident? That's pretty lame, I have to say, given that they built it up to be so much more. I mean, I can understand everyone having been so concerned about Echo and the others' growing ability to remember things, because that is part of what made it possible for Alpha to commit such horrific violence, but the show strongly suggested all season that the composite event would be the final consequence of that development, when in fact it's completely unrelated. Like I said: Lame. Anyway, Blevins tries to get Alpha under control, and for his trouble, Alpha horrifically puts both his eyes out. I wasn't a big fan of Caleb doing that to Xander, to be honest, and I really didn't need to see a version that's both twice as graphic and involves twice as many eyes, but I don't know, maybe Joss saw King Lear as a child and never really got over it. Alpha grits that he understands what hell is now, and Dr. Saunders then bursts in and gets sent off to the Great Big Lollipop Jar In The Sky.

Ballard leads Boyd and Topher back into Adelle's office and complains that he still doesn't know who Alpha is, and with all their impressive technology, he doesn't believe you can just wipe away a person's soul, so he doesn't buy that who a person is at his or her core just goes away. FINALLY, someone brings that up, although given that it's Ballard, we don't get much further discussion, but seriously, the concept is not that obscure, and I can't believe it's taken this long to be voiced. Topher basically invites them all to kiss his ass and leaves...