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Date Posted: 20:13:53 05/11/02 Sat
Author: Islandgirl
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"Eve"

Well, of course this is one of the great, classic XF eps of all time! Even knowing how it will end, it's scary. And it's one of only a handful of eps where there is an actual "murder mystery" connected to the case.
What is actually the scariest part of the whole ep, IMHO, is the way Cindy Reardon's previously loving mother completely disavows any interest or attachment to the girl once she knows "the truth". Granted, the girl was a psychotic murderer. But she is still only *EIGHT* years old!!! While I'm not a big fan of the "they don't need punishment, they need treatment" plea for adult murderers, I think it has some validity in connection with pre-adolescent children. (This ties in with our discussion of the child-murderer on CSI a few weeks ago on the OT board.) Apparently her mother was just going to abandon her to that hellhole of a prison/mental hospital and/or the ministrations of Eve 8.
I actually got the feeling that what disturbed the mother most was not the fact that Cindy was a killer, but that she wasn't the product of Mom's own ovum. I think this makes Mom almost as sick as the little girl. . .to reject a child you carried in your womb, gave birth to and raised in your home until she was eight years old, simply because she's not your genetic daughter?!?
Another question that I was wondering about: If Tina and Cindy were that super, super smart, wouldn't someone have mentioned it?? Back when she still thought of Cindy as "her" daughter, wouldn't Mrs. Reardon have said something like "she's really smart; only eight-years-old and already reading at a high school level" or wouldn't the social worker who took in Tina have tested her and noticed that she was *WAY* above average in intelligence??

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Not unless Tina actually cooperated -- CW, 21:20:23 05/19/02 Sun
I don't know -- Scully'sMyHero, 12:28:56 05/21/02 Tue
- Re: I don't know -- Islandgirl, 11:19:45 05/22/02 Wed