Warning: full episode spoilers follow.
It's rare to find a villain in fiction who doesn't have at least some shred of humanity lurking within. With The Strain, Thomas Eichorst has always been the gleefully diabolical counterpoint to Eldritch Palmer's more thoughtful, conflicted villain. But "Dead End" served as a reminder that even Eichorst was just an ordinary man with ordinary troubles and aspirations once. This episode maintained a successful balance between fleshing out Eichorst's past and inner nature and still retaining his inhuman mystique.
"Dead End" picked up more or less right where last week's episode left off, with Dutch a captive of Herr Eichorst and Eph and the gang desperately trying to track her down. That "ticking clock" element immediately lent this episode a sense of tension and dread. We didn't know what exactly Eichorst had planned for Dutch, but it was pretty clear it was going to end with her becoming dinner. The dread never let up, either. Eichorst spent the entire episode psychologically torturing Dutch and prolonging the inevitable kill. It seems a combination of terror and pineapple slices makes for the ideal marinade.
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