25. After a hunting lesson and a romantic interlude, Richard finally tells Echo/Jenny what he really wants from the weekend: to hunt her and kill her. Yikes! This was not in the contract. What does Richard offer Jenny to even the odds?
From Quiz "Dollhouse": "The Target"
Answer:
A five-minute head start
Echo, as Jenny, is playfully romantic, enjoying her date; suddenly, Richard tells her that she needs to get going if she's to have any hope of reaching "the main road" before nightfall. She asks what he means and is told to begin running, since she only has five minutes' head start, "and then I'm coming after you." This last is said as he picks up the fancy modern bow that they'd recently used to kill an elk, and his meaning is thus unmistakable. Jenny runs, but Richard doesn't provide her with any tangible tools whatsoever. He's the one with the gear and the weapons; he's the one familiar with this part of the wilderness; and he's the one in charge of the game.
Interestingly, Richard's full name -- Richard Connell -- is shared with the author of a 1924 short story, "The Most Dangerous Game," which follows a similar plot. A big-game hunter, fallen overboard en route to South America to hunt jaguars, is washed ashore on an island run by another hunter, a General Zaroff, who has abandoned the hunting of animals in favor of the hunting of humans -- "the most dangerous game," as he calls them in the story. The hero of Connell's short story survives the hunt; how will Jenny fare?
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