He attacks her but Amanda escapes only to run into the real Nolan who patrols the city with Irisa (Stephanie Leonidas) and Tommy (Dewshane Williams) and realizes that something is wrong.
Niles has a conversation with him telling him that he can not be there since he died a year ago, but Connor says that this is not true and attacks him reminding him things from their past when they were at school and later in New York.
He immediately takes her to Doc Yewll's (Trenna Keating) office to remove the implant before it kills Amanda.
During their conversations it is revealed that the two of them were working together during the Pale Wars and did some terrible things that led Lev to kill herself.
In the rest of the episode, Datak (Tony Curran) goes to the Tarr house and performs a ritual in front of the whole family that will allow him to visit them.
Christie (Nicole Muñoz) does not like the idea of Datak being around her child after what he did to Alak (Jesse Rath) and the whole family.
Datak asks Rafe (Graham Greene), who he finds living in the Tarr house since he was evicted from his own home, to talk to his family, especially Christie, and convince them to accept him back.
[1] In its original American broadcast, "Put the Damage On" was watched by 1.64 million; slightly down by 0.01 from the previous episode.
"While those behind Defiance haven’t hit a narrative home run yet this season, there have been many new subtle layers laid down inviting the possibility of delivering one.
"[6] Mark Trammell from TV Equals also gave a good review to the episode saying that it was a decent one "even if it raised more questions than it answered".
[7] Despite the positive reviews, Katelyn Barnes of Geeks Unleashed rated the episode with 6/10 saying that the whole ego storyline was a disappointment.