 Alice, the gothic granddaughter of Rob "Dolphin" McCoy of the  Monster Makers, is dead. Chiaki Konaka (qv) himself noted that  after he wrote the script for the episode, he thought it that "Alice  had stopped being this world". He only notes it as a possibility, so  it is deliberately ambiguous and up to the viewer to draw their own  conclusions. However, Dolphins forlorn stares at Alices picture do  seem to suggest something (episode 3.44 "The Messenger")