Dollhouse S01 E06 – Calm Down, Paul

Previously: Echo was sent into a cult and got slapped in the face a lot.
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Man on the Street

Sweeney: We begin with an ominous fuzzy screen title card telling us that we’re about to see Testimonial Documents in the DOLLHOUSE Interviews in Los Angeles. A reporter speaks into the camera explaining that some people in LA know of “The Dollhouse” as something seedy. Cut to an interview with a random super sketchy dude, insisting that “everybody knows” it exists. Continuing his report, the journalist explains that dating back to the 1980s, The Dollhouse is LA’s most famous urban legend and he explains quite accurately what it is before clarifying that “most everybody” regards it as science fiction. This report isn’t about the legitimacy of The Dollhouse so much as a series of MAN ON THE STREET interviews with people about their reactions to the idea of The Dollhouse. (M: You can’t see me, but I’ve giving you an imaginary Title Star, girl. Good job.) (S: Since nobody actually gets it this episode, I’m just gonna go ahead an take it.)

The first lady they talk to wins at life for summarizing my basic issue with the implication that Caroline got into this “of her own free will,” when she says that The Dollhouse is definitely real because there will always be terrible people wanting slaves and the only reason people “volunteer” to be slaves is if they already are.

Stephanie: This woman is fantastic. She’s not down with any of these Dollhouse shenanigans.

Sweeney: We pan out from the reporter to a bunch of screens with not only that but the video of Caroline. The footage is being watched by Ballard. He looks at a piece of paper and marvels that it can’t be that easy, just as another guy (S: Agent Mark Sheppard!) walks in and snatches the report, telling Ballard that it’s his case – meaning the kidnapping from the pilot. Ballard clarifies that it was his case but he declared it dead, so whatever. The guy says that Ballard’s wasting his time because Caroline – who makes skeevy comments about – is now “effectively dead and a whore.” Ballard nearly breaks his arm in response. It’s kind of like V tasering douche bags in that violence is not the answer but also I kind of cheered.

Dollhouse. Echo and Victor are eating lunch when Sierra sits by herself. Victor notes that Sierra is alone and asks if Sierra sits with them most days. Victor wonders if she just didn’t see them, so he gets up and places his hand on her shoulder. Sierra screams and falls out of her chair.  I hate when people sneak up on me too, Sierra.

Stephanie: Enver Gjokaj nails the doll-state acting. He’s so innocent and confused. He manages to combine Blank Slate and Face Full O’ Feels very well. 

Marines: I feel like the implication here is almost like a raised eyebrow in Dushku’s direction…

Sweeney: We cut to Sierra getting checked out by Dr. Saunders, positioned like she’s getting a pap smear. She says she’s fine, and when asked if Victor scared her she says that Victor likes to pretend that they are married. OH. Forget what I said about the sneaking up, this is terror scream worthy indeed, Sierra.

Once Sierra leaves, Boyd and Sierra’s handler enter, asking if something serious is up. Yes – she’s had sex, and Dr. Saunders is confident that it happened in the Dollhouse, not on her last engagement. Handler is confused on account of how dolls aren’t supposed to have sex drives. When he notices the silent exchange of looks between Saunders and Boyd, he becomes concerned that maybe something is wrong with Victor in a dangerous Alpha sort of way. It’s only been two days since her last engagement, so it shouldn’t take long to scan the tapes to see if Sierra and Victor have been alone together. Saunders is concerned about what the handler will do, and he vows to get Victor sent to The Attic if this is confirmed. Once he’s gone, Saunders seems genuinely afraid of that outcome, insisting that Victor wouldn’t do anything harmful to her. Boyd tries to assess whether there might be other warning signs. Echo appears in the doorway informing them that when they go to sleep Sierra cries. Damn. Feels.

SNOW MONEY IS ON IT BEING DOMINIC. Mostly because that guy’s the worst. Hold please.

Stephanie: A reasonable guess. Dominic has already shown that he can’t be trusted by trying to kill Echo and he’s always walking around looking shifty. Also, he is absolutely the definition of the worst. I searched “worst” in Google images and all the results were pictures of Dominic. 

Sweeney: Google knows. Google wouldn’t lie.

Back at the FBI, Ballard is going to his good friend who doesn’t treat him like he’s crazy. Basically, she looked into the father from the pilot and his money was moving around in shady ways, including $1,000,000 probably given to The Dollhouse to get his daughter back and a lot of money regularly floating to a company owned by someone named Joel Mynor who is on Ballard’s Suspicious Persons list. His picture looks kind of like Patton Oswalt. Helpful FBI Friend also helpfully explains that he’s an internet mogul whose always arriving at fancy parties with different fabulous ladies nobody knows. Ballard asks Helpful FBI Friend for info on Mynor and she doesn’t quite call him crazy but does remind him that everybody else thinks he’s crazy and also has no warrant. He asks her to please just do him a favor, like a good Helpful FBI Friend. She gives him, “You owe me,” face and agrees.

Ballard’s Apartment. He’s explaining some portion of this craziness to Mellie, whom he has finally invited over to his place. They eat Chinese food and discuss her shitty ex-boyfriend. She say she gets that she’s not “the gold standard in LA” and Ballard assures her that she’s gorgeous. Which she is. Plus, she has important government information that she doesn’t understand! LOL, cute. Ballard says that what he knows is that today was a slightly better day for the good guys. Except that we’re 9 minutes into the episode, so that can’t last. Ballard says something about freeing her, because his fixation is still pretty heavily on Caroline, and Mellie corrects that pronoun usage.

IT IS PATTON OSWALT! Delightful. The world is magical. (S: A+ detective work, Sweeney Snow.) A large security guard comes out to assure him that everything is ready. Patton gets him to promise that nobody will be in or around the house, including the security guys. Security guy promises him privacy, just as we see Ballard, around the corner, pointing a gun at one of those security guards. Back in front of the house, a car pulls up – it’s ECHO. OMG. IS PAUL GOING TO SEE ECHO? PRETTY PLEASE. Sorry. I’ll watch and find out. I really don’t want to recap. I just want to watch. This is the worst.

Stephanie: This is the perfect episode for you, but that’s mostly for the benefit of all of us getting to watch you react to everything as it unfolds. Sorry!

Mari: On the spectrum of recapper problems, “this is so good I want to watch it,” is pretty much the best one, but I feel your pain all the same.

Sweeney: This is true. I know I should be more grateful.

Anyway, Echo tells Patton Oswalt that she got someone to cover her shift at work to come over, so it better be good. He tells her he did something crazy and they kiss. Ballard, meanwhile, takes the security guard out.

Inside the house, Ballard is snooping. He hears Patton Oswalt and Echo talking and creeps past the bedroom covered in rose petals and eventually into the kitchen. Oswalt has champagne glasses in his hand but puts his hands up when he sees Ballard pointing the gun at him. The refrigerator closes and Ballard sees that the girl he’s with is Caroline and he lowers his gun in shock. YES. BEST.

I mean, also super lucky for him because if it had been any other doll, how exactly did he plan to get proof? She would have believed in her identity with absolute conviction and wouldn’t have known she was a doll. WHATEVER, DOESN’T MATTER. TOO EXCITED.

LA-LA-LA-LA-LAAAA

(11 MINUTE TEASERS. WHAT IS THIS SHOW.) (M: Seems like the person in charge of inserting the break just wanted to keep watching too.)

Instead of continuing to unfold this awesome plot, we get more of these Man on the Street interviews, in which the show does a lot of fun unpacking of the multitude of thoughts and ideas one could have about this concept if it existed. One lady gets embarrassed, saying she won’t tell them what she’d do if she could hire a doll.

Back at the house, Echo is explaining that her and her husband just purchased this house, and she turns to him to clarify that he did really buy the house. He insists that they did and asks who Ballard is. Ballard says he’s FBI and doll!Echo freaks out that she knew the suddenly paying off internet venture that got him rich must be porn. LOL. Poor Patton Oswalt. Ballard tries to explain to Echo that her name is really Caroline and this is confusing but she’s being fooled. Just then, the original bodyguard shoots Ballard in the back with some sort of stun gun. Echo wonders at Patton knowing this guy, asking if he’s some sort of porn man. Patton insists that there are no porn men. A few things happen all at once: Ballard regains ability to function and Boyd enters along with a bunch of other security guards from Oswalt’s security team. Sorry, I guess I’ll call him Mynor because Paul keeps saying his name. Whatever. Boyd tells Echo it’s time for her treatment as Ballard defeats a millionty guards at once. IS BALLARD SECRETLY A MALE SLAYER?

Stephanie: I would watch that show. I read that Tahmoh Penikett is some kind of martial arts master. But my brain might be making that up as a way to explain dem abs. 

Mari: Martial arts, good genes, the hand of God… I’m not too picky about my dem abs explanation.

Sweeney: Ballard sits Mynor down and asks him to tell him about The Dollhouse. Mynor babbles about toy dolls, so Ballard throws some tables. (S: This cracked me up for some reason. Calm Down, Paul was the scrapped title for the series.) Paul interrogates Mynor some more and he still insists that Echo is his wife of seven years. Paul laughs at Mynor using money and a resource like that to just play house. Mynor says that they all have fantasies and need them to survive, insisting that Paul’s fantasy is about his Rebecca. Paul gives Caroline’s back story and Mynor finishes that Paul fantasizes about coming to her rescue and then she falls in love with him.

Mynor notes that Paul isn’t going to arrest or kill him, so he’ll guide the conversation as he sees fit, going back to get champagne as he monologues about how in Ballard’s quest to chase leads and stuff, for whatever reason, coming across Caroline changed things for him and made everything personal. Mynor insists that Ballard has at least thought about the possibility of Caroline’s grateful tears, insisting that there’s no need for a real girl when he’s so consumed by the obsession of finding Caroline. Too consumed to even stop and smell/eat the pasta. (M: A+)

Dollhouse, Dr. Saunders asks Victor questions about Sierra while Topher monitors him. Victor says that Sierra is beautiful and she makes him feel better.

Outside, Boyd and another handler are watching this, with him grumbling about what an inconvenience it would be for him if his active were a rapist. Cool. Victor’s handler doesn’t even understand how this is possible, given how well monitored this place is. The handler wonders what will happen to Victor and speculates that maybe Sierra’s just broken. It’s squicktastic but we don’t have time for that because it’s given Boyd an idea. “They’re all broken.”

Fantasy House. Mynor explains how he got picked on a lot, but he had a very pretty girl who loved him and who he loved. Ballard’s busting out the world’s tiniest violin for Mynor’s struggles. Mynor cuts the crap and says that if Ballard’s done any research at all then he knows that the actual Rebecca in question is dead and that this isn’t actually the house he lives in. Mynor blah blahs about how rich he is. He explains that when he got rich it was out of nowhere, he and Rebecca had been dirt poor but he bought this house as a way of surprise telling her that he was suddenly rich. Rebecca was supposed to come over just as Echo did and she died in a car accident on her way. Mynor explains that every year on this date he pretends that she made it. This is… sick. This is really sick. Paul Ballard agrees, saying that while he’s sorry for his loss, that doesn’t make him anything but a predator. Mynor explains that Ballard has nothing and it’s a sure thing that if Ballard tries to come after him, Ballard will go down. They hear the sirens coming and Ballard is forced to see himself out.

Stephanie: While this particular situation is gross (as are all of the romantic engagements), using a doll to bring back a dead person makes the most sense out of all the uses we’ve seen so far. It’s one thing that definitely couldn’t be done by some kind of professional. Unless you hire Whoopi Goldberg’s character from Ghost. 

Mari: Good point. And the idea that having this unfulfilled thing in his life would drive him to the Dollhouse is about as believable as you’ll get. It’s interesting that they don’t make Patton a particularly likable character, even as they make his reasons arguably understandable. It’s a nice duality.

Sweeney: Agreed on all counts! Patton’s character is being used in all-around interesting ways.

After a Not Break, another interviewee says that someone making you the perfect person could be beautiful. Another woman calls it repulsive human trafficking.

Dollhouse. Boyd wanders around looking at everything inquisitively. He pays particular attention to the cameras and their positioning. It looks like he’s identifying spots where you won’t be seen by them – the sort of thing someone well connected by security might notice. Boyd calls Dominic and tells him that Victor and his handler both need to be removed from the floor. BUT NO. IT’S DOMINIC, BOYD. Can’t I will that into being? (M: TV never listens to us.)

Segue Magic to Victor, sitting sadly on a couch telling Echo that he did something bad. Echo asks what and Victor says that nobody will tell him. Some people come to escort him – one of the women looks like the girl from the first interview we just saw but I might be making that up. Victor is scared and it’s sad. His handler is struggling as Dominic escorts him to wherever they’re being taken. Echo asks Boyd and Sierra’s handler where Victor is being taken. Boyd says that he’s trying to protect Sierra. Echo reiterates that Sierra cries and Boyd assures her that she won’t any more.

Ballard’s apartment. His recent wounds give us another good look at dem abs. Mellie is over, also appreciating the view. Sort of. She awkwardly wonders if she’ll keep showing up to find him bleeding. Ballard explains that he saw Caroline today but she got away, in part because it was her. He insists that he’d be writing an arrest report right now if had been anybody else. I’m still unclear on what his plan was, given his blatant lack of proof. Rich white guys can’t get arrested without proof, Ballard. Anyway, Mellie asks if he at least got the John and asks what happened when they talked. Rather than answering her question, he kisses her. Then he apologizes and poor, sweet Mellie stumbles with her words a bit before telling him not to think about Caroline while kissing her. Aww, Mellie. Feels. They agree to forget it and just be neighborly to one another.

Stephanie: Mellie has a lot more willpower than me. I would have been like, “you can think of whoever you want, just let me caress your unusually square face a bit longer.”

Mari: “I’m not even really thinking about you, just dem abs, so it’s cool.”

Sweeney: I think it’s less a question of willpower than priorities. And mine would not resemble hers in this situation, for the stated reasons.

Dollhouse. Some girls are walking down the hall and Sierra stops in about the spot where Boyd stopped earlier. She timidly goes inside a frosted glass door and we see the outline of a man inside with her.

Cut to inside the room where it’s her handler! Oh, he sucks too. I guess we can get rid of him instead. He repeats the trust monologue bit and I die a little inside because it’s so fucking gross. All sex with the dolls is gross and predatory, but it’s a special kind of terrible when the perpetrators are literally entrusted with the care of the dolls, the only person they trust. It becomes a situation where a guardian is taking advantage of someone who is effectively a child in their care. Super gross.

Mari: And it’s not only an entrusted care, but a programed trust, one she has little to no way to fight against. RAGEW.

Sweeney: BUT SUPER FACE PUNCHED. Boyd makes his play IN THE FACE punch of the year, when he comes up behind Pervy Handler and decks him. Brilliant. Boyd’s the best. Super fucking smart plan, too, letting the guy think he was safe with Victor’s removal and everything. Boyd for president of everything.

Stephanie: There’s a lot of face punching on this show, but Boyd is King Face Punch. Bow down. 

Sweeney: Cut to upstairs where Adelle is mad that Boyd didn’t clue them into their plan. He points out the bit about him needed to feel safe. (BUT I GOT THERE ALL ON MY OWN!) Adelle tells him never to pull secret shit like that again, but adds that they’re wiring him a bonus, whether he wants it or not. I’ll take it if you won’t, Boyd. (S: Splitsies?) (M: Okay, 60-40?) After Boyd leaves, Adelle and Dominic chat about all the big shit they’re dealing with. They watch spy footage that continues where we left off with Paul and Mellie and Dominic rattles off all the other ways things are on the brink of going terribly wrong. He asks if she has an exit strategy, noting that she will be targeted if everything goes wrong. She tersely says that his concern is touching, but her bags aren’t packed yet. She wants Pervy Handler brought to her and Echo prepped for a “second date” with Ballard. Say whaaaa? OK, girl,  GO ON.

After a Not Break. A guy and his girlfriend/wife are being interviewed. He goes on at length about how “some guys” might really like to be with another guy but not ever discuss or revisit it. Excellent.

Dollhouse. Topher is looking at his fancy computers assembling a profile. His assistant offers some suggestions which mostly serve to make him hungry, so he sends her off to get him food as he finishes up. As he’s uploading the imprint, Boyd comes to talk about Echo – she’s been engaged but he’s been placed on hold for what happened. He wants to know about Echo’s engagement and Topher lies that it’s “a life coach gig.” Topher tells Boyd to chill and celebrate his win. He asks how Boyd figured it out, wondering if it was a cop thing. Boyd says he does the work and leaves.

Once he’s gone, we verify that the “deadly” profile Topher was assembling is, indeed, for Echo.

Upstairs, Adelle interrogates Pervy Handler, asking him to guess why he’s not dead yet. He speculates that he might get turned into a doll and Adelle finds the idea of him as a doll downright sad. Adelle wants to hear, from him, how many times. Four. Dominic calls him disgusting and Pervy scoffs at that, noting that it’s not much different than sending the dolls off to clients – the fact that they think they’re in love doesn’t make it any less about using people. Pervy Handler basically pulls the, “HUMAN NATURE, URGES!” line that shitty people like to use. “With all those hot people running around, of course there would be rape!” say people who are rapists. (Or, at very best, rape apologists.) Adelle asks if Sierra’s inability to struggle made it better, and he answers that it just made it easier.

Adelle gets a file out and sends Dominic out so she can talk to Pervy Handler alone. She hands a file with a picture of Mellie, saying that while it wasn’t her fault, this woman has found out too much about The Dollhouse and must be taken out. It has to be clean and this is basically Pervy Handler’s way to keep himself out of The Attic. Noooo!

As Adelle tells him that “this one will probably struggle,” we segue magic to Mellie, having sex. With Ballard! Yay! You go girl! Very neighborly of you, Paul. Ah! Then she says that, too! I mean, I can’t actually be proud of myself as it was a supremely obvious joke. Whatever. Sweet Mellie tells him that she won’t freak out on him and will play it cool when he turns out to be a dick. Ugh. This is like a punch in the gut. Stop it, Mellie, stop it stop it stop it. Paul, for his part has no plans to be a dick. He asks what if she’s the one who tells him it’s a mistake. It’s adorable. Mellie says that she was thinking about Caroline (“Well I wasn’t!” Paul answers indignantly.) and she thinks that Paul’s work is important and he should definitely find Caroline. Paul suggests he go get them food and then Mellie helps him out by looking over his files. More adorable ensues. I can’t even handle how cute Mellie is right now.

Stephanie: She’s the cutest and I’m really liking Paul at the moment too. All of my “ugh, Paul!” feelings are slowly drifting away. 

Sweeney: Paul is getting that dinner when we see Echo in the kitchen. Paul sees her too and goes to investigate. He’s quickly apprehended by Echo. Paul says that whoever she is, he doesn’t want to hurt her. “I know, I’m counting on it,” she answers.

After another Not Break, another Man on the Street sasses about how we’re all being controlled all the time, before we cut back to the kitchen where a big fight ensues. Paul’s in great shape, but Echo’s got those Evil Slayer powers, so, sorry Paul. It occurs to me that these two are basically the main characters, but it took six episodes for them to have scenes together. I wonder what this day was like on set. I’m musing about this because the fight has moved to an alley and there’s lots of flipping and punching and Eliza playing Faith again and it’s a very well done scene, but, like, I don’t know how to explain the flipping and the punching.

Stephanie: The fighting is so great. It really feels like we’re watching two people hurt each other. I don’t know shit about fighting, but it looks legit to me.

Mari: SAME. It wasn’t like watching two actors jump and flip around, but the fight actually appeared painful. Those two actors were well matched and aside from just the physical blows, it felt like the combustion of all this Paul v. Dollhouse tension and all in the form of Caroline. How messed up (and brilliant?) is that?

Sweeney: Eventually, Paul gets the upper hand and Echo fakes a deer-in-the-headlights terror to regain her ground and then she stops the fight to have a chat with Paul. She tells him that Dollhouse is real and they know he’s onto them, which is why she’s been sent. They have someone on the inside and that someone has sneakily added this parameter to the imprint (WAIT. WHAT?) to communicate with him. It’s not the same someone who sent him the pictures. This is first contact for this someone (if it is such a someone and not actually part of the intended messing with Paul’s head and it’s so A+ of the show that I can’t entirely tell). Echo explains that there are 20 Dollhouses around the world and they are insanely well connected. Echo’s not going to help him (because doll) but the person that sent this message will. Echo explains that The Dollhouse deals in fantasy but that’s not their purpose and the message sender wants Paul to find out what it is. Paul will be contacted again with the same body, but he has to back off and let The Dollhouse win.

She places her gun in his hand and pivots the other way, shouting to an officer entering the alley that he has a gun. She pulls the trigger, taking the officer down. Echo assures him that the officer will live and while they don’t want Paul dead, they’ll do what they have to protect the information. Anyone else, though… Paul resists and Echo has to say that last part twice before he remembers Mellie and runs back to his apartment.

Paul’s Apartment. Mellie is laying things out in his living room when there’s a knock on the door. She answers and a man in a ski mask attacks her. Classical music plays as she struggles and it’s awful. STOP STOP STOP. As Pervy Handler is choking Mellie, we hear Adelle’s voice on Paul’s answering machine, “There are three flowers in a vase, the third flower is green.” With that, Mellie snaps to attention and beats the SHIT out of this guy, ultimately killing him with a kick to the neck. AMAZING. And also terrifying.

Adelle is watching on her spy cam and she speaks again. “There are three flowers in a vase, the third flower is yellow.” Mellie snaps back to “herself” and sits down and cries just before Paul comes in and comforts her.

Stephanie: Such an awesome doll reveal. I remembered Mellie was a doll, but I still yelled out when this happened. Joss Whedon is a huge Battlestar Galactica fan and I wonder how much of that influenced this series. Aside from the cast, the slow reveal of the dolls reminds me a lot of the Cylon reveals on BSG. There’s sleepers and everything. BSG fans, please tell me if I am just making stuff up. 

Mari: My experience with Dollhouse was incomplete and my memory is spotty, but this was absolutely one of the most memorable moments of the first season for me. When she snapped to, I lost it because even as we learned from Victor that anyone could be a doll, I hadn’t suspected Mellie and her delicious pastas. Plus, the reveal comes in an episode with so much Paul/Mellie sweetness and cuteness and then BAM! MELLIE ISN’T REAL. IT’S AN IMPRINT AND WHY. MY HEART.

Sweeney: It’s so clever that they waited for Paul to properly fall for Mellie and her delicious pastas to have this reveal because it will inevitably further complicate his war with The Dollhouse. In addition to the horror of what they’re doing, they are fucking with him in a truly intimate way.

After a Not Break, a professor of some sort asks the viewer to consider this technology, were it real, used on them. He says that if it exists, it will be used, abused, and global. We will cease to mater as a species if that happens.

FBI. Ballard hands in his badge and gun. His friend looks at him sadly. The dude whose ass he beat watches smugly.

Dollhouse. Dominic explains that Ballard’s been suspended pending investigations and a history of paranoia and violence. He asks what they’re going to do about their “sleeper” and she says they don’t plan to pull her just yet – this certainly won’t be enough to get Ballard to drop the case. Dominic congratulates her on playing a good hand. “I played a bad hand very well – there’s a distinction.” BAMF.

They take the elevator down into The Dollhouse and she urges him to contact his counterparts in the other houses to prevent something like what happened to Sierra happening elsewhere. In spite of running this terrible organization, she’s classy enough to take the personal hit to make sure that doesn’t happen. (IS ADELLE THE PERSON INSIDE THE DOLLHOUSE? Please let it be Adelle. That would be the best thing ever.) They discuss how Sierra’s doing and Dominic says he doesn’t think they’re as ignorant as they’re supposed to be.

With that, sweet music plays as we cut to Victor sitting down to discuss the book Sierra is looking at.

Elsewhere, Echo is painting a picture. Adelle comes to tell her it’s very good and Echo says it isn’t finished. “The picture?” asks Adelle. Echo repeats that it isn’t finished and Adelle asks if she’d like to be.

We cut back to Mynor’s Fantasy Wife House with Echo pulling up, once again, for his fantasy. End credits.

THAT WAS AN EPISODE. It was mentioned last time that this is one of only a handful of episodes Joss wrote and I think consensus seems to be FLAIL! which was a lot of pressure going into it. Obviously, this lived up to the flail. This episode did a lot of brilliant things in terms of getting to the heart of the show’s many serious ethical questions. Nearly every moment in this episode hit at them in some way or another, from the interview clips, to the conversations between Paul and Mynor, everything with Pervy Handler. Earlier episodes unsettled me with their ambiguity because I was a little wary of the way we were being asked to sympathize with the people who work for The Dollhouse. This episode was a really awesome, “Yes, we know,” without ever feeling preachy. It flowed wonderfully – even the interview segments. There was only one time that I was a little miffed about having to cut to one of those, for the most part, they fit perfectly. I imagine they would have fit even better when watching on TV with actual commercial breaks.

This episode featured the most time in The Dollhouse of any episode yet which was obviously a point in its favor, and it had the added bonus of having an engagement that actually serviced the Big Question Plot(s). Also, Eliza got to play Faith again, which was another winning choice.

I don’t really know what to say about this episode besides the fact that it managed to open up another 100 questions and I can’t wait to find out all the answers. Or, you know, all the answers they’ll give us before they get canceled.

 

 

Next time on Dollhouse: Everyone is drugged and the active relive past trauma in S01 E07 – Echoes.