Welcome back to another Throwback Thursday. We’re continuing along with our rewatch of Dollhouse, season 1. This post was originally published on October 10, 2014 and has been lightly edited for content and style.
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Previously: We met Caroline, turned Echo, made very flawed ransom negotiator.
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The Target
Stephanie: We start the episode 3 months ago. A group of scared dolls are being ushered into their sleeping pods. They didn’t get to shower before bed, so clearly this is a serious situation.
Marines: Who knows what those dolls were doing earlier too. Serious and possibly smelly.
Stephanie: Out in the lobby area, Dominic is yelling orders to his SWAT looking security team. He tells them to secure the exits and shoot people in the head twice. (M: Double tap? ZOMBIES.) As the camera spins around all crazy-like, we see that there are dead bodies strewn out on the floor. A bloody and traumatized Topher tries to explain what happened. Through his babbling we learn that whoever did this got their hands on Dr. Saunders and someone named Samuelson. The camera spins around some more and now Adelle has joined. She clarifies that this is the work of Alpha after experiencing a “composite event.” There’s a bit of back and forth about how a composite event should be impossible since like all of the actives, Alpha is wiped after every engagement. We don’t find out what composite event actually means, but it’s definitely not good since everyone’s dead. (S: I mean, there’s reasonable room for inference here with the talk of composites and wiping, but I take your statement to mean that they’re going to get more specific about this later.) They’re interrupted by Dominic’s walkie-talkie, announcing that the target has been located. The man on the walkie-talkie starts screaming, and Dominic runs off.
Cut to Dominic and the SWAT guys closing in on a bunch of dead bodies in the shower with a naked Echo right in the middle of it all. Dominic rolls his eyes like he’s thinking, “fuckin’ Echo.”
After the credits and back in the present, Adelle is going over the basics of what an active is. She blah blahs about clean slates and desires. It’s all of the stuff we already know, but it’s early in the season, so we’re going to have to hear this over and over again until it’s imprinted (zing) in our brains. All of this occurs over a scene of Echo returning from an engagement and getting into the Chair of Clean Slates.
Mari: Adelle is going on and on about different personalities and imprints or whatever and Echo flounces out acting like… every other version of Eliza Dushku we’ve ever seen, but with a dress on. HOORAY ADVANCED SCIENCE.
Stephanie: Back in Adelle’s office, a client explains that he’s been with lots of women, but he wants a doll because ladies be lying, ya know? He may as well be with a woman that’s full of lies he got to pick out himself. Worst. (S: I hope he dies friendless and alone. Bonus points if its painful.) Adelle corrects him and says that there will be no lies. The active will truly be everything he wants her to be. However, because this engagement has been flagged as risky, there’s a “small” (lots and lots of dollars) additional fee. Truth Client agrees to pay because fake women are better than real women. He promises to keep the engagement low-key and return the active in one piece.
Segue to Truth Client and Echo (SURPRISE!) doing some not so low-key water rafting. They’re laughing and laughing even though there are lots of rocks everywhere that they could smash into. They come ashore and exchange smack talk about river rafty things. At least that’s what I think is happening. I don’t know anything about being outside.
Mari: We keep adding Snark Ladies and we still don’t have anyone manning the Nature Department. Probably because ew, nature.
Sweeney: It seems to be highly incompatible with Snark Ladying.
Stephanie: I’m gonna blame my nature aversion on being a New Yorker. I’ve never even seen a tree in real life.
Next up, they’re rock climbing. Is this all in the same day? What a nightmare. Adventure!Echo looks like she’s not enjoying the rock climbing as much as the rafting. She falls backward, but it turns out she’s just messing around. Ha-ha! Truth Client says he’d be in a lot of trouble if she got hurt. What he really means is that he’d have to pay all those additional dollars to the Dollhouse.
Off in the distance somewhere, Boyd is in his surveillance van getting input on Echo’s vitals from Topher. Boyd is worried about Echo after her last flop engagement, and Topher is all “chiiiiilllll.” Boyd complains about his terrible reception out in the wild. Topher says he’ll fix it, but probably not before something inevitably goes wrong on Echo’s engagement. Boyd and the van driver agree that they hate the woods with this stunning dialogue exchange:
“Man, I hate the woods.”
“Yup.”
Meanwhile, Paul is at the kidnapper shack from the previous episode. There are detectives and cops everywhere investigating the crime scene. He enters the shack and inside is Mark Sheppard of every sci-fi show ever. (Including Battlestar Galactica. BSG SHOTS.) Agent Mark Sheppard makes fun of Paul for thinking this crime has anything to do with the Dollhouse. Agent Mark explains his non-dollhouse theory of how the kidnapping went down, and Paul pokes holes in it with his Dollhouse theory. Can I just say that I hate scenes of detectives working out things that the audience already knows the answers to? I mean, I get that this scene isn’t really about figuring out what happened as much as it’s about showing Paul continuing to clash with his colleagues, but it’s boring. Basically this ends with everyone still thinking Paul is dumb.
Mari: I like that Agent Mark is the voice of, “this premise is wobbly as hell, everyone!” Thanks. That’s good to keep repeating while I’m watching the show.
Stephanie: In the woods, Truth Client is showing Adventure!Echo an the arrow they’re going to use to hunt their food. Echo would rather eat sandwiches. See girl, this is the worst date ever. Truth Client says that sandwiches won’t run away when you try to eat them. Like that’s a bad thing. While the lesson continues, he explains that he learned from his father that catching your own food means you deserve to eat it, but if you don’t catch it, it deserves to live. “Shoulder to the wheel. Do the work. Earn your way.” There’s a stupid gesture where he smacks his hand against his shoulder and everything. Okay.
Mari: You know why I deserve to eat my food? Because I’m hungry. And because I don’t do stupid shoulder slapping gestures. So there.
Stephanie: Eventually a deer/stag (I’ve just learned that I can’t identify animals) comes along. Echo shoots at it and her arrow takes us into post-hunting sex. Truth Client (Richard) (M: Of course his name is Dick.) (AMAZING OBSERVATION.) compliments Echo on her amazing sexing skills and says that she really is the perfect woman. There’s a lot of tongues being used here and it grosses me out because I don’t like this guy. When all the kissing is over, Richard immediately starts to get weird and ominous music plays. He tells Echo that she has five minutes to start running and then he’s coming after her with his massive bow. This guy made her hunt her own snacks, put his gross tongue all over her, and now he wants to kill her. It is the worst date ever.
Sweeney: OH MY GOD I HATED HIM FOR ONLY A TINY FRACTION OF HOW TERRIBLE HE IS. WHAT IS HAPPENING? Did the Dollhouse people know about this? I thought they just wanted more monies because nature but this? Seriously?
Stephanie: After the break, a terrified Echo is running through the woods. The running fades into another flashback, this time, after Alpha’s massacre. Adelle, Dominic, and Boyd are in the Dollhouse lobby. Boyd is joining the team as Echo’s new handler. Boyd asks Adelle what happened to the last handler and Dr. Saunders enters to let him know that he’s standing on the nasty blood splotch that he (Samuelson) left behind. Instead of scars, Dr. Saunders has stitches on her face, so I’m assuming it’s not so long after the Alpha incident, but that doesn’t excuse that shoddy cleanup job.
Mari: Definitely the order of events should be: 1- Clean up last employee’s blood. 2- Open up new job posting to replace dead employee. That’s some official HR advice. You’re welcome.
Stephanie: I bet there’s a job opening for you now that Alpha’s taken out a good chunk of the staff.
Dr. Saunders’s looks completely fed up with all things Dollhouse, as one would be after being assaulted by a crazy doll. She asks for Samuelson’s body to be removed from her office, and Dominic promises that he’ll handle it. She unenthusiastically welcomes Boyd and leaves. Adelle confirms to Boyd that Alpha is responsible for both Dr. Saunder’s face and Samuelson’s murder. Boyd wants to see Samuelson’s body and Adelle is like, “LOL, NO YOU DON’T.”
Sweeney: With an implied, “HAVE YOU SEEN DR. SAUNDERS’S FACE?”
Stephanie: Cut to Dominic showing Boyd Samuelson’s body anyway. It doesn’t look nearly as gruesome as I was expecting. Dominic tells Boyd that he was a good man, but Boyd doesn’t think he was good enough. Boyd starts to analyze how Samuelson was murdered. A non-serrated blade was used in all the right spots for maximum damage and pain. Boyd believes that Alpha took his time with the murder, but Dominic says it all happened in 8 seconds, thanks to his programmed skills. Boyd is like, “Why’d you guys program THAT?” Dominic explains that Alpha was able to access multiple imprints and one of the personalities was probably a psychopath. Boyd wonders why he didn’t kill Echo. (M: A Very Good Question.)
Fade back to the present where Richard is crouching with his bow and arrow. His alarm beeps and it’s time to go after Echo. How considerate that he gave her the full five minutes.
Mari: I bet he still feels real manly and stuff on his hunt for a human because of those five minutes. Might even make him forget he’s the only one carrying a big ass bow.
Stephanie: Echo is still running but she gets stopped by the giant cliffside that they climbed up earlier.
Elsewhere, Paul’s Russian information source is in a car with a woman all over him WHILE HE DRIVES. His phone rings. He answers and it’s Paul demanding that he find out where the Dollhouse is. The Russian insists that he doesn’t know anything, and Paul is like, “well, find someone who does or I’mma get you.” Is this how investigating works? You make people do things for you even when they don’t want to?
In the station, another agent mocks Paul by saying that they’ve got some information on some kids in the woods with a house made of candy and Gingerbread. Paul is the Agent Mulder of this station. Paul looks at the mail on his desk and finds an envelope with his name on it. He asks where it came from, but the douchey agents just brush him off with more fairy tale jokes. Paul ignores them and pulls out the contents of the envelope. It’s a picture of Caroline with her name scrawled on the back.
Woods of People Hunting. Echo is climbing down the big-ass wall of rocks without any equipment. She makes it down safely because wanting to not get dead is magic. As Echo is running, Richard watches her from the top of the rocks and loads up his mega-bow. He shoots and nicks the side of her leg, but she runs away in time to escape the next arrow.
Back at the Dollhouse, Topher is attempting to fix Boyd’s crappy satellite reception. The van driver interrupts to warn Boyd that a park ranger (?) is approaching. I was not informed that I was going to have to be able to identify different types of animals and law authority uniforms in order to complete these posts.
Mari: Why the heck would we lead with that kind of information? We just go with, “FAME AND GLORY AND INTERNET WINE!” Clearly, we mostly lie.
Stephanie: Boyd and the van driver hop out and pretend to be lost to avoid getting in trouble for being in a restricted area. Boyd explains that they’re with the local news. The park ranger asks for identification and Boyd hands over a press ID. The park ranger seems to buy the story. He tells the two that they should be careful. “Being so far off the beaten, it tends to attract an unsavory element,” he says, before pulling out a gun and SHOOTING THE DRIVER IN THE CHEST.
Flashback. Boyd watches Echo and a group of dolls. Topher happily introduces himself and refers to Boyd as the new Samuelson. Boyd knocks the happy out of Topher by blaming Alpha on him. Topher explains that Alpha was an anomaly. Boyd points out that the dolls are like children. Did they even try to fight back when Alpha attacked? Topher says that they wouldn’t be able to without imprints. Boyd wants to know why they aren’t programmed with ninja skills that kick in when they need them. Turns out they tried that once and it still led to badness and blood. Topher changes the subject and asks what Boyd thinks of “his girl”. Boyd responds that she’s not a girl or a person, she’s “just an empty hat until you stuff a rabbit in it.” #whedonmetaphors
Mari: Nice, but it’s no cookie dough.
Stephanie: Woods, present day. Echo’s still running. She trips and falls, but she picks herself up and keeps going.
At the Dollhouse, Topher finally notices Echo’s vitals are all over the place. He asks if Boyd is picking up the signal since he doesn’t seem to be doing anything about the fact that Echo appears to be in serious danger. That’s because the Bad Park Ranger is in the van with him, pointing a gun at his head. Boyd struggles to knock the gun out of Bad Park Ranger’s hand and it goes off, cutting off his connection to Topher. Topher is appropriately concerned. The struggle in the van continues with Boyd and the park ranger pushing each other back and forth against the walls. Eventually Boyd gets the upper hand and strangles Bad Park Ranger. BYE.
Adelle’s office. Paul’s weirdly attractive face is on display on a monitor. Dominic thinks that Paul is a threat to the Dollhouse, but Adelle insists that he doesn’t know anything. Dominic is worried that Paul won’t give up until he gets the information he’s looking for, so they should just kill him. Adelle thinks it’s ridiculous to kill a federal agent, and besides, she’s already got the situation under control. Before they can argue further, Topher comes storming in all, “WE HAVE A SITUATION WE NEED TO SHOOT AT.” His hair looks really odd, like a wig that’s floating off of his head.
Sweeney: (1) I love that line. (2) I gather that the Dollhouse people did not know about the The Most Dangerous Game element of this engagement. I retract some portion of my indignation. But only a tiny portion because shit like this is presumably always a risk – shitstains like this guy can’t be that great of an anomaly in the clientele for this highly illegal, unethical operation.
Stephanie: A very good point. Honestly, I’m amazed that the Dollhouse manages to operate at all with the amount of engagements that go wrong. From what we’ve seen so far, they’re not prepared for ANYTHING that puts the dolls in danger.
Echo’s still running through the wilderness, looking for a way to escape. She finds the raft from earlier, which is now broken. Her hair looks fab even though she’s sweating and injured. If I were running for my life in hot weather, my hair would have expanded to a ginormous frizz ball by now. Anyway, bow-toting Richard is making his way down the rock hill.
Echo comes across a cop shack (LOL, like I’m supposed to know what that’s called). (M: Cop shack sounds amazing. It’s what it should be called.) She looks relieved for a minute, but when she enters, it’s empty. All of this is reminding me of that time Eliza Dushku starred in everybody’s favorite hillbilly horror movie: Wrong Turn.
Mari: I wasn’t even aware we all needed to have a favorite hillbilly horror movie. BUT OKAY. I’ll list this one by default.
Sweeney: Maybe one day we’ll bring back #snarkathon and you can add it for realsies.
Stephanie: I’m calling it a favorite because it has about 15 sequels. That has to mean something, right?
She doesn’t find people but she does find some much appreciated water. And then she finds people in the closet – dead. The body of the real park ranger falls out of the closet and on top of her. Echo’s like, “WORST DATE EVER.” At least that’s what I think her screams of terror translate to.
Dead Park Ranger can’t help Echo, but he has a walkie-talkie that might be able to. She attempts to get help, but ends up getting Richard. Richard is all, “hey baby,” and Echo is like, “fuuuuck.” Richard refers to the dead guy as “Ranger Bob” and I high five myself because my use of park ranger is correct. Echo hysterically demands to know why he’s doing this, and he gives her the same explanation he made about snacks earlier. If she deserves to live, she will. He wants her to prove that she’s “not just an Echo.” Echo yells that she’s going to stab him and kill him. It’s awesome until she begins coughing because the water she drank was drugged.
Flash back. Echo is in the imprinting chair getting a very special treatment. Boyd is in the corner of the room with his arms crossed looking unimpressed. Echo greets him happily and tells him he’s tall. Cute. Boyd really doesn’t want to be there, but Topher explains that he has to stay because Echo is receiving a handler/active imprint that requires eye contact. After Echo is imprinted, she’ll always trust Boyd no matter what. This imprint will make Boyd the most important person in her life. Boyd is still unimpressed. Topher hands Boyd a script that he has to recite during the imprinting process. He begins to read it, but Topher tells him that he has to hold Echo’s hand and be near her. Boyd takes her hand and reads the first line of the script. “Everything is going to be alright,” he says. His face softens a bit when Echo responds, “now that you’re here.” “Do you trust me?” he asks. “With my life.” I don’t remember feeling very emotional about this show, but now I feel it. I’m also having a glass of wine, so there’s that.
Present. Richard bursts through the door of the ranger shack with his bow aimed and ready for shootin’. Echo’s not there anymore, but he spots the body of the park ranger and grins like a sociopath. He contacts Echo and asks her how she’s feeling. He explains that the drugs she consumed won’t kill her, but they will make everything spin. We get a glimpse at what Echo sees, and her vision is blurred. Through her drugged-up eyes she spots a woman walking through the trees. Echo runs toward her, and grabs her arm. The woman spins around and it’s Caroline, repeating her line from the video footage, “no, no, no, get that thing out of my face.” Echo stumbles backward and into the river.
Boyd’s in the van with not-strangled Bad Park Ranger. Whoops, I thought he died. Boyd wants to know who’s between him and Echo. He shoots Bad Park Ranger in the legs until he gets the information that he wants. Richard hired him over the phone, but he never met him. His only job was to stall the response team. He tells Boyd not to take it personally, ‘cause it’s just business. Boyd punches him unconscious, like a badass.
Mari: Who the hell gets hired over the phone to murder people? Is there a section on Craigslist? Do you say, “okay, goodbye!” at the end of that phone call? So many questions.
Stephanie: Echo wakes up in a drug induced vision. She’s back in the Dollhouse shower, surrounded by dead bodies. Alpha, hidden in shadows, stands over her with a knife. The walkie-talkie wakes Echo up, for real this time. Richard is standing across the river, watching her. He gives her a friendly pep talk and asks if she needs a minute. Echo spots him and runs off without responding.
Paul is entering his apartment for some food when his super hot neighbor, Mellie, pops out with leftover lasagna which is really just a whole, uneaten lasagna. Mellie attempts to flirt with Paul by offering him some leftovers. He points out that it’s not leftovers if none of it has been eaten. It’s okay girl, I don’t know how to flirt either. Paul asks for a rain check and turns away, but Mellie spots the photo of Caroline that he’s carrying and tries to keep the conversation going by asking who she is. He tells her that she’s nobody because there’s no record of her in the FBI database. Mellie asks if she’s in trouble. He responds that she might be and he’ll keep looking for her until he finds her. He goes inside his apartment without saying goodbye, leaving Mellie in the hallway with her huge lasagna. RUDE.
Mari: Seriously. Mellie is gorgeous, and she had A WHOLE LASAGNA. Crap like this is why Paul doesn’t get ahead in life.
Sweeney: I mean, I feel Mellie’s struggle and all, but she lost a lot of my sympathy when she channeled her woe-is-me attitude into calling the photo of a missing girl being tracked down by the FBI a “lucky girl.” She doesn’t know Echo’s life, to be sure, but the limited information she had was solidly in the Not Good category. Mellie, meanwhile, now has that whole lasagna to herself, and I’m just saying she should reframe this situation a bit.
Stephanie: Back to Echo, who’s running, of course. Richard is tracking her like a creeper. Echo grabs a giant stick and spins around a tree to swing it at someone approaching, but it’s not Richard. It’s Boyd. He tells her he’s not going to hurt her, and Echo’s like, “who the heck are you?” He recites the first line from the handler/active imprinting script and Echo responds with her line. She trusts him. Before they can get away together, one of Richard’s arrows hits Boyd in the side.
After the not-break, it’s another flashback. Boyd is returning Echo from one of her datey engagements. She’s rambling on and on about how she likes some guy even though he’s not perfect and not so good looking. Boyd looks completely uninterested in all of this. Before she gets into the Dollhouse elevator, Echo gives him a hug and he is still not amused. The elevator doors close and we fade beck to the present.
Echo is holding an arrow-injured Boyd as they make their escape from Richard. They stop running since Boyd is bleeding all over the place. Echo says that she feels like she knows him. She can trust him, but she can’t remember why. She explains that she was drugged and now she’s having visions about a woman who looks like her, but isn’t her, and a man with a knife, but she can’t see his face. She doesn’t know if Boyd is really there or if anything that’s happening is real. He assures her that he’s there and it’s all real. (S: THAT’S WHAT ALL MY HALLUCINATIONS SAY.) Echo panics that Richard is going to find and kill them. Boyd tries to repeat the handler/active script again, but Echo doesn’t respond the way she’s supposed to. She says that everything is not going to be alright. Richard won’t stop unless he’s dead. They need to prove that they deserve to live. She does the shoulder to the wheel gesture. Boyd says that Echo doesn’t have the imprinting or training that she needs to take on Richard. She reverses the script on him.
Mari: Instead of the handler/active script, they should just have all the pairs exchange awesome guns and get the good times rolling that way!
Stephanie: Richard’s tracking Boyd’s blood. He prepares his arrow for shooting because he thinks he’s found them, but Echo’s voice comes over the walkie-talkie to mock him a bit. She tells him she’s going to shoot him with her awesome gun. Richard doesn’t look as confident anymore. Echo tells him to drop his bow and get down on his knees. He tries to get snarky with her and says his dad would have liked her, but he’s going to kill her anyway. Echo cuts him off by grazing his arm with a bullet from her awesome gun.
Echo runs off. As she’s running, she bumps into another vision of Caroline. Caroline says she just wanted to make a difference and Echo is like, “whaaaaat.” Walkie-Talkie Richard and informs her that maybe it’s not such a good idea for her to keep the walkie-talkie on if she doesn’t want to be found. He approaches her from behind and prepares his arrow, but Echo spins around and turns the gun on him. They have a standoff, pointing their weapons at each other, and then Richard says: “Is this the best date ever or what?” NO. (M: NO.) (S: YES! Wait, sorry, NO!)
Echo tells Richard to put his weapon down. She’s shaking so Richard doesn’t think she’d even be able to shoot him, but he’s kind of curious to see if she’d miss or not, ‘cause he’s a freak. He tells Echo that he’ll put his weapon down if she puts hers down and she’s like, “UH, NAH.” They start counting down to three while lowering their weapons and then quickly pick them back up and shoot at each other. A bullet and an arrow fly in stylish slow-mo. No one gets hit, but they both lose their weapons. Echo takes this opportunity to jump on top of Richard and punch him in the face. Richard punches her back and begins to strangle her while laughing BECAUSE CRAZY. I find it very difficult to watch Eliza Dushku get overtaken in a fight because she’s FAITH.
Mari: ME TOO. While she was punching him repeatedly in the face I thought, “YES. OVER!” Not over. Slayer Strength is not part of the imprint.
Sweeney: WHY NOT? In my head this show was building towards the moment where doll!Echo realizes that she’s actually Faith Lehane and rains Bad Girl Faith justice/terror on the whole organization. Maybe even phoning in Buffy for funsies. That’s it, I’m done. I quit this show.
Stephanie: That’s an amazing premise. Why weren’t you a writer for this?
Anyway, while Echo is being strangled, she turns her head and sees a vision of three Echo’s. One of the Echos says, “I try to be my best.” You are not helpful, Echo visions. Strangled-Echo spots the arrow next to her, grabs it and stabs Richard IN THE THROAT. He stumbles backward and he’s really pleased that Echo managed to kill him. This guy. He tells her she really is special, and Echo has no idea what he’s talking about. He repeats the shoulder to the wheel thing before finally dying. I don’t know why he needed a truthful woman for this terrible date.
Mari: In my headcanon, he really just need a woman, because no one would get near that sick dick.
Sweeney: BUT ALSO THIS IS AMAZING! I WISHED FOR HIM TO DIE PAINFULLY WHILE FRIENDLESS AND ALONE AND IT HAPPENED! Amazing and also terrifying. This is a very serious power I’ve discovered. I must be careful with it.
Stephanie: It’s almost like you’re Joss Whedon himself. Also, I’m laughing forever at SICK DICK.
Echo returns to bloody Boyd and they hold each other.
Finally, Dominic and his SWAT guys show up with helicopters and guns. Flashes of images from the terrible date take us back to the imprinting chair where Echo is having her mind wiped. She says her usual, “did I fall her asleep?” but this time, Boyd is there to respond with, “for a little while.” He takes her hand and then I have feelings.
We switch from this tender moment to Adelle who is super pissed that Dominic failed at checking Richard’s background. Dominic explains that all the information that Richard supplied was fabricated. Turns out Truth Client is really Liar Client. Adelle wants to know about the Bad Park Ranger, but he was already dead when Dominic got to him, and it wasn’t Boyd who did it.
In Dr. Saunders’s office, Dr. Saunders and Boyd are inspecting Bad Park Ranger’s body. He’s covered in cuts and gashes just like Samuelson was after Alpha murdered him. Boyd points this out. Dr. Saunders flinches at the mention of Alpha’s name. She says that it’s impossible because Alpha is dead. He was tracked down and shot in the head. Boyd thinks they’re being lied to. First Alpha leaves Echo alive amongst a bunch of bodies and then someone tries to murder her. Everything seems to lead back to her.
Out in the lobby area, Echo bumps into Dominic. He asks if she feels bad about all the people who end up dead around her because he’s a horrible human being. Doll-state Echo is blank and confused. She doesn’t have time for Dominic’s nonsense because she’s going swimming, and she probably has a massage booked for later too. Dominic mentions that she should be put in the Attic before walking away. Echo stares after him for a moment before doing the shoulder to the wheel gesture. Uh oh.
Sweeney: I know I said I should be careful with this TV power, but I’m kind of wishing bad things on Dominic so that stupid shoulder gesture was less “Uh oh” and more “GOOD.” for me.
Next time on Dollhouse: Echo has to befriend a pop star to keep her safe in S01 E03 – Stage Fright.
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