Dollhouse

[repeated lines]

Topher Brink:
Hello, Echo. How are you feeling?

Echo:
Did I fall asleep?

Topher Brink:
For a little while.

Echo:
Shall I go now?

Topher Brink:
If you'd like.

[repeated line]

Boyd Langton:
Would you like a treatment?

Adelle DeWitt:
One wonders how she managed. Out there. Alone. The odds of an active in an infantile state surviving outside the Dollhouse unprotected. I suppose we must take into account the fact that Echo is special.

Paul Ballard:
You're punishing her for surviving. It's complete lunacy!

Paul Ballard:
The wipes just push everything down. But it all surfaces again. And now she can control what and when.

Topher Brink:
She can control?... What does that make her? What is she?

Paul Ballard:
I know that you're looking for something that I don't think you'll find.

Adelle DeWitt:
Well, you see in the Dollhouse, things aren't always what they seem.

Topher Brink:
Is she still Terry Karrens?

Boyd Langton:
Topher, yes.

Topher Brink:
So she's a serial killer?

Boyd Langton:
Only a little.

Topher Brink:
Right. Only a little bit serial killer. And we let her outside.

Topher Brink:
I am obsolete. This must be what old people feel like, and Blockbuster.

Adelle DeWitt:
Alpha? What proof do we have?

Boyd Langton:
Aside from the note, nothing.

Paul Ballard:
But it makes sense. He's the only only out there with knowledge of this place and an obsession with Echo.

Adelle DeWitt:
I thought that was you, Mr. Ballard.

Paul Ballard:
You're hilarious.

Paul Ballard:
That guy was a billionaire. Where'd all his money go?

Boyd Langton:
Into that fine ergonomic chair you're sitting in, among other things. Blew everything on the Dollhouse.

Paul Ballard:
My ass does feel very pampered.

Boyd Langton:
Alpha do not do this. There's a part of you that knows this is wrong.

Alpha:
There are many parts of me that know this is wrong. None of them care. And six... they just find it funny.

Topher Brink:
That's the kind of problem we're having with Alpha.

Joel Myner:
Yeah, the guy who wants me dead. Who is he?

Topher Brink:
Uh, in a nutshell, he's this supergenius serial killer who imprinted himself with a bunch of personalities and then escaped.

Joel Myner:
Wait! WHAT?

Alpha:
It's ironic. It took 40 odd characters on the inside for me to realize that it's what's on the outside that counts.

Alpha:
[to Ballard] You're in for the ride. You're not going to get loose. One of my imprints was an Eagle Scout, another one was sailor. There's a dirty joke in there somewhere.

Alpha:
[to Ballard] Those others - our feelings for them they were imprinted, manufactured. But what she feels for you, it's different. And I want to *crack* that egg and see what's inside.

Alpha:
For months you shared the same room. You never slept with her. You could have, but you didn't. If that's not love - Are you gay?

Paul Ballard:
No.

Alpha:
Then it's love. DeWitt thought so too.

Alpha:
[Echo enters and finds Ballard on the floor and Alpha in the chair] Boyfriend's dead. You want to snuggle?... Too soon.

Alpha:
Hey! I'm the one who should be mad. I created you! And who do you fall for? The schmuck I used to get in here.

Echo:
He's 10 times the man you are! And you're like 40 guys!

Alpha:
Ah. Boyfriend's dead. You wanna snuggle? Too soon?

Adelle DeWitt:
I'm very sorry for Echo's suffering, but we must have answers.

Paul Ballard:
So, if she floats, she's a witch.

Adelle DeWitt:
Everyone has their first date... and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship and it's all about hiding your disappointment. Then once you're married it's about hiding your sins.

Echo:
[as a dominatrix] Everyone thinks it's about the pain. It's not about the pain, it's about trust. Handing yourself over, fully and completely, to another human being, there's nothing more beautiful than letting go like that.

Boyd Langton:
In my experience, that kind of trust always leads to pain.

Echo:
Then maybe you need a session in my dungeon, so I can show you otherwise.

Boyd Langton:
Thanks, I think I'll pass.

Boyd Langton:
We have a spy?

Topher Brink:
Inside the Dollhouse.

Boyd Langton:
[Looks around] And you think it's me? You think *I'm* the spy.

Topher Brink:
Not in a bad way.

Boyd Langton:
If they find out that you talked to me before you talked to DeWitt, they'll fry you.

Topher Brink:
Yeah. I didn't really think that through.

Boyd Langton:
Thank you.

Topher Brink:
Oh, come on. Hey, I'm boned anyway. I call DeWitt. She's gonna take it out on Dominic. And who's Dominic gonna take it out on?

Echo:
I can help you.

Topher Brink:
Why would you want to?

Echo:
Why wouldn't I?

Topher Brink:
Eh. Did I just lose an argument to a doll? Okay, um, thanks, but you can't... help.

Paul Ballard:
[to Mellie] The Dollhouse is way bigger than I ever thought it was. Everytime I look deeper, I find more clients, larger amounts of money and a web of financial and political connections all over the world to coporations, the government, even inside the FBI.

Mellie:
I'm sorry we had to deliver the news to you like this, in this body. The Dollhouse has likely discovered that we've been placing messages in their imprints and this is the only way we could get the message to you.

Paul Ballard:
They did this to you.

Mellie:
They did this long before you met me. They've been using this body to spy on you for months. The only reason Mellie exists is because of you.

Paul Ballard:
Aren't I special.

Boyd Langton:
We're pimps and killers, but in a philanthropic way. Can I go now?

Echo:
I don't know why I trust you. But I do.

Boyd Langton:
I must have one of those faces.

Ivy:
[as Echo and the mole are fighting] Shouldn't we help?

Topher Brink:
Yeah. I helped when I imprinted her with Kung Fu skills, but be my guest.

Echo:
[Holding the mole over a ledge] I'm not broken.

Adelle DeWitt:
[to Topher about Echo] She just saved the Dollhouse. Keep an eye on her. Echo might be useful to us in ways we haven't yet realized.

Boyd Langton:
I appreciate the offer, but I prefer to stay with Echo. I need to take care of her.

Adelle DeWitt:
Apparently you don't. It seems she's the one taking care of us.

Echo:
I can take care of myself.

Laurence Dominic:
I know, that's why I'm smiling. 'Cause one day, you'll be erasing them. And even after all this, they still won't see it coming. Sooner or later, everybody gets theirs.

Paul Ballard:
[Paul and Mellie kissing, Mellie suddenly stops] Too much? Too fast? [Sniffs his armpits] Do I smell that bad?

Mellie:
I have a message for you from inside the Dollhouse.

Paul Ballard:
That's not funny.

Mellie:
My name is November.

Mellie:
The Dollhouse deals in fantasy, but that is not their purpose. Investigate their purpose. We will find other ways to contact you.

Paul Ballard:
Who? Who sent you?

Mellie:
I'm not imprinted with information you're not supposed to have.

Paul Ballard:
Tell me who!

Mellie:
Remember, you can't tell her. You must maintain the illusion.

Paul Ballard:
Wait!

Mellie:
[Changes back] Paul, what's wrong?

Paul Ballard:
Nothing.

Mellie:
Then why aren't you kissing me?

Echo:
[Imprint is done, she gets up out of the chair] I need copies of personnel records, security logs for the past three months and access to your mainframe.

Topher Brink:
Uh... anything else?

Echo:
Yeah, some clothes. I can't catch a spy in my pajamas.

Laurence Dominic:
Did Rossum tell you why they're calling you in?

Adelle DeWitt:
Considering our recent track record, I'm sure they want to pat me on the head and tell me I've been running a crackerjack operation. Maybe there'll be cake.

Echo:
I wanna start with him. [looks at Topher]

Topher Brink:
Uh. [chuckles nervously] I'm not the spy. I discovered the spy. Remember? The spy was operating under my nose!

Echo:
Which means you're either dangerously incompotent, or you're trying to throw us off your trail.

Laurence Dominic:
I'm sorry I ever doubted your programming skills.

Roger:
[to Selena] Well, if I weren't madly in love with Katherine, I'd shanghai you myself.

Ramirez:
I'd take S&M Barbie over him anyday. Come on, your geriatric princess awaits.

[Selena and Victor walk away. Echo hits Selena with her whip, Selena yells in pain]

Echo:
It's love. Show some respect.

[Selena and Victor continue on their way. Echo talks to Boyd]

Echo:
Sometimes it *is* about the pain.

Echo:
I needed one more sign to confirm my suspicions.

Laurence Dominic:
And what sign would that be?

Echo:
20 seconds ago you unsnapped your holster.

Echo:
What's in store for you... you don't have anything to smile about.

Laurence Dominic:
After you beat me to a pulp, they're going to erase me... but first, they're going to erase you.

Echo:
I can take care of myself.

Laurence Dominic:
I know. That's why I'm smiling. Cause one day... you'll be erasing them. Even after all this... they still won't see it coming.

Adelle DeWitt:
It's ironic. Sometimes I think you're the most real person I've ever met.

Roger:
That's not irony. No one gets that right.

Paul Ballard:
[Given a choice between escorting a doll with an air-headed personality or interrogating a serial killer] Serial killer. Thank God!

Boyd Langton:
[Told the mind of an escaped doll with a serial killer's personality is to be erased by remote control] Then what? Leave him out on the street? Completely wiped?

Topher Brink:
He'll be an empty-headed robot wandering around Hollywood. He'll be fine.

Paul Ballard:
[Echo's just finished taking a shower] Would you like um -a towel?

Echo:
Yes. Thank you. I'm wet. [Puts on the towel. Starts to walk past Ballard] Good day.

Paul Ballard:
A treatement. Would you like a treatment?

Echo:
Yes. Please. I enjoy my treatments. Shall I dress?

Paul Ballard:
Yes. Dress would be good.

Topher Brink:
I have to finish mapping his neural landscape. But if I can figure a way to sneak up behind his reticular activating system. Give it a goose. That might do it. Could also give him a man reaction.

Adelle DeWitt:
I choose not to hear that.

Bradley Karrens:
Heh. What you know about is only what the family hasn't been able to scrub. There have been other... indescretions. Women. Survivors, I should call them. And when you have a survivor you have a person that might be persuaded monetarily or other means, to stay quiet. But when all you have are bodies...

Adelle DeWitt:
I see.

Boyd Langton:
Turns out we have a sudden need for an FBI profiler. I suggested you.

Paul Ballard:
For what?

Boyd Langton:
To interrogate a possible serial killer.

Paul Ballard:
Serial killer?... Thank God!

Paul Ballard:
And I'm not a cop.

Victor:
What do mean? Who are you then? What is this place?

Paul Ballard:
This is the place you're not in. And I'm the guy you're not talking to. And these [Put pictures in front of Victor] *These* are the women you're going to tell me how to find.

Adelle DeWitt:
Lovely. So you're saying that we've imprinted an active as a serial killer and blindly let him loose upon the streets.

Topher Brink:
I wasn't saying that.

Boyd Langton:
What are you trying?

Topher Brink:
Uh... A remote wipe.

Boyd Langton:
Why?

Topher Brink:
Oh well, ha, Victor's loose, doesn't have GPS, and apparently he's a serial killer.

Boyd Langton:
Ah.

Victor:
[after a guy at bar takes a swing at Victor] You suck! Trying to hit a girl?

[first lines]

Terry Karrens:
Goodness gracious, but it is good to be out of doors. It certainly is.

Echo:
What is it, Thursday? Tell me I didn't miss Gossen's lecture. He's hard enough to understand even when you're there.

Ivy:
You're fine. Paul here, is going to see to it that you get there on time.

Echo:
Oh, thanks, Paul. I'm Kiki.

Paul Ballard:
Kiki.

Ivy:
First, Paul is going to take you on a little spree.

Echo:
Shopping or killing?

Echo:
[placing paper marked 'F' on his desk] Professor, this can't be right.

Professor Gossen:
Miss Turner?

Echo:
Kiki. Okay, so I probably never should have taken this course to begin with, but I figured it was Mid-Evil Lit, not Advanced Evil. How hard could it be? So I skipped Intro to Evil, or whatever, but how is it that I get an 'F' when this guy that we're reading, Chauncey, can't even spell?

Professor Gossen:
It's Chaucer. It's Middle English.

Echo:
Like hobbits or something?

Professor Gossen:
As I said, my office is open if you'd care to discuss it.

Echo:
I'd care to discuss it. I'm like the scarlett lady with an 'F' on her chest.

Professor Gossen:
'A'.

Echo:
If only.

Paul Ballard:
Terry Marion Karrens? Any part of that a boy's name?

[last lines]

Echo:
I think he dreams.

Paul Ballard:
Not anymore.

Echo:
[Paul leaves, Echo approaces Karrens, who dies a few seconds later]

Echo:
Goodness gracious.

Victor:
Dr. Saunders? Where is Dr. Saunders please?

Boyd Langton:
She's not here Victor.

Victor:
[points to room where Karren is comatose] There is a man, he's not his best. Dr. Saunders can help him.

Adelle DeWitt:
Thank you Victor, we'll help him,

Paul Ballard:
Now, Terry. I gotta ask, and I think you know I gotta ask. Have you been practicing dentistry on large cats? [pause] Leopards, pumas? I'm askin because I'm wondering why you have traces of a vetrinary grade paralytic in your system.

Victor:
[having accidentally received Echo's imprint, speaking to a guy in a club] "As help me God, I laugh when I think, how piteously a-nyght I made them swynke." You know what that means? I have no idea, but it's wicked filthy. How about buying a girl a drink before you swynke?

[first lines]

Topher Brink:
I was just trying to help her. I was just trying to help her.

[last lines]

Sierra:
Did I fall asleep?

Topher Brink:
For a little while

Topher Brink:
Alpha got it to work through a phone, nonetheless. Are you comparing my intelligence to Alpha's? Well, you're talking to yourself like he does. That's... a very good point.

Echo:
You're taking matters into your own hands.

Victor:
They're in my shirt.

Sierra:
I love him so much more that I hate you.

Adelle DeWitt:
Which Dr. Saunders would that be? The avuncular physician so brutally cut down not five feet from where you were standing? Or the last woman to whom you gave a permanent imprint, the other wounded flower you restored by offering her a new life. Who apparently found you so unbearable she had to flee the city, is it that one?

Echo:
Thanks for the treatment, Shaggy.

Topher Brink:
No problem, I can't remember your name today...

Topher Brink:
Do you know where you are?

Sierra:
I'm in... hell?

Topher Brink:
You're in Los Angeles. I can understand the mix up.

Sierra:
Are we happy here?

Topher Brink:
I... you... most of you- I have no idea.

Pam:
Hey, do they have royalty in Australia?

Sierra:
Uh, we have a queen, yes. But it's the same one they have in England. Fickle b*tch.

Nolan Kinnard:
Would you ever be interested in uh, making something for me? Something very large?

Sierra:
Like an elephant?

Nolan Kinnard:
No. Like a painting. A big painting that would cost a lot more money.

Pam:
Oh, you're loaded too.

Nolan Kinnard:
I'm uh, overpaid.

Matthew Harding:
This is an elaborate expensive seduction. I mean, uh, this is the least Rossum could do after all your work with us. But couldn't you just buy her a necklace, or boat or something?

Nolan Kinnard:
I've tried all that. But she's an artist. A free spirit, Harding. She can't be bought.

Matthew Harding:
But can she be lured?

Nolan Kinnard:
We'll see.

Topher Brink:
I helped Sierra, you know? She was paranoid schizophernic when she came here - psychotic. And I helped her.

Topher Brink:
[Reading Saunder's report on Sierra] "I can only conclude that if the dark shapes don't symbolize Sierra's state of mind before intake. They must represent extreme sense of anxiety and rage associated with..." [Reads his own name] I'm not the bad man.

Boyd Langton:
How did this get by DeWitt?

Topher Brink:
We gotta tell her. She's going to flip her biscuits. Unless... you don't think she already knows?

Adelle DeWitt:
She does now.

Matthew Harding:
Do you really want to go to Rossum with this? And accuse one of their most valued assets of being a kidnapper and rapist.

Adelle DeWitt:
That is what he is! And if we do this, what does that make us?

Matthew Harding:
What we are already.

Adelle DeWitt:
We're not slave merchants, Mr. Harding. I won't do this. However she got here, she's here. In my house, and therefore in my care!

Adelle DeWitt:
The cold reality is that everyone here was chosen because their morals had been compromised in some way. Everyone except you, Topher. You were chosen because you had no morals. You had always thought of people as playthings. This is not a judgement. You always take good care of your toys. But you're going to have to let this one go.

Victor:
[Not know Sierra's going to be imprinted for the last time] I'll wait for you right here.

Sierra:
Do you want me wide eyed and demure? Or stupid? Did you want me to be a mute? [Angrily] Which is it Nolan? Which fantasy did you want to keep forever?

Nolan Kinnard:
Priya?

Sierra:
You just couldn't take "no" for an answer.

Boyd Langton:
You're pushing. The actives. The staff. What you're doing could have consequences that you can't predict or control. Some people are not ready to wake up.

Echo:
I don't care. Something bad is coming. Like a storm. And I want everyone to survive it. They need to wake up.

Boyd Langton:
Echo, you stir things up, you might bring the storm on yourself.

Topher Brink:
Priya does not belong in the Dollhouse.

Boyd Langton:
She does now... Now I have to start the lies.

Sierra:
What's his name? [Topher looks where she's pointing]

Topher Brink:
Victor.

Sierra:
I love him... Is that real?

Topher Brink:
Yes. Yes. It's real. He loves you back.

Sierra:
This secret we have, can you keep it?

Topher Brink:
I can keep it. But I don't know if I can live with it.

Sierra:
I know I can't. But I don't have to.

[Sits back and prepares for a treatment]

Adelle DeWitt:
I'd no sooner let you near another one of our actives than I'd let a mad dog near a child.

Nolan Kinnard:
What did you say?

Adelle DeWitt:
You're a rapist scumbag just one tick short of a murderer. I've forgotten, do you take sugar with your tea?

Paul Ballard:
I don't even care that these people signed themselves over to you. There is no provision for... for consensual slavery.

Stephen Kepler:
Earth gets one day, alright, the other 364 we're-we're-we're cranking the AC in our Hummer and then one day a year, ooh we separate the plastic. You know what I think? I think that once we die out, a couple hundred years, Earth is gonna have a people day, you know, to remember us. One day a year she is gonna laugh and laugh and shake our bones.

Mellie:
Look at the real me. And really think about whether I've ever told you *anything* I didn't believe with all my heart.

Paul Ballard:
You know, you just said *exactly* what I needed to hear. And that's why I'm leaving.

Ivy:
How'd you sell DeWitt on it?

Topher Brink:
Everybody wants to be righteous when they can afford it.

Ivy:
Even Topher Brink.

Topher Brink:
This feeling, it is not unlike pride.

Paul Ballard:
I followed her to 23 Flower, the Dollhouse.

Loomis:
What, you just flashed your badge, swooped in on them like Prince Valiant?

Loomis:
[to Ballard] It's a good thing I'm relatively sure you're not crazy.

Susan:
The prince was a boy.

Echo:
Yeah, but that's not his fault.

Paul Ballard:
I told you. You're not in trouble.

Stephen Kepler:
Oh, you are naive. They will kill me. And you. And kill me again. Please, I shouldn't have said anything.

Boyd Langton:
It came in an envelope. It was hand delivered. Who else would be trying to contact you covertly?

Adelle DeWitt, Mr. Dominic:
Alpha.

Adelle DeWitt:
I guess he didn't hear about the regime change.

Paul Ballard:
[Looking at November in her sleep pod] They flip a switch, you'll kill me without even knowing it. I'm sorry.

Paul Ballard:
[Opening Echo's pod] Caroline?

Boyd Langton:
[From behind; pointing a gun] Sorry, Agent Ballard. You don't get the girl!

Adelle DeWitt:
[to Ballard] Did you really think you could just walk into the Dollhouse? When everyone knows it doesn't exist.

Stephen Kepler:
[Trying to hide his marijuana] Carrots! Medicinal carrots! Personal-use medicinal carrots that were here when I moved in and I'm holding it for a friend!

Stephen Kepler:
You know, I care about my carbon footprint, but most people out there are making carbon snow angels!

Stephen Kepler:
This is like one of those buddy cop movies where you're the hard-nosed FBI agent and I'm the guy who hates buddy cop movies!

Paul Ballard:
How far down it is?

Stephen Kepler:
Ten stories. It's the best way in. I'm sorry, man. That's just how it is.

Paul Ballard:
Let's go.

Stephen Kepler:
No! No way! You'd go down there?

Paul Ballard:
You showed me this thinking I'd give up?

Stephen Kepler:
I was nurturing a tender, throbbing hope that you'd give up, yes!

Paul Ballard:
Well, I'm not! Show me the real way in!

Stephen Kepler:
No, that is the real way in. I just thought that you'd give up!

Paul Ballard:
Come on.

Stephen Kepler:
What? Just because we can move forward, we must? You know, this is the same expansionist thinking that led to the Trail of Tears, man!

Paul Ballard:
Carrots!

Paul Ballard:
You really justify this? What you do to these people... you can live with this?

Boyd Langton:
You're the one who came in here and assaulted one of our residents.

Adelle DeWitt:
Yes, there's indignation enough for everyone to have seconds.

Stephen Kepler:
They told me this was gonna be the new Eden.

Paul Ballard:
Eden wasn't a prison.

Stephen Kepler:
What, are you kidding? The apples were monitored!

Topher Brink:
You wear the tie because it never occurred to you not to. You eat eggs every morning but never at night. You feel excitement and companionship when rich men you've never met put a ball through a net. You feel guilty, maybe a little suspicious, every time you see that Salvation Army Santa. You look down for at least half a second if a woman leans forward. And your stomach rumbles every time you drive by a big golden arch even if you weren't hungry before. Everybody's programmed, Boyd.

[first lines]

Adelle DeWitt:
The world is a very simple place... at first. Then, as we grow up, it grows around us, a dense thicket of complication and disappointment. Unbearable for some. And even for the luckiest of us, still sometimes more than we can handle. Less than we'd hoped.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
I'm compiling a report.

Topher Brink:
I'm making a paperclip Eiffel Tower.

Topher Brink:
Hey, I imprinted her to be a sociopath, not an idiot.

Adelle DeWitt:
[after hearing Dominic is infected by the drug] We need to know what it is.

Topher Brink:
Yes, well, we will. When I figure it out.

Adelle DeWitt:
And reversing the effect? Are you making any progress?

Topher Brink:
I'm working! What are you doing? Besides being...

Adelle DeWitt:
Being what?

Topher Brink:
Wait a minute...

Adelle DeWitt:
Sarcastic? Unfeeling? British?

Topher Brink:
It's an animal.

Adelle DeWitt:
Where?

Topher Brink:
No, the word!

Adelle DeWitt:
Still you have to admit, I am... very British. I don't say hard R's.

Topher Brink:
You know what I like? Brown sauce. What's it made of? Science doesn't know!

Adelle DeWitt:
It's made of brown.

Topher Brink:
Brown. Mined from the earth by the hardscrabble brown miners of North Brownderton.

Adelle DeWitt:
Oh, my God. I find lentils completely incomprehensible. What the sun-dappled hell is Echo doing at Fremont?

Topher Brink:
That's got nothing to do with the drug, which means our problems are huge and indomitable.

Adelle DeWitt:
Ooh. I could eat that word. Or a crisp. Do you have any crisps?

Topher Brink:
You haven't seen my drawer of inappropriate starches? C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon!

[Adelle giggles; it is clearly apparent that both she and Topher are now infected by the drug]

Adelle DeWitt:
[walking with Topher] Oh my god, I'm having such a terrible day.

Adelle DeWitt:
[Hiding after November appears to self-trigger her lethal fighting skills] I don't hear anything. She didn't finish the trigger code... she's probably right as rain.

Topher Brink:
Go check.

Adelle DeWitt:
[Angrily] I am your superior!

Topher Brink:
In every way. Go check.

Adelle DeWitt:
My offer is this: your life for your life. I get five years, you get the rest. You'll be free.

Caroline:
Is that you talking or the Rossum Coporation? Why me? Why did you pick me?

Adelle DeWitt:
Caroline, you picked us. This is a good thing, Caroline.

Caroline:
I know what I saw. What started this.

Mellie:
Are you making breakfast?

Paul Ballard:
It's kind of late, but since I'm a gentlemen of leisure, and you've taken up professional sleeping.

Laurence Dominic:
You're NSA?

Tom:
Which outranks Rossum Private Security by more than a whole bunch.

Laurence Dominic:
[Quietly to himself] Topher.

Topher Brink:
You could've said no.

Adelle DeWitt:
The Rossum Corporation is why we exist. And I believe in the work we're funding. I also believe that the only reason I don't have Clive Ambrose's job, is 'cause he couldn't handle mine!

Adelle DeWitt:
Which college?

Boyd Langton:
Fremont. I tracked Echo here.

Adelle DeWitt:
Oh please, God, be joking!

Boyd Langton:
Why? What's up?

Boyd Langton:
Would you like to have a treatment?

Alice:
[pauses] No.

[walks away]

Boyd Langton:
Hey. Wow... Did not maintain control of that situation.

[Boyd laughs... clearly infected by the drug]

Adelle DeWitt:
It's not being sold, Topher. The effect is spreading. Mr. Dominic is exhibiting erratic behavior.

Topher Brink:
[laughs nervously] He didn't take any. There's no way Dom would consciously try and have fun! It could be airborne.

Adelle DeWitt:
I know why Echo went to Fremont.

Topher Brink:
To punish you?

Adelle DeWitt:
To let Caroline punish me.

[Mr. Dominic is acting strangely]

Tom:
Buddy, how 'bout we head over to containment?

Laurence Dominic:
I'm fine.

Tom:
Dr. Gawa will give you a light sedative...

Laurence Dominic:
[getting up and pointing his gun] Hey! I'm fine!

Tom:
Alright. Easy, buddy.

Laurence Dominic:
I know how to solve problems.

Tom:
You bet.

Laurence Dominic:
[gun dips down] Oh, man, this is, like, so heavy. Makes my arm so tired.

Tom:
Want me to help you out with that?

Laurence Dominic:
[after being infected] You! [hugs Echo] I am so sorry that I tried to kill you!

Alice:
[confused] It's okay.

Laurence Dominic:
No! It's not okay! I tried to burn you to death. Who does that?

Sam Jennings:
[returning from scouting the lobby] What's the holdup?

Laurence Dominic:
He says he tried to kill me.

Sam Jennings:
He's been exposed.

Alice:
Oh! Um... it's okay. Really, whatever you think you did, I'm over it. You know: water, bridge, under.

Topher Brink:
[infected Topher is talking to Victor-as-NSA-Agent on the phone] Listen to me carefully. I've got a huge phalanx of machines that go "PING!" And this drug is carried by anyone exposed to it... through touch! It is mandated that you get any Rossum operatives off the grounds and send them back here.

Adelle DeWitt:
[Infected Adelle is jumping on a trampoline on the half-level below] Say Hi for me!

Topher Brink:
[Ignoring Adele, continuing to talk to Victor over the phone] Nope. You Dolls, your...

[cringes at his mistake]

Topher Brink:
By which... I mean of course... I mean NSA, CDC folks. You're safe as houses. Because of the government. They do things! But anyone else who comes into physical contact with the drug or anyone that is infected is susceptible. Am I sure?

[camera pulls back to reveal he's not wearing pants]

Topher Brink:
I am fairly sure.

[to the infected DeWitt]

Topher Brink:
Secret Agent Victor is so lofty.

Adelle DeWitt:
I have a good story about him.

Topher Brink:
Hold on, hold on.

[to himself]

Topher Brink:
I have another call.

[into the phone]

Topher Brink:
I have another call... I have a "better" call! Boyd. Did you find Echo?

Adelle DeWitt:
[snatches phone and looks at Topher angrily] Boyd. Did you find Echo?

Boyd Langton:
It's alright Miss DeWitt. I-I've worked it out.

Adelle DeWitt:
Worked out what? Is Echo contained?

Boyd Langton:
Just listen.

[the infected Boyd props cell phone up and starts playing the piano]

Adelle DeWitt:
[the infected Adelle puts phone on speaker and she and the infected Topher smile blissfully and enjoy the music... both giggling insanely] Beautiful...

Zone:
Let's blow this b*tch back to the Bush years.

Zone:
That guy sure loves the sound of his own voice.

Mag:
We all love the sound of our own voices. That's why we're here. Keep our own voices.

Topher Brink:
It's great. I love what you haven't done with the place. I get up in this, I'm gonna need a couple throw pillows and a fridge...

Laurence Dominic:
Should we, uh, order you a poster with a cat, maybe hanging off a tree?

Laurence Dominic:
It takes two hours to upload an imprint, so I don't see you having any time...

Topher Brink:
Whoa! Two hours? What? Are they memorizing their personalities?

Adelle DeWitt:
Two hours is the standing record for any house. Do you think you can beat it?

Topher Brink:
Uh, to a pulp. Yeah.

Adelle DeWitt:
Mr. Dominic is my eyes and ears.

Topher Brink:
Can I be your nose and throat?

Whiskey:
I know where to find food.

Griff, Zone, Mag:
Where?

Zone:
If you point at the frickin' chair, I will end you!

Whiskey:
In the kitchen.

Laurence Dominic:
I ran into a guy... Business guy. Very nice suit. It's three buttons again. Who saw that coming?

Topher Brink:
An entire army in a single instant. That's all it takes. That's brilliant. That's so brilliant. Why didn't I think of that? [pause] Did I think of that? Did I?

[last lines]

Caroline:
I hope we find me alive.

Topher Brink:
If I think I can figure things out is that curiosity or arrogance?

Zone:
So I hear you're the weapons expert of this group?

Kilo:
[shows a USB memory chip marked "Weapons Expert"]

Zone:
So you just store it all in your head?

Kilo:
No, only Echo can do that. We'd all go crazy if we tried... we gotta remove something first.

Zone:
So what did you remove?

Kilo:
[shows a USB memory chip marked "Mercy" and laughs evilly at Zone]

Paul Ballard:
[post-apocalyptic world, butchers, dumbshows, chaos, the group is discussing strategy] This is where it gets interesting.

Mag:
It was dull?

Alpha:
Because we're not freaks shows. Well, OK, maybe I am... and Echo... Topher's a little off but Adele, she's a class act all the way.

Echo:
Alpha...

Alpha:
It's just that I've worked so hard to have a peaceful life here. It's harder for me than most.

Alpha:
It appealed to the schizophrenic in me. Both of them, actually.

Alpha:
Did she just call me a Luddite?

Alpha:
Victor, why would someone do something so horrible to your face?

Caroline Farrell:
They were wearing suits.

Zone:
Yes. This was your finer class of mindless killer zombie.

Zone:
Look around, tiny Messiah - it's over. Half the world's been wiped, and the rest have been turned into crazies trying to kill the other half. There are only a handful of actuals left, which you, by the way, ain't.

Caroline Farrell:
We are lost. We are not gone.

Matthew Harding:
[Echo aims her gun at Harding's head] Please, you know I'm backed up. Why do you bother any more?

Echo:
Ask me again sometime. [Echo shoots Harding]

Topher Brink:
I'm so close, so close to solving both problems. They would have no idea.

Echo:
Close to what? Wiping everyong?

Topher Brink:
The opposite. A reflection like an echo. Put everything back the way they were. Minds back the way they were... I can bring back the world.

Paul Ballard:
The point is Topher thinks he can flip it. Create a pulse to restore all the wiped minds.

Zone:
Yeah? He also thinks he's a little teapot, short and stout.

Adelle DeWitt:
[Rising] Topher Brinks is a genius! And you will keep a civil tongue in this house, or I'll cut it out and put it in the stew.

Caroline Farrell:
Good to see you've mellowed.

Paul Ballard:
The world still needs heroes kid. [Everyone laughs]

Echo:
Did you really just say that?

Paul Ballard:
What? I was being inspirational.

Echo:
You are so corny.

Paul Ballard:
You're fat.

Anthony Ceccoli:
I would do anything for you, for *both* of you.

Priya Tsetsang:
Except for the *one* thing I asked you to do.

Paul Ballard:
I've been knocking 10 years, you still won't let me in.

Echo:
I've let you in a few times.

Paul Ballard:
When you were sure we were gonna die. What happens if you're sure we're gonna live?

Paul Ballard:
I think you've got a hundred people living inside your head, and you're the loneliest person I know.

Echo:
That's kind of sweet.

Paul Ballard:
Not for the person who's with you.

Echo:
[Realizing there are Actives in the Dollhouse] Aw Hell!

Alpha:
Nope. You have to keep digging if that's were you want to end up.

Adelle DeWitt:
Explosion?

Topher Brink:
It does the work for you.

Adelle DeWitt:
You said it could only be activated manually... You're not coming back.

Topher Brink:
Small price to pay... I didn't want to cause any more pain.

Adelle DeWitt:
You don't have to do it, you know? At least not alone.

Topher Brink:
I do. I'll fix what we did to their heads. You fix what we did to the rest of the world. Your job's *way* harder.

Adelle DeWitt:
Funny, that the last fantasy the Dollhouse should fulfill... will be yours.

Echo:
I don't have any fantasies, Adelle.

Adelle DeWitt:
More's the pity.

Bennett Halverson:
You let them roam. They roam like free-range chickens. We keep ours more like veal.

Adelle DeWitt:
Ms.Halverson, as you correctly noted, you have been abducted. Now, you can be treated as a prisoner or as a guest. It's entire... [Topher moves his arms a bit out of sight from Bennett and Adelle understands asking Bennett] Can I get you anything?

Bennett Halverson:
[sigh] A diet soda.

Topher Brink:
I have some! I mean, in my fridge. Come on. Well, lab's in here. You showed me yours. Let me show you mine.

Topher Brink:
Then maybe we could work on the one memory I'd like to erase. Bennett... I'm so sorry I hit you. I didn't want to. God, how I didn't want to.

Bennett Halverson:
Well, I was trying to kill your Active at the time.

Topher Brink:
Eh. You had your reasons. Still... that face. Slugging it. Not my first instinct.

Bennett Halverson:
Oh, I didn't think it was.

Topher Brink:
Some form of contact, but not...

Bennett Halverson:
[They go in closer to almost kiss but then] Who's on that wedge?

Topher Brink:
Huh?

Bennett Halverson:
Who are you trying to resurrect?

Topher Brink:
Uh... This person. [Chuckles] It's stupid. Does it... Does it matter?

Bennett Halverson:
It might.

Topher Brink:
It's not like it's Stalin or somebody.

Bennett Halverson:
I didn't suppose that it would be a historical figure. Who is it? [Bennett looks down to see Echo]

Topher Brink:
Aw...

Echo:
What did you do?

Topher Brink:
[groans] Her left arm may be dead, but she's got a terrific right cross. If anyone asks... Actually, if anyone asks, don't say I got beat up by a one-armed girl.

Topher Brink:
Say, can we get to the part where the chairless imprinting tech that *I* designed, and *you* [looks at DeWitt] handed over to Harding in order to get this swank office back, leads to the apocalypse? 'Cause I thought that was kind of an interesting detail.

Topher Brink:
Ivy's right, we actually don't know what dumping Caroline into Echo's brain will do. Your original self comes home to find the house party that's going on inside your head. She might fight back.

Echo:
She'd lose.

Adelle DeWitt:
All right, pull Caroline from the Vault. Put Echo in the chair.

Echo:
We haven't really talked since you... died.

Paul Ballard:
Guess we've... both died since then.

Echo:
Yeah, weird week.

Adelle DeWitt:
Caroline Farrel left quite a trail of unhappiness in her wake, and not a few bodies.

Echo:
Are you saying she's evil?

Adelle DeWitt:
Worse. An idealist. I shouldn't be at all surprised if it turned out her wedge had gotten up and walked out on its own.

Bennett Halverson:
Why do you need this one restored?

Topher Brink:
[Topher sighs] Uh, would it sound OTT if I said this could help prevent the end of civilization as we know it.

Bennett Halverson:
I would need to understand the context.

Topher Brink:
So either he could live his life trapped in a paralyzed body, or I could take away something else.

Echo:
Me, wasn't it?

Topher Brink:
[Topher sighs] Not his memories of you. He still got those.

Echo:
Our connection.

Topher Brink:
I think so. The freshest brightest paths, those are the ones I needed. I think that was you. Yeah.

Topher Brink:
[Boyd and Dr. Saunders enter] You mean you two? Wait. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
Less talking would mean less bleeding. And I mean that in so many ways.

Echo:
I need you to get the Hell out of here. There's probably time, not much, but some. I don't want you spending it here.

Anthony Ceccoli:
I don't understand.

Echo:
Look at her. [Anthony looks at Priya] Understand? We're about to go to war. You never know what you're gonna lose in a war. You never know what you're gonna lose anyway. Go be with each other. Even if it's just for the night.

Adelle DeWitt:
[after Boyd kills some men in DeWitt's office] Well, I guess we can agree this carpet's done for.

Echo:
[to Bennett] I'll make you an offer: you resurrect Caroline Farrell long enough to save my friends, and I'll let you do anything you want to her. I will hold the b*tch down! Deal?

Topher Brink:
I got it from here. You get your chance, you slip out. In the real world, you can write your ticket any place you land.

Ivy:
I really do want to help you.

Topher Brink:
Then live! You have a remarkable brain. I think it should stay in your head. Ivy, don't become me. Go. Go!

Adelle DeWitt:
You have much to answer for, young woman.

Echo:
[as Caroline] *I* do?

Adelle DeWitt:
You forced me to come to Arizona. I loathe Arizona.

Echo:
Here goes everything.

Topher Brink:
You see someone running incredibly fast, the first thing you gotta ask is, are they running to something or are they running from something. The answer is always both. So these personality imprints, they come from scans of real people. Now, I-I can create amalgams of those personalities, pieces from here or there, but it's not a greatest hits, it's a whole person. Achievement is balanced by fault, by a lack. Can't have one without the other. Everyone who excels is overcompensating. Running from something. Hiding from something.

Topher Brink:
[Pointing at a monitor of Echo's brain] See the blue areas? That's fear.

Boyd Langdon:
It all looks blue.

Topher Brink:
That's where I'm going with this.

Topher Brink:
Look at Echo, not a care in the world. She's living the dream.

Boyd Langdon:
Whose dream?

Topher Brink:
Who's next?

Detmer:
I'm a billionaire. I can hire anybody for anything. And I'm gonna go to an illegal organization and have them build me, program me, what, the perfect date? Confessor, assassin, dominatrix, omelet chef? I'm paying a million dollars for that? I can get that. I have everything I want.

Paul Ballard:
Nobody has everything they want. It's a survival pattern. You get what you want, you want something else. If you have everything, you want something else, something more extreme, something more specific, something perfect.

Boyd Langdon:
So what's in the past that you gave Echo?

Topher Brink:
That's her business, Boyd. She's right for the job. She spent her life profiling and negotiating with kidnappers. That's the person they needed, so that's who Echo is, the expert!

Boyd Langdon:
The older man. You know him. He's the one who took you. They never found him.

Eleanor Penn:
He said he was a ghost. You can't fight a ghost, but he was heavy, the weight of him... Ghosts aren't heavy. Ghosts are sheets with holes cut out.

Boyd Langdon:
He took you away. And now...

Eleanor Penn:
He's unprofessional.

Boyd Langdon:
He's taken Davina.

Boyd Langdon:
You cannot wipe her right now!

Adelle DeWitt:
I can do any damn thing I see fit! Echo botched the engagement! She jeopardized this entire operation!

Boyd Langdon:
*You* botched it Miss DeWitt! You gave her the memory of an abused girl. And you put her face-to-face with her abuser! She recognized one of her kidnappers and she can find them again. She's the only one who can!

Adelle DeWitt:
We do not have a client.

Boyd Langdon:
We have a mission!

Boyd Langdon:
I've been here long enough to know that you like to tell yourself what we do helps people. Let Echo help this girl.

Caroline:
[On video tape] I'd like to take my place in the world, like Mrs. Dundee taught us. Global Recovery, Doctor's Without Borders, the world is in need of some serious saving. And I wanna travel. Travel around the world as I save it. In a private jet that I pilot and designed. Okay go ahead and laugh yearbook monkey. I know I'm such a clich?. What can I say, I wanna do everything. Is that too much to ask?

Boyd Langdon:
Everything go all right with the wipe?

Topher Brink:
Why don't you just ask Echo? Oh, that's right, because she can't remember. [chuckles] Of course it went all right. Imprint's gone, the New Moon has made her virgin again. Is there some reason it shouldn't have? Something happen during the engagement?

Boyd Langdon:
I think she finally met the right guy.

[first lines]

Adelle DeWitt:
Nothing is what it appears to be.

Caroline:
It seems pretty clear to me.

Adelle DeWitt:
Because you're only seeing part of it. I'm talking about a clean slate.

Caroline:
You ever try and clean an actual slate? You always see what was on it before.

Adelle DeWitt:
Are you volunteering?

Caroline:
I don't have a choice, do I? How did it get this far?

Adelle DeWitt:
Caroline, actions have consequences.

[Paul is holding a gun to the back of Lubov's head]

Paul Ballard:
Dollhouse.

Lubov:
What?

Paul Ballard:
Dollhouse. Say it.

Lubov:
Dollhouse.

Paul Ballard:
Say it again.

Lubov:
[chuckles] Your-your brains are... [Paul c*cks the gun] Okay! Dollhouse, dollh-frickin'-house. Keep saying it. It's fun to say. Dollhouse, dollhouse, dollhouse, dollhouse.

Taffy:
They're called breasts and, yes, they are exceptional. You can mention that when you blog about this later.

Taffy:
I figured out on my first job, when a little creative thinking on my part almost got me not paid, never second-guess a client. And wear comfy shoes. Our client's paying premium for no-kill, he gets no-kill. Okey-doke?

Cyril:
I-I think you're hurting him.

Taffy:
You're very astute, professor. It's a good thing this is a no-kill job.

Cyril:
I thought it might be this. Why else would I have been chosen?

Walton:
Chosen for what? What are we taking out of here? Huh?

Cyril:
The Parthenon.

Walton:
Isn't that kind of big?

Paul Ballard:
[Showing Lubov a picture of Caroline] Who is she?

Lubov:
A-A pretty girl.

Paul Ballard:
She is a pretty girl. Pretty and lost. You know lots of girls like that.

Lubov:
Not her.

Paul Ballard:
Is she the reason they want me dead? Her name's Caroline! Bell's ringing?

Taffy:
When a client doesn't say upfront who they are, finding out's usually not healthy. How 'bout we stop speculating?

Boyd Langton:
You drop it, I shoot you. Then you don't get paid, or breathe.

Topher Brink:
[after listening to a call between Boyd and Echo] That's not - Uh-uh. That didn't happen. How do I know that didn't happen? Because that *can't* happen!

Adelle DeWitt:
Topher, what can't happen?

Laurence Dominic:
This goes nowhere good.

Topher Brink:
I'm pretty sure, I'm kind of positive, actually, that something happened - the exact same thing happened, except without the chair.

Adelle DeWitt:
You've stated that remote wipes aren't possible.

Topher Brink:
I've said they're untested. I-I've said they're a very bad, bad idea. I've said I can't do them.

Topher Brink:
This isn't a lone gunman. This is a conspiracy. A gigantic, multi-pronged conspiracy.

Ivy:
You need to take something.

Topher Brink:
You don't know?

Boyd Langton:
What's going on?

Topher Brink:
Echo's been wiped. Remotely.

Boyd Langton:
WHAT?

Topher Brink:
It's not my fault!

Laurence Dominic:
I'll notify Boyd. He may have to neutralize her.

Adelle DeWitt:
No! I'm beginning to suspect he hasn't the proper distance. Send out for Ramirez and Hutchins. Put them on stand-by.

Laurence Dominic:
I'm sorry.

Adelle DeWitt:
Me too.

Walton:
Remember, your hands go over your head.

Echo:
Okay. Why?

Walton:
Why? 'Cause you don't want the guards to put a bullet in your chest.

Lubov:
The FBI doesn't work like that! You can't - you can't do this!

Paul Ballard:
I'm a screw up, remember? My CI shows up dead, nobody's gonna blink. Nobody's going to care.

Topher Brink:
It was Alpha, wasn't it? Nobody else could come even close to pulling off a remote wipe. He's alive. He's out there.

Adelle DeWitt:
[Puts some papers on the table] You'll need to sign and initial at the bottom.

Topher Brink:
Is this... Am I fired?

Adelle DeWitt:
I'm upping your security clearance.

Adelle DeWitt:
[to Topher] Sign and initial at the bottom. I'll tell you what I know about Alpha. You'll tell me how he did this and how we can keep him from ever doing it again.

Boyd Langton:
They're not bison, Topher.

Topher Brink:
They're a little bit bison!

Paul Ballard:
How'd you get in here?

Lubov:
[holding up a lock pick] Your-your locks are for crap.

Paul Ballard:
[shouting] Who gave you the tip? Was it her?

Lubov:
A voice on the phone. A man. Not old, not young... accent, sounded Georgian, maybe. Russia Georgia, not Sweet Home Georgia.

Paul Ballard:
[Takes gun off Lubov's chest] Alabama.

Lubov:
What do I know? It's confusing, this country.

Margaret:
Addy. Adelle. What's wrong? You look terrible.

Adelle DeWitt:
Margaret, I'm sorry to be the one to tell you. You're dead.

Boyd Langton:
So, we can give you life after death?

Topher Brink:
Only if we really like you.

Margaret:
I swear I've never felt this good. Did being young feel this good?

Adelle DeWitt:
I seem to recall it was rather nice. I wonder why we gave it up.

Margaret:
Please. You're, what, ten years younger than me?

Adelle DeWitt:
And oddly, fifteen years older. Just remember, it's temporary.

Margaret:
Just a chance to indulge my curiosity. See my own funeral. Who wouldn't want that?

Adelle DeWitt:
To hear what the world really thought of us? To count up the number who love us?

Nicolas Bashford:
Julia, I know we're being terribly shocking, and you're being charmingly loyal, but you may wanna brace yourself. You may be here to mourn Margaret Bashford, but the rest of us, we just live here.

Margaret:
Addy, it's just so... ugly. I love these people but I don't like them.

Adelle DeWitt:
Illusions aren't worthless. They're at the heart of most relationships.

Margaret:
I suppose you'd be out of a job if they weren't.

Paul Ballard:
I got prints on someone who might be a missing person.

Loomis:
[scoffs] You got prints on someone who might be a doll, you mean?

Paul Ballard:
They are missing people, you know? They just... don't know it.

Paul Ballard:
[after search results disappear] What just happened?

Loomis:
...I just started to believe you.

Adelle DeWitt:
Any idea who?

Boyd Langton:
No. If I went in...

Adelle DeWitt:
She has a new handler. You're going to have to get used to it.

Boyd Langton:
Yes. I guess I am.

Adelle DeWitt:
Tell me you weren't tempted, even a little not to come back here today. Just to disappear in this... body.

Margaret:
Maybe a little. But I've had my turn. And the people I loved are moving on. Besides...

Adelle DeWitt:
Besides?

Margaret:
I know you, Adelle. You're too much like me. I wouldn't have gotten as far as the airport.

Topher Brink:
In a world where all men are guilty until proven dead, one man stands as our only hope in the fight against...

Boyd Langton:
Life after death. Where does that end?

Topher Brink:
Same place it begins. Death.

Adelle DeWitt:
I'm not planning on presiding over the end of Western civilization. This is a one-time situation.

Sierra:
Speaking of sci-fi, can we play with the sleepies?

Topher Brink:
No.

Sierra:
Come on, Topher. We could have them battle one another and bet on them like gladiators.

Sierra:
Earth-identical gravity and atmosphere on other planets. Is that two?

Topher Brink:
I'll give you one.

Sierra:
That's fair. One ecosystem for a whole planet.

Topher Brink:
Good.

Sierra:
Human-alien cross-breeding without scientific intervention.

Topher Brink:
Nice.

Sierra:
Flamey explosions and sound in a vacuum.

Topher Brink:
Yes! Good job.

Sierra:
Oh, but there's so much more. Light speed travel, space storms and sexy, sexy aliens.

Topher Brink:
Ahh-ahh-ahh, I said classic sci-fi errors. Now you're just attacking good story telling.

Mellie:
I know the quickest way to kill a relationship is to take its temperature, but are you OK?

[first lines]

Topher Brink:
Would you like a treatment?

Paul Ballard:
I was just sitting... because I'm... tired.

Topher Brink:
Life of a handler is pretty exhausting. Better you than me.

[after he is attacked by Echo]

Topher Brink:
I remember wiping her, and then my face exploded.

Paul Ballard:
I know you remember everything.

Echo:
Not remember, *feel*. I was married. I felt love, and pain and fear. It's not pretend to me. They made me love my little boy. And then they took him away. They made it *so* real, every time they make it so real. Why do they do that?

Paul Ballard:
I know you want to help me bring down the Dollhouse. Maybe it's too much, I can do this on my own. I promise I'll get you out. I'll get all of you out. If you want, I'll tell Topher what's going on with you, and he can fix it. He'll come up with a way to wipe you and you won't remember a thing. You won't have to feel sad any more.

Echo:
Feeling nothing would be worse. That would be like before... asleep. And I'm awake now. I don't want to go back to sleep.

Topher Brink:
The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates.

Paul Ballard:
Yeah, I don't understand.

Topher Brink:
But it's so cute that you're trying.

Echo:
[Handing baby to Nate] Here, you're not going to break him. He's not going to bite you, or spontaneously combust. You've got a Masters Degree in Engineering. This should be a piece of cake.

Nate Jordan:
Now you people promised something that you can't deliver... This is not working... I'm calling it off... Get rid of her. I'll get rid of the baby.

November:
Adelle, don't misunderstand. It's nice to see you. But I have this irrational fear that if I say one wrong thing, men in suits are going throw me in a black van and take me away.

Adelle DeWitt:
Not at all. Your obligation to the Dollhouse is complete.

Topher Brink:
May I offer you any additional enhancements? On the house. I've been working on some pretty sick apps. How do you feel about ventriloquism?

November:
So tempting, I'll have to pass.

Topher Brink:
It's a dying art.

Topher Brink:
[as Echo is resisting going into the chair] Did you offer a treatment?

Paul Ballard:
[Sarcastically] Gee, that's great idea, Topher.

Topher Brink:
[after Echo's been tranquilized] You knocked her out? No! I can't wipe her when she's knocked out. Think. Okay? Just - come on. Put her in the chair. I'll wipe her when she wakes up. Whenever that is.

November:
I had a daughter. She died.

Paul Ballard:
I'm sorry.

November:
She had a cold then it wasn't a cold. It was cancer... terminal. And my world fell apart. Within 6 months she was gone, and I was alone completely unable to function.

Cindy:
This has to stop. We're going to verify all this. We're going to find proof!

Senator Daniel Perrin:
We've got better than proof, we've got a name.

Topher Brink:
The maternal instinct is the purest. It's too strong for a normal wipe. I outplayed myself like in chess.

Paul Ballard:
Not like chess. Like Echo was in trouble and pain because you didn't think it through. She probably can't remember his name. She has to have him back, no matter what!

Topher Brink:
Perhaps triggering lactation was a bridge too far. Live and learn.

Adelle DeWitt:
Are we looking at another composite event Mr. Brink?

Paul Ballard:
I don't think so. I think we're looking at a genius.

Topher Brink:
I'm not as comfy with you saying that as I thought I'd be.

Adelle DeWitt:
There are 3 flowers in a vase. The third flower is green.

Laurence Dominic:
You played a good hand ma'am.

Adelle DeWitt:
I played a very bad hand very well. There is a distinction.

Laurence Dominic:
Of course.

Academic:
Forget morality, imagine it's true, alright? Imagine this technology being used. Now imagine it being used on you. Everything you believe, gone. Everyone you love, strangers, maybe enemies. Every part of you that makes you more than a walking cluster of neurons dissolved - at someone else's whim. If that techology exists, it'll be used, it'll be abused, it'll be global. And we will be over. As a species, we will cease to matter. I don't know, maybe we should.

Mellie:
[after making love] I'm not gonna freak out on you.

Paul Ballard:
Uhhhh... good?

Mellie:
When you tell me this is all a mistake and we should forget it ever happened, I'm gonna be very cool. You're going to be bothered by how cool I am.

Paul Ballard:
What if I don't say that?

Mellie:
I'll still be cool, but not *as* cool.

Paul Ballard:
What if you tell *me* it was a mistake?

Mellie:
God! You're going to be so clingy. Weeping and moping, texting me. It's too embarrassing.

Paul Ballard:
I'm not a piece of meat, you know! I have a heart.

Mellie:
[after making love] I was thinking about Caroline.

Paul Ballard:
Well *I* wasn't!

Loomis:
You mean everything admissable by a warrant that you got, because anybody in the whole wide bureau believes you're not insane.

Paul Ballard:
I mean help me out.

Loomis:
Getting shot didn't even make you pause, did it? [chuckles] I'll help you. The director sees what we're up to, he's gonna help you *out*.

Bicks:
How is that even possible? Every square inch of this place is monitored. If two actives are going at it - what do you think DeWitt'll do? Do you think she'll come down hard? It was probably just a mistake. Look, these dolls, they're smiling all day. Then Sierra's crying in bed. Why alway then? Maybe she's broken? You figure, she's broken?

Boyd Langton:
They're all broken.

Echo:
Where are they taking Victor?

Boyd Langton:
Echo, I'm trying to protect Sierra.

Echo:
Sierra cries.

Boyd Langton:
Not anymore.

Hearn:
Do you want to play the game?

Sierra:
No.

Hearn:
But you remember to be very quiet during the game, right?

Sierra:
Noise is upsetting.

Hearn:
Lift up your dress. [Boyd enters and hits Hearn, knocking him through the glass]

Sierra:
That wasn't quiet.

Boyd Langton:
Wasn't meant to be.

Adelle DeWitt:
Why didn't you tell us you were setting up Hearn?

Boyd Langton:
He had to be clear. He had to be flush with success or he'd never have tried again.

Adelle DeWitt:
You will never take action like that on your own again inside these walls. Am I clear?

Boyd Langton:
You're clear.

Adelle DeWitt:
A bonus is being wired to your account.

Boyd Langton:
I don't need a bonus.

Adelle DeWitt:
Well I need to give it to you. That's all.

Laurence Dominic:
Ma'am, do you have an exit strategy? We have a handler abusing an active, Federal Agent interrupting an engagement, spilling his guts to the nearest civilian. I take much of that as my responsibility. But the higher ups will target *you* if this all goes south.

Adelle DeWitt:
Your concern is touching, but my bags are not packed. You will bring the handler to me. And as for the interpid agent, tell Topher to prep Echo. I think they're ready for a second date.

Adelle DeWitt:
Can you imagine at all, why it is you're not dead?

Hearn:
You probably got something worse planned. You gonna erase my brain, turn me into one of your fantasy boys.

Adelle DeWitt:
I find it a bit sad that you think of yourself as a candidate for anyone's fantasy.

Paul Ballard:
Where is it?

Echo:
You can't know that. You're going about this the wrong way.

Paul Ballard:
I have to take down the Dollhouse!

Echo:
There are over 20 Dollhouses... in cities around the world. They have ties to every major political power on the planet. You cannot possibly stop them alone.

Paul Ballard:
You're gonna help me?

Echo:
The person that sent this message is.

Paul Ballard:
Why?

Echo:
The Dollhouse deals in fantasy. That is their business. But that is not their purpose.

Paul Ballard:
What is?

Echo:
We need you to find out. We'll contact you again, if possible with this same body. But you have to let the Dollhouse win. Make them back off. You have to trust me.

Adelle DeWitt:
Topher did everything he knows to remove the experience. Ignorance in this case, truly is bliss.

Laurence Dominic:
I don't think they're as ignorant as they're supposed to be.

Adelle DeWitt:
No. We're working on it.

Rebecca Mynor:
Please put the gun away. My name is Rebecca Mynor and this is my husband, Joel. We just bought this house. We did, right? You didn't just break in to impress me?

Joel Mynor:
No, it-it-it's paid for. This is all a big mix up. Please tell me your name.

Paul Ballard:
I'm Paul Ballard. I'm with the FBI.

Rebecca Mynor:
I knew it.

Joel Mynor:
What?

Rebecca Mynor:
It's... porn, isn't it? The internet venture that suddenly pays off. You did porn. My husband does porn!

Joel Mynor:
No, I don't do porn.

Rebecca Mynor:
Do you know this man? Is this a porn man?

Joel Mynor:
[Agent Ballard is talking to a Dollhouse client, the "dotcom billionaire"] You put me in front of a judge, he'll take *you* down. He'll-he'll throw The Kindle at you.

Paul Ballard:
Weren't you, um, seeing someone?

Mellie:
Mmm-hmm.

Paul Ballard:
Rick.

Mellie:
Dick.

Paul Ballard:
Really, I thought it was Rick.

Mellie:
Oh, his name is Rick.

Paul Ballard:
Ooh.

Mellie:
Mmm-hmm. He said he didn't see me as a long-term investment. Said he wanted to, ah, dump the stock before it went public. He talks like that. He works at a donut shop.

Paul Ballard:
What a Rick.

Paul Ballard:
[Entering] I'd like you both to turn around very slowly. What's the matter, Mr. Mynor? Did you two want to be... [Sees Echo] alone?

Joel Mynor:
[Having previously explained how he'd always been one step behind the trend] I mean, I finally got one step ahead.

Paul Ballard:
Bouncy the Rat. Kids love it.

Joel Mynor:
Oh, they do. I mean long story still kind of long, my first check had more zeroes than the Luftwaffe.

Paul Ballard:
The Japanese. They had the Zeroes, not the Germans.

Joel Mynor:
[sighs] It was money!

Ivy:
Topher, what happened in DC?

Topher Brink:
It's confidential.

Ivy:
You if you want me to learn, at some point you're going to have to trust me with important information.

Adelle DeWitt:
It feels like ages ago that we actually weighed a request against an active's chance at survival. Let alone well being.

Boyd Langton:
We've always put them at risk. We just don't lie to ourselves about it now.

Adelle DeWitt:
You sound like Harding.

Victor:
I've burned out another dozen CPLD's trying to cool this thing down.

Topher Brink:
I'll order a couple hundred more.

Victor:
These are polycrystalline diamond composites. Do we have a budget for that?

Topher Brink:
Indeed we do. As Mr. Harding says "Anything in the name of progress."

Echo:
[after Echo fends off Ballard's attack] You okay?

Paul Ballard:
Fine. Only next time, don't wait for the attack. Take the offensive like we've been practicing.

Echo:
Sometimes a girl likes to be chased.

Paul Ballard:
Mac and cheese, huh?

Echo:
You're not sick of it, right?

Paul Ballard:
36 personalities. Not one of them can cook?

Echo:
Look who's talking.

Paul Ballard:
Sex and food are sisters in human desire.

Echo:
Well, I never did a sister act... with food... with *cooking* food.

Paul Ballard:
Ok, I'm done. Moving on.

Echo:
But that idea that Caroline might not be... I've been saving this body for her. But I'm not her.

Paul Ballard:
You don't know that. You've resisted the wipes from the start. You tracked down my cell, you couldn't remember my name. You knew I would help you. Keep you from DeWitt. DeWitt was Caroline's enemy, not Echo's. Maybe it was Caroline picking up those shells.

Echo:
I'm *not* her! My name is Echo.

Paul Ballard:
The Dollhouse made you fall in love over and over, you told me that.

Echo:
They also made me aggressively sexual, and phenomenally creative in bed.

Paul Ballard:
[Ballard sigh] Now that's just cruel.

Echo:
Also sociopathic, inexperienced, blind and at least 7 times gay. There's a lot of noise from the chorus girls, but they're not me. There is a me. [Gently touching Ballard's cheek] This is me.

Paul Ballard:
She's not saying anything, but I think her headaches are getting worse. She's deteriorating.

Boyd Langton:
I thought you said she was getting smarter.

Paul Ballard:
She is. And it's taking its toll.

Boyd Langton:
I'll wait for your signal. Good luck.

Boyd Langton:
You need to take this house back.

Adelle DeWitt:
And how am I supposed to do that?

Boyd Langton:
The Adelle I knew would never ask me that question.

Galena:
[as they're getting on a motorcycle] You know how?

Echo:
[Echo has a flash] I do now.

Topher Brink:
I think they're trying to build a portable device that would be able to imprint anyone without any active architecture in place. Any innocent on the street with a new personality.

Adelle DeWitt:
That's unnerving.

Topher Brink:
What's unnerving is - I figured out how to do it.

Topher Brink:
You are the coldest b*tch on the planet!

Adelle DeWitt:
That is the last time you will ever speak to me like that, or at all unless spoken to. You're off R&D and back on programming. You will imprint these dolls with dedication and precision. And you will follow every single one of my commands as if they were your hearts deepest desire.

Topher Brink:
And what happens if I don't?

Adelle DeWitt:
I would hope that, as some who does care for you, that you will never find that out. I rule this house! I won't let *anyone* challenge that, ever again!

Deputy Merrick:
[startles excessively when Galena suddenly "wakes up from dead"] Oh my god, she's a zombie!

Topher Brink:
Echo?

Echo:
Not anymore.

Laurence Dominic:
I was just informed we have four actives preparing to escape.

Adelle DeWitt:
[grins] Right on schedule.

Laurence Dominic:
It's easy to become attached to your assigned active. In fact, it's necessary. But don't think of them as children. Think of them as pets.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
Is that supposed to be funny?

Laurence Dominic:
If your child starts talking for the first time, you feel proud. If your dog does, you freak the hell out! Any developmental progress an active makes is dangerous to the house. And a possible first step toward another Alpha.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
If you start playing with their meds, it could backfire or damage them...

Topher Brink:
Or solve the problem. I know what I'm doing, Doc.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
So do I. But I also *care* what you're doing... to our pets.

Boyd Langton:
We can't jump at shadows. I don't wanna report that my active asked for toast and have her sent to the Attic. We were hired to protect them.

Adelle DeWitt:
In the field, yes, Mr. Langton. In here, we protect the house! A tide is rising. Until we learn how to turn it back, we pile up the sandbags together. Unless anyone here thinks they've got a better idea.

Victor:
Who the hell are you?

Echo:
Hey, I woke up in a five-star floor coffin just like you, pal.

Echo:
You work for them. Who are they? Where are we?... Please!

Dr. Claire Saunders:
I'm not your friend in here, Echo. I'm sorry I can't help you.

November:
I have a daughter... Katie.

Echo:
Okay, we'll get you out of here.

Sierra:
What's wrong?

Echo:
She has a daughter.

November:
Please help me find her. I don't know where she is.

Sierra:
You'll be putting yourself back in there. You didn't fight to get out for nothing.

Echo:
Not nothing. You guys are okay now. I go back in knowing that.

Victor:
This thing, it's too big. There's too many of 'em. They got guns. What do you think you're gonna do?

Echo:
Try and make a difference.

Laurence Dominic:
[Realizing Echo's in the building] She was in the car.

Adelle DeWitt:
Apparently she's got one step ahead of us. I should have seen this coming. This is Caroline, minus the memories. But it's her. And this is exactly what Caroline would do.

Topher Brink:
You can't imprint on top of a fully functional brain. It'll implode!

Echo:
Oh. Is that why you keep us so simple?

Topher Brink:
[frightened] Yes. Yes!

Echo:
Who are you?

Adelle DeWitt:
Adelle Dewitt. I am responsible for this facility and everyone in it.

Echo:
Then you are one sick b*tch!

Dr. Claire Saunders:
We give them what they need.

Adelle DeWitt:
Dr. Saunders?

Dr. Claire Saunders:
Closure. If actives have particularly poignant or reoccurring experiences, these can cause desires, emotional needs, or reactivate old ones that existed before they came here. Open loops. If they're able to close those loops to get some sense of resolve...

Adelle DeWitt:
You're recommending we allow them to take a self-guided journey.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
Just the priority cases. Let the tide come in. It's the only way to wash it back out.

Boyd Langton:
When Echo was leading them out, I would've liked to have seen that. Even if it was all a game. Your game.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
Do you think I had fun?

Boyd Langton:
I don't know you very well.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
You have to look after Echo. I have to look after all of them. She wasn't leading them to freedom. She was leading them to a world of terror and chaos that would have destroyed them.

Boyd Langton:
She's not leading them anywhere anymore.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
You should be grateful.

Boyd Langton:
Yeah. I'll work on that.

Echo:
[Ballard checks his voicemail] Paul Ballard, this is - you don't know me. But I have a file and your name is in it, and I think we've met. I know it sounds crazy...

Paul Ballard:
Caroline.

Echo:
But we're here, somewhere underground. I'm trying to get everyone out, but if I can't - please, please find us!

Attendant #2:
Good morning. We're having banana pancakes for breakfast today.

Tango:
I like pancakes.

Victor:
We're all gonna die.

Echo:
[to DeWitt] Your unbearable truth, lady? You're not as important as you think you are!

[DeWitt straightens up haughtily, Echo points the gun at her heart]

Echo:
Next one goes where your heart should have been. Now, show us out.

Echo:
How come it's there, if you didn't give it to me?

Topher Brink:
It's coming from you. It's what you need. I have your memories. You can have them back.

Echo:
You can do that?

Topher Brink:
Totally.

Echo:
[Indicating the chair] But I have to go in there.

Topher Brink:
Well yeah. But...

Echo:
[backs up] Okay.

Topher Brink:
Okay.

Echo:
[points the gun at Topher] You first.

[last lines]

Echo:
[to herself] Caroline...

Alpha:
Alpha, meet Omega.

Topher Brink:
I made it very clear these imprints were prone to paranoia. I flagged it in the paperwork.

Adelle DeWitt:
Just as a point of interest, how potentially lethal would you say these imprints are?

Adelle DeWitt:
The Alpha situation was an unfortunate technological anomaly.

Paul Ballard:
"A technological anomaly?" My God, what have you people done?

Adelle DeWitt:
This isn't the end of your life.

Caroline:
Then why do I feel like I'm walking to the gallows?

Adelle DeWitt:
Five years, and to you, it'll feel like an instant.

Boyd Langton:
[Watching an active get programmed] Topher says it's like childbirth. I think it's more like watching someone die.

Paul Ballard:
In a mass killing like this, the first victims will often be whoever's in the way. Who was the first individual that Alpha went for the moment he had a choice?

Topher Brink:
Himself. Yeah. The first individual? He came over here to the Self Shelf. It's where I keep my primaries stored, the original personalities that the volunteers first walk in with. He took his original self and he smashed the hell out of it.

Alpha:
[to Echo] She's responsible for all of the terrible things you can't remember.

Crystal:
My brain hurts.

Caroline:
How do you think my brain - Hey! That *is* my brain! I want my brain back! I want back in my brain!

Alpha:
You should have thought of that before you vacated the premises.

Echo:
You okay?

Caroline:
Uh, yeah. I kick ass. Who are you?

Echo:
I'm Echo.

Caroline:
And who is that?

Echo:
She's nobody. I'm just the porchlight waiting for you.

Echo:
I have 38 brains, not one of them thinks you can sign a contract to be a slave. Especially now that we have black president.

Caroline:
We have a black president? Okay, I am missing everything. Yeah, let's do it.

Echo:
[Referring the hard drive with Caroline's personality] I said shoot it! I don't care!

Alpha:
Yeah. Well, maybe she will!

Echo:
She won't know. She's me! And we're both coming to get you!

Echo:
[to Paul] You saved her.

Blevins:
Alpha! Treatment.

Alpha:
Yeah, let's do that instead.

Alpha:
[back at the Dollhouse in a flashback] Whiskey? Let Echo be number one.

[slashes Whiskey's face]

Echo:
I may not know who I am, but at least I know who I'm not. I'm not your girlfriend.

Alpha:
[to Echo, about Caroline] She left you to the jackals, to the wolves. To the predators. Isn't that right, Caroline?

Caroline:
She said that I would be taken care of. And that I would be safe.

Alpha:
[laughing] Do you feel safe? Huh? Do ya? Ya feel safe?

Alpha:
[to Echo] You can ascend. You can evolve. It's in you I've seen it.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
[still in shock after her encounter with Alpha] He asked me if I always wanted to be a doctor.

Topher Brink:
Huh. Well who can fathom the mind of a crazy person?

Dr. Claire Saunders:
The one who made him crazy? Maybe.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
[about Alpha] He came for Echo.

Victor:
[after being carved up by Alpha] I'm not by best anymore. I want to be my best.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
Yes. I know you do.

Victor:
How can I be my best now? Dr. Saunders? How can I be my best please?

Dr. Claire Saunders:
You can't Victor. You can't be your best. Your best is past. Your past you can't even remember. You're ugly now. You're disgusting. All you can hope for now is pity. And for that, you're going to have to look somewhere else.

Alpha:
The mind you have been given is so tiny, so primitive, that it is incredible you can even perform basic motor functions or form words.

Echo:
We're not gods.

Alpha:
I'm not going to shoot the wedge. I'm going to keep the wedge. I'm going to use the wedge. And I am gonna grab Wendys and Beckys and Stacys from all over this great nation, and every one of them will be a Caroline. And every one of them will get carved up, and her throat cut until I get bored. Now get in the chair!

Adelle DeWitt:
Carl William Craft.

Paul Ballard:
Three names. Always ominous

Adelle DeWitt:
Well he never actually killed anybody.

Boyd Langton:
Not until he came here.

Alpha:
We are confused. Omega, you hit me with a pipe.

Echo:
Yeah, call me Omega again and you'll get some more!

Alpha:
Something must've gone wrong with the composite.

Echo:
Nothing went wrong. Every imprint this active has ever had is alive and awake in her head right now.

Alpha:
Then why did you hit me in the head with a pipe?

Echo:
It was handy? And you wanted me to kill myself! [points to Wendy]

Alpha:
[to his handler] Understand "hell" now.

Caroline:
[after imprinting Caroline in Wendy] What is this? [looking at Echo] What am I doing sitting here, and standing over there?

Alpha:
Baby... meet yourself.

Caroline:
Oh, God! The wrongness of this is so large! Whose body is this?

Paul Ballard:
[standing next to the chair] So this is it. This is where you steal their souls.

Topher Brink:
[sarcastically] Yeah. And then we put 'em in a glass jar with our fireflies. [to DeWitt] Why is there a tall, morally judgmental man in my imprint room besides him? [points to Boyd]

Topher Brink:
Dr. Saunders?

Dr. Claire Saunders:
I think you gave me more computer skills than would be required by a medical doctor. It was very easy for me to hack your system. I'm curious.

Topher Brink:
About?

Dr. Claire Saunders:
Well, I guess, I understand why they wouldn't wanna waste an investment. And I suppose, why hire a new physician when you can just... imprint the broken Doll. But why did you decide it was so important for me to hate you? I think that's strange.

Topher Brink:
You didn't open it.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
No.

Topher Brink:
Aren't you curious to see who you really are?

Dr. Claire Saunders:
I know who I am.

Lars:
I... paid for this. It was supposed to be my fantasy. Look, I just wanted to have a little fun.

Bobby:
"Little fun?" You wanted to have a little fun? Well are you? [Yelling] Are you having fun Lars?

Lars:
[Whimpering] No.

Bobby:
She's real. And that's the last real thing you're ever gonna see. Crystal!

Crystal:
[Whiskey enters] Yeah, baby?

Echo:
Hey, save it! And don't hand me any more of your crap about being some superior, ascended being. To ascend to anything, at minimum, you don't cut up women!

Alpha:
Lay back in the chair.

Echo:
[jumping out of chair] You lay back in the chair! I'm done laying back in the chair! I'm ready to rinse and spit.

Alpha:
[backing away, pointing gun at wedge] I will shoot it! I will blast the wedge!

Echo:
So blast it. What's stopping you, Edward Scissor-pud?

Alpha:
I'm not fooling. [multiple personalities talking] He's not kidding. *We're* not bluffing! I'm bluffing. But the rest of us! We mean business.

Paul Ballard:
So this is it. This is where you steal their souls?

Topher Brink:
Yeah. And then we put them in a glass jar with our fireflies! Why is there a tall, morally judgmental man in MY inprint room, [points at Boyd] besides him?

Dr. Claire Saunders:
You shouldn't've taken the arrow out. You could've bled to death. And a broadhead arrow does more damage coming out.

Boyd Langton:
I'll remember that next time I'm being bow-hunted.

Boyd Langton:
Look, if you don't certify me, and Echo gets sent out again, she could end up with some stranger as her handler.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
We're all strangers to them.

Boyd Langton:
She's my responsibility. And we both know there's someone out there. Someone who wants her dead. The word from upstairs is it can't be Alpha.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
...You're certified.

Boyd Langton:
Thank you.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
And do keep a close eye. Someone else is watching.

Boyd Langton:
Someone always is.

Biz:
Someone's trying to kill Rayna, and to my utter astonishment it isn't me.

Paul Ballard:
We split the atom, make a bomb. We come up with anything new, the first thing we do is destroy, manipulate, control. It's human nature.

Lubov:
Yeah, people are mostly crap. I don't think there's a Dollhouse. I hear different, I'll get word. Personally, I wish there was.

Paul Ballard:
How come?

Lubov:
So I could sign up. Wipe all of my, uh, terrible burdens away.

Lubov:
Hey, I'm getting this third-hand. I still think it goes nowhere.

Paul Ballard:
Then why call?

Lubov:
Because you inspire terrible pity. Watch your back.

Jordan:
He's gonna kill you. I think you know that!

Rayna Russell:
You have no idea what it's like.

Jordan:
You can't go out there!

Rayna Russell:
You don't tell me what I can and can't do!

Jordan:
You want him to shoot you... on stage, tonight. You're crazier than he is.

Rayna Russell:
I'm not crazy. I just wanna be free.

Jordan:
What have you got to be miserable about?

Rayna Russell:
No, right. I gotta be happy. I gotta be grateful. I gotta be rebellious, but just enough to give me cred, so people know I'm not a factory girl. But I am. I don't exist. I'm not a real person. I'm everybody's fantasy. God help me if I try not to be. I know you weren't grown in a lab, but I was. Been singing for my supper since when and for when and for everybody else! God put this voice in me and forgot to make it mine. I don't feel it. I don't feel anything. For a long while. But I know he's out there. The Reaper. Any minute now, boom. Freedom. There's your rush. There's your joy. I can hear. I c- I can hear myself.

Jordan:
You can fire me. But b*tch, don't think you can take me! Have fun with your fan.

Jordan:
Rayna, I know you don't feel anything, or think that you don't. But you will. You will if you do something to save this girl. And you will help this girl!

Rayna Russell:
What makes you think...

Jordan:
[Jordan knocks Rayna out] Friends help each other out.

Boyd Langton:
Are you ready for your treatment?

Jordan:
All right. But can I kick that guy's ass first?

Boyd Langton:
I will seriously consider it.

Boyd Langton:
This Sierra's new, isn't she?

[Hearn nods]

Boyd Langton:
What happened to the previous Sierra?

Hearn:
She got the job done.

Topher Brink:
Of the two people here, one of us is a genius, and the other is a security guard in a very lovely suit.

Laurence Dominic:
All right, genius, tell me why Echo would kidnap the girl you programmed her to protect and bring her to the man who's trying to kill her?

Topher Brink:
[pause] Wow. [nervous chuckle] That does sound kind of bad.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
You sent Echo out on a high-risk engagement?

Topher Brink:
[sighs] Dr. Saunders, hey, so good of you to annoy me.

Jordan:
[to Rayna] You don't want to die. [to the fan] You don't want her dead. This is way too confusing.

[Jordan drops Rayna off the platform]

Mellie:
[Interrupts Lubov trying to pick the lock to Ballard's apartment] Did you forget your key again - [realizes it's not Ballard]

Lubov:
Oh, I startle you, you startle me.

Mellie:
Can I help you?

Lubov:
I am, uh, friend of Paul.

Mellie:
Really.

Lubov:
An old friend from... Navy. [realizes his Russian accent makes that claim implausible] Friend from Old Navy. I did retail before. He would buy slacks.

Victor:
[to DeWitt] I don't believe for a second you'd ever stoop to the level of those pathetic souls who have to hire your programmable love dolls to get what they need.

Topher Brink:
There's nothing lef in Ballard's head. Alpha scrubbed him clean. Even if I could make the chair work on someone without active architecture, I'd be lucky if I could get him to walk a straight line.

Boyd Langton:
But he's stable, physically?

Topher Brink:
As a zucchini. Which is what he's going to be for the rest of his life. Now my brain is starting to feel like his.

Adelle DeWitt:
Just make sure this doesn't happent with any other actives. We can't have clients being rejected by dolls who are programmed to love them.

Topher Brink:
Yeah, we're lucky this happened to you.

Adelle DeWitt:
[Long pause] If anyone finds out about this, you *won't* be so lucky!

Echo:
Everything's slipping away from me. Before it was memories. But I figured out how to hold on to them. And now that I have something real - people I care about - they're slipping away from me too.

Topher Brink:
What did I just tell you?

Victor:
5 years would seem like... 5 seconds.

Topher Brink:
Welcome to the future. Where cars fly, robots server our every whim, and genetically engineered dinosaurs rule the Earth.

Ivy:
It's pretty much the same as when you left.

Victor:
The war - is it...?

Topher Brink:
Still going.

Echo:
[Speaking of Victor] I needed him. I thought he could help me get everyone out.

Sierra:
I'm sad too. But not for us. For him. He's not ready to be by himself.

Adelle DeWitt:
Do you think anything goes on in my house wihout my knowledge?

Echo:
I don't know. It seems like a lot went down without you knowing.

Adelle DeWitt:
Yes. While I'm not surprised that Paul... and Boyd managed to keep your secret. But *Topher*? He can barely keep his belch to himself.

Echo:
Lady, if I wanted to be somewhere else, I would be. But there's work to be done here. Now you can be on *my* side or Rossum's, but the time for playing both is over!

Echo:
Ready to process the room? You want FBI, private investigator or should I surprise you?

Boyd Langton:
So how exactly does this work? You accessing other personalities.

Echo:
I used to have to make an effort to switch between imprints. But now I can slip back and forth without even thinking.

Boyd Langton:
Who am I talking to now?

Echo:
Echo. You're always talking to Echo. Though Roma Klar, and Elenor Penn are duking it out over who gets to help me figure this one out.

Boyd Langton:
I'll take all the help I can get.

Ivy:
[Echo, Topher and Boyd all enter] This wasn't on schedule.

Echo:
[Echo sits in the chair] Load me up. We're going to war!

Ivy:
Why didn't you let me in on this earlier?

Topher Brink:
You were on a need-to-know basis.

Ivy:
Need-to-know or need-to-fetch?

Echo:
[after knocking out a solider] Don't piss off a blind girl!

Echo:
[Handing Priya a weapon] Know how to fire a gun?

Priya Tsetsang:
Uh, my grandfather took me hunting in Gippsland once.

Echo:
Know how this works?

Priya Tsetsang:
Well, I-I shot at rabbits. I-I didn't hit anything.

Echo:
Same idea. Just bigger targets.

Anthony Ceccoli:
There are two soldiers. A-Team formation. XM8 Assault rifles. MK23s and some flash grenades. They're about to make an offensive move. I'm Anthony by the way. You can call me "Tony."

Priya Tsetsang:
Priya.

Anthony Ceccoli:
Nice to meet you.

Boyd Langton:
We may not have agreed in the past. But at least we put this house and the actives *first*. What happened to that woman?

Adelle DeWitt:
She's standing in front of you.

Boyd Langton:
No she's not! If you don't find her soon, you're going to lose control of this house. And *I'll* the one knocking down the door.

Adelle DeWitt:
I hope it doesn't come down to that Mr. Langton.

Echo:
Victor and Sierra, where are they?

Attendant:
We don't use active codes here. We use your real names. [Echo knocks him out]

Echo:
My real name's Echo.

Topher Brink:
[Speaking of Ballard] Alpha mapped his entire brain. I'll try and piece it back together.

Adelle DeWitt:
Maybe not. I plan on making some changes around this house today. Perhaps his petulant personality's a good place to start. And we are in the market for a - strapping new Victor, are we not?

Boyd Langton:
What do we know about the attic?

Topher Brink:
No one comes back, Boyd.

Boyd Langton:
But why? What do they do to them in there?

Topher Brink:
I don't know: experimenting, torture. They're testing the limits of the human mind. The brain is kept in a fear induced adrenaline fueled overdrive state like a problem you can't solve. Either the nightmare lasts forever or...

Boyd Langton:
Or it doesn't last at all.

Laurence Dominic:
Of course, you'd be in my nightmare. You were Rossum's rising star.

Echo:
No, I was a defect. And I'm pretty sure you're in my defective head.

Laurence Dominic:
No, I'm in the attic trapped inside my mind.

Echo:
This is *my* mind!

Laurence Dominic:
Are we really arguing about this?

Topher Brink:
I've done nothing wrong. Apart from the things that got you your job back.

Adelle DeWitt:
You gave us extraordinary technology which will be used soon. The question is whether you have anything more to offer. Whether you can accept radical change, or buckle under pressure.

Topher Brink:
I don't buckle. Occassionally, I swashbuckle.

Adelle DeWitt:
Yes, you're quite the pirate hero. Swinging in and dismembering Nolan Kinnard. If you try and keep secrets from the corporation, you may have every expectation of being chopped into pieces yourself. How do you imagine that would feel?

Adelle DeWitt:
You didn't come to the Dollhouse because of Echo. You came because you work for Rossum. That means your option tend to slim to three: carry out Rossum's work without question, the attic or death. The moment you stepped into this house, you, in effect. gave us your life. And you must decide if that is to be put to good use, or laid to waste. I have see the future, Mr. Langton. And it is not for the weak.

Nolan Kinnard:
You know, I never tried this scenario. I never tried - rigor mortis - the new Viagra.

Echo:
So this is your mind, huh, Clyde? This is your worst nightmare.

Clyde Randolph:
This isn't a nightmare. This is the shape of things to come.

Topher Brink:
That's what we're going to do to Paul, you know. Take something away.

Boyd Langton:
Yeah. I heard. That's going to make him more pissed off than he ususally is.

Topher Brink:
Not if I take away his anger. [Slight chuckle]

Boyd Langton:
No. Anger will be all he has.

Topher Brink:
That woman is going to drag us straight to hell.

Anthony Ceccoli:
In my scenario, I was constantly fighting myself, at war. Just trying to get home to my girl. [Holds up a photo of Priya]

Priya Tsetsang:
In mine, I was constantly making love to you.

Anthony Ceccoli:
Oh?

Priya Tsetsang:
And then you'd turn into the rotting corpse of a rapist I killed.

Anthony Ceccoli:
Oh.

Clyde Randolph:
My nightmare, my loop, has been to run statistical probability scenarios for whete the technology might lead... All but 3% of them include the end of civilization.

Clyde Randolph:
There has been talk a-amongst some of the security personnel that they placed here. They mistakenly let a woman in. She saw them. She could identify them. But apparently, they got to her too. They - they scrubbed her clean.

Laurence Dominic:
So we have no way of telling...

Echo:
Caroline!

Clyde Randolph:
YES! Caroline! That was it!

Priya Tsetsang:
Wait, Echo. Why does that sound familiar?

Echo:
That's me. I was Caroline before I became Echo.

Paul Ballard:
What - what the hell - what the hell did you do to me?

Boyd Langton:
You were in a coma, Paul.

Topher Brink:
Alpha damaged your brain. We did it to save your life.

Paul Ballard:
Did what? [Long pause, as Ballard realizes what happened] You made me a doll?

Boyd Langton:
[after Ballard goes to confront DeWitt] At some point, he's going to figure out what we took away from him.

Topher Brink:
I know.

Echo:
[Speaking of Priya and Anthony] The only way this scenario worked is if I didn't have to fight for you two.

Priya Tsetsang:
Then we'll fight for ourselves. You don't have to look out for us any more. You've been inside our minds, You know we're just as abnormal and just as ready as you... We're a team now. We go together!

Laurence Dominic:
If you succeed and you can get a signal to me, we'll shut down the mainframe... I guess I'm glad I never did you.

Echo:
Don't get sloppy.

Adelle DeWitt:
We're ready.

Echo:
No. We're one soldier shy. [Echo rises] It's time for me to meet Caroline. It's time to win her war.

Topher Brink:
I did all of this. I'm the one who brings about the thought-pocalypse.

Adelle DeWitt:
Thought-pocalypse?

Topher Brink:
Is brain-pocalypse better? I figure, if I'm responsible for the end of the world, I get to name it.

Adelle DeWitt:
I gave the plans to Harding, I'm just as culpable.

Topher Brink:
Thanks Adelle. You handed someone a piece of paper. I invented it. Which means I have to destroy it.

Adelle DeWitt:
Is that even possible?

Topher Brink:
The mad scientist in me says 'yes.'

Priya Tsetsang:
What are you going to do?

Echo:
Something Caroline tried to do two years ago: shut this place down for good.

Echo:
You know about Boyd?

Anthony Ceccoli:
Yea. Didn't see that one comin'.

Boyd Langton:
We like to keep the medical records of everyone who crosses our path, especially the interesting ones. Caroline you are *definitely* interesting, at least on a microscopic level.

Boyd Langton:
The wedge must have been damaged.

Topher Brink:
No! Bennett fixed the wedge. She *died* fixing it!

Adelle DeWitt:
Then maybe Echo and Caroline aren't getting along.

Anthony Ceccoli:
Look, you said it yourself. We have to help our friends. And this chair here, might be our only shot. And you know, no matter who I am, no matter what they put in my skull, I always remember you. That won't change. But if I turn evil...

[Hands her a weapon]

Anthony Ceccoli:
- shoot me.

Priya Tsetsang:
I'm not gonna kill you.

Anthony Ceccoli:
Well, seriously wound me then.

Clyde:
This world is for people who can evolve.

Adelle DeWitt:
And does that include us?

Clyde:
Isn't that what you're here to find out.

Topher Brink:
I thought it would take Rossum years to realize my schematics.

Boyd Langton:
And now they have?

Topher Brink:
We're even more screwed than we thought. [Picks up a weapon] With this you can wipe and imprint anyone. No need for an active's cranial architecture in your coconut. One zap with the laser and bzzz, you're a doll.

Boyd Langton:
Topher think!

Topher Brink:
That's what got us here in the first place. I'm going for mindless destruction now!

Boyd Langton:
You've proven yourselves in so many ways. I-I-I wanted you all with me - except for Paul. There's always one relative you could live without. And, frankly, I never understood what you saw in him.

Adelle DeWitt:
So you want us to keep you company? Fiddling while Rome burns. Thank you very much, I'd rather be dead.

November:
Tell me they taught you how to sabotage supercomputers at Quantico.

Paul Ballard:
[Slight chuckle] Right after the course on toppling evil corporations bent on world domination.

Echo:
Thought you two would be on a beach in Cancun by now.

Anthony Ceccoli:
Never left a man behind before. Not going to start today.

Priya Tsetsang:
Besides, we're family.

Echo:
Do me a favor. Call us what you want, just not family.

Clyde:
You know this is the first time I can hit a girl without feeling bad about it.

Echo:
You think Topher loaded me with nice personalities? I will scrub the floor with you!

Boyd Langton:
The question is: who are you? Caroline or Echo?

Echo:
I'm everything *you* made me.

Boyd Langton:
Good. And that means you still trust me with your life.

Anthony Ceccoli:
[imprinted with Topher 2.0] What's with all the dead dudes?

Bennett Halverson:
What's interesting to me is that - you don't call out to God. It isn't a question of faith, it's just the venacular. Anyone in this much pain prays, or at least curses. But we take God from you too. You really are a shell.

Echo:
[Bennett is holding a hard drive] Is Caroline in there?

Bennett Halverson:
Heh. Yes and no. This is one of my memories of you. This is the last time I saw you. This is what you did to me. Not just to my arm. To *me*. I want you to feel this. There is something worse than pain.

Victor:
What you're not getting, man-friend, is that this whole operation is dependent upon *me*. Not a brain-construct-y me, but "Bond, James Bond" me. Which is

[Victor chuckles]

Victor:
not so me.

Boyd Langton:
Vict - Topher. All you have to do is stay calm.

Victor:
This from the guy who had to dismember my last little outing!

Adelle DeWitt:
[Seductively] I would like to think we could achive a... mutually beneficial... compromise.

Howard Lipman:
Compromise can be fun...

[DeWitt grabs a part of Lipman's body]

Adelle DeWitt:
If you don't return my Active, I will send someone to cut these off. You will be killed horribly over a long period, and never found. Now look me in the eyes Stuart, and tell me if I've learned how to bluff.

Howard Lipman:
[In a pained voice] Ok.

Adelle DeWitt:
Compromise.

Topher Brink:
Okay, so we have had an active, Whiskey. She was rendered unengageable. So we - *I* made her into a doctor. Uh - and you - [gestures to Bennett's arm] so I thought maybe - similar - Bennett - the real Bennett would use an active to...

Bennett Halverson:
You thought... That's idiotic. Actives are beautiful.

Topher Brink:
Yeah.

Echo:
We haven't escaped. They're coming. They always come. Because of this. [Echo touches the back of Daniel's neck]

Senator Daniel Perrin:
What is that?

Echo:
It's how they find us.

Senator Daniel Perrin:
GPS tag?

Echo:
We have to cut.

Bennett Halverson:
[to Topher] How about, while I build the magic bullets, you work on adapting your gun.

Cindy Perrin:
But everybody's got a past. It's the future the voters care about. You show them that. All will be forgiven.

Echo:
I'm afraid of Caroline. If she comes back, where will I go? I don't want to fall asleep, even for a little while

Echo:
Daniel stop! They're in your head. You don't have to listen! You don't have to be what they tell you to be! You can belong to you!

Bennett Halverson:
Do you know who Echo really is?

Topher Brink:
She's a friend!

Bennett Halverson:
Friend? A shell? I was her friend. I was her *best* friend. [Indicating her arm] This is what I got for it. This is my gift from Caroline.

Topher Brink:
This isn't about Caroline. This is about Echo.

Bennett Halverson:
They're the same! Caroline has a power over people. And however well you wiped her, she clearly still does!

Cindy Perrin:
Where is he?

Echo:
Gone. Something else is here.

Cindy Perrin:
[Cindy hits Echo] Oh God. Doll speak.

Topher Brink:
She's got me locked out on this end.

Victor:
Who's your back door man?

Topher Brink:
We'll pretend I didn't say that.

Victor:
Yeah.

Boyd Langton:
So what are you saying? They're manufacturing a president?

Topher Brink:
Wouldn't be the first time.

Adelle DeWitt:
Finding him obstinate, are we?

Topher Brink, Victor:
Yes!... This is so weird.

Echo:
[to Cindy after she punches Echo] You just woke up a lot of people, and they all think you're a b*tch!

Senator Daniel Perrin:
At those hearings, you will hear a most innocent word. A word that will take on a new and grim meaning. A word that will become synomous with human trafficking, prostitution and unconscionable abuse of Neural Technology. Directly traceable back to the Rossum Corporation. That word is "Dollhouse."

Matthew Harding:
[Speaking of November] Remind me why you released her from her contract 2 years early.

Adelle DeWitt:
It was an internal matter.

Matthew Harding:
[Looking at Ballard] Right. Something to do with keeping you from exposing this house to the public. Well, that worked out.

Paul Ballard:
[Speaking of November] So just how much danger is she in?

Adelle DeWitt:
A former active once made a passing reference to us in his blog... That was his *last* entry.

Paul Ballard:
So going before the United States Senate that would be worse.

Adelle DeWitt:
Considerably.

Adelle DeWitt:
She's a sleeper.

Paul Ballard:
An assasin you mean. Like Madeline when she was Mellie.

Adelle DeWitt:
Oh please, she didn't kill you.

Adelle DeWitt:
Once a Sleeper Active's protocol has been triggered, the thing you're facing will neither be reasoned with, or stopped.

Paul Ballard:
This is the same tech that turned Echo into a serial killer.

Topher Brink:
We said we wouldn't dwell on that. He's dwelling.

Adelle DeWitt:
Just continue.

Paul Ballard:
But you released her. Why would she still have her architecture in her head?... No one ever really leaves here, do they?

Senator Daniel Perrin:
I just want to do what's right.

Echo:
Senator, no offense but if you want to do the right thing, bringing your hooker mistress to your wife isn't a great idea.

Senator Daniel Perrin:
Why should I belive anything you say?

Adelle DeWitt:
Because I am the person that programmed Bree to blackmail you. If I wanted to kill you, you'd be dead already.

Senator Daniel Perrin:
Hey, you don't want me dead. Wow, I feel like we're really bonding.

Echo:
[Daniel tries to prevent Echo from attacking Cyndi] I'm on *your* team.

Senator Daniel Perrin:
I love her.

Echo:
I know. [Echo hits Daniel] But I don't have that problem!

Senator Daniel Perrin:
You want to take me back to them? They're all bad guys, Bree.

Echo:
I think her bad guys are badder than my bad guys.

Madeleine Costley:
[to Ballard] You said you freed me. When someone's free they get to make mistakes. Am I free?

Bennett Halverson:
Keep you mind on your work, please. The moment you start wondering about the people upstairs, they'll start wondering about you. That is nothing you want.

Echo:
[Waking up] Where am I?

Bennett Halverson:
Caroline? You always promised you'd come back to me. Let's play. [Begins Echo's treatment]

Topher Brink:
[bursting in on Adelle's meeting] Um, hey! Uhh, sorry. I think we have a situation. The kind you need to shoot at.

Laurence Dominic:
Secure the exits! Anyone tries to breach, shoot 'em in the head. Twice!

Adelle DeWitt:
In their resting state, our actives are as innocent and vulnerable as children. We call it the tabula rasa, the blank slate. Now imagine the imprint process filling it. Creating a new personality, a friend, a lover, a... confidante in a sea of enemies. Your heart's desire made flesh. And when the engagement has been completed, all memory of you and your time together will be wiped clean.

Adelle DeWitt:
Our company policy requires a small additional fee against any unforseen complications. [Shows Richard the new fee. Richard coughs]

Richard O'Connell:
Small, huh?

Adelle DeWitt:
To my employers, very.

Richard O'Connell:
Well if this girl's everything you promised, it'll be worth it.

Adelle DeWitt:
Just make sure you return her safe and sound otherwise, there will be... additional costs.

Richard O'Connell:
I'll keep it low key.

Jenny:
Uh, you couldn't have packed a couple sandwiches?

Richard O'Connell:
Oh, sandwiches don't give you a run when you try to eat 'em. They just lay there waiting for mustard.

Jenny:
I like mustard.

Richard O'Connell:
[Giving Echo lessons with the bow and arrow] Do the work, earn your way. If you can bring down something bigger than you with just this, you've proved you deserve to eat it. If it gets away, it proved it deserved to live, and you go hungry. Dad thought we all take too much for granted.

Adelle DeWitt:
In the light of recent events, we've decided to engage individuals with a more, shall we say, intensive background. If you're amenable to the terms of your contract, you will be assigned to Echo, one of our most requested actives.

Boyd Langdon:
What happened to her last handler?

Dr. Claire Saunders:
[Dr. Saunders enters] You're standing in him.

[Boyd notices the dried pool of blood he's standing on]

Boyd Langdon:
The cuts are meticulous, almost surgical. Wouldn't have thought it was possible to carve up a man like this so fast.

Laurence Dominic:
It isn't, unless you've been imprinted with the necessary skills.

Boyd Langdon:
You're telling me you programmed one of your dolls to be Jack the Ripper?

Laurence Dominic:
Not my department.

Topher Brink:
So what do you think of your new girl?

Boyd Langdon:
She's not a girl. She's not even a person. Just an empty hat, until you stuff a rabbit in it.

Jenny:
Why are you doing this?

Richard O'Connell:
Because I wanna know.

Jenny:
Know what, you sick son-of-a-b*tch?

Richard O'Connell:
If you deserve to live; if you've earned the right.

Jenny:
You know what gives someone the right to live? NOT HUNTING THEM!

Richard O'Connell:
[chuckles] That's it, shoulder to the wheel! Prove you're not just an echo.

Topher Brink:
[Boyd and Echo are about to bond] Hey, this isn't about friendship, man. It's about trust. From this point on, Echo will always trust you without question or hesitation. No matter what the circumstances. You're about to become the most important person in her life.

Boyd Langdon:
Let's just get this over with.

Boyd Langdon:
How many?

Ranger:
What?

Boyd Langdon:
[Boyd shoots one of the Ranger's kneecaps] How many men between me and the girl?

Ranger:
I don't know! I don't know, I swear to God!

Boyd Langdon:
[Boyd shoots his other kneecap] I don't think he's listening.

Richard O'Connell:
[Echo and Richard are pointing their weapons at each other] Is this the best date ever or what?

Jenny:
You'll let me go?

Richard O'Connell:
Sure. No harm, no foul.

Jenny:
You poisoned me! And tried to shoot me with arrows!

Richard O'Connell:
Okay, so maybe a little bit of harm.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
Alpha is dead. After he - after what he did, they tracked him down and put a bullet in his brain.

Boyd Langdon:
And they'd never lie to us about something like that, would they? Alpha could've killed Echo when he escaped, but he didn't. A wake of bodies, but he left her alive. Now someone hires some nutjob to hunt her down in the woods. Maybe it was Alpha, maybe not. Only thing I really know is it all leads back to Echo.

Boyd Langdon:
[hands Echo a gun] You know how to use this?

Jenny:
Four brothers. [c*cks gun] None of them Democrats.

Boyd Langdon:
Everything's going to be all right.

Echo:
Now that you're here.

Boyd Langdon:
Do you trust me?

Echo:
With my life!

Laurence Dominic:
[about Alpha] He gets wiped after every engagement like all the rest. How could he composite?

Topher Brink:
[shaky] Can't. Shouldn't. Did.

Topher Brink:
We're still working out the kinkies.

Boyd Langton:
Like the blood, the screaming, the dying?

Richard Connell:
How's your buddy holdin' up? He's losing an awful lot of blood.

Jenny:
Not as much as you're about to.

Jenny:
[Jumps out from behind a tree armed with a branch] Yaaaaaaaahhhh!

Boyd Langdon:
Wait, I'm not gonna hurt you.

Jenny:
Do I know you?

Boyd Langdon:
Everything's gonna be all right.

Jenny:
Now that... you're here.

Boyd Langdon:
Stay close, I'm gonna get you out...

[gets shot by an arrow]

Jenny:
How do I know you?

Boyd Langdon:
We met a while back.

Jenny:
I feel like I can trust you. I - But I don't remember.

Boyd Langdon:
You okay?

Jenny:
There was something in the water. Richard put something in my water.

Boyd Langdon:
He poisoned you?

Jenny:
He said it wouldn't kill me, but I've been seeing things...

Boyd Langdon:
What kind of things?

Jenny:
A girl that looks like me, but isn't. Dead bodies in a shower. And... and a man standing over me holding a knife, but I can't see his face, I don't think he has one. Are you here? Is this... is this real?

Boyd Langdon:
I'm here. And, yeah, this is real.

Jenny:
He's gonna kill us. He's gonna find us and he's...

Boyd Langton:
Hey. Hey! Everything's gonna be all right.

Jenny:
No it isn't.

Boyd Langton:
Did you hear what I said? Everything's going to be all...

Jenny:
Everything's *not* gonna be all right! You don't get to live just because you deserve to. You have to prove it. You have to put your shoulder to the wheel.

Boyd Langton:
You wanna speak English, I'm kinda bleeding to death here.

Jenny:
He's not gonna stop. Unless he's dead.

Boyd Langton:
You can't go after this guy. You don't have the right imprint. You don't have the right training.

Jenny:
I'm a fast learner.

Boyd Langton:
Jenny...

Jenny:
Do you trust me?

Boyd Langton:
What?

Jenny:
Do you *trust* me?

Boyd Langton:
With my life.

Echo:
Did I fall asleep?

Boyd Langdon:
For a little while.

Echo:
Sorry.

Laurence Dominic:
Are you?

Echo:
Am I?

Laurence Dominic:
Sorry? Are you *really* sorry? Awful lot of people seem to end up dead around you. How does it make you feel? Oh right, you don't... unless we tell you how, and what, and when.

Echo:
I'm going to swim in the pool.

Laurence Dominic:
If it were up to me I'd put you in the attic, or the ground. Yeah, like talking to you's gonna make a difference. Yeah. There's nobody in there.

Boyd Langdon:
Why not default them with, uh, ninja skills, or whatever?

Topher Brink:
We tried that once.

Boyd Langdon:
And?

Topher Brink:
Blood, screaming, dying.

Echo:
[looking at the dead actives murdered by Alpha] They won't wake up...

Boyd Langton:
[hands Echo a gun] You know how to use this?

Echo:
Four brothers. [chambers a round] None of them Democrats.

Adelle DeWitt:
It's not the irony that concerns me. You're asking me to place an active with a federal agency.

Senator Boxbaum:
Indirectly, yes.

Adelle DeWitt:
I don't wish to be vulgar, but one of the many benefits of having you as a client is that you help us avoid entanglements with federal agencies, Senator.

Laurence Dominic:
It's not the job. I'm confident Langton can handle the ATF. It's Echo. Her field responses have been wildly erratic lately.

Adelle DeWitt:
She's demonstrated a talent for adaptability, which is precisely what's required in this instance.

Laurence Dominic:
They shouldn't be adaptable; they should be predictable. If Alpha didn't teach us that much?

Adelle DeWitt:
You don't like Echo, do you, Mr. Dominic?

Laurence Dominic:
It's not that I don't like her. It's that sometimes I worry you do.

Adelle DeWitt:
Your objections have been noted. Thank you, Mr. Dominic.

Boyd Langton:
I admire your courage. Hitchhiking across country.

Esther:
Because I'm blind?

Boyd Langton:
Nah. 'Cause you're a girl.

Esther:
I'm a girl? Wow, I've been blind longer than I thought. Do I hear a smile?

Boyd Langton:
You do.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
This is the eighth time he's had that exact imprint. I've cautioned against repeated imprints in the same dolls. Haven't I?

Topher Brink:
I don't know. You put it in one of those reports?

Dr. Claire Saunders:
Of course!

Topher Brink:
Okay, well, nobody reads those.

Laurence Dominic:
Then what's the problem?

Boyd Langton:
Agent Lilly. He's about to release the hounds of hell on that compound. Echo's imprint will not have prepared her for this.

Laurence Dominic:
Do nothing.

Boyd Langton:
What? If you're worried about a glitch...

Laurence Dominic:
No extraction! Authorization denied!

[Ends the call]

Jonas Sparrow:
The truth this time sister!

[Tries to slap Esther. She blocks it]

Esther:
It's a miracle. I can see!

Agent Lilly:
Okay, you wanted to go in there and get your girl? I'm open to letting you do that, under a couple of conditions...

Boyd Langton:
[Boyd slams Agent Lilly against a truck] How 'bout these conditions? You stay the hell out of my way and maybe I don't tell anyone it was you! You knew he sent his people into town once a month. You were waiting. You ginned up tempers. Started rumors in the town, created a diversion and you wrote that note. That's how you got your warrant. Nobody ever asked to be saved. Not by you!

Esther:
Start taking these people out of here! He swore to protect them. If he won't, we have to! Seth, the blind girl is looking you in the eye. Do you know what that means? It means God brought me here. He has a message for you, and that message is move your ass! Go! Come on!

Laurence Dominic:
If I may, Echo has been exhibiting the same signs Alpha did before his composite event. Now, if you're not willing to send her to the attic...

Adelle DeWitt:
Don't gamble on what I'd be willing to do, Mister Dominic. Take the stairs. [Entering the elevator, she closes it before he can enter]

Topher Brink:
[embarrassed] Uh, you know, a reaction that a man, person, might have in the, you know, the - naked part - shower - Victor!

Dr. Claire Saunders:
Victor had an erection?

Topher Brink:
I prefer 'man reaction.'

Jonas Sparrow:
[Jonas crawls toward Esther so that snipers won't see him] Esther? Those men outside, I know you didn't bring them. I know you were telling me the truth. They've come to destroy us. To raze the garden and to salt the earth. Esther, before, I looked into your eyes, and I saw nothing. And so I believed. And I look into them now, and I need to know, was this a miracle?

Jonas Sparrow:
I do not come into this garden a pure being, Esther. I come into it the way Adam left: broken, corrupted, impure. But those whom I shelter, they are not corrupted. They have not walked in the world the way I have. They have not seen the things that I have seen. And against this world, they are defenseless. So I will protect them. And any who seek to harm them to foul this garden, [Points a gun in Esther's face] shall fail!

General Store Proprietor:
I didn't see who wrote the note. Now it could have been any one of 'em. There was a bit of a mishegaas going on up at the front of the store at the time.

Boyd Langton:
What kind of mishegaas?

Dr. Claire Saunders:
[Topher and Claire are searching the film archives for instances of Victor getting an erection. She finds one] Of course. If it'd been a snake... Please pretend I didn't say that.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
There have been instances of this technology causing aneurysms and in one case, death. It's possible one good sneeze could bring on a seizure.

Topher Brink:
Or even worse, a sneezeure!

Boyd Langton:
Every person I know is pretty poorly constructed. Everyone has an excuse for not dealing. But eventually, that's all they are - excuses.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
What's yours?

Dr. Claire Saunders:
I'm not even real. I'm in someone else's body, and I'm afraid to give it up. I'm not better than you. I'm just a series of excuses.

Topher Brink:
You're human!

Dr. Claire Saunders:
Don't flatter yourself.

Paul Ballard:
You're working an angle?

Adelle DeWitt:
With the exception of the very special and the comatose, have you ever met someone who wasn't?

[first lines]

Handler:
Big day.

Echo:
Is it?

Handler:
Trust me.

Echo:
With my life.

[last lines]

Echo:
I remember everything. Sometimes I'm someone else, and then I come back but I still feel them. All of them. I've been many people. I can hear them, sometimes suddenly. I'm all of them, but none of them is me. Do you know who's real?

Paul Ballard:
Caroline.

Echo:
I want to find her. I want to find all of them. Real them. They can be found. We are lost, but we are not gone. Will you help me?

Paul Ballard:
I swear. No matter what, I'm with you. Everything's gonna be alright.

Echo:
Now that you're here.

Paul Ballard:
Do you trust me?

Echo:
With my life.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
So should I interpret this new concern as pity? Curiosity? Deviant excitement? There's no judging in the Dollhouse.

Boyd Langton:
You seem to be having a hard time.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
My entire existence was constructed by a sociopath in a sweater vest; what do you suggest I do?

Dr. Claire Saunders:
I like my scars. They bring out my eyes.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
What if she goes over your head?

Boyd Langton:
I'm very tall.

Topher Brink:
You need a freakin' treatment!

Echo:
I am and will always be Mrs. Eleanor Penn. [pauses, looks confused as she realizes thats not the right name] Wait. Who did they make me this time?

Topher Brink:
[to Ballard] But this is the Dollhouse, frenemy. Nothing happens here without my - What the hell?

Adelle DeWitt:
[to Boyd] We made a deal with Paul Ballard. Either we honor the deal or he exposes us, I order you to do something... extreme. I'd like to avoid the latter two. I have plans for the erstwhile agent.

Boyd Langton:
The one who wanted to be rolled in eggs and flour and dipped.

Adelle DeWitt:
Ahh, Tempura Joe. Such a lonely soul.

Boyd Langton:
Thought I'd seen it all. But this engagement, *honestly*, this one's sick!

Topher Brink:
Is this your idea of a joke?

Dr. Claire Saunders:
You designed me, Mr. Brinks. I guess it must be your idea of a joke.

Topher Brink:
I designed you to be a NOT crazy person! You gotta stop messing with me.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
I don't seem to be able to.

Paul Ballard:
I can't beat you. The FBI kick me out for trying. Maybe the Senator can, I'll raise a glass. But in the meanwhile, I'm a kiss away from taking down a gun runner the FBI couldn't touch.

Topher Brink:
[as Sauders is trying to seduce Topher] Okay, that is the minority vote. And you tricked it! Okay? A guy's asleep, could've been Fozzie Bear and it would've - not that I think of Fozzie Bear.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
So why didn't you stop there?

Topher Brink:
Because I was designing a person not a roomba. I needed you to be whole. If you agreed with everything I'd said, we would've missed something, and somone would get hurt.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
You don't care if - if people get hurt.

Topher Brink:
You don't know me! That's the contract. You don't know me, and I don't know you, not fully, not ever! I made you a question. I made you fight for your beliefs. I didn't make you hate me. You chose to.

Topher Brink:
Maybe Dewitt would even imprint your own identity. You've earned it.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
Because I don't want to die. I'm not even real. I'm in someone else's body, and I'm afraid to give it up. I'm no better than you. I'm just a series of excuses.

Topher Brink:
You're human.

Dr. Claire Saunders:
Don't flatter yourself.

Paul Ballard:
All you had to do was remember who you were. [Ballard hits Echo] You can't remember? Nobody home? We're gonna die and this scumbag is gonna walk because of you! The Chinese Restaurant - you remember that?

Echo:
[Echo continues to remember past engagements] Whoever you think you are - I know.

Paul Ballard:
I'm counting on it.

Paul Ballard:
I don't work for you.

Adelle DeWitt:
No, you work for the betterment of mankind, fighting crime by listening to Echo have sex. It's terribly noble.

Ivy:
I'm just moving things along. We're backed up like LAX at Christmas.

Topher Brink:
It's the autumn rush. Temperatures plummet to the high 60s. Leaves fall off that one tree on Wilshire. People need comfort.

Ivy:
What's up with you?

Sierra:
[Dressed and sounding like Lady Penelope from Thunderbirds, after having expressed a preference that Topher apply her "treatment"] I'm not comfortable with, uh, Orientals.

Ivy:
[Somewhat taken aback, not least because Sierra is at least part-Asian herself] It'll only take a second.

Sierra:
It's not a racialist issue. It's just that... Well, your culture's not really the thing, is it? [Hands her jacket to Ivy as one would to a servant]

Ivy:
Have a seat.

Sierra:
I suppose I'm at your mercy. In fact, if you were to tie me down and spank me, I could hardly be expected to resist, could I?

Ivy:
[Mildly freaked out] I'll keep that in mind.

Echo:
Hey, partner.

Paul Ballard:
Hey. How was last night? You okay?

Echo:
Oh, I'm so sore. [pause] My feet, perv. Why do people get married in frickin' stilettoes? [plants her feet on Ballard's lap for a foot rub] C'mon, work for a living.