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Author: grah3 Time: 6-5-2009 03:29 Subject: About DOLLHOUSE & Episode Guides

You can wipe away a memory… But can you wipe away a soul?

Dollhouse Aired From February 13, 2009 – January 29, 2010 On FOX.

About the Show:
The show follows an organization that employs mind-wiped DNA-altered humans known as Dolls who are implanted with false memories and skills for various missions and tasks. When they are not 'at work' they are living in a real life Dollhouse which gives the show the name. One of those mind-wiped humans, a young woman named Echo, is slowly starting to become aware of herself and what's going on - all the while somebody on the outside is trying to bring the Dollhouse down while getting closer to Echo - possibly not aware that she is one of the Dolls he is after.

Echo is an “Active,” a member of a highly illegal and underground group of individuals hired out for particular jobs.  Her mind and personality have been wiped clean.  She is whomever the job needs her to be – a best friend… a lethal assassin.

The hidden futuristic facility hiding the Actives is called “The Dollhouse,” and the leaders of the Dollhouse hire Echo and her fellow Actives out to wealthy clients.  As Whedon says, Actives don’t just perform their job duties, they become the person that a client needs them to be.  The Dollhouse sees to that.

Only, what is this secret worth?  How can it stay a secret forever?

And more importantly… what happens when something unplanned takes place?  What happens when the Actives start to think for themselves.
Dollhouse will make you ask the question, you can wipe away a memory…but can you wipe away a soul?

Cast & Characters:

Alan Tudyk	Alpha Formerly Carl William Craft, Alpha is a rogue Active who escaped the Dollhouse. Before coming to the Dollhouse, he was a prisoner convicted of kidnapping and attempted murder. When the Dollhouse was starting up, it needed "guinea pigs"; he was able to reduce his sentence by agreeing to become an Active for five years.
Eliza Dushku	Echo Formerly Caroline Farrell, Echo is an Active and star of the series. She is one of the most popular Actives in the Dollhouse, and, during the course of her engagements, has shown skills that transcend the limitations of her parameters. Echo has become increasingly self-aware during her blank state, remembering facets of her previous engagements, recognizing that she can be imprinted with different personalities, and remembering facts from her previous life such as her name.
Teddy Sears	Mike is an Active who first appears in Needs. He shares a room with Echo, November, Sierra, and Victor. Along with his roommates in "Needs", he awakens with most of his original personalities intact. However, his "need" was never revealed as he was caught by the Dollhouse security. He expressed symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia, believing he and his fellow Actives were caught in the clutches of a malign extraterrestrial experiment.
Miracle Laurie	November whose real name is Madeline Costley, she is originally introduced to the series as Mellie, the neighbor, romantic interest, and confidante of Paul Ballard. November is in fact a "sleeper" Active.
Harry Lennix	Boyd Langton a former cop, a handler at the Dollhouse first assigned as Echo's handler. After Dominic is sent to the attic, Langton becomes the new head of security, though retaining a connection to Echo. He has doubts about the ethics of what the Dollhouse does with the Actives and is not afraid to share his reservations with the fellow staff, including DeWitt.
Tahmoh Penikett	Paul Ballard is the ex-FBI special agent assigned to the Dollhouse case. While most in the Bureau view the case as a joke, he takes it seriously, to the point of obsession. Throughout the show, his main objective is to rescue Caroline. He had become involved with his neighbor Mellie before discovering the Dollhouse imprinted her to spy on him. He then distances himself from her, using her vulnerability to follow her to the Dollhouse's location. In "Omega" he agrees to work for the Dollhouse in exchange for the freedom of November.
Dichen Lachman	Sierra Formerly Priya, Sierra is the most recent Active to be added to the Dollhouse. Before coming to the Dollhouse, she rejected the sexual advances of a wealthy man named Nolan. Discouraged, he sold her into the Dollhouse so that he would be able to have her whenever he wanted.
Olivia Williams	Adelle DeWitt is the highest ranking official at the Los Angeles Dollhouse. She truly believes that what they do at the Dollhouse helps people. Prior to working in the Dollhouse, her job entailed growing human organs out of stem cells. Although Adelle is the head of her Dollhouse, she does answer to off-screen superiors, as the LA Dollhouse is just one of more than twenty worldwide with their headquarters in Tucson, Arizona.E-6 She is revealed to be "Miss Lonelyhearts" who has hired out Victor several times for romantic encounters to quell her intense loneliness.
Enver Gjokaj	Victor is an Active who has made friends with Echo and Sierra. The character is introduced as Russian gangster Lubov, whose real identity as a Doll is revealed later. The character is also regularly hired out on romantic engagements for one "Miss Lonelyhearts".
Fran Kranz	Topher Brink is the scientist who operates the Dollhouse technology and uses it to imprint new personalities on the Actives. He has stated that the technology takes imprints from existing people, which he then mixes and matches to create the desired imprint. A genius, Topher has a cocky, if quirky, attitude which puts him at odds with Ballard, who believes that Topher cannot completely wipe a person's soul from their body. On his birthday, Topher is able to use an Active to goof off with in order to celebrate under the guise of an "anterior insular cortex diagnostic".

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Author: spratt89 Time: 3-29-2011 10:08 Subject: Season 1 Episode Guide

Episode 1. Ghost
Echo is introduced as one of the "Actives" in the Dollhouse. The Dollhouse scientist Topher Brink wipes her mind and reprograms her as a ruthlessly efficient kidnapping negotiator. Echo's new personality incorporates memories from another woman who was molested as a child, and it turns out the molester is one of the kidnappers she must now negotiate with. She crumbles in fear during the ransom exchange, nearly getting their client killed. But she is allowed to confront the kidnappers, turning them against each other and rescuing the kidnapped girl. Meanwhile, FBI Agent Paul Ballard struggles with his assignment to uncover information on the Dollhouse, which has destroyed his marriage and is wrecking his career.

Episode 2. The Target
Echo's latest imprint has her as the perfect date for Richard, an outdoorsman, who takes her on a romantic wilderness adventure. The experience takes a turn for the worse when Richard indicates he will conclude the "date" by hunting her for sport. Although Echo is imprinted with absolute trust in Boyd, he is unable to do more than deliver a weapon to her, and she must kill Richard on her own. Afterward the Dollhouse team discovers the handiwork of Alpha, a roguedoll, on the corpse of an unknown assassin. It was Alpha who had maimed Dr. Saunders and butchered the handler Boyd was hired to replace. Agent Ballard receives an anonymous package concerning Echo's previous identity as a woman named Caroline, and continues his search.

Episode 3. Stage Fright
Echo goes undercover as a backup singer to protect volatile pop star Rayna Russell from an obsessed fan. Fellow Active, Sierra, also goes undercover as a fan who wins a contest and gets to spend an evening with Rayna. Getting closer Rayna, Echo discovers that Rayna is in collusion with her stalker and welcomes death. Sierra is kidnapped when Echo thwarts a shooting and Echo must save Sierra from the stalker and Rayna from herself. Meanwhile, Lubov is revealed to be an Active("Victor") and Agent Paul Ballard is led to an abandoned basement wherehe is attacked by three Russian agents.

Episode 4. Gray Hour
Echo is sent on a high-tech heist to recover stolen art for the Greek government, but the job goes bad when one of her accomplices double crosses them. It gets worse when, during a phone conversation with Boyd, she is remotely "wiped" by an unknown party and returns to her child-like state without any of the skills she had been imprinted with. With help from Sierra, Echo barely manages to escape. Topher suspects only Alpha could have managed the remote wipe, and finally Adelle confides to him that her security had indeed failed to kill Alpha.

Episode 5. True Believer
Imprinted as a visually impaired woman, Echo must infiltrate a heavily guarded cult in order to rescue a woman held against her will.

Episode 6. Man On The Street
Echo tries to help a client heal the ache of a lost love as a TV reporter prepares an exposé on the Dollhouse.

Episode 7.Echos
Echo is strangely drawn to a college campus, where a new drug is causing the students to kill themselves. She has flashbacks to her life as Caroline, where her boyfriend Leo was killed at the same college.

Episode 8. Needs
Echo, Sierra and Victor awaken in the Dollhouse with most of their original personalities and memories intact. They have been put into an experimental environment in order to resolve repeating behaviors. Echo deviates from her programming and leads the charge to free the Actives from their apparent captivity in order to escape the Dollhouse forever.

Episode 9. A Spy in the House of Love
A traitor is discovered inside the Dollhouse. Echo and Sierra are programmed to find the spy who has been changing the Doll's imprints. It is Dominick.Adelle wrestles with her secret love affair with the imprinted Victor. Ballard receives surprising news from Mellie.

Episode 10. Haunted
When Adelle's wealthy friend is murdered, Adelle imprints Echo with the woman's memories and personality to solve the case.Ballard looks into Mellie's past, and Topher secretly programs Sierra for an engagement.

Episode 11.Briar Rose
Adelle goes to the attic in search of answers. Meanwhile, Ballard's investigation leads him to the agoraphobic designer of the Dollhouse, who helps Ballard break in. However, the architect turns out to be Alpha, who reveals himself and sets his game in motion.

Episode 12. Omega
Alpha's continued obsession with Echo may cost her everything. Ballard makes a decision that could change the rest of his life. One Doll's story ends as another's is revealed.

Contributed By Bala

Author: spratt89 Time: 3-29-2011 10:08 Subject: Season 2 Episode Guide

Episode 1. Vows
As part of the Dollhouse's deal with Ballard, Echo becomes the ultimate double agent. Believing that she is Paul's former FBI partner, she goes deep undercover investigating weapons broker Martin Klar. But before she can get the information they need, this investigation is going to lead Echo into Klar's heart, and even down the aisle... Meanwhile Dr. Saunders has to deal with her anger towards Topher and her anxiety about her own past.

Episode 2. Instinct
For her latest assignment, Echo is imprinted as a new mother, and the mental changes are so profound that they affect her body on a glandular level. But when she believes that someone may want to harm her "son", her reactions are more intense than anyone could have predicted. Meanwhile, Senator Perrin steps up his investigation, and Adelle pays November a visit.

Episode 3. Belle Chose
At the request of a Dollhouse shareholder, Victor is imprinted with the mind of the man's nephew. The man's unstable, psychotic, homicidal nephew. Now, just as Ballard is starting to adjust to his new role, he must call upon all of his FBI training when Victor escapes the Dollhouse to wander the streets with a killer in his head.

Episode 4. Belonging
We learn more about Sierra's connection to Rossum and the twisted trail of deception, obsession, and murder that led her to the Dollhouse.

Episode 5. The Public Eye
Senator Daniel Perrin is on a mission to expose secrets of the Dollhouse and Echo is sent to put and end to his plan. Adelle and Topher meet programmer Bennett Halverson in Washington DC and discover her mysterious connection to Echo's past.

Episode 6. The Left Hand

Echo meets Bennett Halverson in Washington and both of them receive a shock. Adelle must deal with her DC counterpart, Stewart Lipman. Topher recruits Victor, and Senator Perrin finds unexpected help in his quest to reveal the activities of the Rossum Corporation.

Episode 7. Meet Jane Doe

Echo is left adrift in the world after her experiences at the DC Dollhouse, and her multiple personalities struggle against each other... and Echo. Meanwhile, Boyd receives a call and Harding makes his move against Adelle.

Episode 8. A Love Supreme

Alpha returns and goes after Echo's past romantic clients, killing them one by one.

Episode 9.Stop-Loss
Victor's contract lapses and he goes back out into the real world... but his past life may threaten his future with Sierra.

Episode 10. The Attic

Adelle finally decides that Echo is too much of a threat to her house. Now Echo must face the very personal horrors of the Attic.

Episode 11. Getting Closer

Adelle realizes that Echo's suppressed memories and personality hold the key to saving mankind, but Echo's past connection to Bennett Halverson puts Topher's efforts at risk. Meanwhile, the leader of Rossum is revealed.

Episode 12. The Hollow Men

Echo and her team travel to Arizona in order to destroy the Rossum Corporation's mainframe.

Episode 13. Epitaph 2: Return

In the year 2020, Echo and the few surviving Dollhouse staff struggle to restore mankind after the devastating events seen in the unaired first season episode, "Epitaph."

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Contributed By Bala

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