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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.


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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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