List of Dollhouse episodes

Dollhouse is an American science fiction television series created by Joss Whedon which premiered on Fox on February 13, 2009 in the United States. It ran for two seasons before its cancellation, ending its run January 29, 2010. The series comprised a total of 27 produced episodes, with two unaired episodes – the original unaired pilot episode, "Echo" and the season one coda, "Epitaph One". Both episodes were made available on the season one DVD and Blu-ray releases.

The series focuses around Echo (Eliza Dushku), a member of a group of people known as "dolls." The dolls have had their personalities wiped clean so that they can be imprinted with any number of new personas, becoming "actives". Actives are given skills including memory, muscle memory, and language for different assignments, which are called "engagements". They are then hired out for particular jobs, crimes, fantasies, and occasional good deeds by the extremely wealthy. On missions, Actives are monitored internally (and remotely) by Handlers. In between tasks, they are mind-wiped into a child-like state referred to as the Tabula rasa (blank slate), and live in a futuristic dormitory/laboratory set up as a spa, complete with five-star cuisine, exercise equipment, pools, games, relaxation techniques and tai chi classes, and professional massages. The hidden facility is called the Dollhouse, run by Adelle DeWitt (Olivia Williams) and located in Los Angeles as part of an international network of similar facilities. The story follows Echo, who begins, in her mind-wiped state, to become self-aware.

During its two-season run, Dollhouse explores the issues of the morality and philosophy behind its technology, as well as showcasing the disastrous consequences of what could happen if the ability to wipe away a person's entire being could be put in the wrong hands. Switching between action/adventure, comedy, science fiction, drama, and conspiracy thriller, Dollhouse showcased Echo's ability to move into personhood within the tabula rasa state. During the first season the Dollhouse faces the insane rogue Active Alpha, and during the second season Echo faces down the Rossum Corporation—the force behind the Dollhouse.

Dollhouse also features an ensemble cast of the people in the Los Angeles Dollhouse, including Paul Ballard (Tahmoh Penikett), an ex-FBI agent who falls in love with Echo and joins the Dollhouse to free her, Victor (Enver Gjokaj) and Sierra (Dichen Lachman), two dolls who also "wake up" within their wiped state and fall in love with each other, and the people behind the Dollhouse—Adelle DeWitt (Olivia Williams); Topher Brink (Fran Kranz), the genius programmer behind the Dollhouse; Dr. Claire Saunders (Amy Acker), the scarred and haunted doctor of the Dollhouse who has secrets of her own; and Boyd Langton (Harry Lennix), Echo's first handler and an ex-cop who struggles with the morality of the Dollhouse.

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Season premiere	Season finale	DVD and Blu-ray release dates
					Region 1	Region 2	Region 4
	1	13	February 13, 2009	May 8, 2009	July 28, 2009	September 7, 2009	December 1, 2010
	2	13	September 25, 2009	January 29, 2010	October 12, 2010	October 11, 2010	—

Seasons

In this table, the number in the first column refers to the episode's number within the overall series, whereas the number in the second column indicates the episode's number within that particular season. "U.S. viewers (millions)" refers to the number of Americans who watched the episode upon its original broadcast.

Original unaired pilot

#	Title	Directed by	Written by	Production code
0	"Echo"	Joss Whedon	Joss Whedon	1APK79
Agent Ballard gets new wind in his investigation of the Dollhouse when he receives a photo of Echo. DeWitt and the handlers become nervous when the Actives begin to exhibit signs of self-awareness. This episode was originally intended to be the on-air series pilot, but after test audiences found it "too confusing and dark," Joss Whedon decided to shoot a new pilot, "Ghost," to better introduce the story and characters to the viewing audience. It was originally reported that "Echo" was going to be aired second, after "Ghost," but when it proved impossible to salvage (even after reshoots), Whedon decided to shelve the episode completely and instead re-used footage from it for inclusion in later episodes. The episode has a different opening with Echo in multiple assignments from overseeing a criminal deal to helping a girl go into rehab. One major change is the revelation of Victor being an Active took place in the pilot rather than put off as in the original episode run, as well as Ballard's first encounter with Echo. Two actresses in this episode are featured later in the series as different characters. The episode was included on the DVD and Blu-ray season sets released on July 28, 2009.

Season 1: 2009

№	#	Title	Directed by	Written by	U.S. viewers (millions)	Original air date	Production code
1	1	"Ghost"	Joss Whedon	Joss Whedon	4.72	February 13, 2009 (2009-02-13)	1APK01
Echo is introduced as one of the "Actives" in the Dollhouse. The Dollhouse's 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 with whom she must now negotiate. She crumbles in fear during the ransom exchange, nearly getting their client killed. Allowed to confront the kidnappers, she turns them against each other and rescues 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; his lead is small-time Russian gangster Lubov.
2	2	"The Target"	Steven S. DeKnight	Steven S. DeKnight	4.22	February 20, 2009 (2009-02-20)	1APK03
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 discovers the handiwork of Alpha, a rogue doll, 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.
3	3	"Stage Fright"	David Solomon	Maurissa Tancharoen & Jed Whedon	4.13	February 27, 2009 (2009-02-27)	1APK04
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 to 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 Ballard is led to an abandoned basement where he is attacked by three Russian agents.
4	4	"Gray Hour"	Rod Hardy	Sarah Fain & Elizabeth Craft	3.55	March 6, 2009 (2009-03-06)	1APK02
Echo is sent on a high-tech heist to recover stolen art for the Greek government, but the job goes badly 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 and Boyd, Echo barely manages to escape. Topher suspects only Alpha could have managed the remote wipe, and finally DeWitt confides to him that her security had indeed failed to kill Alpha.
5	5	"True Believer"	Allan Kroeker	Tim Minear	4.3	March 13, 2009 (2009-03-13)	1APK06
Imprinted as a blind woman, Echo must infiltrate a heavily guarded cult in order to rescue someone being held against their will. Echo's eyes transmit what they see to government agents watching the compound, though she herself is blind. Echo's imprint is not that of an undercover agent, but rather someone who fully believes she has been brought there in a vision by the cult's leader, a former felon. However, when that leader becomes paranoid and violent, it is Echo who steps up to save the day. Paul Ballard continues his search for Caroline, using facial recognition software. Dominic begins to reveal how much he dislikes Echo. Topher and Dr. Saunders observe a surprising (and supposedly impossible) reaction between two of the Actives in their doll states: evidently, Victor finds Sierra attractive.
6	6	"Man on the Street"	David Straiton	Joss Whedon	4.13	March 20, 2009 (2009-03-20)	1APK05
One of Echo's engagements is disrupted by Agent Ballard. Ballard's interrogation of the client (guest star Patton Oswalt) first makes Paul aware that his interest in disrupting the Dollhouse is becoming obsessive. Paul defies this by beginning a relationship with Mellie, but is further shaken when Echo is sent to assassinate him—only to go catatonic and recite a message from a spy inside the Dollhouse. Meanwhile, Sierra begins to show signs of trauma, and Victor is implicated as her assailant. However, Boyd stages a sting operation and discovers that Sierra's handler, Hearn, has been raping her. DeWitt sends Hearn to kill Mellie, only to reveal that she is a "sleeper Active" by engaging November's latent combat training, which allows her to eliminate Hearn with ease. Finally, acts are bookended by clips of a TV reporter preparing an exposé on the Dollhouse.
7	7	"Echoes"	James Contner	Elizabeth Craft & Sarah Fain	3.87	March 27, 2009 (2009-03-27)	1APK07
A psychotropic drug is accidentally released in a college research lab owned by the Rossum Corporation, causing the afflicted to behave drunkenly and in one case, suicidally. Rossum, which owns the Dollhouse, mobilizes all of DeWitt's Actives, who should be immune to the drug because they have no inhibitions. This turns out to be false, as the drug causes the Actives to remember past experiences. Sierra relives her rape experiences and Victor remembers traumatic experiences from his original identity as a soldier. Echo, on an unrelated assignment, sees news of the outbreak on TV and goes "off-mission" to "help him", despite having no idea who "he" is (or indeed who she is). Her flashbacks reveal her past as Caroline Farrell and chronicle her attempts, along with her boyfriend, to prove Rossum's foul play. These events led directly to her boyfriend's death and DeWitt's offer of employment at the Dollhouse. The corporate spy who released the drug is made the same offer by DeWitt as the episode closes.
8	8	"Needs"	Felix Alcalá	Tracy Bellomo	3.49	April 3, 2009 (2009-04-03)	1APK08
Echo, Sierra, Victor and November awake with most of their original personalities intact, and Echo attempts to escape from the Dollhouse with her fellow Actives, reclaiming bits and pieces of their past as they do so. Sierra discovers that she was forced to become a Doll after turning down sexual advances from a well-connected scientist named Nolan Kinnard; Victor is finally able to act on his attraction to her; November ("Mellie") grieves over her dead infant daughter, Katie; and Echo, after guaranteeing the other three have escaped, re-enters to the Dollhouse and forces DeWitt, at gunpoint, to release all remaining Actives. Thereafter all four "escapees" fall asleep due to subliminal programming; the entire process is revealed to have been masterminded by DeWitt and Dr. Saunders, allowing their Actives to achieve closure on their personal issues before putting them back to work.
9	9	"Spy in the House of Love"	David Solomon	Andrew Chambliss	3.56	April 10, 2009 (2009-04-10)	1APK10
While DeWitt is away on business, Topher discovers evidence a spy in the Dollhouse, and four Actives are dispatched to deal with the problem. "Mellie" is sent to pacify Paul Ballard, but goes temporarily catatonic to deliver another warning from that spy. Sierra goes undercover at the National Security Agency, attempting to raid their databases for the spy's identity. Victor is dispatched on another "Lonely Hearts" gig; the recipient is revealed to be DeWitt. Finally, Echo volunteers to undergo imprinting to help with the investigation; after Topher turns her into a counter-intelligence agent, she helps Lawrence Dominic, the head of security, interview employees. She discovers the mole is Dominic himself, planted by the NSA to keep the Dollhouse (and its dangerous technology) from becoming common knowledge, particularly by staving off Paul Ballard. Dominic's personality is downloaded by Topher, and his body sent to "The Attic," to be employed whenever the NSA needs pacifying.
10	10	"Haunted"	Elodie Keene	Jane Espenson & Maurissa Tancharoen & Jed Whedon	2.99	April 24, 2009 (2009-04-24)	1APK09
A wealthy woman named Margaret has been uploading her personality to the Dollhouse every month in the event that she is murdered. When she actually is murdered, DeWitt, who has since befriended her, imprints her onto Echo as part of her will; Margaret, posing as a pen-pal named Julia, decides to solve the case during her second chance. Margaret's prized horses turn out to be the key; with a little help from Boyd, who imprints Victor as a racehorse-owner, she solves the case and helps her family achieve some closure. Meanwhile, Topher signs Sierra out for an intensive "benchmark" imprint, which turns out to be that of a fellow gamer, nerd and friend, with whom he celebrates his birthday. Finally, Ballard brings November's prints into the FBI; when he attempts to ascertain her identity, their computer spews out a multitude of names and then goes blank in the presence of another agent.
11	11	"Briar Rose"	Dwight Little	Jane Espenson	3.09	May 1, 2009 (2009-05-01)	1APK11
Echo helps a young girl deal with her traumatic past, using the fairy tale of Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) as a vehicle; a corpse apparently slain by Alpha turns up in Tucson, Arizona, with Sierra imprinted as an FBI forensics expert to investigate; and a thumb drive arrives for Dominic, who is imprinted onto Victor's body for questioning. Ballard's investigation leads him to the Dollhouse's agoraphobic, pothead architect, Stephen Kepler (guest star Alan Tudyk), and with his forced assistance manages to sneak into the Dollhouse. Though Ballard finds Caroline, Boyd manages to detain him; he takes Ballard to DeWitt for questioning, where they learn from Sierra that the Tucson corpse is that of the real Stephen Kepler. Ballard's helper is actually Alpha, who reveals himself by attacking Victor and Dr. Saunders. Alpha imprints Echo as someone who recognizes him; with Sleeping Beauty now awakened, the lovers escape the Dollhouse together.
12	12	"Omega"	Tim Minear	Tim Minear	2.75	May 8, 2009 (2009-05-08)	1APK12
Alpha, with Echo's help, kidnaps a girl named Wendy and takes both of them back to his lab; meanwhile, Dr. Saunders tends to Victor, Ballard assists the Dollhouse staff in tracking down Alpha, and a series of flashbacks depict Alpha's time at the Dollhouse, revealing that he has a long-standing crush on Echo and that Dr. Saunders is herself an Active, codenamed Whiskey, who was imprinted with the "Dr. Saunders" personality after Alpha killed the original one during his escape; Saunders becomes aware of this during the episode. Alpha imprints Wendy with Echo's original personality, Caroline Farrell; he then initiates a "composite event" on Echo, uploading multiple imprints into her at once, creating a hybrid consciousness named "Omega" whom he expects to kill Wendy/Caroline as part of her ascension to Übermensch. Instead, Echo turns on Alpha himself. Alpha escapes by killing Wendy and then putting the "wedge" containing Caroline at risk, but DeWitt remains confident that they can catch him—especially with the help of their new security consultant, Paul Ballard. Amongst Ballard's hiring conditions are that November, A.K.A. Madeline Costley, be released from her contract as though she had fulfilled it.
13	13	"Epitaph One"	David Solomon	Teleplay by: Maurissa Tancharoen & Jed Whedon Story by: Joss Whedon	N/A	Unaired (U.S.) June 17, 2009 (2009-06-17) (Singapore)	1APK13
In the year 2019, the technology of the Dollhouse has been turned into a global weapon by the Rossum Corporation, mind-wiping people wholesale through any form of telecommunication, including radio. A group of freedom-fighters known as the Actuals breaks in to the abandoned ghost of the Los Angeles Dollhouse, where they find a haunted Active, Whiskey, willing to help them find Caroline, who will lead them to "Safe Haven" – if they can stop the murderer within their midst from taking them out, one by one...

Season 2: 2009–2010

Fox renewed Dollhouse for a 13-episode second season that began broadcasting on September 25, 2009. Citing persistently low ratings, Fox officially cancelled Dollhouse on November 11, 2009 during production of the 11th episode.

№	#	Title	Directed by	Written by	U.S. viewers (millions)	Original air date	Production code
14	1	"Vows"	Joss Whedon	Joss Whedon	2.56	September 25, 2009 (2009-09-25)	2APK01
It's been nearly five months since Alpha's escape, and Echo has seemingly been wiped of all 39 personalities Alpha imprinted her with. Ballard must deal with his growing feelings for Echo as he uses the Dollhouse for his own ends, hiring Echo on a long-term engagement as the 'wife' of major arms dealer Martin Klar (special guest star Jamie Bamber), who Ballard could never capture during his days in the FBI – but things begin to get terrifyingly complicated when Echo shows signs of remembering and integrating all of her personalities into one composite. Meanwhile, Claire Saunders cannot handle the revelation that she was once the number one Active, Whiskey, before being permanently imprinted by Topher, and so she takes her rage out on him. Senator Daniel Perrin (guest star Alexis Denisof) begins an investigation of the Rossum Corporation. Ballard agrees to become Echo's handler.
15	2	"Instinct"	Marita Grabiak	Michele Fazekas & Tara Butters	2.09	October 2, 2009 (2009-10-02)	2APK03
Echo is imprinted as the mother to a newborn baby, and Topher has outdone himself by imprinting her so deeply that she has even begun to lactate. Things take a turn for the worse when Echo becomes so attached to the baby that when the father tries to call off the engagement a terrified Echo runs away with her child. Meanwhile, the Dollhouse is reeling after Saunders has taken Boyd Langton's advice and escaped from the Dollhouse, and Ballard has to confront his own confused feelings when DeWitt brings Madeline Costley – once November (Miracle Laurie) – back to the Dollhouse for a diagnostic.
16	3	"Belle Chose"	David Solomon	Tim Minear	2.25	October 9, 2009 (2009-10-09)	2APK02
While Echo is imprinted as a college student to play out the fantasy of a rich professor, Victor is imprinted with the personality of Terry Karrens, the insane nephew of one of the Dollhouse's rich benefactors (guest star Michael Hogan) – a kidnapper and man on the verge of becoming a serial killer. When Victor/“Terry” escapes from the Dollhouse to finish his “game” with his trapped and terrified victims, Topher attempts a remote wipe with disastrous results, imprinting Victor as Kiki the college girl, and Echo as Terry.
17	4	"Belonging"	Jonathan Frakes	Maurissa Tancharoen & Jed Whedon	2.15	October 23, 2009 (2009-10-23)	2APK04
Flashbacks show Sierra's original identity as Priya Tsetsang, a gifted artist who is being pressured romantically by a man named Nolan; her admission into the Dollhouse was predicated on Topher developing a cure for her persistent and overwhelming schizophrenia. In the present day, Nolan—now Dr. Nolan Kinnard, Rossum Corporation's premier neurologist—demands Sierra be imprinted with a love-slave personality and loaned to him permanently; Topher, realizing that Priya never had schizophrenia but was instead medicated into that state by Kinnard, has a crisis of conscience over what to do. He finds a solution by sending an undrugged and furious Priya to Nolan, and Kinnard is killed in the resulting conflict. Boyd helps Priya dispose of the body and Topher to manufacture evidence that Kinnard had fled; Priya, though scarred by the day's events, agrees to resume her contract with the Dollhouse after seeing Victor and realizing that their love for each other transcends all. Echo's subplot concerns her warning Langton of a coming storm that could wipe them all out, stating that she intends to wake everyone up around her in order to free them.
18	5	"The Public Eye"	David Solomon	Andrew Chambliss	2.15	December 4, 2009 (2009-12-04)	2APK05
United States Senator Daniel Perrin has been trying to bring down the Dollhouse for months, but he has never been a danger – until now, when he comes into possession of a material witness: Madeline Costley. The Dollhouse sends Ballard to capture Madeline to keep her safe, and Echo is sent on assignment to discredit the senator; it is believed that his wife is a Doll. Ballard is thus armed with a device that will incapacitate a Doll... thus revealing that Perrin is the Doll, with his wife actually his handler. Forced by the device into waking up within her imprint, Echo tries to take Perrin and escape but they are captured by Perrin's wife/handler. Adelle and Topher travel to the DC Dollhouse to match wits with the head of the house Stewart Lipman (special guest star Ray Wise) and the house's genius programmer Bennett Halverson (guest star Summer Glau) respectively. Bennett reveals that she has a past with Caroline, Echo's original personality, before she begins to torture Echo.
19	6	"The Left Hand"	Wendey Stanzler	Tracy Bellomo	1.99	December 4, 2009 (2009-12-04)	2APK06
Bennett reveals that she and Caroline were once friends, until Caroline left Bennett trapped under debris after an explosion. Bennett imprints Echo with Bennett's memories of Caroline's betrayal. Ballard is unable to sway Madeline from her decision, and she goes to testify to the senate. Meanwhile, Adelle tells Topher to find a way to gain access to Perrin's brain scans. Topher has imprinted Victor with Topher's own personality to provide support in LA. Echo escapes with Perrin into the real world, determined to bring down Rossum and expose everything. Perrin's handler is dispatched to get them back. Adelle meets with Lipman, who reveals Perrin will have Rossum vindicated at the senate hearings and attack their competitors so that Rossum will be unopposed and given free political rein. Bennett and Topher, seemingly lovestruck by each other, adapt Topher's incapacitating device to remotely knock out Dolls based on their unique brain scans. Bennett, however, remotely programs Perrin to kill Echo. Topher knocks Bennett out and overrides the programming with help from Victor/Topher, but not until after Perrin kills his handler. Perrin shows up at the hearing late and reveals his wife is dead. He then pronounces Rossum a good corporation who has been set up by their immoral competitors, that there is no Dollhouse, and that Madeline Costley is a disturbed woman who was in a mental institution in Canada. Madeline is then taken to the D.C. Dollhouse and has her personality wiped, turning her once more into the Active November. Back in LA, Topher reveals that Perrin could never turn against Rossum, and DeWitt speculates that Rossum is likely grooming him to be the next President of the United States. Echo is loose in the world at large, Ballard has not checked in recently, and Rossum appears ascendant...
20	7	"Meet Jane Doe"	Dwight Little	Maurissa Tancharoen & Jed Whedon & Andrew Chambliss	2.72	December 11, 2009 (2009-12-11)	2APK07
After escaping into the world at large, over the course of three months Echo has finished evolving into a full personality, able to access any of her nearly forty imprints at will. She and Paul Ballard train together to take down Rossum, running a "practice test" by breaking into a prison and freeing a wrongfully-imprisoned woman. Echo reveals that she has fallen in love with Paul, who returns her feelings but out of a sense of honor won't allow himself to act on them. Back at the Dollhouse, meanwhile, DeWitt has been demoted and Harding has taken over. Topher unveils remote wipe tech he had been designing for Rossum. Topher later reveals to Adelle in confidence that he discovered Rossum's intent to create a machine to imprint anyone, anywhere, and that he figured out how to build it. Adelle betrays Topher's trust and gives the technology to Rossum to regain control of the Dollhouse. Echo and Ballard return.
21	8	"A Love Supreme"	David Straiton	Jenny DeArmitt	2.13	December 11, 2009 (2009-12-11)	2APK08
Echo's previous romantic engagements begin to surface as murder victims one by one. Alpha (guest star Alan Tudyk) has returned with his murderous obsession with Echo to seek his revenge. DeWitt begins to grow increasingly suspicious of Ballard. Echo, Ballard and Langton recruit Topher into their conspiracy to take down the Dollhouse. Alpha shows up in Adelle's office and reveals that Ballard and Echo were together through those three missing months. Alpha uses an upgraded piece of technology from "Gray Hour" to make the dolls turn on the Dollhouse staff and captures Ballard, who he feels is the only real competition he has for Echo's affections. Topher and Langton manage to restore order with Topher's new remote wipe technology but not before Alpha imprints himself with Ballard and tortures Ballard to the point of causing permanent brain damage, leaving Paul in a vegetative state. Echo fights Alpha and Ballard's mind takes over for a moment, begging her to kill him. She is unable to kill Paul, however, and Alpha, shaken, regains control and runs from the Dollhouse. Echo is seen with Ballard, who is on life support machines.
22	9	"Stop-Loss"	Felix Alcalá	Andrew Chambliss	2.10	December 18, 2009 (2009-12-18)	2APK09
Victor's contract with the Dollhouse expires, and he is returned to his true personality: Anthony Ceccoli, a former Army Ranger who signed a contract with the Dollhouse to cure him of a severe case of post-traumatic stress disorder. Echo confronts Sierra with the knowledge that Victor will not be coming home, which causes Sierra considerable distress as she declares that Victor "isn't ready to be alone yet." Anthony is captured by a group of military personnel. When DeWitt passes out drunk at her desk, Boyd engages Echo's help to track down Anthony, only to discover a new arm in the Rossum conspiracy: they have engaged Anthony as one of many ex-Actives (including some of Anthony's ex-Army teammates) in a plot to create the perfect team of super-soldiers who all think the same thoughts and share each other's minds. Echo imprints Sierra with her original personality, Priya, and together they free Anthony, whose love for Priya/Sierra overrides the "group think" of Rossum's army. Echo gives herself the same implant as the super-soldiers and uses the overwhelming force of her nearly 50-minds-in-one to permanently deactivate their fighting orders and sends them home to regain what they've lost. But DeWitt captures them after their escape, and consigns all three of them to the Attic.
23	10	"The Attic"	John Cassaday	Maurissa Tancharoen & Jed Whedon	2.10	December 18, 2009 (2009-12-18)	2APK10
The Attic is revealed as the heart of the Dollhouse. Echo, Priya and Anthony are all suspended in a permanent dream-state where they must continuously relive their worst nightmares. Echo is able to overcome it... only to meet Laurence Dominic (former regular Reed Diamond), who is also in control of himself within the Attic. They jump to different minds in an effort to stop a shadow-killer calling himself Arcane, and shortly free Anthony and Priya. Together they find Arcane's true identity: Clyde, co-founder of Rossum, whose partner turned on him and placed him in the Attic in 1993. The group discovers that the Attic networks its victims' brains into a sort of super-computer, each kept in a perpetually adrenaline-drenched state for peak efficiency; in this capacity, Clyde has been able to conquer his worst fear—the desolate, blasted future of the episode "Epitaph One"—only to realize that, if Rossum continues on its present course, that future will come to pass. Echo is able free herself, and rescue Priya and Anthony, although Dominic and Clyde volunteer to stay behind and try to free the rest of the lost souls trapped in the Attic. Meanwhile, Topher, Boyd and Ivy, working against DeWitt's seemingly tyrannical reign, embark on a radical plan to save Paul Ballard. It is then revealed that DeWitt sent Echo to the Attic in order to retrieve information on how to stop Rossum, and that Caroline Farrell knows who Clyde's partner, the only remaining founder of Rossum, is. DeWitt, Ballard, Echo, Priya, Boyd, Topher, Ivy and Anthony all agree to work together to defeat Rossum.
24	11	"Getting Closer"	Tim Minear	Tim Minear	2.38	January 8, 2010 (2010-01-08)	2APK11
The primary wedge containing Caroline's mind is found to be missing. Adelle has Bennett Halverson (guest star Summer Glau) kidnapped to aid Topher in repairing Caroline's backup wedge, which Alpha damaged in "Briar Rose". November, who was placed in the D.C. Dollhouse, is brought back with Bennett. A series of flashbacks reveal that Caroline became a terrorist and a freedom fighter working against Rossum for two years, and that Bennett's maiming was an accident, and that Caroline allowed Bennett to remain pinned under the debris so that Bennett could claim she was an innocent victim. It is revealed that Boyd now has a romantic relationship with Dr. Claire Saunders (former regular Amy Acker), who returns to the Dollhouse at his request. Dr. Saunders shoots Bennett Halverson before she can finish repairing Caroline's wedge, then leaves, leading the Dollhouse staff to conclude that she is a sleeper active. Topher, who loved Bennett, overcomes the shock of losing her and finishes repairing Caroline's wedge. As the Rossum Corporation invades the Dollhouse, Echo downloads Caroline's memories, which reveal the identities of Rossum's leaders: the current incarnation of Clyde (the so-called "Clive 2.0"), and the co-founder of the Rossum Corporation... Boyd Langton.
25	12	"The Hollow Men"	Terrence O'Hara	Michele Fazekas & Tara Butters & Tracy Bellomo	2.09	January 15, 2010 (2010-01-15)	2APK12
As the group leaves for Tucson to take down Rossum, Boyd attempts to sabotage its efforts by drugging Echo. Boyd uses Topher's trust to serve Rossum's agenda by tricking Topher into finishing his remote wipe/imprinting technology. Anthony and Priya, who were told in the previous episode to spend their last night together, return to the Dollhouse and discover that Boyd has been betraying them all along. Boyd reveals that he has spared the group's lives because he loves them like family. Caroline has a special genetic trait, expressed in her spinal fluid, which allows her to survive the wipes. Boyd watched over Echo and allowed her to be pushed to her limits in order to allow her to form a complete personality, as every time she "survives" a wipe the gene's expression grows stronger, allowing for Rossum to create a "cure" for wiping. Boyd activates Mellie's sleeper programming and she fights it off long enough to tell Paul that she loved him before killing herself. Echo manages to fight off Clive 2.0, now in the body of Whiskey, before having her final confrontation with Boyd. Topher erases Boyd's personality with the mind-wipe tech he created and hates, leaving him in a doll state. Echo uses Boyd to destroy Rossum's headquarters, leaving him behind to initiate the explosion. But, ten years later, despite Echo's best efforts, Rossum has managed to bring about the apocalyptic future of "Epitaph One."
26	13	"Epitaph Two: Return"	David Solomon	Maurissa Tancharoen & Jed Whedon & Andrew Chambliss	2.16	January 29, 2010 (2010-01-29)	2APK13
In the year 2020, one year after the events of "Epitaph One", Echo and her team rescue Topher and the last of the Actuals (guest stars Felicia Day, Adair Tishler, and Zack Ward) from the hands of the Rossum Corporation after he reveals that he can restore the world to order. After reuniting with Tony, who is a tech-head, Echo and her team race to Los Angeles, which is now a war zone. They fight their way in through the butchers, mindless killing machines, and Paul Ballard is killed. Echo breaks down, and Priya and Tony argue about why they are no longer together. Alpha (guest star Alan Tudyk) returns and reveals that he has taken over the Dollhouse and is using it as a refuge for wiped beings, reformed from his past. Tony renounces the tech, and Priya reveals that her son T is Tony's son and is named after his father. Topher uses help from recordings of Bennett Halverson (guest star Summer Glau), and sacrifices his own life to detonate the wiping signal into the ionosphere, dispersing it over the world and restoring everyone's mind to order. DeWitt begins the clean-up process as Tony, Priya and T reunite as a family. Echo finds one final gift from the imprinting technology and downloads Paul's personality within her. With the memory of her lover literally living inside of her, Echo settles down to sleep in her old sleep pod to dream of Paul and of a world restored to sanity with a smile on her face.

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