Previously on dollhouse:
Victor: I want the real you.
Adelle: And I want the real you.
Sometimes I think
You're the most real person I've ever met.
Echo's not a blank slate.
She's a person.
Everything you've imprinted her with
For the last six months is still there.
What does that make her?
Miss lonely hearts.
Everyone likes to take a little something home
From the office once in a while,
But he's the least of your indiscretions.
I think they're trying to build a portable device
That will be able to imprint anyone.
(zapping sound)
They're grouping, aren't they?
I am sorry to say yeah.
Split them up, place them in separate houses.
This has the potential to change everything.
Adelle: I suspected as much.
You did the right thing, adelle.
(laughs)
Hurry, sergeant! Orders!
Shall we celebrate?
There's no smoking in my office.
Hello?
Huh? When did you die?
Catherine, wait.
Darling, darling...
We need to talk.
I don't want to talk.
You want roger.
I want to roger roger.
Stop!
Stop.
It would be dishonorable for me
To let this go on any farther.
There's someone else.
What do you mean?
I've fallen in love with another woman.
Oh, don't tease me.
That's patently impossible.
I'm afraid, I'm afraid I'm quite serious.
So where did you meet this other woman?
On one of your international je t-setting trips?
The flat in london.
The condo in rome.
Who do you think designs your life
When you're not with me?!
Listen, I'm having a hard time
Figuring it out for myself.
It's as if I met this woman in a previous life,
As though our love transcends our very being.
Come on.
You're not real.
You're a doll.
One whose contract is up,
And I was just getting in one last go-round
Before they release your body into the wild.
And if anyone should be getting upset, roger,
It's you, 'cause this time tomorrow,
You're not going to exist anymore.
(chuckles)
Catherine, I'm sorry, I know you're upset,
But don't make up stories.
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.
(sobbing)
Do you see what I see?
I don't see anything.
Exactly.
There's nothing left 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 make him walk in a straight line.
But he's stable, physically?
As a zucchini,
Which is what he's gonna be for the rest of his life.
Now my brain is starting to feel like his.
Get some rest.
I'll deliver the news to echo.
(sighs)
Another woman, mr. Brink?
What?
N... No?
You're the only one here.
Who else is in on this practical joke?
Boyd, ivy?
Echo? If it was funny,
I want to take credit for it. (laughs)
I don't think this was funny.
Miss lonely hearts was dumped by roger this evening.
Are you sure the dementia hasn't got into her? (chuckles)
Stop being cute!
How long have you known the identity of miss lonely hearts?
You?
Oh, my god!
What have I said to you about her?
Ooh! Octogenarian, walker jokes,
The thing about the early bird special? (laughs)
I didn't know.
If you didn't alter the imprint, I want to know who did.
Roger came back early.
He didn't say why it ended, but my money's on a broken hip.
Uh, ee....
What?
She definitely didn't do it.
It wasn't on our end. Roger's parameters
Were exactly as you, she, she requested.
So where did the mystery woman come from?
Has anyone seen sierra?
Look on the bright side.
Roger didn't reject you.
No, victor did.
It's just grouping, which won't be a problem
After we set him free tomorrow.
Just make sure this doesn't happen with any other actives.
We can't have clients being rejected by dolls
Who are programmed to love them.
Yeah, we're lucky this happened to you.
If anyone finds out about this,
You won't be so lucky.
I don't think that's a smart idea.
Dewitt's watching your every move.
If you upset her,
You're gonna end up in isolation again.
Or worse.
I haven't seen paul since they stabilized him.
What if I don't get to see him again? What if...?
That's not gonna happen.
Topher's working every angle.
But you might want to say goo d-bye to victor.
His contract ends first thing in the morning.
I thought you'd be glad.
I was gonna
Use him to help me get everyone out.
He's already been used for five years.
You'll manage without him.
Everything's slipping away from me.
Before, it was memories,
But I figured out how to hold onto them.
And now that I have something real--
People I care about- they're slipping away from me, too.
I'll talk to dewitt about paul.
Maybe she'll change her mind.
Adelle: Absolutely not.
Paul ballard is brain-dead because of echo.
Funny, I thought he had alpha to thank for that.
It's all of a piece.
Echo brought alpha to the house.
She made him jealous.
It all starts with echo.
You got it all figured out. Hardly.
I still want to know what's going on
In that very special brain of hers.
She's not a blank slate anymore. She's a person
Like you or me.
And keeping her away from ballard is killing her.
Perfect.
You want her to suffer.
Pain reveals who you really are.
Let's see who this girl really is.
Are all the arrangements for victor's release finalized?
Everything's set.
Would you mind handling the final paperwork for me?
Usually, you handle active releases.
I thought it gave you a sense of satisfaction
Seeing them through.
When I've recruited them.
Victor was assigned to this house.
He wouldn't know me from you.
I saved my strawberries for you.
They're my favorite.
Victor, it's time for your treatment.
Will you sit with me at dinner?
That would be nice.
You're not coming back.
When you get out of that chair,
You'll have your original personality.
You need to say good-bye to her.
If you don't get a chance to say good-bye,
You'll regret it.
Good-bye.
I'll see you at dinner.
Afghanistan war vet, severe ptsd,
Which we cured.
This one actually makes me feel good about myself.
The last thing
He remembers is reclining in that chair
Five years ago as I explained
To him the last thing he would remember
Is reclining in the chair.
I was probably standing right... Here.
Did it not work?
Did something go wrong?
You were not just standing there.
And you were wearing different clothes.
Well, not that different.
What did I just tell you?
That five years would seem like... Five seconds.
Welcome to the future
Where cars fly, robots serve our every whim
And genetically engineered dinosaurs rule the earth.
It's pretty much the same as when you left.
And the war?
Is it...?
It's still going on.
So that's it.
Five years just like that.
It wasn't just like that.
Right. Five years I don't even remember.
I don't know.
It almost seems too easy.
We've set up a trust fund in your name.
Reserved a suite at the hyperion
Until you find something more permanent.
Found several employment opportunities
Should you choose to work.
If people ask,
You spent the last five years at a va hospital
As part of an experimental program
That treats veterans for pos t-traumatic stress.
We've created a paper trail to verify your story.
For the first three months,
You'll come into the dollhouse on a bi-weekly basis
For a diagnostic.
For a year following that,
We'll send a representative into the field to check on you.
If you have any problems, you can call us 24 hours a day.
But I don't expect any trouble.
This entire process was designed
So you can slip into your old life
Without realizing you were gone.
Congratulations, mr. Ceccoli,
You're a free man.
(camera shutter clicking)
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Newswoman: With an increase in troop numbers,
U.S. Military forces begin
A new offensive against insurgents
In the southern regions of afghanistan.
(gunfire drowns out newswoman's voice)
...The obama administration...
(newswoman's voice fades out)
How long have you been sitting here?
I'm waiting for victor.
We're going to have dinner together.
Sierra...
Victor's not coming back.
But he always comes back from his treatments.
This time he isn't.
He left. For good.
He wouldn't leave me.
He's free.
They gave his life back to him.
But you're not happy for him.
I needed him.
I thought he could help me get everyone out.
I'm sad, too...
But not for us, for him.
He's not ready to be by himself.
(loud dance music playing)
¶ I want your ugly ¶
¶ I want your disease ¶
¶ I want your everything, as long is it's free ¶
¶ I want your love ¶
¶ love, love ¶
¶ love, I want your love ¶
Excuse me.
Hi.
Um...
Have we met before?
¶ ¶
¶ love, love, love, I want your love... ¶
(groans quietly)
(sighs)
(beeps)
No.
(beeps)
(electronic bell dings)
Where's paul? He's not dead...
If that's what you're thinking.
What did you do to him?
Mr. Ballard...
Has been moved to a more secure location,
One where your illicit key card will be of no use.
No need to fret.
He's receiving top-notch care.
Do you think that anything goes on
In my house without my knowledge?
I don't know, it seems like a lot went down without you knowing.
Yes.
Well, I'm not surprised that paul...
And boyd managed to keep your secret from me,
But topher?
He can barely keep a belch to himself.
Come on, don't be rude--
It's just a friendly chat.
You really want to do this?
Pretend that we're equals? Go toe to toe?
Why?
You having trouble keeping up?
You think I'm scared of you?
I have a serial killer in my head. Yes,
If memory serves me, one that's petrified of women.
All those people in your head,
I know their deepest, darkest secrets.
You're forgetting who put them there in the first place.
So now you're trying to take credit for making me?
You didn't make me.
I made me.
You may think all these people
Knocking around in my head are useless,
But that's 40 more brains than you have.
So I think we can agree that I'm smarter, tougher
And a whole lot scarier than you could ever hope to be.
If you're so powerful, why are you still in my house
Sneaking around, trying to find your comatose boyfriend?
Lady,
If I wanted to be somewhere else, I would be.
But there's work to do here.
Now, you can be
On my side or you can be on rossum's,
But the time for playing both is over.
¶ ¶
(loud grunting)
(loud grunting continues)
Protocol says I maintain a doll's biolinks for 90 days
After they leave the house to monitor the reintegration
Of their original neural topography.
That's victor's readout? Was victor's readout.
At 1:53 a.M. Last night, his biolinks went kaput,
As in no signal.
I can't even raise his gps.
I'll send a van to bring him in for a diagnostic.
Those aren't "I'll send a van
To bring him in for a diagnostic" squigglies.
They're "fight for your life" squigglies.
I'm on my way.
Echo.
I need your help.
All clear.
Same here.
Ready to process the room?
You want fbi, private investigator,
Or should I surprise you?
So, how exactly does this work,
You accessing other personalities?
I used to have to make an effort to switch between imprints,
But now I can slip back and forth
Without even thinking. Who am I talking to now?
Echo.
You're always talking to echo.
But roma klar and eleanor penn are duking it out
In the background over who gets to help me figure this one out.
I'll take all the help I can get.
They came through the front door.
No sign of a struggle.
And they left the place
Pretty clean.
Whoever did this, they're professionals.
It was an inside job.
You see a clue I don't?
Victor's been out of the house, what, less than 24 hours.
Which isn't enough time to be
On anyone's radar. And they knew enough
About our tech to deactivate his biolinks and gps.
Looks like you're working on a theory.
(yells)
Who the hell are you, huh?
Somebody better say something!
Man: Anthony ceccoli, sergeant, third battalion,
75th ranger regiment... Yeah,
Yeah, yeah, that's me.
Who-who are you? What do you want?
We apologize for our methods,
But they were necessary.
Hagan?
I thought you got transferred to the 160th.
We all got transferred.
The military called us broken soldiers,
Didn't know what to do with us,
So they packed us away for five years.
If you tell your commanding officer...
We don't follow traditional command structure.
Officially, we're not a part of the United States armed forces.
Yeah, no kidding.
Why'd you bring me here?
Military was supposed to fix us.
They took away the pain, the fear, the shame,
But they left us empty.
Do you know why?
'cause we're soldiers.
We need something to fight for.
We can give you something to fight for.
(laughs): You want me to be a soldier.
Where do I sign up?
(keyboard clacking, computer beeps)
Boyd: Victor's file was accessed three months ago,
With continued brea k-ins leading up to his release.
Someone was making sure he was still on schedule.
Can you run a back-trace?
(beeps)
Boyd: It's a rossum server.
Defense-grade firewall.
Can you hack into it?
Someone in here can.
(rapid typing)
That's just for immunizations, right?
It'll be easier for us to explain after we put this in.
You'll never be alone again.
(machine whirring)
(beep)
(click, gasps)
(indistinct voices overlapping)
Man: Stand down.
Fall back.
Repeat. Fall back, victor.
Echo: I'm in.
Have you ever heard of scytheon?
It's rossum's military contracting wing,
Their answer to blackwater.
They're the ones who kidnapped victor.
They've got a dossier on him--
Personal history, military records,
Dollhouse engagements. They've got it all.
He's been placed in a classified program,
Code named: Mind whisper.
It's being operated out of a bunker
On the california/nevada border.
According to this,
Mind whisper has recruited dozens of ex-actives.
The active architecture allows their minds
To be linked via neural radio.
They hear what everyone thinks,
See what everyone sees.
(indistinct voices overlapping)
(door opens, closes)
Rossum's building an army.
They kidnapped victor.
Rossum's building an army?
(sighs softly)
Remember what happened last time
We poked our noses where they didn't belong.
We failed and I nearly lost control of the house
Or something like that.
I'm giving you a chance to help victor.
They've turned him into some kind of soldier.
That's what he wants.
And isn't that why we're in business?
To give people what they want?
(door opens)
Neural radios?
That's the short-bus version of this tech.
What's the endgame?
Groupthink.
And not the bad kind
That gave us the bay of pigs; this would be
The much badder kind.
Multiple minds thinking as one.
Imagine war minus the individual.
He's thinking about
One single thing: The objective.
Soldiers who won't stop fighting
Until they've accomplished the mission.
Once you're absorbed into the group mind,
The individual ceases to exist.
If we don't rescue victor
Before he's fully integrated into the group mind,
We lose him for good.
This wasn't on the schedule.
Load me up.
We're going to war.
I got what I need.
Keep them coming.
Field medic, advanced triage, and it comes with
(southern accent): A texas twang.
Ivy: Have anything else that might be useful?
Why didn't you
Let me in on this earlier?
You were on a need-to-know basis.
Need-to-know or need-to-fetch?
The flying cardona brothers?
She's breaking into an underground bunker,
Not the big top.
No, acrobatics makes sense.
You want, uh,
(spanish accent): Enrique or ernesto?
Ernesto.
My choice, too.
Dewitt's out cold.
We got at least half the day.
Ooh, after we're done here,
Can I go to her office with a sharpie?
Echo: Topher.
You've been downloaded with everything from basic g.I. Jane
To nuclear physicist weapons maker
Who secretly yearns for nuclear disarmament.
Did everything take?
Locked and loaded.
But I need one more thing to pull this off.
All I have left
Is naughty pirate wench.
You.
You promised me I wouldn't remember that day!
You told me I could skip it!
Calm down.
Why? I don't want to remember nolan!
I don't want
To remember any of it.
Get her a beer.
I couldn't delete that day,
Because then you wouldn't remember him.
I don't want to remember nolan. Not nolan.
Not nolan.
I couldn't delete that day
Because you wouldn't remember victor.
Before I wiped you, you-you told me you knew.
You saw victor and you told me you knew.
That I loved him?
Exactly.
Why?
What's going on?
Echo: His name's anthony now.
If he's started to lose his identity to the group mind,
You're our best shot at pulling him out.
Has, uh, victor--
I mean, anthony, ever met me?
As priya?
He's met sierra.
Think priya with all the complications stripped away.
So why not just send me as her?
Because you'd still be figuring out how to buckle your seatbelt.
Oh.
(engine stops)
How do we get in?
We get caught.
(sighs)
I just lost echo's gps.
Which means they're inside the bunker.
Topher: You really think we'll be able to
Pull this off without cruella dewitt finding out?
(grunting)
(panting)
Don't piss off a blind girl.
Oh.
Now we just need to make sure anthony sees me.
He's already seen you.
One of them sees us, they all see us.
Come on.
So he'll come to us?
Eventually.
Stay right there.
(grunting)
Anthony.
I'm so glad it's you.
Anthony's gone.
Anthony's gone, but what about victor? I know he's in there.
You're trying to confuse us.
You're not gonna confuse us.
Victor. Victor!
(panting)
Victor remembers me.
He couldn't forget; I didn't forget.
Anthony, lower your weapon.
They don't want me to remember.
Men: Eliminate hostile target.
They want me to kill you.
Men: Eliminate hostile target.
Eliminate hostile target.
(panting)
I remember.
Are you in control?
If she's here, it helps me to remember.
It helps me to stay focused.
They're not happy.
What's the fastest way out of here?
If we follow the electrical conduits,
It'll lead to a service tunnel.
There's a utility hatch at the end of that.
Then that's where we're going. You take the lead.
I'll bring up the rear. Got it?
(grunts)
You hit him.
Why'd you hit him?
He's still connected.
Anything we tell him, they hear.
Now half the squad's headed
For that service tunnel.
It'll be five minutes before they realize
They went the wrong direction.
What is the right direction?
I'm gonna figure out a way to change the group mind's orders.
You're gonna hold down the hallway.
Know how to fire a gun?
Uh, my grandfather took me hunting in gippsland once.
So you know how this works?
Uh, why, I-I shot at rabbits.
I didn't hit anything.
Same idea, just bigger targets.
(phone ringing)
(grunts)
Judith!
(phone continues ringing)
Judith, can you get that?
(phone beeps)
What is it?
Yes, mr. Harding.
Of course I am aware that two of my actives are on an engagement.
What sort of house do you think I run?
No, I wasn't aware that it is a rossum training facility.
Of course.
I will have them recalled immediately.
(phone beeps)
(gun clicks) no, no, no.
They're not in control.
I'm in control.
But they can hear you.
And I can hear them.
It's a tactical advantage.
I know every move they're gonna make.
Men: Target's acquired.
There's two soldiers, a-team formation.
Xm8 assault rifles,
Mk23s and flash grenades.
They're about to make an offensive move.
I'm anthony, by the way.
You can call me tony.
Priya.
Nice to meet you.
So you're from australia?
Maybe we should save the small talk till after the gunfight.
No, it's good.
The more I can remember about me-- us,
The easier it is for me to keep them out.
You sent echo and sierra to retrieve victor.
Someone had to make the call.
I ordered you to leave it alone!
I was hoping you wouldn't remember that conversation.
What are you saying?
I'm saying that you're a drunk.
You're obsessed with keeping echo under your thumb.
And you'll do anything you can to keep harding smiling.
We may not have agreed in the past,
But at least we put this house and the actives first.
What happened to that woman?
She's standing in front of you.
No, she's not.
If you don't find her soon, you're going to lose control
Of this house, and I'll be the one knocking down your door.
I hope it doesn't come to that, mr. Langton.
Your elevation's off.
You keep going high right.
I'm not hitting anything, if that's what you mean.
And I don't plan to.
Men: Casualties acceptable. Move forward.
Okay, come on. We got to go.
Whoa, whoa! You don't want to shoot!
Remember five years ago?
Outside qalat?
It wasn't that much different than this.
We fought side by side.
Not against each other.
Think about it!
I will shoot you if I have to.
Hurry.
Men: Group mind disengaged. Eliminate.
No! (shots firing)
Keep it together. For me.
(footsteps approaching)
(groans sharply)
(many voices speaking)
(groans) we just got company.
A whole lot.
Where? I don't see any others.
Echo. She's inside.
I knew you were going to do that.
And you knew I was going to do that.
Men: Surgical room breach. Hostile armed.
Only four? I'm hurt.
Echo: Disengage targets.
Men: Eliminate target. Fire.
Echo: Disengage target. Stand down.
Men: Eliminate target. Fire.
Echo: Disengage target. Stand down.
Men: Eliminate target. Fire.
Echo: Disengage target.
Stand down.
Men: Eliminate target. Fire.
Eliminate target. Fire.
Echo's down.
We're alone.
We're on our own.
What happened? They missed.
(casings clatter)
Echo changed their marching orders.
Oh. Well, what did she tell them to do?
Go home.
Sierra: Favorite breakfast food?
Victor: Pancakes with strawberries.
We really have lived another life with each other.
Or just had breakfast.
I can feel the rest of it just beneath the surface.
I wonder if we'll ever remember everything.
I mean, really remember.
It doesn't matter. I wouldn't mind discovering
All these little things about you again.
(both chuckle)
Do you think that was our first kiss?
Out.
We're in the middle of the desert.
Out of the car.
I don't have to explain it to you. Take her and go.
Um, guys, we don't all have radios in our head.
I can't take you back to the dollhouse.
You have your original personalities.
You found each other.
You should leave.
Start your life together now.
There's no reason to wait until I free everyone else.
There are gps chips implanted in your bodies. Find them.
Cut them out.
No, you need our help.
She's not going to change her mind.
There's enough traffic on the main road.
Someone will pick you up.
I don't need thanks.
I don't need good-byes.
Do us a favor and look us up after you get everyone out.
If I get everyone out, you'll have to look me up.
Caroline f--
(loud humming)
You can't do this to her!
Really, mr. Langton, sometimes I think
You were the one bonded to echo,
Not the other way around.
This is going to blow up in all our faces.
All of rossum is chattering
About how you singl e-handedly defeated an entire army.
Harding was so impressed by your performance
That he's devising ways to turn you into a weapon.
Guess we know whose side you came down on.
I told him that you're far too dangerous.
There's no way to control you.
But you're still going to hand me over to him?
No.
You've disrupted countless engagements.
Brought alpha into my house.
Deceived me
With the help of paul ballard.
Dragged topher and boyd into the fun.
And now victor and sierra.
You leave a wake of destruction
Wherever you go.
There is only one place
For a doll as irreparably damaged as you.
The attic.
They say it's whatever hell you imagine,
But I think it's something far worse.
She shouldn't be able to do that.
Welcome to the conspiracy.
Can I go back to getting you juice boxes?
Adelle: What's the holdup?
Neuromods set for chemical saturation.
Ltp depotentiated.
Transmag primed.
We're ready.
There has to be another way to deal with this.
If you don't want to do this, I can find someone else who does.
Even if it means imprinting someone else
With your personality.
I'm sorry.
(muffled): No.
(echo whimpering)
(muffled screams, electricity crackling)
Send her body to the attic.
Then do the same to victor and sierra.
¶ ¶
(air hissing)
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