The Dollhouse is inching towards the finale of the second season... Last time we got completely taken by surprise when we found out that Boyd Langton is actually one of the two founders of the Rossum Corporation running the Dollhouse. We’ve been made to believe that Echo/Caroline and her friend are fighting against Rossum, and we have been under the impression that Boyd is perhaps the only trustworthy companion Echo could have hoped for ... and now ... ??? So, let’s return to that meeting two years ago ... when Boyd explains to Caroline that his corporation is on the cutting edge in brain scans and neurological research, blood tests and microscopic examinations, leukemia and Parkinson’s disease. He also explains that by committing an act of terrorism blowing up the lab Caroline might be facing ten, fifteen years in prison. So she might as well offer five years of her life to the Dollhouse, under Boyd’s protection, so they can learn how far they can go with their neuroscientific experiments.
In the present day, Sierra/Priya and Victor/ Anthony are returning to the L.A. Dollhouse, only to find the remains of a small battlefield, bodies of a swat team strewn about, guns and damage, flickering computer screens in the darkness... On the rooftop Adelle DeWitt is waiting for a helicopter to take her away with Paul Ballard and November/Madeline. Then Boyd arrives with Topher and Echo, who’s completely gone bonkers now that they’ve dumped Caroline’s original imprint back into her mind. They have to take her to the Rossum Headquarters in Tuscon, where Clyde Randolph (in the body of Whiskey/Claire) gives them an awkward meet and greet. Back in L.A. Topher’s left his own imprint behind, so that Priya and Anthony can figure out what has happened and how to help. Now we learn the Boyd drugged Caroline so that she wouldn’t immediately exclaim he was the enemy. It’s not going to be long, though, before Caroline is going to come to.
Meanwhile Topher and Boyd find that Rossum is already in the process of mass-producing his remote-wipe gizmos with which you can imprint brains. (I know, that annoying sci-fi gibberish...) All it needs is for Topher to fix something twenty researchers weren’t able to crack for weeks. Then Caroline barges in, hitting Boyd to the ground. Clyde breaks them up, pointing guns at Caroline and Adelle, and Topher still hasn’t been able to figure out what’s going on. Caroline wants to know what the whole charade is about. Why bring all those people to the Headquarters if not to kill them? “Don’t you understand I love you guys?” Boyd replies. While Paul and November/Mellie/Madeline are looking to destroy Rossum’s mainframe, Boyd praises his team and tells them the neurological technology that they’ve invented cannot be undone. So, you have to face the fact and chose which side to be on: the imprinted slaves or their masters. “You are spectacularly insane,” Adelle sighs in despair. Now Boyd believes that Echo/Caroline will be humanity’s savior (we westerners always need a savior). He continues that they are going to create a vaccine against imprinting from Caroline’s cerebral spinal fluid... (Uh, what?) Topher, with Anthony and Priya set out to destroy the remote-tech that he invented. Caroline’s chased by Clyde and Boyd, Paul gets distraught when Melly kills herself, fist fights ensue, and then Topher walks in zapping Boyd into his doll state. They use him to blow up the mainframe. Have they saved the world? Switch to ten years in the future, and the neurological apocalypse is still happening. Something must have gone awry... (Stay tuned for more next week: “Epitaph Two.”)
In the present day, Sierra/Priya and Victor/ Anthony are returning to the L.A. Dollhouse, only to find the remains of a small battlefield, bodies of a swat team strewn about, guns and damage, flickering computer screens in the darkness... On the rooftop Adelle DeWitt is waiting for a helicopter to take her away with Paul Ballard and November/Madeline. Then Boyd arrives with Topher and Echo, who’s completely gone bonkers now that they’ve dumped Caroline’s original imprint back into her mind. They have to take her to the Rossum Headquarters in Tuscon, where Clyde Randolph (in the body of Whiskey/Claire) gives them an awkward meet and greet. Back in L.A. Topher’s left his own imprint behind, so that Priya and Anthony can figure out what has happened and how to help. Now we learn the Boyd drugged Caroline so that she wouldn’t immediately exclaim he was the enemy. It’s not going to be long, though, before Caroline is going to come to.Meanwhile Topher and Boyd find that Rossum is already in the process of mass-producing his remote-wipe gizmos with which you can imprint brains. (I know, that annoying sci-fi gibberish...) All it needs is for Topher to fix something twenty researchers weren’t able to crack for weeks. Then Caroline barges in, hitting Boyd to the ground. Clyde breaks them up, pointing guns at Caroline and Adelle, and Topher still hasn’t been able to figure out what’s going on. Caroline wants to know what the whole charade is about. Why bring all those people to the Headquarters if not to kill them? “Don’t you understand I love you guys?” Boyd replies. While Paul and November/Mellie/Madeline are looking to destroy Rossum’s mainframe, Boyd praises his team and tells them the neurological technology that they’ve invented cannot be undone. So, you have to face the fact and chose which side to be on: the imprinted slaves or their masters. “You are spectacularly insane,” Adelle sighs in despair. Now Boyd believes that Echo/Caroline will be humanity’s savior (we westerners always need a savior). He continues that they are going to create a vaccine against imprinting from Caroline’s cerebral spinal fluid... (Uh, what?) Topher, with Anthony and Priya set out to destroy the remote-tech that he invented. Caroline’s chased by Clyde and Boyd, Paul gets distraught when Melly kills herself, fist fights ensue, and then Topher walks in zapping Boyd into his doll state. They use him to blow up the mainframe. Have they saved the world? Switch to ten years in the future, and the neurological apocalypse is still happening. Something must have gone awry... (Stay tuned for more next week: “Epitaph Two.”)
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