- Victor's five-year contract with the Dollhouse elapses and he goes back out into the real world under his old personality of Anthony Ceccoli. But his past as a soldier fighting in Afghanistan (whom he was running from in the first place) threatens his present with Sierra who remains behind at Dollhouse and is conflicted over Victor's absence. Meanwhile, Echo continues to keep an eye on the comatose Ballard, while Adelle slips into hopelessness over recent events. When Victor/Anthony is captured by a rogue military unit with ties to Rossum Corp. Echo is forced to recruit Sierra, under her real personality of Priya, to help rescue Victor/Anthony while Boyd and Topher monitor and keep Adelle in check to avoid her finding out what is going on behind the scenes.—matt-282
- We open in a hotel room, where Adelle and Victor fumble to undress. "I want to roger Roder," Adelle jokes. Rodger/Victor stops the bedroom romp, telling the boss that he has met another woman. Adelle is upset and warns that Victor is about to be deactivated. Adelle charges back to headquarters, demanding to know who reprogrammed Victor. Turns out no one did -- he was just grouping with Sierra. "We can't have clients rejected by dolls who are programmed to love them," a furious Adelle tells Topher.
Victor and Sierra, meanwhile, eat breakfast together. Victor is soon called away to the chair, where he wakes up thinking that only five seconds have elapsed instead of five years. "If people ask, you spent the last five years at a VA hospital," Boyd explains. "You're a free man." Somehow, we doubt it. Sure enough, a group of men BURST into Victor's apartment in the dead of night. A FURIOUS fight ensues, but the former Dollhouse employee is taken down. Meanwhile, Echo awakes and finds Paul's body missing. She storms into Adelles office, demanding an explanation. "He is getting top-notch care," Adelle says. Echo points out that she has "40 more brains" than Adelle. "I'm smarter, tougher and a whole lot scarier than you could ever hope to be," Echo seethes. "Now you can be on my side, or you can be on Rossum's. But the time for playing both is over." Gauntlet thrown!
Back at the lab, Topher tells Boyd that Victor's brain signals -- which he is still monitoring -- are going rather crazy. "Those are fight-for-your-life squigglies," Topher says. Boyd and Echo head to Victor's apartment -- and find it empty. "Whoever did this are professionals," Echo observes. Sure enough, we cut to a dark room where Victor is shackled to a chair. His kidnappers step forward to reveal themselves as old Army mates in a new program. "You want me to be a soldier," Victor asks. "Where do I sign up?" He then willingly takes an implant of some sort to the back of neck. Ouch.
Boyd and Echo, in the meantime, find out that someone had hacked into the Dollhouse mainframe and has been tracking Victor's movements for months. But who? Echo, or someone in her head, does a little reverse hacking and discovers that it was a military wing of Rossum. "He's been placed in a classified program called Mind Whisper," Echo says. Boyd explains that Mind Whisper uses the architecture of the Dollhouse programming to link the brains of soldiers. In short, Rossum is building an army -- and has turned Victor into a super soldier. Topher warns that if Victor isn't rescued before being fully integrated into the group mind, he will be lost forever. The team then wakes Sierra, figuring that she might be there best chance to remind Victor that he is Victor.
Echo and Sierra head immediately to the Mind Whisper training facility, where they intentionally captured. Once inside, Echo quickly dispatches the two armed escorts. Suddeny, Victor appears and points a gun at Sierra! "Anthony is gone, but what about Victor?" Sierra pleads. "Victor would remember me!" Sure enough, Victor drops his weapon. "I remember," he says. "When she's here, it helps me to remember." He is then KNOCKED OUT cold by Echo. "He's still connected," Echo explains to a shocked Sierra. "Anything we tell him, they hear." Echo heads to the control room while Sierra guards Victor's body. Victor soon awakens, however. He convinces Sierra to trust him -- after all, he can read the other soldiers' thoughts, too. Echo, meanwhile, continues to kick butts all the way to the control room, where she injects herself in the back of the neck. She immediately begins to "think" orders, telling the other soldiers to stand down. Sure enough, they follow her commands. Mind over gun-toting matter, after all.
Later, the reunited trio drives away from the base. Victor and Sierra make out in the back. Echo suddenly stops the car. "Out," she says. "I can't take you back to the Dollhouse. You have your original personalities." The two are about to leave when they suddenly SEIZE UP in pain. Their noses to begin to bleed -- and then they go limp.
The culprit is none other than Adelle, who has woken up from a drunken stupor and decided to put her foot down -- much to the chagrin of Boyd. Echo, Victor and Sierra are soon back at the Dollhouse. "There's only one place for a Doll as irrevocably damaged as you," Adelle says. Echo, understanding, is HORRIFIED. "The Attic!" she breathes.
We cut to a dark, sterile room -- apparently said Attic. Echo, Victor and Sierra lie in watery beds. They are covered with clear wrap and put into cold storage. That, after all, is what attics are for.
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