There are four people in the room with “Dominic”: Topher, Adele, the doctor, Boyd. Dominic says “Whiskey” while addressing people in the room, like, “Topher, [pleading]; Adele, [begging]; Whiskey . . .” Then the doctor says he wants a drink instead of the sedative, and Adele goes along with it. That in no way means that anyone in the room other than the doctor missed the capital “W,” just that they’re trying to keep her from discovering that she’s a doll. It’s possible Boyd is Whiskey, but I agree with the idea above that the doc was a doll who was useless for most missions once disfigured.
I loved the dual meaning breakup conversation, culminating in “You’ll get over it.” Heh.
And Alan knocked my socks off. I was completely taken in, largely because of liking the actor, which surely they realized and used to effect. I liked the follow through on the stair riser thing too.
Biggest drawback was I also wondered why they didn’t just craft a compliant version of Dominic to imprint. That was sloppy. But the guy who plays Victor is awesome - he was totally channeling Reed Diamond.
Who the hell is in Echo’s body now, and why did it have to be her body in particular? I think I’m watching this in real time next Friday!
And remember the interrogation scene with “profiler Echo” when they were trying to uncover Dominic. It was strongly implied she never leaves the Dollhouse - on duty 24/7, with no outside life at all.
What’s the deal with there being one extra episode or something? I thought I heard that there was one more ep in the can, but they’re using this one as the season finale. Will there be another one next week?
13 episodes were shot not counting the re-shoot of the first episode. Fox wanted 13 episodes for the European market, but only wanted to pay for 12. So they suggested a clip show episode. :rolleyes:
Whedon came up with another idea to shoot the episode that would cost Fox half as much money. It involves Felicia Day and it’s not going to air as part of this season. I’m not sure what Fox plans to do with it.
OK, now that I’ve rewatched the Whiskey scene, I might have to put my money on Boyd. It looks more like Dominic is looking over the doc’s shoulder when he calls, “Whiskey–” and Saunders is the one to shut him up and gloss over the name - she immediately injects him and says that he wants a drink. This theory would also answer why Boyd, seemingly an upright person who doesn’t like the Dollhouse and what it does, wound up working there.
Then again, there are all the indicators pointing towards Saunders - her fitting the doll profile better, the slashing explaining why they’d use her in this role, Alpha saying “that’s a lie,” and the fact that she has no outside life.
I don’t know, and I love it!
Oh, and another great line: “People were fighting on me.”
It seems obvious that the doc is a doll, now. I knew he was Alpha from the start, but I thought maybe he really was the environmental guy first and they turned him into Alpha after he built the place. I was thinking that since Alpha was against the Dollhouse that he might be a good guy, but he is a pyscho, so far as I can tell. Maybe that means the purpose of the Dollhouse is noble. Ballard might also be a doll. Didn’t he recognize a doll and say that his whole life wasn’t real? He might have recognized Victor, though. Speaking of Victor, I wonder what his fate might be now that he has been cut by Alpha. Alpha said Victor’s cuts were deeper than the doc’s. All in all, I hope they don’t cancel this show.
It was Victor. He called him by his phoney cover mob guy last name, but it was definitely Victor he recognized walking around.
I just took it to mean that between “Mellie” and now Victor, he’s realizing how much of his life is just the result of the Dollhouse messing with him, not that he thinks he’s a doll or anything.
Which is not to say that he might not still turn out to be one, with this show, who knows?
I didn’t, although I had heard the rumors that Tudyk would play Alpha, I had no idea who Tudyk was, so it didn’t mean anything to me.
It isn’t a bad show, but this is why I don’t usually watch dramas. The industry sites are all saying it won’t be renewed - so there will be all these open questions. More and more I think that the way the Brits do their shows is better - with a fixed number of shows being sold, so that we know what happens in the end.
Alpha has been the source for every single piece of information Ballard has ever gotten on the Dollhouse. Some of it is probably false, in order to cause Ballard to focus specifically on retrieving Echo, who Alpha apparently has an affinity for. Alpha engineered everything Ballard has done so far, probably up to and including whatever got Ballard started on the trail in the first place.
OK, I’ve rewatched the episode and and now it’s making a bit more sense. During the interview with Dominic (in Victor’s body), when Dominic is asked who sent the flash drive if it wasn’t the NSA, he clearly says ‘Alpha’. In fact they work out that the password to the data is the Greek letter of the same name. The data then shows DeWitt & Co. the info about the dead guy in Tucson; apparently this is supposed to be a red herring to get internal security to focus on that city rather than the LA House, making it easier to sneak in and carry out his plan.
Why Alpha might have needed Ballard to get in in the first place, however, seems rather less plausible, given that Alpha apparently knew enough about the structure and security systems to get in on his own. I’ll assume that he was using Ballard as misdirection and convenient muscle while he did what he needed to do (and to set up that photogenic confrontation between Boyd and Ballard for the viewers).
One possibility occurred to me - maybe Dr Saunders is a former doll (served her time, but stayed there) Though that doesn’t make sense with “that’s a lie” quote from Alpha (unless that has nothing to do with an implanted memory)
