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* It explains how she was able to hack into his personal computer--somethingcomputer—something even Alpha couldn't do. Furthermore, she hates him because he hates himself.

* The ultimate purpose of the Dollhouse is to synthesize an ultimate polymath. Alpha was almost -- butalmost—but not quite -- whatquite—what they were aiming for. That's why DeWitt is so happy with Echo's progress -- sheprogress—she wants her to become like Alpha, only not homicidal (which would be the near miss part).

Setting up the [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game]] scenario was all part of his plan to force Echo to evolve or die. Somehow, when he encountered her on his post-integration rampage, he recognized that she had the potential to undergo that same integration; he knows that only some form of great stress can force the memories out--andout—and indeed, something in the poisoned water or being hunted caused Echo to hallucinate past 'lives' and buck her conditioning. At least one ghost of a memory survived past the wipe.

* And when the Operative says he has no name, he means that literally -- theyliterally—they deleted his name along with the rest of his personality. River only escaped the personality scrub because she's psychic.

Topher inputted the subversive subroutine at the behest of Adelle so that Paul Ballard would back down for the time being -- shebeing—she knew he wouldn't back down entirely, but at least this gave them some time to come up with another [[Xanatos Gambit]] to keep him from finding the Dollhouse. (And as Echo said, "You have to let the Dollhouse win.")

** ALL 13 episodes WILL be shown on Fox (apart from on April 17th17, when there isn't an episode because of [[Prison Break]]).

* The department Adelle was working for before her transfer to the Dollhouse--researchingDollhouse—researching growing organs from stem cells--actuallycells—actually is working up to creating entire clone bodies, so as not to have to rely on a ready supply of dolls.

Ballard had a pretty impressive shift in attitude by the end of the episode; during the drive back to the Dollhouse, he undoubtedly had a long talk with Echo-Omega--whoOmega—who probably gave him something of a reality check, given all of the experience she has locked up inside. And she probably pointed out that letting Caroline go free would be a tad foolish at this juncture, since Alpha has already murdered her twice (smashing the backup and shooting Wendy-Caroline)

** Unless she brings it down from the outside, without making her presence known to anyone who knows she's an Active. She may be thinking she can tear it down and walk away as the person who she's become. The flaw in this plan is that, presumably, she needs regular treatments to maintain her imprint -- butimprint—but does she realise this? Mellie seemed completely unaware of her periodic visits to the Dollhouse; maybe Saunders is equally ignorant, and hasn't stopped to think long enough to put that detail together.

*** I don't think most imprints need to be maintained--Novembermaintained—November was a special case because she was a sleeper Active. The subliminal programming she was imprinted with ("three flowers in a vase") was experimental and they wanted to be sure they hadn't created another Alpha. Besides, how would they know what information she had gotten from Ballard unless they retrieved her memories?

Am I the only one who got that vibe from "Belonging"? Not that he'll do anything about it--nowit—now that he has a conscience, he's not going to ruin Sierra's adorable romance with Victor. If you don't believe me, just watch his face in "Meet Jane Doe" when Harding suggests sending Sierra to Dubai.

*** Except that Clyde's been in there 17 years, with no idea how much time has passed -- whichpassed—which implies that subjective time in the Attic bears no relation to real-world time. There's no reason why your mental projection in the Attic should age visibly, which means if he's 40-something in the Attic, he's probably in his 60s in the real world. Or, alternatively, since he thought far more than 17 years had passed, he went in as a 19-year-old genius.

* Well, maybe. Don't forget that we are going back to an earlier version of the technology. We take it for granted that the 'point' of the technology is and always has been to constantly change imprints but that's because the Dollhouse needs to use it this way for its business. Therefore, the technology has been developed to enable constant loading and wiping of (modified) brains. But consider how much trauma wiping and imprinting must cause -- thecause—the architecture was presumably developed to help minimize this. However, in the early days, dealing with unmodified brains, there would have been a definite limit on what would have been possible -- maybepossible—maybe just one wipe and one imprint per brain (if you were lucky). So Clyde 2.0 may have remained in the same body since 1993, because re-imprinting him was for a long time too risky.

*** He does have special knowledge--heknowledge—he knows all about imprinting technology. And I think "no aspiration" is supposed to translate to "no ambition" rather than "no free will"--he—he's perfectly happy being a cog in the huge Rossum machine.

** Fifteen is certainly old enough to have a child. It's also certainly a likely age at which to have a child and give her up for adoption, which would explain why Caroline doesn't seem to know Adelle -- atAdelle—at least not that way.

In the Dark Future of Epitaph One and Epitaph Two, there are a) Actuals : people whose minds and brains have never been tampered with ; b) 'dumbshows', who are wiped but not imprinted (unlike Actives, they cannot even speak and are hardly functional) ; c)'butchers' who have been wiped and imprinted with a crude program that makes them mindless killing machines ; d) 'tech-heads' ex-Actives (with Active Architecture) who have taken the technology into their own hands ; e) 'immortals' who move from body to body such as Harding, Ambrose and Iris. These last presumably also use Active Architecture. This seems to be what is required to imprint someone with a fully functioning copy of a personality rather than a simple program designed to turn them {[[Ax Crazy]]}. At the end, whatever Topher does with his pulse is NOT any form of imprinting but some way of drawing on the residual traces of the original personality in the brain to try to restore an Active, Dumbshow or Butcher to their original identity (possible minus some or all of their old memories -- itmemories—it depends how thorough the remote wipe is compared with the chair-based or even hand-held version).