This week’s “Previously: on Dollhouse” is mostly scenes from Epitaph 1 with some splices here and there.

Then we jump to 2020, somewhere near the California – Nevada border. Some guy is Romero-zombie-walking around in a nice suit. A mob comes out of nowhere and takes him down, 28 Days Later-zombie style, and beats him to death.

Welcome to the future.

Meanwhile Zone (Zack Ward), Mag (Felicia Day), and Little Girl Echo/Caroline (Adair Tishler )-all introduced in the fore-mentioned Epitaph-are just meters away from all the shenanigans. Zone calls out “Butchers!” and it’s time to bounce.

They’ve been on the run for weeks, and are trying to find “Safe Haven,” something promised by an implanted personality in (again) Epitaph 1.

• ZONE: Look around ‘Tiny Messiah’. It’s over! Half the world’s been wiped!

There’s a lot of intriguing back story implied through new word usage here; people who have never been imprinted are “actuals” people who are imprinted homicidal maniacs are “butchers,” etc.

The trio makes their way to one of those warehouses where almost all the plot exposition in prime time television takes place. They chatter about what it might be like for Little Girl Echo to meet real Echo (Eliza Dushku).

• ZONE: You’re one of those magically-delicious super whores. I bet you look great!

Of course, we need some direction now that nobody’s at the location they’re suppose to be, so the trio is abushed and taken to Neuroplis-which is helpfully explained as being the “City of Minds”-for those of you paid ZERO attention in school. There they are brought to a holding pen, and Zone gets buttstocked in the gut. Some young emo-rocker in an H&M suit chastises the guards, reminding them to not bruise the merchandise.

Really? The world is ending and someone’s still trying to make a buck? I know this show detests Capitalism, but how heavy-handed can you get?

Zone freaks out because Safe Haven is apparently parked right next to the Death Star. That’s not me being cute, he actually says just that:

• ZONE: And you didn’t think to mention that Safe Haven was parked right next to the freakin’ Death Star?!

See?

Mr. Harding, who has been implanted in a corpulent corporate type, is living all the luxury the apocalypse can provide in one of the old offices of Rossum HQ. He is surrounded by priceless antiques and pricey hotties-doing his best Vladimir Harkonen impersonation (seriously people, check out Dune-the more you know!). It’s very much like Gary Oldman’s character in Book of Eli.

Emo-Suit brings in new bodies for Harding to peruse and most of them look like the dude you see in the “After” photo on those protein powders at GNC.  Apparently, Harding’s current body didn’t start out fat, he made it that way by eating all day while the world burned. One of the bodies is, in fact Helo (Tahmoh Penikett ). Harding flips out when Emo-Suit tells him he was just with “some girl.”

Emo-suit is all: “A couple dumb-shows never hurt anybody.” At which Helo smiles a smile that says “I’m going to thump you” and the edit actually cuts with a “thump.”

Back in the holding cell, Zone and Mag are freaking out. One of the guards comes in, and Echo-who had been concealed under burlap- springs into action and beats the hell out of everyone who is armed-and-therefore-evil. She grabs some guns and shoots Fat Harding. They attend to the prisoners while Helo wanders off to find Topher (Fran Kranz).

Topher, as it turns out, is doing the over-worked, under-sane scientist thing. Apparently every day he hasn’t solved their tech-problem, they kill someone in front of him-which would leave anyone a little crazy. He says he’s close to putting everything back to the way it was. In case you’re wondering, this is probably how the episode is going to end. The only reason I’m going to continue to watch is to the benefit of you, the reader/viewer.

You’re Welcome.

Jump to what is apparently safe haven, where everyone has been inoculated against half-assed science. Olivia Williams is growing strawberries and smiling, and it’s quite nice to see. She tells the lad to go show his mom, who is, in fact Sierra/Priya (Dichen Lachman ). It’s a real shame since we’re only 10 minutes into the show at this point: Paradise can’t last.

Right on cue, Echo and Helo show up with the plot hot on their heels. Topher’s in a bad way, but Zone and Mag are fine. So much so that Zone can still talk trash about Topher, much to the chagrin of Williams…

WILLIAMS: Topher Brink is a genius and you will keep a civil tongue in this house or we’ll put it in the stew.

The Rag-Tag Band of Misfits Who Will Save The World^TM discuss how they are going to just that. It involves building a pulse bomb (of course it does) that will reset everyone on the planet. The catch is that anybody with an imprint and wants to keep it has to be deep underground when it goes off and stay there for a year, while the techno-babble shockwave rocks the world Star Trek-style. Oh-and all the tech they need is back at the L.A. Dollhouse home office (of course it is). Zone ain’t happy about this.

ZONE: We just came from that party. It was on fire!

And then

HELO: World still needs heroes, kid.

ECHO: Did you really just say that?

HELO: I was just trying to be inspirational.

ECHO: You are so corny. . .

HELO: Well. . you’re. . . fat. . .

Awwwww, they’re so cute!

Zone tries to say this is a no-go, but the perimeter alarm-which every post-apocalyptic safe house should have-goes off. A semi-rolls up with some extras from Mad Max spilling out speaking some funky cross between Portugese, Russian, and Aramaic. Then Victor/Ciccoli (Enver Gjokaj ) emerges with techno-face implants, uses some sort of hand-held doodad to switch over to English and tell Echo he got her message and where are these asses that need a’kicking?

There’s a brief argument that sets up Ciccoli’s faction as embracing the tech and using it to fight, while Echo’s has abandoned it. Ciccoli even roughs up one of his people for showing T-the little boy who is clearly Ciccoli’s son-his crew’s “mods.” But hey, if England and America can agree Hitler’s Germany was pure evil, the Tech-Heads and the Luddites can get a long. Off they go!

On the way there’s a great scene where Zone talks with the Asian Tech-Head. In order to know or do something, apparently the Tech-Heads have to load it, but when they do they have to take something out. When the Asian Tech-Head wants to load “weapons expert” from a thumb drive around her neck, she dumps “Mercy” onto another thumb drive make room for it. She explains all this with an adorable little chuckle.

As an aside: that idea would have made a great show in and of itself.

There’s more dialogue filling in the blanks between the last episode we saw, the flashbacks from Epitaph 1, and the current events of Epitaph 2. But if you haven’t been following, it’s all just confusing filler. Helo and Echo have a conversation that’s sub-textually about how they only ever have sex when Echo is sure they’re going to die, and well-that’s a bad relationship, Armageddon not withstanding.

The Rag-Tag Band arrives at their destination, and it’s crawling with Butchers. They make with the bullets to the soundtrack of some fusion of heavy metal and violin that sounds very much like the opening of Angel. Mag gets shot, and Helo stops to help her-but gets shot in the head and drops like a rock.

Helo.

Shot.

In the head.

Alrighty then, all bets are off! The team gets into the Dollhouse Puzzle Palace Head Quarters Nerve Center^TM, only to find a bunch of wiped dolls running around. Oh, and Alpha (Alan Tudyk ).

Echo and Alpha snuggle, because Alpha is either not crazy anymore or in a world-gone-mad, a homicidal looney is an asset. Turns out Alpha is a piece with his million brains now and all the better for it. He even asks where Big Bad Ballard is, and gets the lowdown.

Topher, Williams and Echo are trying to find the super-world-saving tech when the Tech-Heads throw down and decide they like the world the way it is, since they are the toughest in it. Victor is displeased with this and so is Alpha, so they all have a little talk about it. Leading one of the Tech Heads to essentially call the Übermensch a caveman.

• ALPHA: (laughing) Did he just call *me* a luddite?

To which he promptly begins the ass-kickery.

After the baddies are dispatched, Topher gleefully says “It’s bedtiiiiime!” And runs of to his sleeping coffin, which is surrounded by crap and such of all sizes.  Williams remarks that she’s surprised to find it all intact. Turns out, Alpha found it that way and left it.

ALPHA: It spoke to the schitzophrenic in me. Well, both of them actually.

Priya passes time by smashing thumb-drives with personality programs on them while ranting about what a jerk Victor is. Echo starts a Priya intervention, saying that Victor is clearly in love with her, and promptly has a really great freak-out that has nothing to do with those two wacky lovebirds:

ECHO: You have years together! And what you should do is waste it! Never tell him that you love him!

She collapses to the floor sobbing, and all props to Duskhu: she sells the moment with a power-train warranty.

Jump to Topher finishing up the device, which has to be set off manually (of course). Williams figures out what this means right away: Topher isn’t coming back.

TOPHER: I didn’t want to cause anymore pain.

There’s more touching moments like this throughout.

TOPHER: I’ll fix what we did to their heads. You fix what we did to the rest of the world. Your job is waaaay harder.

And. . . .

• MAG: Take care of her, Zone. Try not to have any influence on her of any kind.

Topher goes up stairs to Williams office, sets the bomb to go off, and sees the wall of photographs that is almost obligatory in fictional disasters since 9/11 (See 28 Days Later, Battlestar Galactica), and the thing goes off, killing him and saving the world.

Echo loads up Helo into her brain, and they talk.

HELO: Are you sure? I’ve got a lot of baggage. Childhood stuff.

ECHO: We’ve got time.

She lays down in her sleeping coffin and we roll the closing credits for the final time.

SUMMARY

• This feels the like final episode of a much better show.
• That being said, HELL of a show. Trimmed out the crappy acting, the plot was rather tight, but if you haven’t been watching the series-you were lost.
• I think and entire T.V. show based on the day after the apocalypse would … oh wait. Jericho. Nevermind.
• There are certain tools I’ve begun to notice a Whedon show’s writers will reach for over and over. Hot girls beating the hell out of people, hot girls beating the hell out of rapists (that one never gets old, though), men who adore damaged and/or compromised women (within the context of their own moral code, mind you), and women having relationships with dead guys.

This week we jump right back into that flashback meeting that ended last episode. Harry J. Lennix explains that Rossum has its hands in everyone’s pie. The company is so vast and far reaching it seems impossible to fight. He goes onto to tell Caroline, before she was Echo, that it’s either Dollhouse or the full force of the PATRIOT Act.

Caroline concedes.

Back in the edge-of-dystopia present Victor/Ciccoli and Sierra/Priya return to the Dollhouse after their “last wild night out” at a cheap hotel before the L.A. Dollhouse Rebels were besieged by the Rossum Empire. Naturally, they find bullets in everything and spare weapons just lying around, so they take a look around.

VICTOR/CICOLLI: Looks like the war started without us.

We jump to Helo stomping on his iPhone in frustration. Apparently there’s no app for what they’re doing. He reports to Olivia Williams that the phones are dead, and they are now invisible to Rossum’s tracking. He then has a tender moment with November, who never really got away from being a doll, which is kind of sad. Then they see a vehicle pull up into the parking garage rooftop where they’ve cleverly hidden themselves…from everything except spy satellites and helicopters.

Also, Olivia Williams spitting “Look lively,” and grabbing an M-4 is just great.

It turns out to be Lennix, Topher and Echo-who is having a River Tam Mania moment. Helo thinks it’s time to reevaluate, but Lennix says it’s time to take the fight to Rossum Corporate Headquarters. Topher says Lennix has been shot, and he’s all “I’ve been shot before” nonchalant because that’s the way we like it!

Helo says it won’t work, but Williams-ever the tactician (when dramatically appropriate)-blows off the whole sneak attack thing and says getting in is simple: Rossum wants Echo, they’ll give them Echo.

Back at the Doll House Puzzle Palace Headquarters^TM, Ciccoli, and Priya have found the imprint chair with a post-it note that says “play me”. They debate what they should do, as they swore they won’t bother with this brain-tech crap anymore. Ciccoli gets his way, and volunteers to be imprinted. However, he says that if he comes out evil, Priya should critically wound him… but stay away from his junk, please.

It turns out the imprint in the machine is Topher, but this Topher has no idea what’s happened this season, or really what’s going on at all. How does that help?

Jump to Rossum Headquarters where the Scooby gang, with their warped answer to Daphne, is walking right in the front door-just as Williams said they would.

Doc Whiskey shows up, now imprinted with Clyde Randolph (evil scientist co-founder of evil corporation), and dressed like K.D. Lang.

RANDOLPH: This world is for people who can evolve.

WILLIAMS: Does that include us?

RANDOLPH: Isn’t that what you’re here to find out?

Back at the Dollhouse, Ciccoli/Topher is freaking out because he doesn’t know if he’s dead. Priya assures him he’s probably not, then she fills him on everything he’s missed. They determine Lennix drugged Echo, obviously to keep whatever-his-extremely-convoluted-but-dramatically-interesting-plan-is, a secret.

Williams chats with Clyde/Scars over a Scotch in Clyde’s office, while Lennix pretends to hack his way out the cell where he and the Scooby gang are being kept.

Back at the Dollhouse, Priya tells Cicolli/Topher it’s time to stop sitting around figuring things out, and start kicking ass.

CICOLLI/TOPHER: That is so Ripley!

They then decide to imprint the pair of them with 50 years of being Jason Bourne, or something.

Back in Arizona, Topher proves that he is way sharper than anyone (especially me) gives him credit for, by telling Lennix that Echo’s acting a lot like Priya when she was on those anti-psychotic drugs.

Ciccoli and Priya load up on Mad Skillz, demonstrate them on some conveniently appearing goons, and move out.

Echo, who is dressed like Indiana Jones by way of Cosmopolitan, is still shuddering with seizure, suddenly snaps awake and growls, “Boyd.”

It is-in all likelihood-On Like Donkey Kong.

Commercial Break.

Lennix leads Topher to lab where they’re building the remote wiper deedle, and after he freaks out about it, Lennix says that with it they can get in and get out without hurting anyone.

Helo and November, on the other hand, hurt the hell out of some mook and get some guns. They have nice talk about identity and Paul admits he’s now comfortable with his doll-hood and he didn’t want to die without November. Awwww.

Topher fixes the doo-dad and right before Lennix reveals himself to be “The Man Behind the Curtain”, Echo Drop kicks him-WWE style-and then starts beating the Shakespeare right out of him. This isn’t really a fight, because Lennix is totally outmatched. However, Clyde Scars shows up all full of weapons training, and holds the the good guys at bay with John Woo-Fu. This leaves Lennix to monologue his master plan, and explain that they are all his family, because. . . why, exactly?

LENNIX:  You’ve proven yourselves in so many ways. I-I wanted you all with me…Except for Paul [Helo]. There’s always one relative you can live without. And frankly, I never understood what you saw in him.

You know what? All of a sudden Lennix is just this kooky person who doesn’t seem like he could actually do everything he’s supposed to have done.

Helo, on the other hand, wants to shoot his way through Rossum HQ, and you can’t really blame him. November suggests they just unplug the cooling system and fry the servers that are the backbone of the corporation. Oh, yeah, that too. Helo is looking kinda dumb, but agrees.

Lennix tells everyone that he has pushed everyone to such a point to make them tougher. And also he’s crazy. He’s going to use Echo’s cerebral spinal fluid to make a vaccine against imprinting, because she is Anakin Skywalker, unique with a higher midi-chlorian count than anyone else. Although how a vaccine against bad science would actually work is beyond me.

Lennix puts her out with The Scrambler ($29.99 Rossum’s Fall Catalog)

Helo and November wander into the server room. November’s SMG dangling lazily from one hand. Helo holds the damned thing correctly, but he still points the barrel at November more than once, and once is already too many. They smash some control box and wait for the mooks. Helo then sets her up with her SMG (and thank god it’s an MP5, those things are like cheating) .

Lennix plays the Manchurian Doll soundbite over the loudspeaker, and November tries to kill Helo! Oh noes! But she then overcomes the program just long enough to kill herself. Love conquers all, but only bullets can really stop brainwashing.

We jump to Echo being assured by Lennix that it’ll all be okay, and that having her spinal fluid drained won’t kill her. I mean, I guess not in and of itself, but isn’t that like running an engine with no oil? Lennix leaves and Ciccoli and Priya show up, get Echo out of the Count Rougan machine and they roll out to where Williams and Topher are being held.

The Dynamic Duo interrupts their pity party to rescue the pair.

Echo fights Doc Scars, and it’s a little brutal, while Lennix pulls one last ruse on Helo. Of course Echo wins, but gets sucker punched by Lennix, leading to another showdown between the two. But Topher shows up and just wipes Lennix using the new apocalypse tech. This was…pretty anti-climatic, actually. They then load  Len-Doll up with explosives, and destroy Rossum’s technology. An awful way to end it for the character.

One thing: They set off numerous high-yield explosives that blew up several floors of an office building, but there’s NO external damage to the building? After all’s said and done, Helo and Echo/Caroline have a moment…

HELO: So did we save the world?

ECHO: I guess we did.

Jump ahead 10 years, the world has still gone to hell, but at least this time Helo has a trenchcoat and an M249.

Roll credits!

SUMMARY

• This episode was just a mess. It reminded me of Highlander: Endgame. There’s one scene where you realize that they ran out of money AND stopped caring.
• Having Harry J. Lennix actually be evil was just heartbreaking. Plus, the way they did it was a little insulting. On one level, it explains everything, but on another level it’s like finding out Spider-Man runs a dog-fighting ring on the side.  That and it also appeared like he was suddenly an incompetent kook, like Hannibal Lecter how was really scary until he pulled out that slide-whistle.
• I’m going a little “Queer Eye” here, but why would you put Amy Acker in slacks that are tight around the ass and thighs? I know it’s fan service-but that’s outside the context of the show, where it’s a man using that body. I don’t think Clyde would have gone with that style just because he was in a chick’s body. That’s just me.
• By the way, L.A. Dollhouse Rebels? Great name for a band. . .

The episode opens with a blast from the past, as a pre-Echo Caroline (Eliza Dushku), seducing a well dressed idiot.

I’m sensing a pattern.

The well dressed idiot falls for the aggressively-strip-you-then-hand-cuff-you-to-a-sconce lamp-trick and Echo starts rifling through a desk in what’s apparently Olivia Williams’ office.

The Idiot is scared to death, and Echo says she’s not a thief, she’s a terrorist. Oh, good, well that’s alright then. Echo gets an idea of Barret (Summer Glau) and we jump back to the present, where the Scooby-gang is planning to somehow save the world from Remote Imprinting.

They decide the best way to do this is to upload Caroline back into Echo and see what happens. Sure, why not? Only Caroline’s imprint is missing. Dun-dun-DUUUUUN!

Back in the past, Bennet is wandering around the campus of Tucson Institute of Technology (T.I.T.- Very subtle).  She tries to find a seat, asks a pair of Jersey Shore rejects to clear out as they’re done eating and makes it clear she is abrasive and socially inept, because all smart people are like that.

Caroline pretends like she’s going to vomit on the Jersey Shore Girls, and they flee in terror. Then, she asks Bennet to sit down.

It appears as though Echo pre-Dollhouse life was also devoted to bringing down the Dollhouse. It makes her actually being a doll very tragic, and her imprinting potentially turning her into the ultimate tool of Dollhouse’s destruction kind of neat.

Thinking about it, her playing the vapid idiot on all those home movies may have just been building a cover. Williams tells Echo, as they both watch one of those home movies, that Caroline was an idealist, the sort that leaves a trail of unhappiness and dead bodies. So. . . a terrorist.

Meanwhile Topher has a totally sweet plan for once. Remote imprint who ever is in the chair at the D.C. Dollhouse, they pin Bennet to wall, and then allow Helo and Ciccoli/Victor into the building. Nice. They get her back to L.A. Dollhouse, where Bennet proves she’s a terrible person by saying L.A. keeps their dolls like free range chickens, while D.C. keeps theirs like veal. Wow.

• BENNET: You used the company jet to abduct the programmer of a rival House?
• WILLIAMS: I’m certain I’ll be kicking myself come holiday bonus time.
• BENNET: I’m sure you’ll be dead by then.

They come to Topher’s office, and he manages to calm Bennet down enough (she being a bit livid about him clocking her last time they met) to get her help rebuilding the hard drive containing Caroline. Then he goes on and tries to flirt with her, and it’s rather like watching a hard-core World of Warcraft player holla at da club.

Bennet derails it all by directly asking who is on the disk. Of course Echo chooses exactly that moment to look into the lab pensively. Bennet, schooled in dramatic script contrivances, figures out that it’s for her hated enemy, and as she glares at Echo, we get another flashback.

Caroline is dying Bennet’s hair in preparation for her new job, which sounds like it’s going to be the whole pre-doctorate rat-brain cutting gig that so many neuroscience majors do before they move onto human brains. They chit-chat in a way that seems a little like flirting, and then we jump back to the present. Specifically, Harry J. Lennix’s swank place.

Where he’s been shacking up with Doc Whiskey this whole time. Harry J., you sly dog!

In the Doc’s office, Topher is looking for something to staunch the bleeding of his upper lip.

TOPHER: Actually, if anyone asks, don’t say I got beat up by a one-armed girl.

Echo pops in and gets him to admit what we’ve suspected since they imprinted Helo, that he wiped out their love connection in Helo’s brain. So now he’s far less easy to manipulate, I guess.

Doc Whiskey shows up, throws on her mandarin collared lab coat pretty-as-you-please like nothing happened and tells Topher to sit. Williams rolls by just makes like it’s all normal anyway.

Then we flash back to Mr. Dominic telling Williams that he tortured The Idiot until he confessed, and they know that Caroline is rooming with Bennet.  In Arizona, Bennet asks Caroline why she has her file from Rossum. Bennet is actually more hurt that Caroline didn’t ask her to come in on her little terrorist plot than angry about being used.

Back in the present, Lennix and Echo have a heart to heart on par with that of a father and daughter. It’s really quite touching, and it’s the first time they’ve interacted this season, really. Lennix says he’s got to put the place on lockdown, so Echo dashes out to give Ciccoli/Victor and Sierra/Priya some time for a Pre-War Horizontal Mambo. Hey, about to go to war? Get laid. Solid thinking. She’ll make a hell of an officer one day.

Just then, Mr. Dominic stumbles down the stairs in the customary attic latex fetish-wear, and warns Echo that Rossum is on to her.

TOPHER: Am I the only one thinking we’re getting maybe a little too much of our intel from The Matrix or possibly Tron given the outfits?

Williams gives the order to evacuate, and says they’re going to Tucson, Az: Rossum Headquarters.

Cut back to the past, where Bennet and Caroline have infiltrated Rossum and are ready mess things up. The plan goes to hell because Caroline doesn’t do what she’s supposed to do, which is stick to the plan. She finds people in there, hooked up to machines in a terrifying nightmare room like the Nazi’s might have had. The screen goes white, and we assume Bennet ends up pinned under concrete.

Present time: Mr. Dominic is in a bad way. He needs medical attention, which they don’t have the staff for. Williams says put him back in the attic, as it’s his best hope for survival.

• DOMINIC: You bitch. I’d rather die.
• WILLIAMS: Well, I’d rather you didn’t.

Williams then finds some Grand High Pooba of Rossum in her office. They talk a little before Lennix kills him and his hired goons, while taking a bullet himself. Williams decides she will tell the guy, who was probably in several different bodies anyway, that one of him is dead. She tells Lennix to roll out to draw their fire, but Doc Whiskey is staying.

I must say it’s refreshing to hear all this war terminology in reference to a true warlike situation.

Echo tells Bennet to fix the Caroline imprint and promises to let Bennet do whatever she wants to Caroline once they have what they need from her. That convinces her well enough, and she’s on the case with Topher.

Lennix is about to run, but before he does he shares a tender moment with Whiskey that would not have been broadcast in the 50’s. For those paying attention, this scene was one of the flashbacks in Epitaph One . Meanwhile, Topher and Bennet are getting distracted from their project by each others lips.

TOPHER: You know I always had a crush on you, even when I thought you were a dude.

While Topher is grabbing something off screen, Doc Whiskey shows up and tells Bennet she’s amazing, that she must something special because Topher loves her and she didn’t think that Topher could love anything. They exchange a tender moment, then Doc shoots Bennet in the head.

SWEETJESUSBATS**TMONKEYBULLETS! SHE JUST SHOT BENNET!

End act II.

Topher’s in shock, and Williams gets to get back on reassembling Caroline. Ivy, Topher’s assistant, shows up and tries to help. Topher tells her to run away from the Dollhouse and never look back. He tells her not to become him. It’s also rather touching, even if it’s born out of self loathing.

Moments later, some mooks rope in from up stairs. You know their serious because they have green laser pointers. Apparently the old red ones are for amateurs.

• TOPHER: You should go, server rooms. Service tunnels.
• WILLIAMS: Don’t be ridiculous.
• TOPHER: You’re our general. We can’t loose you!

Williams rolls, and just as Topher loads Dushku into the chair, one of the Rossum Rent-A-Mercs comes in, which leads to the following.

TOPHER: I’ve imprinted myself with many useful skills, you don’t even want to know ::BUTTSTOCKED:: ::THUD::

Then Lennix appears and breaks the merc’s neck just as he’s about to pump two into Echo, because that’s his daughter in that chair!

The big reveal of this episode is Clyde was never betrayed, technically. He multiplied himself and one of the copies betrayed the original. However, Clyde’s partner? Harry J. Goddamned-Lennix, that’s who! He is clearly the one who got to Whiskey. Apparently, recovering Caroline is not part of his plan, so he killed Bennet?

What’s going onnnnnnn?!

Roll credits!

SUMMARY:

• Anyone else notice how much Whedon raises the stakes on his girls-who-beat-up boys characters? First it’s a high school student, then it’s a schizophrenic, then it was Echo, and now it’s a one-armed girl.
• While Rossum may be completely crazily evil, I feel no sympathy for Caroline any longer once she decided to blow up a building. How many members of that staff were just trying feed their families? I mean, sure there were white collar types who probably knew s**t was wrong, but what about the paper-workers down accounting? The janitorial staff? Seriously, f**k you Caroline Farrell. Great characterization, though.
• Dude. It’s like Oz or something now. We don’t know who’s going to die next.
• I want to say this show is tightly plotted, but. . . something’s missing.
• I’m not real clear on how the other Dollhouses work. How are they actually rivals if all the money goes to the same place?