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Connell paid to date Echo in Dollhouse Season 1 Episode 2. Everything was going fine until he turned out to be a psycho and tried to hunt and kill her.

During a singing performance, one of the people on stage catches on fire.

Echo and Sierra are friends, or so they’re told.

Boyd shouldn’t have taken the arrow out because it does more damage coming out than going in. He’ll remember that next time he’s being bow hunted, but he’s healing nicely. He wants to be certified by the doctor so that he’s the one who goes out there with Echo next time she needs a handler.

Lubov arrives at Ballard’s apartment pretending to be an old friend from the navy… or a friend from Old Navy. He wants to meet with him on Friday.

If they hadn’t changed the choreography, it would have been Rayna, the singer, who caught on fire during the performance. Someone’s apparently trying to kill her. She needs someone who she likes and who can protect her without knowing she’s protecting her. It turns out Echo’s got a decent voice, and they’re looking for a backup singer to replace the person who was on fire.

Dr. Saunders doesn’t like this new high risk assignment. Echo is only flagged for romantic or altruistic missions. As some added security, they will be sending in Sierra as backup. Rayna’s people also have beefed up security, going from three body guards to eight plus a full security staff and sending her mail to the police to be checked.

Ballard and Lupov meet as planned. Lupov has thrown around the word Dollhouse where he works, and he’s come to the conclusion that it’s just an urban legend. They’ve given Ballard the one job they know he can’t blow because it doesn’t exist.

Lubov is greeted by Topher inside the Dollhouse and is called Victor.

The night of the last performance, there was a creepy looking guy in the audience. He’s back again and appears to be up to no good. He also shows up at the post-show party, where Echo sees a guy approaching and attacks him.

Ballard arrives at an abandoned basement as instructed by Lubov. On arrival, he gets jumped and shot, but he turns the tables and takes out his attackers.

Echo comes in to Rayna’s dressing room and sees some recent letters from the stalker. Rayna has been communicating with him out of the belief he’s her #1 fan, who will do anything she wants. She dismisses Echo’s belief that the guy’s insane. Then Echo looks under the orchids and sees a threat that tonight will be her last goodbye, but Rayna doesn’t mind being killed. While he prepares his gun, Echo runs around trying to convince security to stop the show. They don’t believe her, so she’ll have to stop it on her own. By waving the spotlight around, she’s able to locate the shooter, then shove Rayna out of the way as shots are fired. Rayna is disappointed by her lack of dying. The reaper will one day come to bring her to freedom. So Echo’s services as a background singer are no longer wanted.

The guy who believes he’s Rayna’s biggest fan isn’t happy that there’s another #1 fan, so he takes the contest winner Audra (Sierra) hostage and holds her at gunpoint, then sends a video message to Rayna with a request to call him (she has the number). She doesn’t get the message from him, but maybe Echo can help deliver one with a chair upside the head. She wants to make an exchange. The stalker can have Rayna, who Echo is now holding hostage, in exchange for his current hostage.

After the four of them arrive at the location, Boyd comes in from behind and has a clear shot, but Adelle doesn’t want him to take it just yet. Rayna has finally decided that her #1 fan is insane as Echo said. Echo shoves Rayna off the ledge, but she’s got her tied to it so she doesn’t fall and die. This distraction is enough to gain the upperhand and get the gun away from the psycho.

Laurence wants Echo sent to the attic for going off mission. The others, however, are impressed because she took the mission parameter and did even better. Claire becomes concerned that too good may be problematic, like Alpha, and Echo would be better off merely being good enough.

Ballard’s made it to the hospital and is recovering from his gunshot wound. His neighbor, who coincidentally is always at her door when he arrives, has gone to see him.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Dollhouse Season 1 Episode 4 Gray Hour, which airs Friday at 9/8c on Fox.

Joss Whedon’s newest project premiered last week with Dollhouse Season 1 Episode 1. It got decent ratings considering Fox stuck it in the deathslot behind a show it’s given up on, and then from there it went to #1 on iTunes (currently still in the top 10). A promising, albeit not stellar, start.

Eliza Dushku stars as Echo, a doll who has her personality wiped out on a regular basis so that she can be assigned a new one based on the company’s needs. Last week, she was assigned to the part of Eleanor and had to save a little girl who had been kidnapped. She was given asthma, nearsightedness, and a troubled past, all of which she needed to overcome to save the day.

The dolls hear an alarm that’s obviously something going wrong. They’re told to just go to bed and not worry. The Dollhouse is on red alert looking for Alpha.

Adelle is meeting with a client, Richard Connell, who’s looking for a girl. He’ll get one, as long as he’s willing to pay. He is assigned Echo. They go through the rapids, then rock climbing.

Agent Ballard’s still on the Dollhouse’s trail. He’s investigating the kidnapping, which doesn’t add up. Davina told him a pretty lady came to save her. That should narrow it down.

Connell is now teaching Echo how to hunt with a bow, which apparently involves a lot more touching than might be expected. She see something, aims, and shoots… then they’re in bed. Play time’s over, though. He instructs her to stop talking now and start running. He’ll give her a 5 minute head start.

This episode is apparently now heading into part flashback, part not flashback. Presumably the parts prior to Echo’s current assignment are the flashback part, but it’s a little wonky to follow.

Boyd Langton shows up at the Dollhouse. He is being assigned to Echo, since he’s standing in the remains of her previous handler. He wants to see one of the victims, who was killed within 8 seconds with almost surgical expertise. The concern is that it was Alpha, who was programmed to do this, but that programming was supposed to be erased. He killed everybody else in the area, but not Echo for some reason.

Echo’s running, and her 5 minutes are up.

Ballard obtains Lubov’s number, which he will always have, and asks him what he knows about Dollhouse. He’s not getting an answer just yet but expects one.

Someone has left a photo for Ballard in an unmarked envelope. It’s a picture of Echo that merely says Caroline on the back.

Connell starts firing on Echo. This is probably the moderate risk Adelle was concerned about.

Boyd’s out in the woods with another guy in a van. A cop wants to know what they’re doing in that restricted area. Boyd pretends to be a news reporter, and he’s got a reporter’s badge to go along with that story. The cop seems satisfied with this story… until he shoots the guy with Boyd.

Alpha’s victims didn’t put up a fight. They wouldn’t know how because they’re not imprinted to do so.

Boyd ends up with a gun pointed at his head as well, but it looks like he can take care of himself, and he gains the upperhand on his attacker.

Adelle is unconcerned about Ballard, but Laurence wants him neutralized.

Echo makes her way to an abandoned house. Upon opening a door, a body falls on her. She grabs his walkie talkie and asks for help. Connell is on the other end, and he wants to see whether she can prove she deserves to live by escaping him. Grabbing the random canteen in an abandoned building was probably not the best idea, since she’s now starting to cough because of it.

Topher is going to imprint Echo so that she trusts Boyd, no matter what and without hesitation.

Connell lets Echo know she’s not going to die. Just get a spin on things.

Boyd wants answers from his captive. He wants to know how many men are between him and the girl. He doesn’t seem to know much, so Boyd keeps shooting random body parts until he gives up some information about how he was just hired over the phone.

After falling in the water, Echo wakes up and sees Connell. The chase is on again.

According to the FBI database, there is no Caroline.

Boyd has managed to find Echo. She doesn’t know him, but she knows that everything will be alright due to her preconditioned response to him telling her it will be. Then he gets shot with an arrow.

When they’re trying to escape through the woods, Boyd tells Echo everything is going to be alright, but this time she doesn’t listen. Connell will stop… if he’s dead. However, Echo doesn’t have the right input to go after him. She insists, so he gives her his gun to go back and take care of business.

Now it’s time for him to play her game. She wants him to drop his weapon, but he wants to keep playing. So she shoots him. His bleeding arm isn’t stopping him. When he catches up to her, he’s got a question: is this the best date ever or what? He wants to call it a draw, but she seems to be taking issue with the fact that he poisoned her and tried to shoot her with arrows. Still, they count to three and drop their weapons, before picking them right back up and shooting. It then turns into a fist fight. As he’s choking her, she stabs him in the neck with the arrow on the ground. He’s quite impressed until he dies.

Echo returns to Boyd, and a team of men come get them.

Adelle wants to know how it was missed that Connell is a psycopath. He doesn’t exist, and everything’s been fabricated.

The man Boyd left behind is dead. Though the wounds he inflicted were non-fatal, someone else chopped him up with surgical slashes and a 10 inch blade. Dr. Saunders says it’s not Alpha because he’s dead. Boyd’s not so sure he believes they weren’t lied to about that, but whoever it was, everything leads back to Echo.

If it were up to Laurence, he’d put Echo in the attic, or the ground. It’s not like it matters what he says to her because she doesn’t know anything but what they imprint her to know.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Dollhouse Season 1 Episode 3 Stage Fright, which airs Friday at 9/8c on Fox.

Joss Whedon and Eliza Dushku are together again. On Friday nights, which means they probably won’t be together for very long. Dushku and Whedon last worked together when she played slayer turned psycho on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.

Caroline’s in a room discussing how actions have consequences. Or do they?

From there we head to a motorcycle race, which she loses. She insists Matt, the guy who beat her, must be a cheater. Then they do some dancing, and she gets a ring before she hops in a van. She thinks she’s found something real and wants to go back to the party after her treatment.

She awakens from her treatment and is greeted as Echo. If only she remembered anything that happened previously. They were given the perfect weekend together, and apparently she’s living the dream. Someone’s dream anyway.

Davina is talking on the phone about wanting to sneak to watch a TV show. Just a normal day. Before she’s grabbed and put in a bag.

The kidnappers want $5 million in ransom. Her father Gabriel Crestejo doesn’t want to contact the police. Instead, he wants a negotiator, but not Rambo.

Echo injured her knee when she wiped out on the bike, and she’s having it looked at by Dr. Claire Saunders (Amy Acker, who played Fred on Angel). She doesn’t remember what fell on her. Then she goes for a walk to see another active, Sierra, being worked on, clearly in pain.

Agent Paul Ballard’s been working on Dollhouse for years, which most are not convinced even exists. The only way to imprint a human with a new personality is to take away their own. He thinks it’s pretty bad that these people basically may as well have been murdered. He’s instructed that Dollhouse is just a fairy tale, and he needs to stay out of the way.

Echo is assigned to the Crestejo case. She will facilitate the exchange as Eleanor. Gabriel’s worried that she’ll be a distraction, but she tells him she’s been doing this and only this and is the most qualified person for the job. As part of her new character, she’s nearsighted, as the neural connections to her eyesight have been messed with. Taking it a step further, she’s running from something in her past, and she has asthma.

Echo calls Mr. Sunshine, the kidnapper. They’re going to do things her way whether they want to or not. Oh, and they don’t want $5 million. She tells him he really wants $8 million, $2 million each (4 is the median number in these cases), then she hangs up.

As instructed, Sunshine calls back when asked to. He asks for $10 million. She hangs up again. He calls back and lets Davina talk to her father for a minute. They will be meeting tomorrow at noon. Afterward, it’s revealed that she was kidnapped as a child. She has flashes of her memory being erased, but just dismisses them.

Paul pulls a gun on a guy in the restroom asking him to say Dollhouse. He wants Victor to find out who’s connected to the Dollhouse.

Echo and Gabriel arrive at the rendezvous point with the money. She realizes something’s wrong and begins to have an asthma attack, informing Gabriel the kidnapper won’t give her back. So Gabriel goes toward the boat and is shot in the process. Echo’s handler is there to shoot Sunshine, but the boat gets away. It turns out the guy on the boat is the one who kidnapped Eleanor. She believes he will turn on the others and take the money for himself. If she’s able to find the man with the mask, she can find the ghost.

They head back to the dollhouse for another treatment. What happened at the dock happened to Eleanor… or the people she was made out of.

Her handler insists that Echo is the only one who can find the ghost, and that she should not have her mind wiped yet because she’s the only way they can find Davina. Adelle agrees to do as he asks, so that they can actually do some good.

Although Echo’s going, they don’t want her handler near the action again. Back at the dollhouse, Topher has done some research. The woman who was abused killed herself last year, never able to get away from her past. Echo is now suffering from that same fear. She warns the others that they’re going to be turned on, telling them they aren’t killers and should flee the country with the cash while they still can. She also tells them exactly where Davina is being held, in the fridge, because that’s where they’re always held. When these two guys begin to shoot each other over a disagreement how to deal with Eleanor, she goes into the other room to free Davina. The guy who believes her wins the gunfight and lets them go. Having heard shots, Sierra’s not quite so good with the talking, and she barges in to handle things her own way, shooting the guy who’s still left standing. The dolls grab the cash and the girl and leave.

In her college video yearbook, Echo said she wanted to do everything, and she’s gotten her wish.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Dollhouse Season 1 Episode 2 The Target, which airs Friday at 9/8c on Fox.

Joss Whedon and Eliza Dushku are back together in the upcoming new Fox series Dollhouse.

Olivia Williams (Anna Crowe, The Sixth Sense) has joined the cast of Fox’s Dollhouse. Variety reports that Olivia will play the role of the master, the beautiful but ruthless woman in charge of the drones programmed to perrform various missions.

Eliza Dushku (Faith, Buffy The Vampire Slayer/Angel) stars as one of these dolls in this show from Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel creator Joss Whedon.

Fox has picked up a 7 episode order of Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse, Variety reports. Joss Whedon is best known for his work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, where Eliza Dushku starred as Faith. She has since starred in roles in Tru Calling and Bring It On. The show will center around Dushku’s character, Echo, and follows a top secret world of people programmed with different personalities, abilities, and memories depending on their mission.

“It was a mistake!” Whedon said. “I sat down with her to talk about her options, and acted all sage, saying things backwards like Yoda and laying out what I thought she should do. But in the course of doing it, I accidentally made one up. I told it to her, and she said, ‘That’s exactly what I want to do.'”

“It’s exciting to know that my voice and who I am as Eliza is going to be in this show every single week,” Dushku, who will also serve as a producer, said. “I’m ready to take control of the person I want to be in this business.”

“He’s got an unbelievably loyal following, and that’s an earned brand,” Peter Liguori, Fox Entertainment chairman, said. “So much of it is based on Joss’ love of what he does and the genius of how he does it.”

In the event of a strike, the series would not be written until after the strike’s over.