- Topher Brink: You see someone running incredibly fast, the first thing you gotta ask is, are they running to something or are they running from something? The answer is always both. So these personality imprints, they come from scans of real people. Now, I - I can create amalgams of those personalities, pieces from here or there, but it's not a greatest hits, it's a whole person. Achievement is balanced by fault, by a lack. Can't have one without the other. Everyone who excels is overcompensating. Running from something. Hiding from something.
- [first lines]
- Adelle DeWitt: Nothing is what it appears to be.
- Caroline: It seems pretty clear to me.
- Adelle DeWitt: Because you're only seeing part of it. I'm talking about a clean slate.
- Caroline: You ever try and clean an actual slate? You always see what was on it before.
- Adelle DeWitt: Are you volunteering?
- Caroline: I don't have a choice, do I? How did it get this far?
- Adelle DeWitt: Caroline, actions have consequences.
- Caroline: Oh, God, you're loving this, aren't you?
- Adelle DeWitt: I'm sorry you don't understand what I'm offering here. That what we do helps people. If you become a part of that, it can help *you.*
- Caroline: Right.
- [shrugs, gives wry smile]
- Caroline: You're just looking out for me.
- Adelle DeWitt: Perhaps better than you have. We can take care of this mess. After your five-year term you will be free...
- Caroline: I don't deserve this! I was just trying to make a difference! Trying to... take my place in the world, you know, like she always said, and now I'm...
- [sighs]
- Caroline: I know.
- [sits down]
- Caroline: I know. Actions have consequences.
- Detmer: I'm a billionaire. I can hire anybody for anything. And I'm gonna go to an illegal organization and have them build me, program me, what, the perfect date? Confessor, assassin, dominatrix, omelet chef? I'm paying a million dollars for that? I can get that. I have everything I want.
- Paul Ballard: Nobody has everything they want. It's a survival pattern. You get what you want, you want something else. If you have everything, you want something else, something more extreme, something more specific, something perfect.
- Boyd Langdon: Everything go all right with the wipe?
- Topher Brink: Why don't you just ask Echo? Oh, that's right, because she can't remember.
- [chuckles]
- Topher Brink: Of course it went all right. Imprint's gone, the New Moon has made her virgin again. Is there some reason it shouldn't have? Something happen during the engagement?
- Boyd Langdon: I think she finally met the right guy.
- [Paul is holding a gun to the back of Lubov's head]
- Paul Ballard: Dollhouse.
- Lubov: What?
- Paul Ballard: Dollhouse. Say it.
- Lubov: Dollhouse.
- Paul Ballard: Say it again.
- Lubov: [chuckles] Your-your brains are...
- [Paul cocks the gun]
- Lubov: Okay! Dollhouse, dollh-frickin'-house. Keep saying it. It's fun to say. Dollhouse, dollhouse, dollhouse, dollhouse.
- Topher Brink: [Pointing at a monitor of Echo's brain] See the blue areas? That's fear.
- Boyd Langdon: It all looks blue.
- Topher Brink: That's where I'm going with this.
- Topher Brink: Look at Echo, not a care in the world. She's living the dream.
- Boyd Langdon: Whose dream?
- Topher Brink: Who's next?
- Boyd Langdon: So what's in the past that you gave Echo?
- Topher Brink: That's her business, Boyd. She's right for the job. She spent her life profiling and negotiating with kidnappers. That's the person they needed, so that's who Echo is, the expert!
- Boyd Langdon: You cannot wipe her right now!
- Adelle DeWitt: I can do any damn thing I see fit! Echo botched the engagement! She jeopardized this entire operation!
- Boyd Langdon: *You* botched it Miss DeWitt! You gave her the memory of an abused girl. And you put her face-to-face with her abuser! She recognized one of her kidnappers and she can find them again. She's the only one who can!
- Boyd Langdon: I've been here long enough to know that you like to tell yourself what we do helps people. Let Echo help this girl.
- Eleanor Penn: [injured knee getting treated after motorcycle accident] Ow!
- Dr. Claire Saunders: Yeah, it feels very tight. I think you fell on it with something heavy.
- Eleanor Penn: [shakes her head] I don't remember.
- Dr. Claire Saunders: Well, it's gonna be fine. And your bloodwork and internals are all shipshape. I'll just ask one of the staff to work on that knee.
- [Eleanor sighs]
- Dr. Claire Saunders: Would you like a massage?
- Eleanor Penn: They're relaxing.
- Dr. Claire Saunders: Yes, I'll set that up.
- Eleanor Penn: I don't remember what fell on me.
- Dr. Claire Saunders: Does that bother you?
- Eleanor Penn: Should it?
- Dr. Claire Saunders: [reassuring] We'll look after you.
- Eleanor Penn: Does someone look after you?
- [reaches out towards Claire with romantic interest]
- Dr. Claire Saunders: Why don't you wait in the massage area, and I'll call for someone to work on that knee?
- [retreats]
- Boyd Langdon: The older man. You know him. He's the one who took you. They never found him.
- Eleanor Penn: He said he was a ghost. You can't fight a ghost, but he was heavy, the weight of him... Ghosts aren't heavy. Ghosts are sheets with holes cut out.
- Boyd Langdon: He took you away. And now...
- Eleanor Penn: He's unprofessional.
- Boyd Langdon: He's taken Davina.
- Caroline: [on video tape] I'd like to take my place in the world, like Mrs. Dundee taught us. Global Recovery, Doctor's Without Borders, the world is in need of some serious saving. And I wanna travel. Travel around the world as I save it. In a private jet that I pilot and designed. Okay, go ahead and laugh, yearbook monkey. I know I'm such a cliché. What can I say, I wanna do everything. Is that too much to ask?