Dollhouse Episode Guide

Episode 1: Ghost

Echo is programmed as a skilled hostage negotiator after a wealthy client’s daughter is kidnapped. Fragments buried inside the implanted personality threaten the mission, while FBI agent Paul Ballard investigates rumours of the Dollhouse.

Episode 2: The Target

Echo accompanies an outdoorsman on what appears to be a romantic wilderness engagement. The assignment becomes a deadly hunt, forcing her to survive without the personality and abilities she expected to need.

Episode 3: Stage Fright

Echo becomes a backing singer assigned to protect a successful performer from a dangerous stalker. Sierra joins the engagement, while Echo’s increasing ability to act beyond her programming concerns the Dollhouse staff.

Episode 4: Gray Hour

Programmed as an expert thief, Echo joins a team stealing valuable artwork from a secure vault. A remotely triggered wipe leaves her trapped without the knowledge required to escape.

Episode 5: True Believer

Echo is imprinted as a blind religious convert and sent into a heavily guarded cult compound. Ballard’s investigation brings him closer to identifying one of the people connected to the Dollhouse.

Episode 6: Man on the Street

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Ballard speaks publicly about the Dollhouse and attracts the attention of its leadership. Echo completes a deeply personal engagement, while an unexpected encounter reveals that the organisation’s influence extends further than Ballard imagined.

Episode 7: Echoes

A drug created at the university attended by Caroline spreads uncontrollable emotions and memories. Echo returns to the campus, where fragments of her original identity begin surfacing through the chemical confusion.

Episode 8: Needs

Echo, Sierra, Victor and November awaken with portions of their original personalities restored. Believing they have escaped their captors, they attempt to resolve the desires preventing their minds from accepting the Dollhouse.

Episode 9: A Spy in the House of Love

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When evidence suggests someone inside the Dollhouse is working against it, several Actives are imprinted for separate assignments. Sierra becomes an intelligence operative, while Echo volunteers to uncover the traitor.

Episode 10: Haunted

A recently murdered woman has her memories temporarily placed inside Echo so she can attend her own funeral and identify her killer. Adelle confronts the consequences of granting a client apparent life after death.

Episode 11: Briar Rose

Ballard follows a clue hidden inside a traumatised child’s memories and discovers the location of the Dollhouse. Alpha returns with an elaborate plan involving Echo and the identity she possessed before entering the programme.

Episode 12: Omega

Echo awakens with numerous previous personalities competing inside her mind. Alpha attempts to create someone like himself, while Ballard and the Dollhouse pursue them before his experiment becomes fatal.

Episode 13: Epitaph One

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In a devastated future, survivors enter the abandoned Dollhouse while searching for safety from personality-altering technology. Archived memories reveal how programmable identities escaped corporate control and helped destroy civilisation.

Episode 1: Vows

Echo is programmed to marry a weapons dealer as part of Ballard’s first operation for the Dollhouse. Her accumulating personalities begin communicating, while Doctor Saunders struggles with the truth about her identity.

Episode 2: Instinct

An imprint gives Echo the complete emotional and biological responses of a mother. When the engagement ends, her attachment to the child survives the wipe and drives her to escape the Dollhouse.

Episode 3: Belle Chose

A serial killer falls into a coma before revealing where he has imprisoned a woman. Topher transfers his personality into Victor, creating an opportunity to interrogate him and an entirely new problem when Victor escapes.

Episode 4: Belonging

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Sierra’s past reveals how Nolan Kinnard abused his influence to have her committed to the Dollhouse. When he demands permanent control over her, Topher must decide how far his professional obedience extends.

Episode 5: The Public Eye

A senator threatens to expose the Rossum Corporation and the Dollhouse network. Echo is sent to investigate his evidence, while Ballard discovers that another high-profile figure may be an Active.

Episode 6: The Left Hand

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Adelle and Topher travel to the Washington Dollhouse after Echo is captured. Victor receives an unusual imprint to assist the rescue, while the conspiracy surrounding Rossum reaches into national politics.

Episode 7: Meet Jane Doe

Echo survives outside the Dollhouse while learning to control the personalities retained inside her mind. Three months later, Ballard finds her preparing to expose Rossum’s activities.

Episode 8: A Love Supreme

Alpha targets Echo’s former clients, apparently eliminating everyone who formed an emotional connection with her. Ballard becomes part of the pattern as the Dollhouse prepares for another attack.

Episode 9: Stop-Loss

Victor completes his contract and has his original personality restored, but freedom proves temporary when Rossum targets him for another programme. Echo and Sierra attempt to recover him.

Episode 10: The Attic

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Echo is condemned to the Attic, where unwanted minds are trapped inside personalised nightmares. She searches for a way through the shared system and discovers the true purpose behind the supposedly permanent punishment.

Episode 11: Getting Closer

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Echo and her allies prepare to confront Rossum’s founders. Caroline’s complete personality is required to identify their greatest enemy, but restoring it exposes betrayals hidden inside the Dollhouse from the beginning.

Episode 12: The Hollow Men

The group reaches Rossum’s headquarters in Tucson and attempts to prevent the corporation from deploying its technology on a global scale. Echo confronts the organisation’s architect and the cost of her missing memories.

Episode 13: Epitaph Two: Return

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Ten years after the technology caused civilisation’s collapse, Echo and the surviving resistance return to Los Angeles. Their final plan requires reaching the original Dollhouse and finding a way to restore the world’s stolen identities.