"Dollhouse" Echoes (2009)

Director:

James A. Contner

Writers:

Joss Whedon (creator)
Elizabeth Craft (written by) ...

TV Series:

"Dollhouse" (2009)

Original Air Date:

27 March 2009 (Season 1, Episode 7)

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

Rossum Corporation asks the Dollhouse to send a large contingent of actives to a college campus to retrieve an experimental memory drug...

Plot Keywords:

Memory | Identity | FBI | Moral Ambiguity | True Love

Cast

Eliza Dushku	...	Echo / Alice / Caroline Farrell
Harry Lennix	...	Boyd Langton
Fran Kranz	...	Topher Brink
Tahmoh Penikett	...	Paul Ballard
Enver Gjokaj	...	Victor / Tom
Dichen Lachman	...	Sierra / Dr. Gawa
Olivia Williams	...	Adelle DeWitt
Jenica Bergere	...	Jessie
Mehcad Brooks	...	Sam Jennings
Philip Casnoff	...	Clive Ambrose
Brett Claywell	...	Matt Cargill
Josh Cooke	...	Leo Carpenter
Reed Diamond	...	Laurence Dominic
Miracle Laurie	...	Mellie
Octavia Spencer	...	Professor Janack

Runtime:

49 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:TV-14

Filming Locations:

College of the Canyons - 26455 Rockwell Canyon Boulevard, Santa Clarita, California, USA

Company:

Mutant Enemy

Trivia:

Echo's real name is revealed to be Caroline Farrell. When a college professor recognizes her.

Goofs:

Factual errors: When Topher meets Clive Ambrose, he greets him by saying, "Third richest man in the country; nominated for a Nobel Prize..." According to Nobelprize.org, "The names of the nominees cannot be revealed until 50 years later," so Topher cannot have known this, unless, of course, he himself nominated Ambrose.

Quotes:

Boyd Langton: Would you like to have a treatment?
Alice: [pauses] No.
[walks away]
Boyd Langton: Hey. Wow... Did not maintain control of that situation.
[Boyd laughs... clearly infected by the drug]

Now *this* is what I signed up for...

As Eliza Dushku said in her interview with the Onion AV Club, "Dollhouse" doesn't really become a true "Joss Whedon show" until episode 6, after which it just keeps getting better and better. With this episode it's becoming clear that she wasn't just blowing smoke.

After last week's brilliant, bitter-sweet show, this week delivers the heady mix of hilarity combined with real menace that marks Whedon and his collaborators at their best. Wonderfully creepy moments sneak up on us throughout this episode, giving us a jolt, a shiver and a laugh (not always in that order), all the while advancing the mythos of the "Dollhouse" and the development of our main characters, showing depths and humanity beyond their personal facades and biochemical programming.

Tell your friends to start watching now. This just became the show to beat.