Getting Closer (8 Jan. 2010)

With the Rossum conspiracy now fully revealed, Echo and her allies must now make their stand to stop the Rossum Corporation from enslaving the free world with their newest remote mind-wipe ... See full summary »

Director:

Tim Minear

Writers:

Joss Whedon (creator), Tim Minear

Stars:

Eliza Dushku, Harry Lennix, Fran Kranz

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Eliza Dushku	...	Echo / Caroline Farrell
Harry Lennix	...	Boyd Langton
Fran Kranz	...	Topher Brink
Tahmoh Penikett	...	Paul Ballard
Enver Gjokaj	...	Anthony Ceccoli
Dichen Lachman	...	Priya Tsetsang
Olivia Williams	...	Adelle DeWitt
Amy Acker	...	Dr. Claire Saunders
Philip Casnoff	...	Clive Ambrose
Reed Diamond	...	Laurence Dominic
Summer Glau	...	Bennett Halverson
Liza Lapira	...	Ivy
Miracle Laurie	...	November / Mellie
Jay Malone	...	Clyde Randolph
Rick Otto	...	Gabe

Storyline

With the Rossum conspiracy now fully revealed, Echo and her allies must now make their stand to stop the Rossum Corporation from enslaving the free world with their newest remote mind-wipe technology to take over the world. Topher meets up with Bennett Halverson when she is forcibly taken from the DC Dollhouse and brought to Los Angeles to help restore Caroline's past memory whom is the only one who can identify the two Rossum corporate heads. Echo will finally face herself as Caroline, even as Ballard struggles with the facts of his new existence as an Active, while he also brings in former active November/Millie back into the fold. The background story between Caroline and Bennett is revealed from three years earlier during Caroline's status as a student in Arizona. As Adelle tries to prepare an evacuation of the Dollhouse, an invasion is incurred by Rossum soldiers, just as Whiskey/Dr. Claire Saunders finally returns to the Dollhouse at the request of Boyd with some info for all ...

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Genres:

Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

8 January 2010 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

20th Century Fox Television

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Topher and Ivy are programming the actives back to their original personalities in one scene. The active in the chair is Gary, played by Rick Fox who is in a relationship with the top billed actress on the show, Eliza Dushku.

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Quotes

Adelle DeWitt: Ms.Halverson, as you correctly noted, you have been abducted. Now, you can be treated as a prisoner or as a guest. It's entire...
[Topher moves his arms a bit out of sight from Bennett and Adelle understands asking Bennett]
Adelle DeWitt: Can I get you anything?
Bennett Halverson: [sigh] A diet soda.
Topher Brink: I have some! I mean, in my fridge. Come on. Well, lab's in here. You showed me yours. Let me show you mine.

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Connections

References TRON (1982)

User Reviews

Best episode of "Dollhouse"

After having discovered, during her trip to the Attic, that Caroline has seen the face of Rossum's #1 man (or woman), Echo decides that it's the right time to bring her back into her brain mix; however, her imprint has been stolen, and the back-up kept by Topher was almost completely destroyed by Alpha; the only person who can repair it is the Washington Dollhouse chief programmer, Bennett, so Adelle arranges for her abduction! Bennett's hate for Caroline is explained through flashbacks of their shared backstories. Meanwhile, Rossum has detected that people have escaped from the Attic and is closing in on the L.A Dollhouse; get ready for war! This is, arguably, the best episode of the whole series up to this point (only other serious contenders, IMO: "Epitaph One" and "Spy In The House Of Love"). It's an ensemble episode with brilliant teamwork between the entire cast, with perhaps a special nod to Fran Kranz, and Summer Glau, who somehow manages to make Bennett impossibly charming, despite what she may have done in the past. This episode was already very good until the last 5 minutes, and then there is a brutal shock similar to the one in "Epitaph One", and then there is a final twist so chilling and unexpected that, depending on how they justify it in the next episode, may even put "The Usual Suspects" to shame! I haven't been left so speechless at the end of a TV episode since "The Economist" from the 4th season of "LOST". Apart from the twist itself, the final dialogue exchange gives me shivers even now, just thinking about it. ***/12 out of 4.