He and Echo and Victor embrace, and he displays grief at Paul's sudden death, which Echo won't yet face. Topher begins to work on the tech. Upstairs, the tech-heads stage an insurrection, led by Romeo, who wants all of the technology within the Dollhouse for himself. They don't want the world to go back to the way it was, because they have adapted themselves to thrive in this new world.
Alpha can still call on his imprints and helps Echo dispatch them quickly. Tony renounces the tech. Following the failed insurrection, Priya and Echo are destroying the tech-head warrior imprints. Priya is horrified that she is once more within the Dollhouse and begins to take her anger at Tony out on the imprints.
Echo joins her and forces her to understand how important it is that Tony is in love with her, and finally breaks down and grieves for Paul, that her one true love is gone and she is alone once more. Adelle leads Topher to his bedchamber, still decorated with religious symbols and mathematical books.
Alpha remarked that he left it that way because it spoke to "the schizophrenics" in him. Topher, back in his comfort zone, quickly decodes what he must do. Topher uses a video recording of Bennett Halverson that she had used as a Rossum instructional tool before the mass-wipe. In hindsight, Bennett in this video not only gives technical instructions but also inspirational advice when she declares identity as being predominantly defined by our momentary actions.
Topher is visibly deeply moved by this thought and manages to lapse out of his guilt-induced schizophrenia. He then tenderly touches the recording of her lips and thanks her for the final stage. Topher reveals that a bomb must be activated manually from a high point, sending the signal into the ionosphere where it will cover the world and restore everyone to their original minds. He will kill himself to avoid hurting anyone else, and leaves Adelle the task of cleanup.
He remarks that Adelle's job is harder. Adelle and Echo say goodbye, and Adelle remarks that it's ironic that the final fantasy the Dollhouse will grant will be Echo's. Echo says that she has no fantasies left, and Adelle hugs her goodbye. Alpha has left, in case he returns to the mind of Karl William Kraft , a burgeoning serial killer and Alpha's original human personality though Echo does not believe that he will.
Mag and Zone say goodbye, and Zone promises to take care of Caroline when she turns back into a little girl. She doesn't have a job. Not a whole lot of marketable skills. No home. No prospects of any kind. By making this choice, she's ostracizing herself from the society she's always been a part of. Most "respectable" people just aren't going to hang out with her.
The comfortable life she's leading will be totally destroyed. So why does she do such a thing? Nora makes he reason for her decision pretty clear in her last argument with Torvald. Before she makes her grand exit, he scathingly criticizes her, saying that by deserting her husband and children she is forsaking her "most sacred duties" 3.
Nora doesn't see it this way. She tells him that the duties that are most sacred to her now are the "duties to [herself]" 3. But when the good stuff came, it was totally worth it. Over the past six episodes, Dollhouse completely changed.
Instead of hoping that each new episode would be watchable, I became enthralled with the continuation of the enormous storyline that was started in the infamous unaired 13 th episode from season one, "Epitaph One. Still, I can not say anything bad about the way it ended. I enjoyed this finale for many reasons, but one of the main reasons is because it was essentially picking up off of an episode that never aired on television. So how do I go about building up Echo's immunity?
Do I stick her in a lab somewhere, where I can have a huge team of scientists monitor my company's most important asset, while we imprint her with personality after personality, until her immunity builds up? No, of course not. Instead, I send her to the L. Dollhouse, to be shot at, caught up in kidnapping rings, hunted by bow-wielding maniacs, etc.
The woman whose blood is the key to helping the "chosen few" avoid being erased will go into a situation where she's in constant danger of being destroyed. Although, maybe she has to be exposed to stress in order for her to resist her imprints? So okay, maybe that makes sense.
But it's okay that the company's most important asset will be in huge jeopardy, because I'll be there as her Handler, sitting hundreds of yards away in a van and monitoring her vital signs. Part of the problem, of course, is that last night's episode sort of punted on explaining any of this stuff in a more coherent fashion than I've pieced together above. Boyd sort of turned into a garden variety television psycho, ranting about how the technology is out there now, and you can either be the destroyer or the destroyed.
I did like the part where Boyd said he loves his Dollhouse "family" and wants to keep them around — although he then negated it by acting completely callous towards them, threatening to shoot Adelle a moment later. I was also quite shocked that Boyd was so casual about Clyde erasing Claire Saunders, whom he seemed to have genuine feelings for before.
In the end, none of it even matters — because the villain of the series wasn't even the Rossum Corp. As someone said in season one's "Man On The Street," if the technology to rewrite brains even exists, then humanity is over as a species. Eventually, someone else will discover it and use it. So Boyd is right — the tech is out there. Topher's schematics are probably backed up to dozens of hard drives all over the world. And the evil Rossum execs' brains are stored in dozens of bodies as well.
The whole "cut the head off the snake" metaphor winds up being somewhat nonsensical — it's more like a Hydra. Probably the only thing the fiends at Rossum actually fear is exposure — having the truth known about their misdeeds before they're ready to mindwipe the world.
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