Season Two

Episode Guide

2.01 - Vows

Aired: 25 Sep 2009
Writer: Joss Whedon
Director: Joss Whedon
Picking up a few months after the first season finale, Echo, who now sporadically remembers past "imprints" due to Alpha's machinations, weds a wealthy and charismatic British businessmen tied to one of Agent Ballard's open FBI cases. Dr. Saunders struggles with being an Active and makes Topher the target of her aggression, and Boyd mixes business with pleasure in a risky venture. Meanwhile, Adelle makes Ballard an offer he can't refuse.

2.02 Instinct

Aired: 2 Oct 2009
Writer: Michele Fazekas & Tara Butters
Director: Marita Grabiak
When Echo is imprinted as a mother with a newborn baby, she takes too strongly to motherhood as a result of Topher’s modifications. Meanwhile, Adelle pays November a visit, and Perrin ramps up his investigation into the Rossum Corporation.

2.03 Belle Chose

Aired: 9 Oct 2009
Writer: Tim Minear
Director: David Solomon
Michael Hogan guest stars as a client of the Dollhouse who comes to Adelle (Olivia Williams) for help with a psychotic family member. Topher (Fran Kranz) accidentally crosses Echo and Victor’s (Enver Gjokaj) imprints while they're are on different assignments.

2.04 Belonging

Aired: 23 Oct 2009
Writer: Maurissa Tancharoen & Jed Whedon
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Sierra is forced to face her past as her connection to the Rossum Corporation leads to obsession and murder.

2.05 The Public Eye

Aired: 4 Dec 2009
Writer: Andrew Chambliss
Director:
Echo is sent to stop Senator Daniel Perrin (guest star Alexis Denisof) before he can expose the Dollhouse’s secrets. Adelle and Topher travel to the Washington, DC, Dollhouse where they meet its genius programmer, Bennett Halverson (Summer Glau), a woman with a mysterious past connection to Echo.

2.06 The Left Hand

Aired: 4 Dec 2009
Writer: Tracy Bellomo
Director: Wendey Stanzler
Echo and Bennett have a shocking meeting as Adelle goes head-to-head with the ruthless head of the DC Dollhouse (guest star Ray Wise). Topher sees double when he must involve Victor (Enver Gjokaj) in his espionage. Perrin finds a surprising witness to testify against the Rossum Corporation, but find he may be living in a house of cards.

2.07 Meet Jane Doe

Aired: 11 Dec 2009
Writer: Maurissa Tancharoen & Jed Whedon & Andrew Chambliss
Director: Dwight Little
After her entanglements with Senator Perrin and the DC Dollhouse, Echo finds herself out in the world-at-large as she struggles to control her multiple memory downloads. Topher discovers the dangers of science that will have devastating effects on the future, while Adelle engages in a power struggle with Harding.

2.08 A Love Supreme

Aired: 11 Dec 2009
Writer: Jenny DeArmitt
Director: David Straiton
When Echo’s past romantic engagements are found murdered, the Dollhouse fears that Alpha (Alan Tudyk) has returned to seek his revenge. Adelle grows suspicious of Ballard (Tahmoh Penikett) who hopes to find allies in Boyd (Harry Lennix) and Topher. The Actives turn against their handlers, leaving one member of the house permanently mind-wiped.

2.09 Stop-Lost

Aired: 18 Dec 2009
Writer: Andrew Chambliss
Director: Felix Alcalá
When Victor's contract with the Dollhouse expires, he must struggle to resolve the traumatic memories of his military past that are threatening to consume him as he learns to once again live in the regular world, even while memories of Sierra haunt him, leaving him unsure what to do. Meanwhile, Echo and the Dollhouse staff struggle to save Ballard's life even as DeWitt becomes more and more suspicious of Echo.

2.10 The Attic

Aired: 18 Dec 2009
Writer: Maurissa Tancharoen & Jed Whedon
Director: John Cassaday
Echo is condemned to her worst nightmare after being deemed too dangerous -- being sent to the mysterious Attic of the Dollhouse. Topher and DeWitt struggle with their internal battles over their own complicity in handing Rossum the keys to the potential destruction of mankind's free will.

2.11 Getting Closer

Aired: 8 Jan 2010
Writer: Tim Minear
Director: Tim Minear
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. Echo will finally face herself as Caroline, even as Ballard struggles with the facts of his new existence. Meanwhile, an invasion is incurred upon the Dollhouse, and Whiskey/Dr. Claire Saunders finally returns to the Dollhouse.

2.12 The Hollow Men

Aired: 15 Jan 2010
Writer: Michele Fazekas & Tara Butters & Tracy Bellomo
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Sacrifices are made as Echo leads her team to Arizona in a final attempt to dismantle the Rossum Corporation's mainframe. After the shocking events of "Getting Closer," Echo must confront Whiskey as well as Boyd Langton, even as Paul Ballard struggles with an imprinted November once again in his life. As she struggles to survive with Caroline's personality now once again within her, Echo must once again trust her once-enemy Laurence Dominic as the end rushes closer...

2.13 Epitaph Two: Return

Aired: 29 Jan 2010
Writer: Maurissa Tancharoen & Jed Whedon & Andrew Chambliss
Director: Joss Whedon
Picking up from the events depicted in “Epitaph 1,” the “lost” episode of Dollhouse, and set in the year 2020, Echo and her surviving Dollhouse crew attempt to restore order to a devastating future world before mankind is eliminated.