"Dollhouse" Echoes (2009)

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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
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:

Topher Brink: [infected Topher is talking to Victor-as-NSA-Agent on the phone] Listen to me carefully. I've got a huge phalanx of machines that go "PING!" And this drug is carried by anyone exposed to it... through touch! It is mandated that you get any Rossum operatives off the grounds and send them back here.
Adelle DeWitt: [Infected Adelle is jumping on a trampoline on the half-level below] Say Hi for me!
Topher Brink: [Ignoring Adele, continuing to talk to Victor over the phone] Nope. You Dolls, your...
[cringes at his mistake]
Topher Brink: By which... I mean of course... I mean NSA, CDC folks. You're safe as houses. Because of the government. They do things! But anyone else who comes into physical contact with the drug or anyone that is infected is susceptible. Am I sure?
[camera pulls back to reveal he's not wearing pants]
Topher Brink: I am fairly sure.
[to the infected DeWitt]
Topher Brink: Secret Agent Victor is so lofty.
Adelle DeWitt: I have a good story about him.
[...]

Not Whedon's best

"They don't care about souls, human OR animal." With dialogues like that, and ones more explicitly Godly, Joss Whedon has created a unique concept that is at the same time curiously non-atheist, unlike his previous series. Gone are the days when you find morality in Whedon's tales to be the results of thinking. Gone are the days when Whedon would say, "If nothing we do means anything, then the only thing that means anything is what we do." Or so it appears.

Anyone who does not harbor some rudimentary sense that cruelty is wrong is unlikely to learn that it is by reading. - Sam Harris, The End Of Faith