Dollhouse: Think Of Them As Pets

Sorry it has taken me so long to get around to writing this review up. This was another great episode (Lost, are you taking notes?). Let's jump right in shall we?

Let's Have A Pow-wow
The episode starts off with all the head honchos of our Dollhouse gathered for a meeting to discuss the actives. They are going to have all the handlers on watch for any "abnormal" behavior. The handlers are instructed to report any infraction to DeWitt immediately so the active can be handled.

5 Star Floor Coffins
Echo, Sierra, November, Victor and "Mike" all wake up in the middle of the night, with their personalities in tact. There's much talk about what is going on (millionaire perverts, aliens, lab research, the like...) The actives decide to try to assimilate themselves into the non-effected people in the dollhouse. This, of course, doesn't pan out fantastically. "Mike" is captured and sent off for a treatment. The remaining four end up escaping to the garage and are about to leave for good. Echo then realizes that she can't leave the others behind and insists that she goes back inside.

Here is where we find out that the entire escape plan is all a ruse by DeWitt to test the actives and her personnel.

A Little Closure
November, Victor and Sierra are driving away and November mentions that she has a daughter and she knows where to find her. They stop and she exits the car. Sierra and Victor head to find the man that put Sierra in the dollhouse. She remembers now that her name is Priya and the man who put her away is Noland.

November wanders into a graveyard and rests at her daughters gravesite. She collapses into tears. Sierra and Victor confront Noland and punch him (thankfully, 'cause he was a douche).
While they are running from his security, our two actives embrace and kiss.

When Barbies Get Upset
During this time, Caroline goes on a rampage through the dollhouse. She has a rather kick-ass fight with a handler. (am I the only one that went uuughhh when she whacked the hell out of her with that fire extinguisher?) Then she grabs a gun and heads up to Topher's office. Their confrontation was rather informative as we find out that Caroline doesn't have her memories but she still can access one about the mountains (that wasn't the first time we've seen that shot btw).

DeWitt enters the room and tells Caroline that she would not give her memories back. She says that she has been easing Caroline's pain at her request. Caroline shoots the chair and a computer in the room. She takes the gun and tells DeWitt that everyone has to leave the dollhouse and all the actives need to be set free. When they get outside, Caroline collapses and security returns all the actives back inside.

They then cut to November and the other actives and see that they have all fallen asleep.
Back to the meeting at the beginning of the show. We see that the doctor has recommended that the four actives be given a chance to go on a self-guided journey to "close the gap" that some form of longing has created and is causing their programming to glitch. Sierra needed to reclaim her freedom, November needed to deal with the loss of her daughter, Victor needed to 'get the girl' and Echo needed to free them. When the actives found closure, a sedative was released in their systems.


What's A Boy To Do?
During this episode, Ballard is having dreams of sleeping with Echo, Mellie finding them and Echo becoming a corpse. Creepy. He also tears his house apart and finds the dollhouse bug. He takes it to an analyst who tells him it's an amazing piece of technology and that "however big you think you are, they're bigger".

During Caroline's rampage through the dollhouse, when the cameras went down, she found Ballard's file. She calls him and tells him the dollhouse is closer than he thinks and that she needs his help.

The Big Questions
1. How exactly did Noland get Priya into the dollhouse?
2. Do they actually let the actives go at the end of their contracts?
3. What is important about the mountains?
4. Will Ballard get into the dollhouse?
5. What happened to Katie?
6. Will we find out exactly how Caroline got there?

In other news, it's not looking good for the future of Dollhouse. The ratings haven't improved any over the course of the season. It's looking dim. Just prepare for the worst sadly. GO WATCH THE SHOW!