Inside the year 2020, a person 12 months following the activities of “Epitaph One”, Echo and her group rescue Topher as well as the last with the Actuals (guest stars Felicia Day, Adair Tishler, and Zack Ward) in the hands with the Rossum Corporation right after he unveils that he can restore the globe to buy. After reuniting with Tony, who is a tech-head, Echo and her team race to Los Angeles, which is now a war zone. They battle their way in via the butchers, mindless killing machines, and Paul Ballard is killed.

Because the group leaves for Tucson to consider down Rossum, Boyd attempts to sabotage its efforts by drugging Echo. Boyd makes use of Topher’s believe in to serve Rossum’s agenda by tricking Topher into finishing his remote wipe/imprinting technologies. Anthony and Priya, who were told inside the preceding episode to devote their last night together, return towards the Dollhouse and find that Boyd has become betraying them all along. Boyd reveals that he has spared the group’s lives mainly because he loves them like loved ones.

Caroline has a special genetic trait, expressed in her spinal fluid, which permits her to survive the wipes. Boyd watched more than Echo and permitted her to get pushed to her limits in order to enable her to form a complete personality, as every time she “survives” a wipe the gene’s expression grows more powerful, allowing for Rossum to produce a “cure” for wiping.

The principal wedge that contains Caroline’s thoughts is found being missing. Adelle has Bennett Halverson (guest star Summer Glau) kidnapped to aid Topher in repairing Caroline’s backup wedge, which Alpha destroyed in “Briar Rose”. November, who was inserted inside the D.C. Dollhouse, is brought back with Bennett. A sequence of flashbacks reveal that Caroline became a terrorist plus a freedom fighter working towards Rossum for two many years, and that Bennett’s maiming was an accident, understanding that Caroline permitted Bennett to continue to be pinned underneath the debris to ensure that Bennett could claim she was an innocent victim.

The Attic is revealed as the heart from the Dollhouse. Echo, Priya and Anthony are all suspended in a permanent dream-state where they should continuously relive their worst nightmares. Echo is in a position to overcome it… only to meet Laurence Dominic (former frequent Reed Diamond), who can also be in control of himself inside the Attic. They jump to different minds in an effort to stop a shadow-killer calling himself Arcane, and shortly no cost Anthony and Priya. Together they uncover Arcane’s true identity: Clyde, co-founder of Rossum, whose partner turned on him and placed him inside the Attic in 1993.

Victor’s contract while using Dollhouse expires, and he is returned to his correct personality: Anthony Ceccoli, a former Army Ranger who signed a agreement while using Dollhouse to remedy him of the severe situation of post-traumatic strain disorder. Echo confronts Sierra using the expertise that Victor won’t be coming house, which leads to Sierra substantial distress as she declares that Victor “isn’t prepared to be alone but.” Anthony is captured by a group of military personnel.

Echo’s previous romantic engagements start to surface as murder victims a single by one. Alpha (guest star Alan Tudyk) has returned with his murderous obsession with Echo to look for his revenge. DeWitt starts to grow increasingly suspicious of Ballard. Echo, Ballard and Langton recruit Topher into their conspiracy to consider down the Dollhouse. Alpha shows up in Adelle’s office and reveals that Ballard and Echo have been jointly via those 3 missing months.

After escaping into the world at large, more than the course of 3 months Echo has completed evolving right into a complete personality, ready to entry any of her nearly forty imprints at will. She and Paul Ballard train together to take down Rossum, running a “practice test” by breaking into a prison and freeing a wrongfully-imprisoned woman. Echo reveals that she has fallen in love with Paul, who returns her feelings but out of the feeling of honor will not allow himself to act on them. Back again at the Dollhouse, meanwhile, DeWitt has become demoted and Harding has used over. Topher unveils remote wipe tech he had been designing for Rossum.

Bennett reveals that she and Caroline have been as soon as friends, right until Caroline left Bennet trapped below debris following an explosion. Bennett imprints Echo with Bennett’s memories of Caroline’s betrayal. Ballard is unable to sway Madeline from her decision, and she goes to testify for the senate. Meanwhile, Adelle tells Topher to get a strategy to obtain accessibility to Perrin’s brain scans. Topher has imprinted Victor with Topher’s own personality to provide help in LA. Echo escapes with Perrin into the true planet, established to bring down Rossum and expose almost everything.

Perrin’s handler is dispatched to have them back. Adelle meets with Lipman, who reveals Perrin can have Rossum vindicated on the senate hearings and attack their competitors to ensure that Rossum are going to be unopposed and granted totally free political reign. Bennett and Topher, seemingly lovestruck by every single other, adapt Topher’s incapacitating unit to remotely knock out Dolls based on their exclusive brain scans. Bennett, on the other hand, remotely applications Perrin to kill Echo.

United States Senator Daniel Perrin continues to be wanting to bring down the Dollhouse for months, but he has never been a hazard – right up until now, when he arrives into possession of the materials witness: Madeline Costley. The Dollhouse sends Ballard to capture Madeline to maintain her secure, and Echo is sent on assignment to discredit the senator; it is believed that his spouse is usually a Doll. Ballard is therefore armed using a device that may incapacitate a Doll… thus revealing that Perrin will be the Doll, with his spouse actually his handler.