Dollhouse Quotes
Alpha: [back at the Dollhouse in a flashback] Whiskey? Let Echo be number one. [slashes Whiskey's face]
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Echo: What's in store for you... you don't have anything to smile about.
Laurence Dominic: After you beat me to a pulp, they're going to erase me... but first, they're going to erase you.
Echo: I can take care of myself.
Laurence Dominic: I know. That's why I'm smiling. Cause one day... you'll be erasing them. Even after all this... they still won't see it coming.
Laurence Dominic: After you beat me to a pulp, they're going to erase me... but first, they're going to erase you.
Echo: I can take care of myself.
Laurence Dominic: I know. That's why I'm smiling. Cause one day... you'll be erasing them. Even after all this... they still won't see it coming.
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Mellie: The Dollhouse deals in fantasy, but that is not their purpose. Investigate their purpose. We will find other ways to contact you.
Paul Ballard: Who? Who sent you?
Mellie: I'm not imprinted with information you're not supposed to have.
Paul Ballard: Tell me who!
Mellie: Remember, you can't tell her. You must maintain the illusion.
Paul Ballard: Wait!
Mellie: [Changes back] Paul, what's wrong?
Paul Ballard: Nothing.
Mellie: Then why aren't you kissing me?
Paul Ballard: Who? Who sent you?
Mellie: I'm not imprinted with information you're not supposed to have.
Paul Ballard: Tell me who!
Mellie: Remember, you can't tell her. You must maintain the illusion.
Paul Ballard: Wait!
Mellie: [Changes back] Paul, what's wrong?
Paul Ballard: Nothing.
Mellie: Then why aren't you kissing me?
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Topher Brink: Priya does not belong in the Dollhouse.
Boyd Langton: She does now... Now I have to start the lies.
Boyd Langton: She does now... Now I have to start the lies.
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[Looking at pictures of Steve]
Dawn Weiner: Oh, Steve, they're all so beautiful.
Steve: I'm thinking of using this one on my first album cover.
Dawn Weiner: You're gonna have a record?
Dawn Weiner: Oh, Steve, they're all so beautiful.
Steve: I'm thinking of using this one on my first album cover.
Dawn Weiner: You're gonna have a record?
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Ballard: If you want, I'll tell Topher what's going on with you and he can fix it. He'll come up with a way to wipe you and you won't remember a thing. You won't have to feel sad anymore.
Echo: Feeling nothing would be worse. It would be like before - asleep. I'm awake now. I don't want to go back to sleep.
Echo: Feeling nothing would be worse. It would be like before - asleep. I'm awake now. I don't want to go back to sleep.
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DeWitt: I know you've heard colorful rumors about what an 'Active' is. Robots, zombie slaves — they are, of course, quite the opposite. The 'Active' is the truest soul among us.
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[Dialogue whenever an Active is restored to "tabula rasa"]
Echo: Did I fall asleep?
Topher: For a little while.
Echo: Shall I go now?
Topher: If you like.
Echo: Did I fall asleep?
Topher: For a little while.
Echo: Shall I go now?
Topher: If you like.
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Topher: You see someone running incredibly fast - The first thing you gotta ask is 'Are they running to something or are they running from something?' The answer is always both.
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Topher: [referring to Echo's most recent engagement] She had fun, right?
Boyd: She thought so.
Topher: [quoting Hamlet] There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Boyd: She thought so.
Topher: [quoting Hamlet] There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
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Caroline: You ever try to clean an actual slate? You always see what was on it before.
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Paul: Dollhouse.
Victor: [as Lubov] What?
Paul: Dollhouse. Say it.
Victor: [as Lubov] Dollhouse.
Paul: Say it again.
Victor: [as Lubov] Your brains are...
[Ballard cocks gun]
Victor: [as Lubov] Okay! Dollhouse! Doll freakin' house. I keep saying it. It's fun to say. Dollhouse. Dollhouse. Dollhouse. Dollhouse.
Victor: [as Lubov] What?
Paul: Dollhouse. Say it.
Victor: [as Lubov] Dollhouse.
Paul: Say it again.
Victor: [as Lubov] Your brains are...
[Ballard cocks gun]
Victor: [as Lubov] Okay! Dollhouse! Doll freakin' house. I keep saying it. It's fun to say. Dollhouse. Dollhouse. Dollhouse. Dollhouse.
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DeWitt: In their resting state, our actives are as innocent and vulnerable as children. We call it the "Tabula Rasa". The blank slate. Now imagine the imprint process filling it, creating a new personality. A friend, a lover, a confidant in a sea of enemies. Your heart's desire made flesh. And when the engagement has been completed, all memory of you and your time together will be wiped clean.
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Boyd: [Looking down on Actives doing tai ji] Look at them. Just a bunch of helpless children. Did the ones Alpha slaughtered even put up a fight?
Topher: They wouldn't know how. Not without an imprint.
Boyd: Why not default them with ninja skills or whatever?
Topher: We tried that once.
Boyd: And?
Topher: Blood. Screaming. Dying.
Boyd: Alpha.
Topher: They wouldn't know how. Not without an imprint.
Boyd: Why not default them with ninja skills or whatever?
Topher: We tried that once.
Boyd: And?
Topher: Blood. Screaming. Dying.
Boyd: Alpha.
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Mellie: [After seeing Echo's picture] Pretty. Who's she?
Paul: Nobody, according to the FBI database. No record of her.
Mellie: Is she in trouble?
Paul: Maybe. She just got caught up with the wrong people. Either way, I'll keep looking until I find her.
Mellie: [As Ballard's walking away] Lucky girl.
Paul: Nobody, according to the FBI database. No record of her.
Mellie: Is she in trouble?
Paul: Maybe. She just got caught up with the wrong people. Either way, I'll keep looking until I find her.
Mellie: [As Ballard's walking away] Lucky girl.
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Boyd: [After handing Echo a gun] Do you know how to use this?
Echo: I've got four brothers, none of them Democrats.
Echo: I've got four brothers, none of them Democrats.
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Echo: [Accidentally walks into the path of Dominic] Sorry.
Dominic: Are you?
Echo: Am I?
Dominic: Sorry. Are you really sorry? A lot of people seem to end up dead around you. How does that make you feel? Oh, right. You don't, unless we tell you how, and what, and when.
Echo: I'm going to swim in the pool. [Steps around him and begins to walk away]
Dominic: If it were up to me I'd put you in the Attic or the ground. Yeah, like talking to you is going to make a difference. [Leans in to look in Echo's eyes] Yeah. There's nobody in there.
Dominic: Are you?
Echo: Am I?
Dominic: Sorry. Are you really sorry? A lot of people seem to end up dead around you. How does that make you feel? Oh, right. You don't, unless we tell you how, and what, and when.
Echo: I'm going to swim in the pool. [Steps around him and begins to walk away]
Dominic: If it were up to me I'd put you in the Attic or the ground. Yeah, like talking to you is going to make a difference. [Leans in to look in Echo's eyes] Yeah. There's nobody in there.
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Topher: Sierra should come into play in a minute.
Boyd: I'm glad they double tracked this. Who's handling her?
Topher: Joe Hearn. You won't like him.
Voice: Fifteen minutes to curtain.
Boyd: Echo's on in fifteen. Okay. Okay.
Topher: Oh my God. Are you nervous? Opening night jitters? Your little girl out there on the big stage?
Boyd: On a stage where the last little girl caught on fire?
Topher: Fair point.
Boyd: I mean, her singing's not a problem. It's not, right? I mean, she is a good singer. I think she's good. She wouldn't freeze up.
Topher: [Laughing] She'll be fine, Mama Rose.
Boyd: I'm glad they double tracked this. Who's handling her?
Topher: Joe Hearn. You won't like him.
Voice: Fifteen minutes to curtain.
Boyd: Echo's on in fifteen. Okay. Okay.
Topher: Oh my God. Are you nervous? Opening night jitters? Your little girl out there on the big stage?
Boyd: On a stage where the last little girl caught on fire?
Topher: Fair point.
Boyd: I mean, her singing's not a problem. It's not, right? I mean, she is a good singer. I think she's good. She wouldn't freeze up.
Topher: [Laughing] She'll be fine, Mama Rose.
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Boyd: Echo took the mission parameter and made it better. She seems to have the ability to think outside of the pieces that we give her and create.
Dr. Saunders: Create a new approach to the problem.
Boyd: It's impressive. I don't know what it means, but it's impressive. She really is special.
Dr. Saunders: Special isn't always a good thing here, Boyd.
Boyd : DeWitt's a business woman. Is she really going to harm her best Active?
Dr. Saunders: Echo wasn't always the best.
Boyd : You're talking about Alpha.
Dr. Saunders: I'm just saying, sometimes the best thing to hope for is "good enough."
Dr. Saunders: Create a new approach to the problem.
Boyd: It's impressive. I don't know what it means, but it's impressive. She really is special.
Dr. Saunders: Special isn't always a good thing here, Boyd.
Boyd : DeWitt's a business woman. Is she really going to harm her best Active?
Dr. Saunders: Echo wasn't always the best.
Boyd : You're talking about Alpha.
Dr. Saunders: I'm just saying, sometimes the best thing to hope for is "good enough."
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Dr. Claire Saunders: You sent Echo on a high-risk engagement?
Topher: Doctor Saunders! How nice of you to annoy me.
Topher: Doctor Saunders! How nice of you to annoy me.
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Victor: [as Lubov] We're old friends from Navy. Friends from Old Navy. I worked retail, he'd come in, buy slacks.
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Echo: You are having a breakdown. Not a shave-your-head-and-flash-your-junk wacky phase
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Boyd: They're eating lunch.
Topher: They're eating lunch together, man friend. The same three. Even the same table. They're grouping.
Boyd: Are you saying they remember each other?
Topher: No, no, no. The wipes are clean. This goes deeper than memory, into instinctual survival patterns. Flocking. A whole mess of sparrows turning on a dime, salmon trucking upstream. This isn't a book club, man friend, this is the herd.
Boyd: They're not bison, Topher.
Topher: They're a little bit bison.
Boyd: They didn't used to be.
Topher: They volunteered for this.
Boyd: So we're told.
Topher: They're eating lunch together, man friend. The same three. Even the same table. They're grouping.
Boyd: Are you saying they remember each other?
Topher: No, no, no. The wipes are clean. This goes deeper than memory, into instinctual survival patterns. Flocking. A whole mess of sparrows turning on a dime, salmon trucking upstream. This isn't a book club, man friend, this is the herd.
Boyd: They're not bison, Topher.
Topher: They're a little bit bison.
Boyd: They didn't used to be.
Topher: They volunteered for this.
Boyd: So we're told.
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Echo: [as Taffy] They're called breasts, and yes, they are exceptional. You mention that, when you blog about this later.
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Walton: If she's the best, how come I've never heard of her?
Echo: [as Taffy] You've heard of Bonnie and Clyde, right?
Walton: Are you Bonnie?
Echo: [as Taffy] No. I'm not that stupid. Bonnie and her gun-crazy beau, you know what they wanted? It wasn't to be the best. The best lead the quiet, head down kind of life. No, Bonnie and Clydie, they wanted fame, notoriety, and boy did they get it. They also got dead. I'll pass on that. When this is over, feel free to forget I exist.
Echo: [as Taffy] You've heard of Bonnie and Clyde, right?
Walton: Are you Bonnie?
Echo: [as Taffy] No. I'm not that stupid. Bonnie and her gun-crazy beau, you know what they wanted? It wasn't to be the best. The best lead the quiet, head down kind of life. No, Bonnie and Clydie, they wanted fame, notoriety, and boy did they get it. They also got dead. I'll pass on that. When this is over, feel free to forget I exist.
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Ivy: [Reading from list] Pizza squares, ice cream bites, beef jerky? Okay, you may be the boy god of all things neuro, and I do worship at the altar of your genius, but I am not getting you all of this stuff.
Topher: Ivy, babe, add juice boxes.
Ivy: You're privilege abusing.
Topher: Do you want to know how to avoid spandrels when aligning rigid designators?
Ivy: Grape or apple?
Topher: Ivy, babe, add juice boxes.
Ivy: You're privilege abusing.
Topher: Do you want to know how to avoid spandrels when aligning rigid designators?
Ivy: Grape or apple?
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