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Season 1, Episode 1: Ghost - English Version - Version Française sous-titrée Season 1, Episode 2: The Target - English Version - Version Française sous-titrée Season 1, Episode 3: Stage Fright - English Version - Version Française sous-titrée Season 1, Episode 4: Gray Hour - English Version - Version Française sous-titrée Season 1, Episode 5: True Believer - English Version - Version Française sous-titrée Season 1, Episode 6: Man on the Street - English Version - Version Française sous-titrée Season 1, Episode 7: Echoes - English Version - Version Française sous-titrée Season 1, Episode 8: Needs - English Version - Version Française sous-titrée Seaison 1, Eîsode 9 - A Spy in the House - English Version - Version Française sous-titrée Season 1, Episode 10: Haunted - English Version - Version Française sous-titrée Season 1, Episode 11: Briar Rose - English Version - Version Française sous-titrée Season 1, Episode 12: Omega - English Version - Version Française sous-titrée | Episode | Title | Director | Writer(s) | U.S. Viewers
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airdate | | 1-01 (1) | "Ghost" | Joss Whedon | Joss Whedon | 4.715 | February 13, 2009 | | Echo is introduced as one of the "Actives" in the Dollhouse. The Dollhouse scientist Topher Brink wipes her mind and reprograms her as a ruthlessly efficient kidnapping negotiator. Echo's new personality incorporates memories from another woman who was molested as a child, and it turns out the molester is one of the kidnappers she must now negotiate with. She crumbles in fear during the ransom exchange, nearly getting their client killed. But she is allowed to confront the kidnappers, turning them against each other and rescuing the kidnapped girl. Meanwhile, FBI Agent Paul Ballard struggles with his assignment to uncover information on the Dollhouse, which has destroyed his marriage and is wrecking his career. | | 1-02 (2) | "The Target" | Steven S. DeKnight | Steven S. DeKnight | 4.22 | February 20, 2009 | Echo's latest imprint has her as the perfect date for Richard, an outdoorsman, who takes her on a romantic wilderness adventure. The experience takes a turn for the worse when Richard indicates he will conclude the "date" by hunting her for sport. Although Echo is imprinted with absolute trust in Boyd, he is unable to do more than deliver a weapon to her, and she must kill Richard on her own. Afterward the Dollhouse team discovers the handiwork of Alpha, a rogue doll, on the corpse of an unknown assassin. It was Alpha who had maimed Dr. Saunders and butchered the handler Boyd was hired to replace. Agent Ballard receives an anonymous package concerning Echo's previous identity as a woman named Caroline, and continues his search.
| | 1-03 (3) | "Stage Fright" | David Solomon | Maurissa Tancharoen & Jed Whedon | 4.13 | February 27, 2009 | Echo goes undercover as a backup singer to protect volatile pop star Rayna Russell from an obsessed fan. Fellow Active, Sierra, also goes undercover as a fan who wins a contest and gets to spend an evening with Rayna. Getting closer Rayna, Echo discovers that Rayna is in collusion with her stalker and welcomes death. Sierra is kidnapped when Echo thwarts a shooting and Echo must save Sierra from the stalker and Rayna from herself. Meanwhile, Lubov is revealed to be an Active ("Victor") and Agent Paul Ballard is led to an abandoned basement where he is attacked by three Russian agents.
| | 1-04 (4) | "Gray Hour" | Rod Hardy | Sarah Fain & Elizabeth Craft | 3.55 | March 6, 2009 | Echo is sent on a high-tech heist to recover stolen art for the Greek government, but the job goes bad when one of her accomplices double crosses them. It gets worse when, during a phone conversation with Boyd, she is remotely "wiped" by an unknown party and returns to her child-like state without any of the skills she had been imprinted with. With help from Sierra and Boyd, Echo barely manages to escape. Topher suspects only Alpha could have managed the remote wipe, and finally Adelle confides to him that her security had indeed failed to kill Alpha.
| | 1-05 (5) | "True Believer" | Allan Kroeker | Tim Minear | 4.3 | March 13, 2009 | Imprinted as a visually impaired woman, Echo must infiltrate a heavily guarded cult in order to rescue someone being held against their will. Echo's eyes transmit what they see to government agents watching the compound, though she herself is blind. Echo's imprint is not someone trying to get into the cult to help agents, she fully believes she has been brought there in a vision by the cult's leader, a former felon. Paul Ballard continues his search for Caroline, using facial recognition software. Dominic begins to reveal how much he dislikes Echo. Topher and Dr. Saunders observe a surprising (and supposedly impossible) reaction between two of the actives in their doll states: evidently, Victor finds Sierra attractive.
| | 1-06 (6) | "Man on the Street" | David Straiton | Joss Whedon | 4.13 | March 20, 2009 | One of Echo's engagements is disrupted by Agent Ballard. Ballard's interrogation of the client (guest star Patton Oswalt) first makes Paul aware that his interest in disrupting the Dollhouse is becoming obsessive. Paul defies this by beginning a relationship with Mellie, but is further shaken when Echo is sent to assassinate him—only to go catatonic and recite a message from a spy inside the Dollhouse. Meanwhile, Sierra begins to show signs of trauma, and Victor is implicated as her assailant. However, Boyd stages a sting operation and discovers that Sierra's handler, Hearn, has been raping her. Adelle sends Hearn to remove Mellie... only to reveal that she is a "sleeper Active" by activating her latent (and lethal) combat training. Finally, acts are bookended by clips of a TV reporter preparing an exposé on the Dollhouse.
| | 1-07 (7) | "Echoes" | James A. Contner | Elizabeth Craft & Sarah Fain | 3.87 | March 27, 2009 | | A psychotropic drug is accidentally released in a college research lab owned by the "Rossum Corporation," causing the afflicted to behave drunkenly and relive their worst memories. Rossum, which owns the Dollhouse, mobilizes all of DeWitt's Actives, who should be immune to the drug because they have no memories. This turns out to be patently false, as proven when Sierra relives her rape experiences. Echo, on an unrelated assignment, sees news of the outbreak on TV and goes "off-mission" to "help him", despite having no idea who "he" is (or indeed who she is). Her flashbacks reveal her past as Caroline Farrell and chronicle the events leading directly to her employment at the Dollhouse. The corporate spy who started the outbreak is seen facing Adelle in a similar manner as the episode closes. | | 1-08 (8) | "Needs" | Félix Enríquez Alcalá | Tracy Bellomo | 3.49 | April 3, 2009 | | Echo, Sierra, Victor and November awake with most of their original personalities intact, and Echo attempts to escape from the Dollhouse with her fellow Actives, reclaiming bits and pieces of their past as they do so. Sierra discovers that she was forced to become a Doll after turning down sexual advances from a well-connected man; Victor is finally able to act on his attraction to her; November grieves over her dead infant daughter, Katie; and Echo, after guaranteeing the other three have escaped, re-enters to the Dollhouse and forces DeWitt, at gunpoint, to release all remaining Actives. Thereafter all four "escapees" fall asleep due to subliminal programming; the entire process is revealed to have been masterminded by DeWitt and Dr. Saunders, allowing their Actives to achieve closure on their personal issues before putting them back to work. | | 1-09 (9) | "Spy in the House of Love" | David Solomon | Andrew Chambliss | 3.56 | April 10, 2009 | While DeWitt is away on business, Topher discovers evidence a spy is in the Dollhouse, and four Actives are dispatched to deal with the problem. "Mellie" is sent to pacify Paul Ballard, but goes temporarily catatonic to deliver another warning from inside the Dollhouse. Sierra goes undercover at the National Security Agency, attempting to raid their databases for the spy's identity. Victor is dispatched on another "Lonely Hearts" gig; the recipient is revealed to be DeWitt. Finally, Echo volunteers to undergo imprinting to help with the investigation; after Topher turns her into a counter-intelligence agent, she helps Lawrence Dominic, the head of security, interview employees. She discovers the mole is Dominic himself, planted by the NSA to keep the Dollhouse (and its dangerous technology) from becoming common knowledge, particularly by staving off Paul Ballard. Dominic's personality is downloaded into Topher's database, and his body sent to "The Attic," to be employed whenever the NSA needs pacifying.
| | 1-10 (10) | "Haunted" | | Jane Espenson, Maurissa Tancharoen & Jed Whedon | | April 24, 2009 | When Adelle’s wealthy friend is murdered, Adelle imprints Echo with the woman’s memories and personality to solve the case. Ballard looks into Mellie’s past, and Topher secretly programs Sierra for an engagement.
| | 1-11 (11) | "Briar Rose" | Dwight Little | Jane Espenson | | May 1, 2009 | | Ballard's investigation leads him to the agoraphobic designer of the Dollhouse (guest star Alan Tudyk); Echo helps a young girl deal with her traumatic past; Adelle goes to the Attic in search of answers; and Alpha reveals himself to set his end game in motion. | | 1-12 (12) | "Omega" | Tim Minear | Tim Minear | | May 8, 2009 | The Alpha's reign of terror continues as his obsession with Echo endangers Caroline's survival; Ballard must make a life-changing decision; and one Doll is permanently deactivated while another's shocking past is revealed.
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