I can understand that under certain circumstances, (like if you are into something shady), you wouldn't want/couldn't get the real thing - so the next best thing is a programmed person I suppose.

It's like "Leverage" I guess.

But in this circumstance, he really could have gotten a real Miss Penn - and ask her not to speak to the authorities.

I like Leverage and I think they've done a good job of choosing set-ups where it makes sense. I guess I just wouldn't trust my daughter's life to some chick who was dancing the night away in the shortest dress ever created the night before.

I was thinking of something. I think that it's not so much that they're wiping the personality and Echo is what's left, it's that they are imprinting Echo's personality over [eliza's character's name].

How could you miss the scars? [link]

I did wonder if they are meant to be relatively fresh with the intention of fading them some over time or if they're older scars.

That picture looks quite different from what I was remembering. I thought there were more scars and they were much more subtle so I figured they were old. Then I felt bad for Amy Acker having to sit through their application every day.

I think that they might get more subtle as the show goes on They probably really want you to notice them now. So, what's our theory?

Mine is that she's a former active that "woke up" during an assignment and ended up getting injured. As a payoff, they paid for her to go to medical school. She discovered that patients reacted badly to her scars, so she came back to work at the dollhouse where the actives don't ask any questions or have opinions.

I didn't notice anything until her second scene, and then I only noticed one scar.

My theory was along the same lines but less fully formed.

That picture looks quite different from what I was remembering.

There were more on her left cheek that fall in the shadows in that photo.

Vortex, what if she's only a doctor due to an imprint?

So I think the issue is that I see the imprints as real, but you don't.

Because they aren't real. They're recordings. And they're not even original recordings; they're mashups.