Mellie is keeping-an-eye-on backup. Misdirection AND a watchful eye -- seems likely.

I agree. Much like Sierra was backup in her Aussie fangirl character. Except that seems like a long stint to be imprinted and hanging out by her door waiting for Paul to come home. Wasn't it mentioned somewhere that they shouldn't go longer than ten hours with an imprinted personality?

I'm a little confused about Viktor -- I mean, is he legitimately in the Russian mob? Or do they have an agreement with the mob? Wouldn't it be cheaper to just pay somebody? Or heck, maybe he wasn't an Active until last episode! No, that doesn't make any sense.

Much like Sierra was backup in her Aussie fangirl character.

BTW, what was up with that? She didn't back anything or anyone up! She got herself kidnapped and cowed and simpered. She couldn't have taken that dude out if she was programmed to be backup? Honestly, she was only there for Echo to rescue and I'm pretty sure that the Dollhouse was not OK with that. Unless the backup was only if Echo got killed?

They said something about her being emergency only. I would think that emergency would be getting kidnapped, but okay.

I would think that emergency would be getting kidnapped, but okay.

I know, right?!

At least Echo's imprinted personality was an in-your-face tough chick who was ready to throw down, and therefore had some useful skills in a crisis. Not!Adam should have altered Sierra's perceptions so that when the stalker revealed himself she would see him as the dude from Twilight and hallucinate crowds of other squealing fangirls competing to grab a piece of him.

Maybe she, like Echo, just had the programming to protect whats-her-name and it didn't come out if the threat was to herself.

Which, again, the stupid.

She did what she was supposed to do, said head honchess. She distracted the assassin so he spent time focussing on her instead of the songstress.

She did what she was supposed to do, said head honchess. She distracted the assassin so he spent time focussing on her instead of the songstress.

But... but... she didn't choose to be kidnapped! On any conscious or unconscious level- that was completely out of her- or anyone in the Dollhouse's- control.

The British chick's smooth talking at the end, I thought, was about *Echo* doing what she was supposed to do- stop the person from killing songstress, who was in fact the songstress. But that ass-pullery appeared to be directed toward protecting Echo from Lawrence and the Attic.

I missed this business about the Attic. I was very sleepy when I watched the episode, and most of the last twenty minutes is very hazy since I stopped caring about the A-plot. What's the Attic?