Season 2, Episode 7:
Meet Jane Doe
As Paul helps Echo regain control over all the personalities in her head, Topher perfects a way to turn anyone into a Doll.
Tropes present in this episode:
- Character Development: During the time skip, Echo's doll personality has evolved into a complete person, different from Caroline Farell.
- Foregone Conclusion: Due to Epitaph One, we already know that the technology Harding has Topher working on will contribute to the Dollhouse-pocalypse. Topher realizes that Rossum has each Dollhouse working on a component of a universal, wireless imprinting device.
- Interplay of Sex and Violence: Ballard and Echo's sparring session gets very sexually charged.
- Long Game: Echo has spent three months preparing to help the woman she got arrested before the time skip escape from prison.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Bennett giving Echo a memory with Caroline in it triggered Echo's ability to access her latent imprints at will.
- Power at a Price: Echo's increased ability to channel her imprints comes at the expense of increasingly debilitating headaches.
- Running Gag: Once again, the Active designated Kilo is a test subject for one of Topher's inventions.
- Shout-Out: Topher remarks that Bennett went all Cylon on him.
- Time Skip: This episode skips three months, after which Adelle has been ousted as the head of the L.A. Dollhouse.