Blog 11 - Dollhouse Episode 3

In this episode, Echo is assigned a mission where she becomes an expert spy/thief. Her job is conjoined with 3 other men, two of which are hitmen and one is an art expert. The art expert double crosses them and takes the piece of artwork the team needs to complete the mission. In order to make sure the mission is completed, Echo calls her main man (I forget his name) and tells him that he needs to go and retrieve the piece of artwork from the man. While she is on the phone, something intercepts the phone call, causing Echo's memory to be wiped. She no longer remembers what she is doing in the art vault and who she is programmed to be.


This problem further deepens the questionable morality of Dollhouse's company. Though they can enhance a person's expertise and functioning in certain areas through brain washing, they are also putting the doll's lives at stake. Although it is obvious that a person's memories are precious and should be reserved for the experiencer's life only, it is in this episode that I realized the potential dangers of not being able to remember. If a person's memories are wiped clean, they lose their ability to survive in unfamiliar situations, or any situation at all. By stripping one's ability to learn and remember, you are stripping them of their essence of their being; their ability to survive. You cannot live without survival skills, and you cannot attain survival skills without the memories of things you have learned in the past. If one cannot survive, how can one live?