Blog 13 - Dollhouse Episode 4

In this episode, Echo is imprinted as a blind woman. Her mission is to become involved in a very secretive religious cult as she is held against her own will. Her eyes, though she herself will believe she is blind, will be able to become their own video camera's for an undercover government agent so that they can see what is going on in the cult. Echo is imprinted to believe that she has been brought to the cult from a vision by the cult's leader, who is a shady character. When this leader becomes dangerous, Echo is the one who intercepts and becomes the heroine for the day.


This episode, like many of the other episodes of Dollhouse so far, is a dangerous one where many peoples' lives are at stake. This recurring trend brings me back to the last episode where one of the men who works for Dollhouse as a protective squad tells Echo after her memory has been wiped that she tends to cause a lot of death. This man asks talks to Echo and mockingly asks her if she can really feel. He proceeds to answer himself, knowing that Echo is only a copy. She is never a real person who can actually think and talk for herself unless she is imprinted. The fact that Echo really does seem to get into deep danger in each episode makes me wonder who she was in her past, and how she got into Dollhouse's business in the first place. I feel that as the series continues, we will find out more about Echo's past, and it should be very interesting to see how she came to be part of Dollhouse.