OBS staff member Krystal has brought us our weekly R&R of ‘Dollhouse’

Dollhouse Season 2: ‘Belonging’

This week’s episode starts with the fuzzy image, but bloody image of Topher stating her was just trying to help her.

With the flash of a camera we are taken back to a year ago, where Priya is helping sell jewelry for a woman on the beachfront. As the conversation advances a man, “prince” of sorts, approaches; returning for another piece of jewelry, Priya asks what he’s doing with it all. The man asks if it would be possibly for her to make a large painting for him and hands her his card.

Skip forward, Priya is now having gallery show with the piece that she was commissioned to make. Bored of the idol talk, Sierra scopes out a nearby alcove of people and find that they are openly participating in sexual actions. Enter Echo. Echo engages Sierra in interesting conversation and mentions that she should stick with Nolan, the “prince”.

Over to Nolan, who is talking to a man, Harding, about the expense of such an event just to gain the affections of the pretty young lady. Harding suggests that they build him a doll with everything he wants, but Nolan refuses; wanting Priya. Harding decides to approach Priya and brings with him Victor, introducing him as a fine arts dealer from Italy. Priya and Victor immediately hit it off and she asks if he wants to leave. As the two head for the door, Nolan interrupts and won’t let her leave and it turns out he hired Victor to help promote him. When he tries to force himself on Priya, she slaps him and say ‘nothing in this world could ever make me love you’. That was until today, when Sierra enters and kisses him passionately. As she leaves he takes a picture with her own camera and throws it in a drawer along with other photos.

Now at the dollhouse, Victor approaches Sierra and comments on her bird painting, but something just isn’t right to her about the color black. Meanwhile, Topher is still trying to get the remote reset to work when Echo enters handing him Sierra’s painting. She says that Sierra doesn’t like the bad man who makes her sad. Interested in the information, Topher tries to find out more about the man from Boyd. Boyd dishes the goods on Nolan and suggests that Topher look into Saunder’s information about Sierra. After viewing Saunder’s files, which include multiple paintings, Topher heads to the records for Priya’s original information.

Meanwhile, Boyd is taking a watchful eye over Echo and notices that she is exhibiting behavior that is abnormal. All of a sudden, Topher grabs him and explains that Priya wasn’t psychotic when she arrived at the Dollhouse; she was drugged to be psychotic. Adelle overhears and confronts Nolan of raping poor Sierra and says that they will no longer be providing him with service. Nolan’s cocky response is that the Dollhouse will imprint her and send her to him forever. Adelle goes to Harding and refuses to send Nolan, but she is overruled and told do it or she loses her job.

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This is one of the more intense episodes of Dollhouse because it being extremely character driven. I really loved seeing more of Sierra and of her past. It was a really sad episode overall and really showed just how much Topher cares for the actives, especially those he’s feels personally responsible for.

Did you see this week’s episode? If so, what did you think of it?