"Dollhouse": "Belonging" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Topher

As his face goes into and out of focus, we can just recognize Topher, the Dollhouse's sandy-haired specialist in personality imprints. But who was he trying to help, and how did it go so bloodily wrong? Let's keep watching ...

Answer: Artist

She's selling her wares on the boardwalk: "I need the cash," she says, "and I don't have a work visa." An admirer has been buying up a lot of her work; he seems to be fond of her, but isn't her type. He offers to commission a large painting from her, maybe even "arrange a show" -- but something about him makes Priya uneasy.

Answer: At least two Dolls -- Echo and Victor -- to make Nolan's story more plausible

"This is an elaborate, expensive seduction, Nolan," a Rossum exec (Matthew Harding, played by Keith Carradine) tells a besotted Nolan Kinnard (Vincent Ventresca) at the party, a show for Priya's art. "It's the least Rossum can do after all your work with us, but can't you just buy her a necklace or a boat or something?" But Nolan's tried that, and it doesn't seem to work on Priya -- at least, not from him.

So now he's trying an elaborate con, luring her into his life with the promise of helping her find artistic success. Echo is there as a young woman singing Nolan's praises as a patron of art: "You should stick with Nolan. He finds an artist, they thrive." Victor is there as a charming Italian art dealer for added verisimilitude. But will she take this carefully designed bait?

Answer: An instant photograph of her

At the beginning of the episode, we could think of Nolan as a decent but socially inept man -- but as the unusually long teaser unfolds, he becomes creepier and creepier. He tries to physically block her from leaving the party, making the ugly argument that, because he bought her painting, he is entitled to her affection. Priya, whom I'm liking more and more, tells him in no uncertain terms what she thinks of him.

But now it's the present, and she's a Doll with affections programmed for him. As she leaves, he takes her picture and tosses it in a drawer with hundreds of similar ones -- presumably from other romantic encounters with Priya's body but not with Priya. She has different hairstyles, different expressions: he has literally erased the woman he claimed to love.

Answer: She was a paranoid schizophrenic.

Later, in a flashback, we see Priya in her paranoid schizophrenic state. She had all the symptoms, right down to believing that it was the medications that were making her crazy -- but Topher now comes to realize that she was right all along. Nolan, a doctor and medical researcher specializing in "molecular pharmacology," poisoned her and committed her to a mental institution, then let the Dollhouse believe they were doing her a service when they wiped her mind blank for his pleasure. Even the generally amoral Topher is sick at heart when he realizes how they've all been used.

Answer: She is threatened by her superiors at the Rossum Corporation.

Adelle is horrified by Nolan's arrangement: she accuses him of having made her "an accomplice in something vile." But he won't accept her refusal, and makes a counter-offer: "You're going to imprint her, and you're going to send her to me. Forever... You do it by the end of business today, I'll see to it you keep your job."

And, as it turns out, Nolan's right. Harding, the Rossum executive we saw at the art opening, tells Adelle that they'll do whatever it takes to keep Nolan happy. He reminds her of her own indiscretions as "Miss Lonelyhearts," and explodes her comfortable fiction that the Dollhouse is "decent and moral," a humanitarian organization. If she won't do as Rossum demands, she can be replaced -- and he promises she "wouldn't like the early retirement plan." Backed into a corner, Adelle agrees.

Answer: He imprints her as Priya -- her original personality.

Everyone thinks of Topher as completely amoral, but deep down, there are lines he will not cross. Being an accessory to slavery this clear-cut? It turns out that's one of them. So he restores Sierra to her original personality, the one Nolan systematically stole from her.

It's unclear what he expects Priya to do -- have some possibility of escape, perhaps -- but he feels it's his only choice.

Answer: She kills him.

Sierra is Priya when she arrives at the apartment, and she knows what's happened to her. She doesn't remember her time as a Doll, but she does remember Victor, or at least her love for him. Nolan punches her in the face when she says so, and she hits him back, asking, "You gonna fight fair this time?"

He isn't planning on it; he fights dirty, and seems to relish the idea of hurting her. But in the end, she gets his knife, and she stabs him to death. In related news, the world is a better place.

Answer: Boyd, the head of security

Confronted with a weeping, shell-shocked Priya and a panicking Topher, Boyd immediately takes charge. He orders Topher to help him dispose of Nolan's body, while Priya packs a suitcase to make it look like Nolan's gone on a trip. Boyd seems to have a disturbing amount of expertise in this area ... which is especially troubling due to Adelle's earlier admission that the Dollhouse staff were all selected because they had already been "morally compromised."

Topher is still stunned by the turn of events. "I was just trying to help her," he protests, echoing the teaser. "Priya does not belong in the Dollhouse."

"She does now," Boyd says, and sure enough, Priya returns to life as a Doll. She resigns herself to it, with the help of one silver lining: the killing will literally be wiped from her memory.

Answer: An all-access security pass to the Dollhouse

Earlier in the episode, Boyd had confronted Echo about a book she was trying to read -- not a typical Doll hobby. Knowing the jig was up, she told her former handler her goal: "Something bad is coming, like a storm. And I want everyone to survive it. They need to wake up."

He warned her that her actions might bring the storm, but said he wouldn't stand in her way. And now, he's proved it: she finds the pass concealed in her book, tucked in a note that reads, "For the storm."