"Dollhouse": "Vows" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Getting married

The episode's title refers partly to Echo/Roma's wedding vows (and partly to another vow, taken at the end of the episode). With dozens of guests looking on, she swears undying devotion to Martin Klar (Jamie Bamber). But she's a Doll; this personality is not her own, and she has been (and will be) many more people before her five-year stint at the Dollhouse is up. "Roma" might believe in her vows, but the groom must surely know the marriage is an unsustainable sham; who would engage the Dollhouse for a fleeting fantasy that will wound his friends and family? Or are they in on it too?

Answer: Rats

Amusingly, Topher panics and clambers over the balcony railing to escape, while his much put-upon assistant Ivy rounds up the rats. Topher's next act is to call Dr. Saunders, who has been playing pranks on him for a while now: she's still reeling from her discovery in the previous season that she's really a Doll, imprinted with a doctor's personality.

"Is this your idea of a joke?" Topher asks her.

"You designed me, Mr. Brink," she responds. "I guess it must be YOUR idea of a joke."

Answer: Surgery to correct facial scars

Dr. Saunders sports several thin facial scars, legacies of a past encounter with the renegade Doll Alpha -- who was disturbingly handy with a razor. At the end of Season 1, when Alpha appeared again, he gave Victor the same treatment. Now, Victor is receiving expensive plastic surgery so that he can continue as a Doll, whereas Dr. Saunders -- a Doll when she was attacked -- was hastily imprinted as a staff member, whose looks are not as important.

In conversation with Boyd, she claims to like the scars: they help her maintain her status as a distinct personality. Boyd, who is sweet on her, promises that he would never let her be turned into a Doll again.

Answer: He's an arms dealer.

For five years, the FBI has been trying and failing to get something on Martin Klar -- and Ballard was one of the agents who tried and failed. Now he's working outside the law, in the Dollhouse, and he's keen to use their resources to gift-wrap Klar for the FBI. Echo believes she's Ballard's partner, posing as a woman in love in order to get close to the target, and she's all for it -- but, as the operation moves forward, Ballard begins to have doubts. Perhaps he's remembered that he spent the entire previous season trying to rescue Echo -- so why is he putting her in harm's way now?

Answer: A gala that both she and the doctor had attended as Dolls

It was a fancy-dress party, and Echo and Whiskey (Dr. Saunders's code name as a Doll) were both there -- and programmed to flirt with each other, for the amusement of the client. Rising from the exam table with this memory fresh, Echo calls the doctor by her old name and observes that she was once the Number One Doll -- all facts she should not know, and which send Dr. Saunders to a dark emotional place.

Answer: Alexis Denisof

"What is more precious to a human being than their mind?" Senator Perrin asks. "Everything we feel, see -- everything we are is controlled by our brains." Noting his mother's struggle and his dedication as a lawmaker to health-care advances, he accuses the Rossum Corporation of "nothing less than a conspiracy ... to withhold medical advances" and to use "radical" techniques in untried ways. Adelle and Boyd watch the press conference in her office. Possibly sensing a multi-episode story arc, they're worried.

Answer: She doesn't want to die.

Whiskey/Dr. Saunders is at a very low ebb, sitting pressed against the wall in a room full of computer racks. "I don't want to die," she tells Topher. "I'm not even real. I'm in someone else's body and I'm afraid to give it up." When Topher, partly from compassion and partly from pride in the personality he has created, tells her she's human, she tells him not to flatter himself.

As the poet Yeats wrote, "Things fall apart. The center cannot hold."

Answer: Photos of her talking to Ballard

Poor Ballard: everyone's finding him suspicious these days. Adelle thinks he may have an unnaturally great interest in Echo. Topher calls him "frenemy." Boyd thinks he might have tipped Senator Perrin off to the Rossum Corporation's shadier interests. And now Martin Klar's henchman recognizes him as a former FBI agent, and sounds the alarm that the blushing bride has a hidden agenda.

Some days, it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.

Answer: A head injury

Echo/Roma wakes to find her husband gone from the house. She doesn't know that he has been informed of her other identity as an FBI agent, and she tries to break into his desk -- and he catches her at it. Not believing her story that she was only trying to learn the destination of their honeymoon, he slams her head into the desk, hard. "One day!" he shouts. "One day wed, and I get this: proof that my wife is my enemy." She begins a beautiful, elegant explanation -- and glitches at the worst possible moment.

It takes some fancy footwork to save the day.

Answer: Echo's handler

Adelle thinks his accepting the position is because of Ballard's fondness for Echo, and she's partly right -- but there's something else there, an implicit pact made explicit in the last scene. "I remember everything," a supposedly blank, personality-wiped Echo tells Ballard in the Dollhouse. "Sometimes I'm someone else, and then I come back, but I still feel them -- all of them. I've been many people ... I'm all of them, but none of them is me. Do you know who's real?"

Told that the real Echo is Caroline, she says she wants to find her -- and all the other people wiped clean to make the Dolls. "Will you help me?" she asks Ballard.

"I swear," he says.