Watch Dollhouse Episodes

On January 22, 2010, the last and final episode of the Dollhouse aired. It was dubbed “Epitaph Two: Return,” and mimics the unaired season 1 finale, Epitaph One.

The problem with the fact that Epitaph Two takes off immediately after Epitaph One, is that the first episode was never aired on television. This means anyone who didn’t look online, buy the DVD set, or go to ComicCon never saw this episode. Several people were confused. We have Epitaph One available for viewing, but I can’t help but wish that it aired on TV right before the last episode of Dollhouse.

In Season 1, Dollhouse lightly delved into the complexities of wiping a person’s mind, with mini-plots compacted into a single episode. In Season 2, it took on the dilemma on a deeper level, struggling with the concept of humanity and the dangers of technology, a huge sci-fi theme. Mainly this happened to lead up to the apocalyptic episode Epitaph One.

Epitaph One

The world of Epitaph One was a place where there were no longer any Actual humans left, just Dolls. A handful of Actuals are introduced and they are searching for Safe Haven, a place founded by Caroline (Echo) that is supposed to be Tech Free. They discover the Los Angeles Dollhouse, where a Dr Sanders (Whiskey) is found to be in permanent Doll-mode. She installs a hard drive onto a child the Actuals traveled with, which turned the child into Caroline. She begins to show the Actuals the way to Safe Haven when the episode ends.

This episode of Dollhouse was produced to show the network that Dollhouse could be created on a low budget income. Through technicalities by the network, it was never aired on TV, but it was showed at ComicCon and added to the DVD collection for Season 1.

This episode is set in the future. The technology which creates Dolls was stolen by the Japanese and used to change the entire world into mindless Dolls, as a form of mass super soldiers. There are a few regular people left, who prove it by tattooing their real names on their back in order for people to know if they have been mind wiped. But there is legend of a woman – Echo/Caroline – who founded a safehaven for the real people left in the world. But how do they get there…?

Dollhouse, Season 1, Episode 13, Epitaph One