Topher Brink quotes from Dollhouse

Topher Brink

You see someone running incredibly fast, the first thing you gotta ask is, are they running to something, or are they running from something? And the answer is always both.

Topher

That could lead to a coma state, or it could turn her into Carrie at the prom

Topher

If I think I can figure things out, is that curiosity or arrogance?

Topher

An entire army... in an instant... just from a phone call... that is genius! Why didn't I think of that... [to DeWitt] Did I think of that?... Oh God...

Topher

Perhaps triggering lactation was a bridge too far.

Topher

Victor's loose, doesn't have GPS and apparently he's a serial killer.

Topher

Well I punched her in the kisser - not what I was intending to do there, by the way - and knocked her out cold, which she might have been impressed by if she hadn't been out cold.

Topher

I am obsolete. This must be what old people feel like, and Blockbuster.

Topher

I'm the Tin Man, she's the Lion, and you're the head of the Lollipop Guild who's a traitor.

Echo

Did I fall asleep?

Topher Brink

For a little while.

Echo

Shall I go now?

Topher Brink

If you like.

Topher Brink

She had fun, right?

Boyd Langton

She thought so.

Topher Brink

There's nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so, man friend. We gave two people a perfect weekend together. We're great humanitarians.

Boyd Langton

Who would spend their lives in jail if anyone ever found this place.

Topher Brink

We're also misunderstood which great humanitarians often are. Look at Echo. Not a care in the world. She's living the dream.

Boyd Langton

Whose dream?

Boyd Langton

[Looking down on Actives doing tai ji] Look at them. Just a bunch of helpless children. Did the ones Alpha slaughtered even put up a fight?

Topher Brink

They wouldn't know how. Not without an imprint.

Boyd Langton

Why not default them with ninja skills or whatever?

Topher Brink

We tried that once.

Boyd Langton

And?

Topher Brink

Blood. Screaming. Dying.

Boyd Langton

Alpha.

Topher

Sierra should come into play in a minute.

Boyd

I'm glad they double tracked this. Who's handling her?

Topher

Joe Hearn. You won't like him.

Fifteen minutes to curtain.

Boyd

Echo's on in fifteen. Okay. Okay.

Topher

Oh my God. Are you nervous? Opening night jitters? Your little girl out there on the big stage?

Boyd

On a stage where the last little girl caught on fire?

Topher

Fair point.

Boyd

I mean, her singing's not a problem. It's not, right? I mean, she is a good singer. I think she's good. She wouldn't freeze up.

Topher

[Laughing] She'll be fine, Mama Rose.

Dr. Claire Saunders

You sent Echo on a high-risk engagement?

Topher

Doctor Saunders! How nice of you to annoy me.

Boyd

They're eating lunch.

Topher

They're eating lunch together, man friend. The same three. Even the same table. They're grouping.

Boyd

Are you saying they remember each other?

Topher

No, no, no. The wipes are clean. This goes deeper than memory, into instinctual survival patterns. Flocking. A whole mess of sparrows turning on a dime, salmon trucking upstream. This isn't a book club, man friend, this is the herd.

Boyd

They're not bison, Topher.

Topher

They're a little bit bison.

Boyd

They didn't used to be.

Topher

They volunteered for this.

Boyd

So we're told.