Topher Brink quotes from Dollhouse

Topher

I think they're trying to build a portable device that would be able to imprint anyone without any active architecture in place. Any innocent on the street with a new personality.

DeWitt

That's unnerving.

Topher

What's unnerving is - I figured out how to do it.

Topher

You are the coldest bitch on the planet!

DeWitt

That is the last time you will ever speak to me like that, or at all unless spoken to. You're off R&D and back on programming. You will imprint these dolls with dedication and precision. And you will follow every single one of my commands as if they were your hearts deepest desire.

Topher

And what happens if I don't?

DeWitt

I would hope that, as some who does care for you, that you will never find that out. I rule this house! I won't let *anyone* challenge that, ever again!

Topher

What did I just tell you?

Victor

5 years would seem like... 5 seconds.

Topher

Welcome to the future, where cars fly, robots serve our every whim, and genetically engineered dinosaurs rule the Earth.

It's pretty much the same as when you left.

Victor

The war - is it...?

Topher

Still going.

Langton

What do we know about the attic?

Topher

No one comes back, Boyd.

Langton

But why? What do they do to them in there?

Topher

I don't know: experimenting, torture. They're testing the limits of the human mind. The brain is kept in a fear induced adrenaline fueled overdrive state like a problem you can't solve. Either the nightmare lasts forever or...

Langton

Or it doesn't last at all.

Topher

I've done nothing wrong. Apart from the things that got you your job back.

DeWitt

You gave us extraordinary technology which will be used soon. The question is whether you have anything more to offer. Whether you can accept radical change, or buckle under pressure.

Topher

I don't buckle. Occasionally, I swashbuckle.

DeWitt

Yes, you're quite the pirate hero. Swinging in and dismembering Nolan Kinnard. If you try and keep secrets from the corporation, you may have every expectation of being chopped into pieces yourself. How do you imagine that would feel?

Topher

Then maybe we could work on the one memory I'd like to erase. Bennett... I'm so sorry I hit you. I didn't want to. God, how I didn't want to.

Bennett

Well, I was trying to kill your Active at the time.

Topher

Eh. You had your reasons. Still... that face. Slugging it. Not my first instinct.

Bennett

Oh, I didn't think it was.

Topher

Some form of contact, but not...

Bennett

[They go in closer to almost kiss but then] Who's on that wedge?

Topher

Huh?

Bennett

Who are you trying to resurrect?

Topher

Uh... This person.[Chuckles] It's stupid. Does it... Does it matter?

Bennett

It might.

Topher

It's not like it's Stalin or somebody.

Bennett

I didn't suppose that it would be a historical figure. Who is it?

Topher

Ivy's right, we actually don't know what dumping Caroline into Echo's brain will do. Your original self comes home to find the house party that's going on inside your head. She might fight back.

Echo

She'd lose.

DeWitt

All right, pull Caroline from the Vault. Put Echo in the chair.

Topher

I did all of this. I'm the one who brings about the thought-pocalypse.

DeWitt

Thought-pocalypse?

Topher

Is brain-pocalypse better? I figure, if I'm responsible for the end of the world, I get to name it.

DeWitt

I gave the plans to Harding, I'm just as culpable.

Topher

Thanks Adelle. You handed someone a piece of paper. I invented it. Which means I have to destroy it.

Langton

The wedge must have been damaged.

Topher

No! Bennett fixed the wedge. She *died* fixing it!

DeWitt

Then maybe Echo and Caroline aren't getting along.

Langton

Topher think!

Topher

That's what got us here in the first place. I'm going for mindless destruction now!

Topher Brink

I'm so close, so close to solving both problems. They would have no idea.

Echo

Close to what? Wiping everyong?

Topher Brink

The opposite. A reflection like an echo. Put everything back the way they were. Minds back the way they were... I can bring back the world.

DeWitt

Explosion?

Topher

It does the work for you.

DeWitt

You said it could only be activated manually... You're not coming back.

Topher

Small price to pay... I didn't want to cause any more pain.