Boyd Langton quotes from Dollhouse

What if she went over your head?

Langton

I'm very tall.

Good news on the coma front?

Topher

Uuuhhhhhhh... yeah. Good news is that he's in a coma.

I beg your pardon?

Boyd

Just show her what you showed me.

Topher

[Shows Adelle a brain scan] This is a brain. A healthy brain. Frankly an... overly smart brain... it's my brain. And this is Terry Karrens' brain. [Shows Adelle another brain scan] See these dark areas? How they extend all the way out to here? You know why that looks like that? That's because Terry Karrens doesn't use that part of his brain. And that'd be where you find stored such things as empathy, compassion... an aversion to disemboweling puppies. Basically, this is what some of your more famous serial killers' brains look like.

You're quite certain of this?

Topher

Certain enough that I have serious ethical problems trying to wake him up.

Boyd

Topher has ethical problems. Topher.

Topher

Heh. Way to land it.

Boyd

I'll cover your engagement, you're staying here.

Ballard

Why?

Boyd

Turns out we have a sudden need for an FBI profiler. I suggested you.

Ballard

For what?

Boyd

To interrogate a possible serial killer.

Ballard

Serial killer. [looks at Echo, who has come out in a short skirt, knee socks, a bright pink tank top, and pigtails] ...Thank God. [rushes out]

DeWitt

It feels like ages ago that we actually weighed a request against an active's chance at survival. Let alone well being.

Langton

We've always put them at risk. We just don't lie to ourselves about it now.

DeWitt

You sound like Harding.

Langton

Alpha do not do this. There's a part of you that knows this is wrong.

Alpha

There are many parts of me that know this is wrong. None of them care. And six... they just find it funny.

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.

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!