Paul Ballard quotes from Dollhouse

Paul Ballard

Dollhouse.

What?

Paul Ballard

Dollhouse. Say it.

Dollhouse.

Paul Ballard

Say it again.

Your brains are--

Okay, dollhouse. Doll freaking house. I'll keep saying it. it's fun to say.Dollhouse, dollhouse, dollhouse, dollhouse.

[After seeing Echo's picture] Pretty. Who's she?

Paul Ballard

Nobody, according to the FBI database. No record of her.

Is she in trouble?

Paul Ballard

Maybe. She just got caught up with the wrong people. Either way, I'll keep looking until I find her.

[As Ballard's walking away] Lucky girl.

Echo

The dollhouse is real. They know you're after them and they're going to have you taken off the case. That's why they sent me.

Paul

Why are you telling me this?

Echo

We have a person inside. This person corrupted the imprint while the programmer wasn't looking, added this parameter.

Paul

Is this the person that sent me the tapes and the picture?

Echo

No. This is their first communication. Security inside is very tight.

Paul

Where is it?

Echo

You can't know that. You're going about this the wrong way.

Paul

I have to take down the dollhouse!

Echo

There are over twenty dollhouses in cities around the world. They have ties to every major political power on the planet. You cannot possibly stop them alone.

Paul

You're going to help me?

Echo

The person that sent this message is.

Paul

Why?

Echo

The dollhouse deals in fantasy. That is their business, but that is not their purpose.

Paul

What is?

Echo

We need you to find out. We'll contact you again, if possible with the same body. But you have to let the dollhouse win, make them back off. You have to trust me.

Ballard

Tell me about the dollhouse.

The Dollh... Uh, it's pink, and it opens up, and there's teeny furniture, and you put the boy doll on top of the girl doll and we learn about urges.

She never got to see this house. So, every year on this date I pretend she does. I get to see that look on her face, and I get to show her our extraordinary home.

Paul

And then you sleep with her.

Well, it is a fantasy.

Paul

I'm sorry for your loss, Mr. Mynor. But it doesn't make you anything other than a predator.

Well, I'm sure I'm in serious need of some moral spankitude, but guess who's not qualified to be my Rabbi?

If you say 'adorabubble', I'm leaving.

Paul

[chuckles] I wasn't going to, but I love the fact you thought it was the next logical word.

Stephen Kepler

Would you look at this place? I mean, first of all feng shui up the yin yang, also I designed parts of it but I did not design the stone cold foxes in the small clothes and the ample massage facilities. I mean, don't get me wrong, I heart my porn, but this is cool!

Paul

This is a bad place.

Stephen Kepler

Bad people, maybe. Good place.

Stephen Kepler

The stairs lack risers!

Paul

What?

Stephen Kepler

The vertical part that makes the back of each stair is called a riser.

Paul

I know what they are!

Stephen Kepler

No, no, wait! Please. Sometimes when I go on stairs that don't have risers I get this feeling, this awful sensation, that something's going reach out and grab my ankle, like a claw or a tentacle!

Paul

This is life or death!

Stephen Kepler

It could be a hand! An ordinary hand!

Paul

So this is it. This is where you steal their souls.

Topher

Yeah, and then we put them in a glass jar next to our fireflies. Why is there a tall, morally judgmental man in my imprint room besides him? [points to Boyd]

Echo

I remember everything. Sometimes I'm someone else and then I come back, but I still feel them. All of them. I've been many people. I can hear them, sometimes suddenly. I'm all of them, but none of them is me. Do you know who's real?

Ballard

Caroline

Echo

I want to find her. I want to find all of them. Real them. They can be found. We are lost, but we are not gone.

Echo

All of these things that happen to me, I feel them.

Ballard

I know, Echo. I know you remember everything.

Echo

Not remember - feel. I was married. I felt love, and pain, fear. It's not pretend for me. They made me love my little boy and then they took him away. They make it so real. Every time, they make it so real. Why do they do that?

Ballard

If you want, I'll tell Topher what's going on with you and he can fix it. He'll come up with a way to wipe you and you won't remember a thing. You won't have to feel sad anymore.

Echo

Feeling nothing would be worse. It would be like before - asleep. I'm awake now. I don't want to go back to sleep.

[points at Ballard] You're new. [looks at Echo and smiles] And, of course, you're always new.

[to Ballard] And who are we today?

Ballard

...She's Kiki.

Of course she is.

I won't even do this for my wife.

Ballard

I was trained at Quantico.

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]