Dr. Claire Saunders quotes from Dollhouse

Boyd

Echo took the mission parameter and made it better. She seems to have the ability to think outside of the pieces that we give her and create.

Dr. Saunders

Create a new approach to the problem.

Boyd

It's impressive. I don't know what it means, but it's impressive. She really is special.

Dr. Saunders

Special isn't always a good thing here, Boyd.

Boyd

DeWitt's a business woman. Is she really going to harm her best Active?

Dr. Saunders

Echo wasn't always the best.

Boyd

You're talking about Alpha.

Dr. Saunders

I'm just saying, sometimes the best thing to hope for is "good enough."

Dr. Claire Saunders

You sent Echo on a high-risk engagement?

Topher

Doctor Saunders! How nice of you to annoy me.

Topher

The actual procedure isn't any more complicated than laser eye correction, it ain't brain surgery.

Dr. Saunders

Actually, it is brain surgery. We're going to be turning Echo into a human camera, and in order to do that, she's going to have to be made blind.

Topher

Not permanently. [Dr. Saunders shoots him a look] In theory.

DeWitt

So this is it?

Topher

Yes. The latest in CSEVP: Cortical Stimulation for Evocation of Visual Perception.

Dr. Saunders

Brain camera for the blind.

Topher

Or that.

Dr. Saunders

One good sneeze could bring on a seizure.

Topher

Or even worse, a sneezure.

Topher

Doctor?

Dr. Saunders

Topher?

Topher

Hello.

Dr. Saunders

Hello.

Topher

So listen. Here’s the thing. I was looking -- glancing -- I noticed… Victor.

Dr. Saunders

You noticed Victor.

Topher

Mm-hmm. In the shower, and he’s… naked.

Dr. Saunders

Victor’s naked in the shower.

Topher

Right. Anyway, he seemed to be having a kind of… man-reaction.

Dr. Saunders

A what?

Topher

A, you know, reaction that a man -- person might have in the… you know, the… naked part. Shower. Victor.

Dr. Saunders

Victor had an erection?

Topher

I prefer man-reaction.

Dr. Saunders

Why?

Dominic

I's easy to be attached to your assigned active. In fact it's necessary, but don't think of them as children; think of them as pets.

Dr. Saunders

Is that supposed to be funny?

Dominic

When your child Starts talking for the first time, you feel proud. When your dog does, you freak the hell out. Any Developmental progress an active makes is a threat to the house and a possible first step toward another Alpha.

But why did you decide it was so important for me to hate you? I think that's strange.