Once a Sleeper Active's protocol has been triggered, the thing you're facing will neither be reasoned with, or stopped.
S2 E5The Public Eye
Keep you mind on your work, please. The moment you start wondering about the people upstairs, they'll start wondering about you. That is nothing you want.
S2 E6The Left Hand
What's interesting to me is that - you don't call out to God. It isn't a question of faith, it's just the venacular. Anyone in this much pain prays, or at least curses. But we take God from you too. You really are a shell.
No, no, you're very pale. White. Pinkish-white. I mean, your skin. Your skin is like a pig.
Okay, so we have had an active, Whiskey. She was rendered unengageable. So we - *I* made her into a doctor. Uh - and you - so I thought maybe - similar - Bennet - the real Bennett would use an active to...
You thought... That's idiotic. Actives are beautiful.
Yeah.
We haven't escaped. They're coming. They always come. Because of this [Touches the back of Perrin's Neck]
What is that?
It's how they find us.
GPS tag?
We have to cut.
S2 E7Meet Jane Doe
It feels like ages ago that we actually weighed a request against an active's chance at survival. Let alone well being.
We've always put them at risk. We just don't lie to ourselves about it now.
You sound like Harding.
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.
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.
That's unnerving.
What's unnerving is - I figured out how to do it.
You are the coldest bitch on the planet!
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.
And what happens if I don't?
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!
S2 E8A Love Supreme
One wonders how she managed. Out there. Alone. The odds of an active in an infantile state surviving outside the Dollhouse unprotected. I suppose we must take into account the fact that Echo is special.
You're punishing her for surviving. It's complete lunacy!
I am obsolete. This must be what old people feel like, and Blockbuster.
Alpha do not do this. There's a part of you that knows this is wrong.
There are many parts of me that know this is wrong. None of them care. And six... they just find it funny.
You're in for a ride. You're not going to get loose. One of my imprints was an Eagle Scout, another one was a sailor. There's a dirty joke in there somewhere.
For months you shared the same room. You never slept with her. You could have, but you didn't. If that's not love - Are you gay?
No.
Then it's love. DeWitt thought so too.
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