...but for right now, Adelle is telling the others that they need to get to her elevator, as it's the only way out. Well, that and the elevator out of the lab, but they obviously know that that one is unreachable. Not that Mynor thinks her elevator is any more accessible, given the horde of Dolls running around, so Boyd brings up a cache of tranquilizer guns, which are apparently in the "upper utility." Topher, however, has a better idea -- his remote wipe device, which is close by in the "manufacturing room." Adelle yells for Topher and Boyd to go...

...as Alpha is loading up the chair with an imprint, like, did Echo stop by the spa for a facial on her way to the lab? Alpha tosses Ballard out of the chair...

...and then Topher and Boyd reach the room safely. Unfortunately, Topher neglected to mention that he has to reassemble the thing...

...so we cut to Echo, who enters the lab to find Ballard lying at her feet. She looks in horror as the chair rises up with Alpha in it, and he tells her Ballard's dead. "You wanna snuggle? Too soon?" Well, she's got the last commercial break to make it respectable.

Kneeling over Ballard's body, Echo sounds like she's going to cry as she pronounces him dead. Alpha corrects her that he's "brain dead," like, I'm pretty sure that means real death is around the corner, especially since Echo apparently got stuck in rush-hour traffic on the way down there. He notes that he can see she's upset, which leads to one of those long cinematic staredowns that I'm sure Ballard's rapidly deoxygenating tissue so appreciates...

...and then we get a predictable cut to Alpha flying out of the room courtesy of some Echo-fu. Alpha derides her for falling for Ballard, but as she grabs him by the throat, Echo snarls, "He's like, ten times the man you are, and you're like forty guys!" Nonsensical, yet amusing. Alpha proceeds to get the better of her in an exchange that ends with him pitching her over the railing onto the couch below, but he makes the mistake of specifying some more, allowing Echo some recovery time before she throws him through some glass to the atrium below. She gets on top of him and proceeds to beat him within an inch of his life, but just as she's about to deliver the killing blow, Alpha switches to Ballard's voice, asking if she trusts him. She's horrified that Alpha imprinted himself with Ballard's personality, but when he repeats the question, she can't help responding, "With my life." Alpha then asks her to kill him, and I'm guessing this is his final test of whether she truly loves Ballard, because when she can't go through with it, he's exasperated. After stopping for one last baleful glance at a confused and terribly shaken Echo, he's gone...