Ballard and Boyd have a pointless exchange, like, way to make my enthusiasm for their shared screentime look good.

Back where the action is, Adelle is rather intrigued by the photos, but Alpha doesn't give her much of a chance to dwell on them, instead offering his hand as he says it's time to go. He suggests they take the elevator...

...which allows Ballard to catch them on the security camera, and again, in retrospect it's obvious that every move Alpha makes is designed to get a particular reaction from the Dollhouse people. I like that it's all there without the show drawing attention to it. Boyd tells Ballard to get to Mynor while he goes for Adelle...

...and then Alpha and Adelle are exiting the elevator onto the balcony. Looking down on the Dolls doing yoga down in the atrium, he comments that Adelle must have had them all wiped after she discovered his security breach, and when Adelle fearfully inquires why he's asking, he's like, "No reason." Heh, that's credible. Once he sees Boyd and Ballard on the scene, he lets Adelle go, which would be another point worth analyzing if his plan weren't going to come clear in about three seconds, but I do love the fact that she hustles away without a moment's hesitation. To that earlier point, he pulls out a device awfully similar to Topher's and theatrically activates it, and after it emits a familiar high-pitched whine for a few seconds, the Dolls suddenly start kicking the asses of their handlers and the security guys. Now, I don't know what percentage of the Actives are in the house at any given moment, and it's not clear to me that he needed every single one of them here for his plan to work, but it certainly adds to the drama. Also, I could see Alpha wanting to give every single Doll a chance for revenge on the Dollhouse, although that's certainly a different attitude from those times he's sliced his fellow Actives up. In her cell, Echo feels the device, which is of course ineffective against her ability to hold on to her personalities, but does reveal Alpha's presence to her. Alpha watches in grim delight as the Dolls deal out death and destruction, while in her cell, Echo covers the security camera, like, I think people might have a little much on their hands to be checking that, hon. Boyd takes a break from fighting his Active to yell to Adelle to get into one of the offices, and she runs and locks herself in...