...which leads to Boyd telling Echo that they're pimps, and killers. "But in a philanthropic way." Heh. He asks if he can go, and Echo, perplexed, says she doesn't know why, but she trusts him. Hmm, interesting -- could Boyd be hiding something that Echo won't dig up because of her hardwired trust? Could he have suggested to Echo that she help Topher, knowing she'd expose Laurence but never point the finger at him? Anyway, Claire's next in, and Echo muses that she's been checking the security logs since the Alpha incident -- when was the last time Claire left the Dollhouse? Claire, whose scars are out of control again this week, tries to claim she can better serve the Actives if she's there, but the point is she hasn't left so much as once since the attack, and Echo informs her that such one-track devotion can leave other parts of her life empty and open to exploitation. The irony of hearing this from a Doll doesn't look like it's lost on Claire, not that that makes it any easier to take, and Echo goes on to ask if she has friends outside the Dollhouse. Claire casts about for an answer that's unforthcoming, but just then, Laurence's phone rings, and he happily reports that Sierra's been successfully extracted, and she has the mole's identity...

...and soon after, Laurence returns with Ivy in his clutches. Topher looks discomfited as Laurence threatens her with torture and a trip to the Attic, and we finally get an explanation of what happens there -- it's a "mental suck," as Topher puts it, like having a name on the tip of your tongue but being unable to pull it from your brain, only with every single thought in your possession. Ivy desperately says she's not the spy, but gets nowhere until Echo, who's just examined the plastic sheet Sierra retrieved, asks Laurence how long he thinks he can keep this up. Oh, snap! Awesomely, Echo accuses Laurence of working for the NSA, saying when the news came in that Sierra had found the spy, everyone tensed up -- except him. "Your body breathed a big subconscious sigh of relief." I wonder if said sigh carried a certain odor with it. Also, I should note that Eliza is a lot more convincing as a spy catcher than as a hostage negotiator. She goes on that he knew the file would implicate Ivy, and says they don't have to take her word for it -- there was a phone call made to the NSA after the lockdown, and it could only have been him warning the NSA so they could plant the false file. Laurence tries to play the accusations off, but Echo says she's got one last piece of proof -- he unconsciously unsnapped his holster in response to her accusation. At that, Laurence gives up the ghost, grabbing his gun and shooting, but Echo expertly rolls over the desk as Topher and Ivy take cover, and then Echo succeeds in foot-sweeping Laurence to the floor, disarming him. He grabs her, though, and tells her he'll just claim to Adelle that she, a broken Doll, went off-mission again and he had to kill her, and Topher and Ivy will have to be sacrificed as collateral damage. Speaking of whom, as Laurence and Echo swing shards of broken glass produced by the gunshots through the window at each other, Ivy wonders if they should help. Topher's like, I gave her kung fu skills, so my work here is done, and he's a total wuss but this time I think I have to back him up. After some damage on both sides, Laurence sends Echo to the ground with a sweet spinning crescent kick, but when he tells her she should have been put down a long time ago, she flashes to him trying to kill her that time, and you can imagine that's all she wrote for this fight, as it's not much more than five seconds before Echo's got him dangling out the window, snarling, "I'm not broken." Unlike that awful blue-screen of the "street" behind Laurence, I feel compelled to add.