...and later, we see that this is in fact the case, as Topher has laid out numerous paintings exactly like the one Echo showed him, paintings that Claire collected out of concern for Sierra. Topher examines Claire's notes on the subject, and her conclusion is that if the dark shapes don't represent some deep issue she had before intake into the Dollhouse, they must be associated with "an extreme sense of anxiety and rage associated with...Topher Brink." Very clever that they used Claire's own feelings toward Topher as the reason Nolan's abuses remained undiscovered until now. Topher pleadingly tells the air, "I'm not the bad man," and you can make your own extreme qualifications to that statement on your own.

In the art studio, Victor is cleaning up, and he worriedly shows Echo the black paint and tells her that Sierra doesn't like the color. Echo, reacting more like a normal person than a Doll in the way her eyes move as she considers that, counsels him to hide all the paints. As he holds them all in the makeshift pouch he's made by pulling out his t-shirt, he wonders if he's doing something wrong, but Echo reassures him that he's just taking charge, which is pretty funny given that she's totally puppet-mastering him at the moment. After they disengage, we pan up to Boyd, who's been watching the exchange from the balcony. He wonders aloud what Echo is up to...

...while Topher does some research into the past, including using his security access to examine Priya's original imprint...

...and then, after Boyd observes Echo reading a book, which is perhaps a more cerebral and memory-oriented effort than normally befits a Doll, Topher comes rushing in and tells Boyd he's got it. As they head out onto the balcony and then into the lab, Topher explains that Nolan's expertise with anti-psychotics is the key, and babbles at him in front of a map of the brain until he bottom-lines it -- Priya was psychotic because of the medication she was given, not in spite of it, and what's more, when Sierra went to confront the doctor who diagnosed her back in "Needs," it wasn't the random Asian guy they thought she went to -- it was Nolan, who owns the clinic in question and has a penthouse office there. Boyd wonders how this all got by Adelle, and Topher says they have to tell her. He gets a horrible thought and wonders aloud if she already knows, but her voice cuts in from across the room: "She does now." Talk about people who need a bell on them.