Aisha Hinds enters her office and almost jumps out of her skin when she discovers Ballard there waiting for her. She tells him he can't be there, but he asks her to run some fingerprints for him -- they're already keyed up on her computer, so she just needs to enter her access code. She says she obviously shouldn't do this, but he tells her the prints might belong to a missing person, so after a bit more arguing, she gives in. The database immediately spits out some matches, and there are several different names attached to November's picture, including "Annabeth B.," the "Polly Keller" I mentioned in the recaplet (whose picture is a mug shot taken in Denver), "Amanda James" (Florida mug shot), and a couple others -- and then they're gone, just like that. As nefarious as this seems, it's kind of lame, because why not just purge the files before Ballard actually found them? Also, if the Dollhouse is really watching that closely, surely they'll now know that Ballard is aware that Mellie is a Doll, right? Anyway, all this looks bad for Ballard, but the silver lining is that Aisha Hinds now seems to believe him about the Dollhouse. Good -- get her out in the field! He needs all the help he can get!

At the Dollhouse, Topher and Sierra are lazily tossing a football across the balcony, and the latter is geeking it up about common threads in classic sci-fi and other subjects I don't care about, and then Topher suggests they play chess, which I'm thinking is going to be the same kind of chess Wesley and Lilah were playing in Season Four of Angel, although I'm hoping for the sake of my eyes that's not the case. Actually, they settle on making it a drinking game, which will be much more palatable to watch...

...but it's time to go back to Margaret, who finds Jack packing. He says he never belonged there, and "Julia," making up her mind how to play this, offers that Margaret seemed very devoted to him. He doesn't really respond, so she asks if it was difficult being married to someone older, as he obviously would have had options. Seems like she's decided to test out Jocelyn's theory that he'd take a piece of her in a second, and she moves in close, but Jack spits that he knows she's a spy -- one of the others must have hired her to try to get information. This theory doesn't make all that much sense given Jack's admission that Margaret herself mentioned Julia to him, but he does call her out for wearing her perfume, and gets off a good one when he dismisses her advances as a "summer stock seduction." Nice. I have to say that, in my opinion, although the episode doesn't measure up to recent ones as far as the plot goes, there is some razor-sharp dialogue in here that I'm thoroughly enjoying. Anyway, Jack drags Margaret out of there as he orders her to inform her employer that he's selling the horses because he can't stand the constant reminder of the woman he loved, and by the way, if they want a real bad guy, they should look at "dear old Uncle Bill." Just don't stand too close while you do so. Jack walks away, but Margaret follows, saying she thought he just came for the funeral, but Jack sets her straight that he actually showed up the day before she died out of nowhere, needing to talk to her. Margaret breathlessly asks what about, but Jack bitterly responds, "She said she'd tell me later." He speculates that he wanted to borrow money, and given that they're now surreptitiously observing William appraising every vase and knickknack he can get his gin-soaked hands on, I can't say I blame Jack for this line of thought.