Madeline's in the chair undergoing her diagnostic, which seems pretty cursory but does give Topher the opportunity to say "gag reflex" again, which is at least one and possibly two times more than I needed to hear him say those words in succession. He then babbles at her for a while until Echo gets brought in, still flailing all over the place despite Ballard having offered her a treatment, and when Ballard turns his attention to Topher Echo breaks his grip and rushes away, knocking Madeline into the wall as she goes. She doesn't get far, though, before two goons wrestle her to the ground and one injects her with something that knocks her out. I was going to make fun of Ballard for not thinking to do that, but it turns out that, as Topher irritatedly tells them, he can't perform the mindwipe on an unconscious subject, which means that Ballard was actually displaying some competence in this situation. I know -- I'm scared too. Anyway, the goons carry her back into the lab, leaving Ballard to ask Madeline, who sustained a cut on her forehead when Echo blew by her, what she's doing there. After explaining about the diagnostic, Madeline opines that what she just witnessed was really intense, and then after Ballard tells her she's bleeding, Madeline says she remembers him. Tahmoh Penikett makes an absolutely hilarious confused face in response, but she's only talking about her last day, when they met on her way out of the Dollhouse. He squires her away to get the cut taken care of...

...and then we cut to the medic having bandaged her up. Which makes me wonder, of course, who the new doctor is going to be now that Claire's gone, but that's not going to get answered this week. Once the guy has left, Ballard tells Madeline that Echo's an Active, and nobody took her baby, but Madeline is thrown by how truly Echo seemed to believe that was the case, and asks if she ever experienced such raw emotions as an Active. Ballard flashes back to her reaction when she broke up with him, but hides behind a half-truth in telling her he's kind of new there. Mistaking his hesitation as concern over Echo, she takes his hand and tells him she'll be okay -- she'll forget everything. "No more pain, no more grief." She explains that she had a daughter who died of cancer, leaving her unable to function, but it all worked out when Adelle came to her and offered her a way out of her suffering. This all sounds good, but I don't see how it makes any sense, even if you grant that Adelle keeps her eyes open for distraught parents of newly-deceased children. How does spending time as a Doll help along the grieving process? Madeline's still aware of what happened, and it doesn't seem like she remembers anything about her time as a Doll, so how is it that when she awoke, so to speak, anything had changed for her? Come on, show! You had the hiatus to figure this shit out!