Aisha Hinds (cool!) informs Ballard that Tanaka's going to the Director to complain about the earlier incident before telling him that he was right about the papers -- basically, they show a payment to a holding company called "Mayfair" from the guy in the pilot episode that happened right after his daughter got kidnapped. On top of that, there's another similar payment from someone else to Mayfair, and it's been recurring every year on the exact same day. The new guy's name is "Joel Mynor," whom Aisha Hinds labels an "Internet mogul," and because I like Aisha Hinds I expect better from her than to use terms that are essentially meaningless. Ballard thinks he'll never get to Echo, which again shows that he's kind of clueless, but goes on that Mynor is his ticket to the Dollhouse, because "whatever he's paying for, it's happening soon." He once again asks Aisha Hinds to help him, and she agrees, but warns him, "If the Director sees what we're up to, he's going to help you out."

So the good news is that Mellie has finally succeeded in getting Ballard to sit down and eat a meal with her. The bad news, however, is that Ballard has BLABBED EVERYTHING ABOUT THE DOLLHOUSE INVESTIGATION OH MY GOD IS HE KIDDING? I'm starting to think Ballard's like Jon Hamm's character on 30 Rock -- he's terrible at everything, but no one tells him because he's so good-looking. We'll have to see at some point if he's allowed to cut the line in the FBI commissary. Anyway, they're having Chinese food, so maybe the problem wasn't that Ballard doesn't like Mellie but that her cooking sucks. She seems not to be particularly interested in the forensic accounting, so after some talk about her loser ex-boyfriend, she says she knows she's not the "gold standard" in L.A. To her credit, she doesn't actually sound like she's desperately fishing for a compliment, but one is forthcoming anyway, as he tells her she's gorgeous. They don't let things get awkward, however, as Ballard brings the subject back around to the case, saying that one more little step will get him closer to bringing "her" in, and Mellie notices the slip, and it looks like I spoke too soon about the awkward. Ballard's point, though, is that if he can catch Mynor with a Doll, he'll be closer to freeing them all...