Echo arrives home, grocery bags in hand, when a figure steps out of the shadows and wraps an arm around her throat. Of course, he was kind enough to wait until she had set the stuff down on the kitchen counter to attack, so after she flips him over her shoulder, it's no surprise when we see it's Ballard. He coaches her for a bit about the encounter before she gets to work on dinner, and given how easily she dispensed with him, shouldn't he at least make the salad?

As they put the food away, we learn that Echo gave the aforementioned girl the stomach virus, and Ballard chastises her for not telling her she was going to make her move this week. Oh, Ballard, it's so cute the way you think you matter. We can infer that Echo is hell-bent on getting Galena out of there because she's the reason she got arrested in the first place, and I prefer the "clean up your own mess" angle to some random act of heroism. After Echo makes a joke, referring to her multiple imprints, about being a "people person," Ballard lightly notes that Echo bought macaroni and cheese for dinner, and while I don't see the problem generally I'll admit it's probably not the most friendly food for keeping his abs in their current shape. After Ballard TMIs about how he sees sex and food as "sisters in human desire," Echo takes it one step further with some information about her engagements that I won't be repeating, so let's move on to where Echo says she got the layout of the jail, and then they discuss the fact that she's having headaches, but she's recently used the personalities of Joel Mynor's dead wife Rebecca, who just happened to be a nurse, and the negotiator Eleanor Penn, who you'll remember spoke Spanish, both of which were easy. Accessing another imprint with which she used to case the prison, though, was apparently more difficult, as it was "borderline Rain Man -- doesn't play well with others." Sounds kind of like Ballard without the savant skills. Speaking of whom, he offers that they can take it easy that evening, but Echo says she wants to get physical, which of course brings Olivia Newton-John right into my head. Moving on from thoughts of horrific workout fashion, though, Echo notes that it's their last night in this place -- once they break Galena out, it's time to go back to the Dollhouse. Ballard is not so jazzed about that, but doesn't put up much of a fight...