Evading shots from Nolan's security men, Victor and Sierra make it down to the parking garage, but when they see cop cars swarming the place, they duck through a door to hide...

...while Echo is taking great pleasure in having Topher in the chair. He tells her that imprinting over a fully-functional brain will cause it to implode, and she notes that that must be why everyone around there likes banana pancakes so much. By the way, I think I'm going to adopt that phrase as code for someone who's not too swift on the uptake, and my first official use of said code is to tell you that Ballard must really like banana pancakes. Echo asks if the imprint process hurts, and Topher winces, unable to bring himself to lie, before telling her he's just the science guy. She puts paid to that little attempt to sidestep responsibility, so Topher, really looking like he believes she'll shoot him, offers to help her with anything she wants. She asks him to let the Dolls go (er, I hope she means with their memories restored, otherwise that's a terrible idea) and when he balks, saying he doesn't have that power, she turns the chair on and starts to force him down into it as he gasps desperately that he really can't do what she's asking. Just as it looks like we might get to see a genius's brain puréed, though, Adelle's voice cuts in from behind: "I can." When we get back from the last commercial break, it will be so on.

Adelle politely requests that Echo stop the imprint, which she does -- by putting a bullet in the chair. Adelle summons all her British reserves of self-control not to react to the monumental financial damage she just incurred, not that Topher doesn't mourn the loss enough for the both of them. Adelle informs Echo she's responsible for the "facility" and everyone in it, and by the way, Echo wanted to forget her old life, and Adelle merely eased her suffering. However, she claims, she'd be breaking a promise she made to Echo when she signed up if she were to reveal why she wanted to relinquish her personality in the first place. There's certainly no indication, from what we've seen, that any of this is true, particularly not in light of what we've learned about Sierra's conscription into the Dollhouse, but that doesn't stop Adelle from smugly continuing, "All I can say is, that you couldn't live with the consequences of your own actions." That I'll believe, at least when it's looked at from a certain point of view. She adds that Echo's free to leave, but wonders who she is to decide for the others. Echo counters that Adelle should have asked herself that, but Adelle archly says that she made the same promise to them as she did to Echo, and she won't return those memories...