...and then we're back with Alpha, who's putting Echo in the chair as Wendy/Caroline natters on uselessly about something or other, although Echo amuses me when she condescendingly tells Caroline that Alpha's going to make her "a superior creature. An ascended being?" As if she wasn't falling for the "Moron says what?" joke like two minutes ago. Wendy jabbers on some more, but she's not even close to sounding like Caroline despite the fact that I want to put the duct tape back on her mouth, so let's move ahead to Alpha saying that Echo will ascend and kill her. He then babbles for a while about ancient gods and blood rituals and whatever, and I hate to say it but the stuff in the lair in its entirety has been static and pretty boring so far, so suffice it to say that he concludes with "Alpha? Meet Omega," before hitting the "GO" button, and Echo twitches appropriately for a while...

...and then we see all her imprints moving in reverse...

...and then she comes out of it, hopping to her feet as everyone watches, breathless with anticipation, before Echo gasps that she gets it. She steps down and grabs a large lead pipe off the floor, and starts in Caroline's direction...but whirls and smacks Alpha with it, hard. As he groans on the floor, she adds, "Now I understand everything." Well, given that she's apparently now a hostage-negotiating backup-singing safecracking cult-infiltrating spy-catching dominatrix heiress, I suppose she's got a point.

When we return, Adelle has handed Ballard a folder and gives up Alpha's original name, "Karl William Kraft." She then proceeds to tell him, basically, this: When Rossum first set up the Dollhouse, some of their "recruits" were taken from jail, and Kraft was in for attempted murder, but I don't see how any of this is relevant. Seriously. WAKE THE FUCK UP, LADY. But I think the writing has been relatively lazy in a lot of this episode, I'm going to have to confess. I just don't buy that Adelle would be quite this willfully obtuse, first with not having a clue how dangerous the imprint was a few years ago, and now being all "Oh, by the way..." about Alpha's origins in Act Five. Ballard tells Boyd that Kraft only didn't kill the "attempted" victim because she escaped, and the authorities found a whole "murder kit" in his car. Ooh, does it come with instructions? "Stab victim in heart. Check pulse. If existent, repeat steps one and two." Anyway, Boyd latches onto the fact that there's a living witness, and Ballard asks, "You want to drive?" Boyd says he certainly can do that, and I think we've got the makings of a buddy-cop movie here.