...but right now, Topher is getting their location from the GPS devices and feeding it to Sophie and Blevins...

...and then Alpha and Whiskey are climbing all over Lars and menacing him with knives and basically making it seem like Lars has made his last overprivileged mistake. And I could have bought it if the two Actives had surreptitiously been programmed not to kill Lars under any circumstances, but I'm not getting that sense either from them or from Topher, so again I think, especially given that they do a good job of making the leadup montage of the two of them engaging in murder foreplay rather disturbing, it would have been far more effective if they'd killed him. But no -- the Dollhouse people burst onto the scene and neutralize Alpha and Whiskey by offering them treatments, and quickly leave Lars alive to void his bowels another day.

Back in the present, Adelle and Boyd return to the former's office, and Ballard asks where "Kepler" is, like, GET WITH THE PROGRAM HERE. Boyd releases Ballard from his cuffs as Adelle orders the extra security to scoot, and she then explains about Alpha being one of their Actives until about a year ago and him having assumed Kepler's identity. She also lets him know about the murders following Alpha's composite event, although she refers to it as an "unfortunate technological anomaly," and you'll forgive me if I take a moment to recover my equilibrium from all that spinning. Ballard's similarly amazed, but Adelle's in no mood, as she's not too thrilled about him bringing "this thing" back into the Dollhouse to "defile" it a second time, which is an interesting choice of words, and makes me think I was on the right track with my theory about Alpha scarring Victor and Whiskey. She gets his attention, though, when she informs him that Alpha took Echo -- "Caroline" -- but he still tells her he's leaving, as if Alpha found a way out, he will too. Adelle: "Alpha's a genius." Hee. Before Ballard can even realize he's been insulted, however, Boyd reports that none of their search teams have left the building, because the place is surrounded by the FBI -- Alpha called in a bomb threat. Boyd and Adelle look beaten, but Ballard offers that he can make the situation go away...