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Dollhouse: Season 2

13 episodes Premiered Sep 25, 2009 Updated Oct 1, 2026
Previously on Dollhouse

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Dollhouse Season 1.
  • ⚡ Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
  • ⚡ Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
  • ⚡ Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
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Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (9): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S2·E1 Mytharc

Vows

Sep 25, 2009 · 44 min

It has been several months since Alpha's reign of terror and Echo, who is now randomly picking up flashes of past engagements, weds a British businessman who has ties to one of Bal

S2·E2 Core

Instinct

Oct 2, 2009 · 44 min

Echo is imprinted with the personality of a mother with a newborn baby. Complications arise when, thanks to Topher's programming, Echo takes too strongly to motherhood. Perrin ramp

S2·E3 Core

Belle Chose

Oct 9, 2009 · 44 min

Echo and Victor’s imprints collide when Echo is sent on an assignment as a fun-loving, seductive college student and Victor is imprinted as the psychotic nephew of a Dollhouse shar

S2·E4 Core

Belonging

Oct 23, 2009 · 44 min

Sierra is forced to face her past as her connection to the Rossum Corporation leads to obsession and murder.

S2·E5 Core

The Public Eye (1)

Dec 4, 2009 · 43 min

When Senator Perrin makes his stand against the Rossum Corporation, Echo attempts to stop his expose. Adelle, and Topher begin to see what they are up against in the rival of Washi

S2·E6 Core

The Left Hand (2)

Dec 4, 2009 · 44 min

Echo and Bennett have a shocking meeting as Adelle goes head-to-head with the ruthless head of the DC Dollhouse. Topher sees double when he must involve Victor in his espionage. Pe

S2·E7 Core

Meet Jane Doe

Dec 11, 2009 · 44 min

After her entanglements with Senator Perrin and the DC Dollhouse, Echo finds herself out in the world-at-large as she struggles to control her multiple memory downloads. Topher dis

S2·E8 Mytharc

A Love Supreme

Dec 11, 2009 · 44 min

When Echo's past romantic engagements are found murdered, the Dollhouse fears that Alpha has returned to seek his revenge. Adelle grows suspicious of Ballard who hopes to find alli

S2·E9 Core

Stop-Loss

Dec 18, 2009 · 44 min

As his contract with the Dollhouse expires, Victor is released back into the world, where his military past threatens his future with Sierra. Meanwhile, Echo is deemed too dangerou

S2·E10 Core

The Attic

Dec 18, 2009 · 44 min

When Adelle, Boyd, and the rest of the Dollhouse fear that Echo's uncontrollable mind imprints are making her a danger to their goals, they send her to "the Attic" where Echo is fo

S2·E11 Core

Getting Closer

Jan 8, 2010 · 44 min

Topher races to reconstruct Echo's original personality and memories when Adelle realizes they are the key to averting a devastating future. Meanwhile, Echo and Bennett's shared pa

S2·E12 Mytharc

The Hollow Men

Jan 15, 2010 · 44 min

Sacrifices are made when Echo leads her crew to Arizona to dismantle the Rossum Corporation's mainframe.

S2·E13 Mytharc

Epitaph Two: Return

Jan 29, 2010 · 44 min

In the year 2020, Echo and her surviving Dollhouse crew attempt to restore order to a devastating future world before mankind is eliminated.

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