He arranged for all of her suffering, he authored this whole scenario, he pulled all the strings all along as some perverted way to push her to realize her true potential, to make a great work of art He's the ultimate Dollhouse client, the worst one
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Ok so Dollhouse, Epitaph Two: Return (S2E13), penultimate scene, Metaphor-Free Edition: JOSS WHEDON rolls back from the desk of a dusty, disused office somewhere in Los Angeles -- once a respectable penthouse suite meant for a studio head and executive producer
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He has just finished assembling his SUPERWEAPON A combined resignation letter and detailed confession, entitled "The Big Bad Reveal" Once he pushes the button the warhead will propagate its signal, slowly but inexorably, across first LA and then the entire world
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And in so doing it will wipe away everything he has built, for good or for ill Erased, wiped clean as though it had never been, damnatio memoriae Fragments might survive, hidden here and there as scraps, but the huge edifice of the Dollhouse will be over once and for all
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It was beautiful, once, on the surface at least And everyone believed it had the potential to do great good, help fix the world, or at least they said so when they were showering him with money and praise But in hindsight it was inevitable it would become what it did
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So it has to end The false personae, the manipulated facts, the confected memories, all of it, until all that's left is the truth, warts and all, and whatever world can be built upon that scoured foundation And he will not survive to see it
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WHEDON hesitates, biting his lip, and then types simply, "I'm sorry, and goodbye. - Joss Whedon" He freezes still for a long moment. We get the sense that he might cry, but no tears come -- his crying was all done long before, he is empty. He clicks SEND
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He rolls back from the desk, exhaling a long-held breath, head lolling limply toward the ceiling There is now nothing to do but wait And then, his eye twitches, he catches a glimpse -- some shadow or reflection -- and turns around, to the back wall he hasn't even glanced at
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He sees the words "TO REMEMBER:" scrawled on Post-It notes on a cheap corkboard, and below, above, and around it, sprawling out far beyond the space initially meant for them, are Polaroid photos An endless parade of faces, all of them faces he remembers
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Some of them people he gave a passing glance to once or twice in the hallways, some of them faces that dominated his waking hours and his dreams for years But all of them came through here on their way out All of them took these photos to celebrate their escape
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And in their scars, their mismatched panoply of scavenged outfits, their exhaustion and the pain that still shows in their eyes -- so different from the polished perfection of the Dollhouse in its prime -- you can see it Whatever the Dollhouse did to them, they survived
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They are and were not Actives, not assets, not cogs in a machine, but *people* They forgot it once, but they remember now And the cruel blows of experience -- most of them blows that he knows he had a hand in, one way or another -- bruised but did not break them
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They were a family A fucked-up broken family formed under duress and not by choice, but such is the way of most families They became who they were through what they shared -- both the traumas and the joys -- and that bound them to each other
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