| Who: Adelle DeWitt
| Episode: Dollhouse trailer | Line set-up: Description of what an "Active" is
| Said to: Audience | Quote: "I know you've heard colorful rumors about what an 'Active' is. Robots, zombie slaves — they are, of course, quite the opposite. The 'Active' is the truest soul among us."
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| Who: Echo
| Episode: Dollhouse trailer | Line set-up: Echo awakens.
| Said to: Topher Brink | Quote: Echo: "Did I fall asleep?" Topher: "For a little while..."
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 | Who:wedding guest
| Episode:Dollhouse trailer | Line set-up: "yeah but come on, where does a girl like that -"
| Said to: Bride | Quote:"It's the happiest day of my life!"
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 | Who: Adelle DeWitt
| Episode: 1.01 Ghost | | Line set-up: First line | Said to: Echo | | Quote: "Nothing is what it appears to be." | | |
 | | Who: Topher | Episode: Ghost | | Line set-up: "But why would you handicap her in a job like this?" | Said to: Boyd | | Quote: "You see someone running incredibly fast - The first thing you gotta ask is 'Are they running to something or are they running from something?' The answer is always both. | | |
| Who: Echo and Boyd
| Episode: 1.02 - The Target | | Line set-up: Echo (imprinted) will have to save herself AND Boyd now that he's been injured. | Significance: This is Boyd's "script" to make sure Echo will trust him even when imprinted, but with reverse roles. | | Quote: Echo: Do you trust me? /// Boyd: What? /// Echo: Do you trust me? /// Boyd: ...With my life. | | |
 | Who: Boyd and Echo
| Episode: 1.02 - The Target | | Line set-up: Topher gives Boyd a script to read from to program Echo's trust of him in any situation. |
| | Quote: Boyd: Everything is going to be alright. /// Echo: Now that you're here. /// Boyd: Do you trust me? /// Echo: With my life. | | |
 | Who: Echo as Caroline (herself)
| Episode: 1.02 - The Target | | Line set-up: | Significance: Caroline becomes Echo and DOES get to do everything. Irony. | | Quote: I wanna do everything. Is that so much to ask? | | |
| | Who: Adelle
| Episode: 1.02 - The Target | | Line set-up: In response to the client needing to be reassured that he's getting his money's worth. | Said to: episode's client | | Quote: Everything you want. Everything you need. She will be. Honestly, and completely. | | |
| | Who: Topher
| Episode: 1.02 - The Target | | Line set-up: Boyd asks Topher to fix the satellites so that his stats for Echo show up clearly. | Said to: Boyd | | Quote: Anything for you. Because I love you. Deep, deep man love. | | |
| | Who: Echo | Episode: 1.04 Gray Hour | Line set-up: Echo, speaking of the wounded man she helps out of the vault, says, "He's broken."
| Said to: Boyd | Quote: "I'm not broken." (Spoken with conviction)
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| | Who: Echo (as Ester) | Episode: 1.05 True Believer | Line set-up: Echo knocks Sparrow out and tries to convince Seth to move the people out of the burning building.
| Said to: Seth | Quote: "The blind girl is looking you in the eye, do you know what that means? It means God brought me here, he has a message for you. That message...IS MOVE YOUR ASS."
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 | Who: Echo (as Rebecca Mynor)
| Episode:1.06 | Line set-up: Paul: I'm Paul Ballard, I'm with the FBI.
| Said to: Joel Mynor | Quote: Echo: I knew it. /// Joel: What? /// Echo: Its Porn, isn't it? The internet venture that finally pays off...
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 | Who: Adelle
| Episode: Man on the Street | Line set-up: Answering machine picks up
| Said to: Mellie | Quote: "There are three flowers in a vase. The third flower is green." Turns Mellie into a killing machine.
"There are three flowers in a vase. The third flower is yellow." Mild, innocent Mellie again.
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| Who: Topher Brink
| Episode: Ghost | Line set-up: Echo says, "Something fell on me."
| Said to: Echo | Quote: "I bet it was something great!"
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 | Who: Topher Brink
| Episode: True Believer | | Line set-up: Dr. Saunders says, "It's possible one good sneeze could bring on a seizure." | Said to: Dr. Saunders | Quote: "Or even worse-- a sneezure."
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| Who: Topher Brink
| Episode: True Believer | Line set-up: Echo: "A massage would be relaxing."
| Said to: Adelle, or possibly the room at large | Quote: "If she were any more relaxed, she'd be ooze."
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| Who: Topher Brink
| Episode: True Believer | Line set-up: Dr. Saunders says, "Victor had an erection?"
| Said to: Dr. Saunders | Quote: "I prefer man reaction."
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| Who: Lubov / Victor
| Episode: Ghost | Line set-up: Ballard commands Lubov, with a gun to his head, to say 'dollhouse.'
| Said to: Paul Ballard | | Quote: "Dollhouse, doll-freakin'-house! I'll keep saying it, it's fun to say... dollhouse, dollhouse, dollhouse, dollhouse." | | |
| Who: Topher Brink
| Episode: The Target | Line set-up: Topher looks up at the dolls' shower-cam to see that Victor has an erection.
| Said to: Nameless person on the other end of the phone. | | Quote: Hey! I gotta go. Something came up. | | |
| Who: Echo / Rebecca Mynor
| Episode: Man on the Street | Line set-up: Rebecca sees the bed with rose petals on it as she's passing the door
| Said to: Boyd | Quote: "Porn!"
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| Who: Joel Mynor
| Episode: Man on the Street | Line set-up: Ballard asks him, "Tell me about the Dollhouse."
| Said to: Paul Ballard | Quote: "Uh, it's pink and it opens up and there's teeny furniture and you put the boy doll on top of the girl doll and we learn about urges."
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| Who: Joel Mynor
| Episode: Man on the Street | Line set-up: "And did she look exactly like Caroline?"
| Said to: Paul Ballard | Quote: "No, but-- eat it, F-Bitch-I- she was beautiful and she knew it and she loved me."
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| Who: Echo /
| Episode: The Target | | Line set-up: [After handing Echo a gun] "Do you know how to use this?" | Said to: Boyd | | Quote: "I've got four brothers, none of them Democrats." | | |
 | Who: Echo
| Episode:The Target | Line set-up: After guns drawn by Dominic and security on the pods Echo was sleeping in while responding to " target aquired" (Dominic: "Where?" "Level 3 corridor 37")...they see all other Dolls murdered but her in the pods where she is and move on.
| Said to: Laurence Dominic | Quote: Echo to Dominic: "They won't wake up."
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 | Who: Adelle Dewitt and Caroline, first meeting and opening of Ghost
| Episode: The Ghost | Line set-up: Adelle: "I'm talking about a clean slate."
| Said to: Adelle | Quote: Caroline: "Have you ever cleaned an actual slate? You always see what was on it before."
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| Who: Adelle DeWitt
| Episode: Man on the Street | Line set-up: "You played a good hand, ma'am."
| Said to: Dominic | Quote: "I played a very bad hand very well. There is a distinction."
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| Who: Topher Brink
| Episode: The Target | | Line set-up: "Are you sure? She’s elevating toward redline." | Said to: Boyd | | Quote: "Relax, Mountain Man. I’ve been reading the squigglies long enough to discern the diff between excitement and 'Sweet mother, I’m gonna die.'" | | |
| Who: Paul Ballard
| Episode: True Believer | | Line set-up: Little Stevie from the mail room. Short, cute, brown hair. Too lazy to walk to your desk. | Said to: Loomis and Mellie | Quote: Oh. Well, that little bastard.
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 | | Who: Echo | Episode: 1.10 A Spy in the House of Love | Line set-up: Echo noticed how angry Dominic was and wanted to help Topher. Topher said that she couldn't help
| Said to: Topher | | Quote: "You make people different. You can make me help." | | |
 | Who: Topher
| Episode: 1.10 A Spy in the House of Love | Line set-up: Echo: I can help.
Topher: Why would you want to?
Echo: Why wouldn't I?
| Said to: Echo | | Quote: "Did I just lose an argument to a doll?" | | |
 | | Who: Echo/Jordan | Episode: 1x03 Stage Fright | Line set-up: Rayna tries to make Echo/Jordan leave the room by pushing her
| Said to: Rayna | | Quote: "You can fire me, but bitch don't think you can take me!" | | |
 | Who: Echo/Jordan
| Episode: 1x03 Stage Fright | Line set-up: Rayna and Jordan fighting about the stalker fan that just tried to kill her
| Said to: Rayna | Quote:
Ok, are there any drugs you're not on? | | |
| | Who: Topher
| Episode: 1.7 Echoes | Line set-up: Topher: You know what I like? Brown sauce. What’s it made of? Science doesn’t know.
Adelle: It’s made of brown | Said to: Adelle | | Quote: Brown… mined from the earth by the hardscrabble brown miners of North Brownterton. | | |
| | Who: Topher
| Episode: 1.7 Echoes | Line set-up: Or a crisp. Do you have any crisps?
| Said to: Adelle | | Quote: You haven’t seen my drawer of inappropriate starches? | | |
| | Who: Topher
| Episode: 1.7 Echoes | Line set-up: I am your superior!
| Said to: Adelle | Quote: In every way. Go check.
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| Who: Whisky (as Dr. Saunders)
| Episode: 1.12 Omega | Line set-up: Topher: Don't you want to know who you are?
| Said to: Topher | Quote: (with disdain) "I know who I am."
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