1x05 True Believer - Dollhouse Episode Guide

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- Episode 01x05

Episode: 01x05
Title: True Believer
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 1APK06
First Aired: Mar. 13, 2009

Season 1 » Episode #05 - True Believer

Summary: Echo is "hired" by a senator to infiltrate a heavily guarded cult and imprinted as a religious believer. However, when she is blinded so that a surveillance camera can be implanted in her eye, her mission is made much more difficult. Meanwhile, Ballard gets one step closer to the Dollhouse with the assistance of his unseen ally, and Topher and Saunders try to pinpoint the sexual connection between Victor and Sierra.

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Esther	played by Eliza Dushku
Boyd Langton	played by Harry Lennix
Seth	played by David Alpay
Jonas Sparrow	played by Brian Bloom
Kris	played by Rebecca Field
Senator Boxbaum	played by Sam Hennings
Mellie	played by Miracle Laurie
Agent Lilly	played by Mark Totty
Loomis	played by Aisha Hinds

	Season 1 / Episode 5: - True Believer Dr. Claire Saunders: [Topher and Claire are searching the film archives for instances of Victor getting an erection. She finds one] Of course. If it'd been a snake... Please pretend I didn't say that.
	Season 1 / Episode 5: - True Believer Laurence Dominic: If I may, Echo has been exhibiting the same signs Alpha did before his composite event. Now, if you're not willing to send her to the attic... Adelle DeWitt: Don't gamble on what I'd be willing to do, Mister Dominic. Take the stairs. [Entering the elevator, she closes it before he can enter]

[More Quotes]

MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: Just before Langton is seen talking to the store owner, the outside of the store is shown with a white school bus parked outside, yet when inside the store and looking out through the window there is no bus there.

TRIVIA

Dr. Claire Saunders, looking through the video archive for instances of Victor getting an erection in the shower, says, "If it'd been a snake... Please pretend I didn't say that." The complete adage says, "If it had been a snake, it would have bitten me" (or various words to that effect), meaning that the speaker was surprised by something that should be immediately obvious. This saying occurs often (with varied wordings) in science fiction and fantasy, as when Paradox says it in "Ben 10: Alien Force" (2008) and when Buckaroo says it in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984).
The storekeeper tells Langton, "I didn't see who wrote the note - it could have been any one of them. There was a bit of a mishegoss going on up at the front of the store at the time." "Mishegoss" is a Yiddish word meaning "craziness."