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We're pimps and killers, but in a philanthropic way. [Dollhouse, Whedon spoilers]
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How many dolls are there in the L.A. house? Maybe twenty at a time? You think it'd be tough to find twenty people that are in a serious jam, have no/loose family ties, and look generic enough or have few enough social contacts who would even think twice if they saw them?
Yeah, a staff of hundred would be tough to come up with. But a few dolls a year to maintain their staff of actives? Not that hard.
As for trusting the Dollhouse......yea, seriously.
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How many people have recognized Caroline, though? L.A. is a big city, and most of their engagements take place in private (and not just the sex slave ones). She's been recognized all of once, and only because she had a connection to that college...and the Dollhouse probably would never have sent her on that engagement anyway, for that specific reason (she showed up on her own).
Eh. If the Dollhouse is as deadly Serious Business as it is supposed to be then relocating dolls to the other coast is just good practice. It'd lower the recognition chance by a few orders of magnitude at virtually no cost to the house.
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Yeah, definitely, Dolls tend to be used in more private or secluded settings. Given the Dollhouse staff has the Doll's previous life history on hand (I would assume), they would take steps to avoid accidental contact.
You're unlikely to find a Doll shopping at the supermarket. Not very many people have that sort of fantasy.
Shush you. I'm suspending my disbelief, and you're not helping.
Oh, right then, let's blame Dewitt. She obviously has some sort of relationship with Echo and that's why she's in Dewitt's house rather than being shipped out of town.
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Its not something to fret over but when she can reach the university easily from her current assignment while confused, they're operating her too close to her old life.
Still doesn't change the fact that they have her operating three exits down from a fuckload of people that "know" her, when they could just as easily fly her to Prague and work her out of that House instead. Since the languages are part of the imprint.
It's just one of those things the audience is supposed to ignore.
EDIT: At the same time, the off chance of somebody who recognizes Caroline seeing her on the streets of Prague would almost certainly lead them to try to interact with her, whereas somebody who sees her driving away from the local Gas n' Go will just be like "oh, there's that chick I had a class with once" and forget about it.
Operating independently does not mean completely unconnected.
Thats not what was going on in that scene at all. That was a doll they had sent to spy on him, but there's someone on the inside who piggybacked a message on her, it wasn't the Dollhouse saying "keep having sex with her or we will kill you"
It was someone telling him "if you don't keep up this charade the Dollhouse will realize you are on to them and will kill you"
It can't be easy to acquire people willing to become dolls so it is believable that a house would not want to get rid of one of their dolls after the risk and work they put into recruiting them.
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basically, it's "keep pretending that this isn't rape, or else we'll kill you"
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Hell, I've volunteered for that.
Besides which, I doubt they get too specific with the risks involved.
Evander don't be dense, you're missing the same distinction. The Dollhouse isn't the one telling him he has to keep pretending, the Dollhouse are the ones who has to fool by pretending.
I mean, Dewitt can't interview people and say "by the way, if we offer you the job and you don't take it, or if we don't offer you the job, we have to kill you to keep you quiet."
and if anyone doesn't take the job, they can just drug them, toss into the chair and zap those specific memories away.
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