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1	'''Season 2, Episode 11''':
2	!Getting Closer
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4	Topher races to reconstruct Echo's original personality and memories when it's revealed they are the key to averting a devastating future.
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7	!! Tropes present in this episode:
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9	* AlmostKiss: Topher and Bennett. Interrupted when she asks [[MomentKiller whom Topher is trying to resurrect]] (and learns offscreen that it's Caroline, whom she hates). [[AvertedTrope Averted]] later in the episode.
10	* BigBadFriend: Boyd, who is revealed by Caroline's memories to be the head of the Rossum Corporation.
11	* BloodSplatteredInnocents: Topher when Claire kills Bennett.
12	* BoomHeadshot: Bennett is on the receiving end of this, courtesy of Dr. Saunders.
13	* TheBusCameBack: Dr. Saunders. She is revealed to have been having a relationship with Boyd since she left the Dollhouse.
14	* ClueEvidenceAndASmokingGun
15	-->'''Caroline''': Let me guess... neuroscience?
16	-->'''Bennett''': How'd you know?
17	-->'''Caroline''': Fish. Brain food. Also brain books. ''[indicates Bennett's neuroscience textbooks]''
18	* DelayedReaction: Adelle sees Dr. Saunders, walks off... and comes back a few seconds later to stare at her.
19	* GeekyTurnOn: Topher and Bennett are clearly attracted to each other's technical abilities.
20	* InsistentTerminology: When the man Caroline uses to sneak into Rossum calls her a thief, Caroline corrects him, "I'm not a thief, I'm a terrorist."
21	* KillTheCutie: Poor Bennett...
22	* OnceMoreWithClarity: We see more of the context around Bennett's memory of losing her arm, as well as one of the flashbacks (now present events) from [[Recap/DollhouseS01E13 "Epitaph One"]]. It turns out that Caroline abandoning Bennett wasn't an attempt to save her own skin at the latter's expense, but to avoid Bennett being punished for helping her.
23	* TheReveal: Boyd has been the BigBad all along; he's the head of Rossum, and Clyde's hidden partner.
24	* ShoutOut:
25	** Caroline, upon seeing a picture of Bennett (played by Creator/SummerGlau): "[[Series/{{Firefly}} Bet you could kill me with your brain]]."
26	** Clyde 5.0 reveals that the name "Rossum" is a reference to a play: [[Theatre/{{RUR}} R.U.R. by Karel Capek]] (Rossum's Universal Robots), in which a race of artificial biological automatons exterminate their human creators. Neither of the Rossum Corporation's co-founders is actually named Rossum.
27	* SkewedPriorities: In an otherwise tense flashback scene:
28	-->'''Adelle''': You have much to answer for, young woman.
29	-->'''Caroline''': I do?
30	-->'''Adelle''': Yes. You forced me to come to Arizona. I loathe Arizona.
31	* SplitPersonalityMerge: Echo and Caroline are finally reunited.
32	* ThatCameOutWrong
33	-->'''Topher''': Lab's in here! You showed me yours, let me... show you mine. ''[winces]''

Context Recap / DollhouseS02E11