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I had some problems with this episode and the plotting/mystery arc. For one thing, I was really hoping Alpha would turn out to be someone we had met previously. I can't remember ever meeting this guy before tonight (if I am wrong, then please correct me), but to me that's an extremely unfair and weak mystery. The point of a mystery is to give the viewer enough clues to figure it out themselves, but still try to surprise them. Mysteries that withhold all the vital info don't work because the viewer doesn't get a chance to participate. We were never given a chance to guess who Alpha may be because we didn't get to meet him before he was revealed. So that really bothers me. Alpha WAS presented as a mystery and so I've been trying to figure out which character might end up being him (I didn't read casting spoilers) so I feel a little annoyed.

The big issue I had though was that tonight's episode relied too much on coincidences that really don't make sense to me once put together. Okay, I like the idea that Ballard accidentally brings in Alpha into the Dollhouse. I liked the separate mystery where a killing in Tuscon is actually a misdirection and Alpha is closer than they think. Together, these don't work for me. Alpha randomly kills the one guy that Ballard tracks down? Then Alpha just sits and waits in the eco-system guy's apartment? What was he doing there, hoping someone would randomly come check on him so he could impersonate the guy? Sorry, but that's too much forced coincidence for me to really believe. There were ways to get the Ballard-brings-Alpha-into-the-Dollhouse plot in a more believable way. Like if maybe Alpha had figured out that Ballard was investigating and HE lured Ballard to the eco-system guy's apartment, I would totally believe that. But it seemed to me that Ballard only questioned the eco-system guy after his own investigations as a result of discovering the building's location led him there. So it was a random meeting and therefore I can't figure out enough motivation for Alpha to kill eco-system guy and impersonate him by lounging in his apt.

I dislike this kind of plotting because it's too contrived and forced.

There were some other things that don't work for me. 1. So Ballard realizes November can kill him with a flip of a switch. Why does he assume this is ONLY November and not, say, Echo? 2. I really don't get why Ballard's sights are ONLY on Caroline. He seems to despise and disagree with the idea of a Dollhouse, so why not rescue them all? Why the one girl? That's really short-sighted to me. It also feels contrived. If he wants to bring down the Dollhouse, he shoudl bring down the Dollhouse, not rescue one doll out of hundreds.

I agree with everyone who thinks Dr. Saunders is a doll. I've always suspected that, but of course, I've kind of suspected everyone of being a doll because they keep revealing people as dolls. The motivation of Alpha marring dolls makes sense...but then what do you make of him killing the eco-system guy? That throws a wrench in so many things for me because it's too random. It kills the doll-marring motivation and I really can't see any reason for him to kill eco-guy if he clearly knew his way inside anyway.

I have a really dumb question. So the attic??? What is it? Did they kill Dominic or are they just keeping him locked up there? For some reason I didn't think they'd killed Dominic but now I think they did.