REGULAR CAST

• Eliza Dushku as Echo
• Harry Lennix as Boyd Langton
• Fran Kranz as Topher Brink
• Tahmon Penikett as Paul Ballard
• Enver Gjokaj as Victor
• Dichen Lachman as Sierra
• Olivia Williams as Adele DeWitt

GUEST CAST

• Jenica Bergere as Jessie
• Mehcad Brooks as Sam
• Philip Casnoff as Clive Ambrose
• Brett Claywell as Matt Cargill
• Josh Cooke as Leo Carpenter
• Reed Diamond as Laurence Dominic
• Miracle Laurie as November / ‘Mellie’
• Octavia Spencer as Professor Janack

CO-STARRING

• Josh Fadem as Owen Johnson
• Nick W. George as Trevor
• Rome Shandaloo as Ingrid
• Cantrell Harris as Guard
• Michael Ng as Team Member
• Drew Wick as Man
• Leslie Andrews as Female Student
• Ted Porter as NSA Active

SYNOPSIS

A crisis unfolds when word spreads that a powerful, experimental drug has been stolen from Rossum Corporation and somehow released on a university campus. The effects are immediate and disturbing – one student, Owen, has already died after violently smashing his head against reinforced glass, and others are displaying erratic behaviour. The situation demands swift containment. Adelle DeWitt and Topher, informed of the outbreak, attempt to diagnose the drug’s effects. It breaks down inhibitions, disrupting the mind’s ability to regulate impulse control. Initially, Topher believes that Actives won’t be affected due to the way their neural architecture has been rewritten. He is wrong.

Adelle dispatches a group to the university, with Victor assuming the role of NSA agent Tom Voran and Sierra acting as an anaesthesiologist tasked with sedating affected students. Control is the priority, but chaos spreads quickly. Soon, even Adelle and Topher begin exhibiting symptoms of exposure – signs of loosened inhibitions creeping into their behaviour. As Topher scrambles for answers, he determines that the drug spreads through touch. But more alarming still, the Actives are not immune. While the effects differ from those seen in ordinary people, they are no less profound. For Actives, the drug dredges up repressed memories – the very ones their Wipes were designed to erase.

Echo, deep in the illusion of her current engagement, suddenly finds herself pulled toward the unfolding crisis. Leaving behind her client, she follows the instinct that something is wrong. Boyd attempts to intervene, urging her to return for treatment, but the pull is too strong. Before long, even he succumbs to the virus.

At the university, Victor – still unaware of who Echo truly is – mistakes her for another infected student. She is detained and placed among the others for sedation. But within the chaos, she crosses paths with Samuel, a friend of Owen’s, who is desperate for answers. Convinced that Rossum bears responsibility for Owen’s death, he seeks proof, and Echo – led by buried instincts – remembers a way inside. Without knowing why, she guides him toward the secured Rossum laboratory. When they breach the lab, Samuel locates the vial almost too easily. Echo realizes the truth – Samuel didn’t need to search. He already knew exactly where it was.

Samuel’s admission comes swiftly. He and Owen had stolen the vial together, intending to sell it for a fortune. But Owen, unable to follow through, had changed his mind. To silence his doubt, Samuel exposed him to the drug, assuming the worst that would happen was intoxication. Instead, Owen’s mind shattered, leading to his violent death. Samuel hadn’t planned for this, but Echo doesn’t let him off the hook. His choices still cost Owen his life.

Desperate to escape, Samuel douses a cloth with the drug and presses it to Echo’s face, hoping to incapacitate her. But instead of rendering her helpless, it tears open memories buried beneath her programmed existence. Caroline Farrell bursts through – the real woman Echo once was. The walls of time collapse, throwing her back to a night of desperate idealism. She and Leo had infiltrated Rossum’s labs, intent on exposing unethical experiments. They expected animal testing. What they uncovered was far worse – human experimentation, genetic manipulation, a deeply-rooted violation of life itself.

Then came the gunfire.

Caroline remembers it as though it is happening again. The security guard. The shot. Leo’s fall. His blood. His dying words. The weight of his body in her arms. Consumed by the memory, Echo mistakes Samuel for Leo, fighting to save him, to beg him not to leave her. The past refuses to stay buried.

In the midst of the hallucination, Boyd seizes the opportunity to subdue Samuel, still struggling under his own exposure to the drug. He pleads with Echo, urging her toward treatment. Slowly, reality reasserts itself, and Echo relents.

The university descends into silence as the drug’s effects wear off, leaving behind only fragments of confusion and trauma. Adelle, ever the strategist, seizes an opportunity within the fallout. She confronts Samuel with an offer – one he cannot refuse. His mother, drowning in financial troubles, is days away from losing her home. But Adelle assures him that if he accepts a five-year contract as an Active, Rossum will ensure his mother’s security. For half a decade, she will receive a generous stipend, more than enough to sustain her. When Samuel’s contract ends, he will be granted financial stability, ensuring that neither of them suffer. The choice is his. But in reality, the choice has already been made for him.

Far from the university, another chapter closes. Mellie, weighed down by the repercussions of Ballard’s obsession, makes her decision. His pursuit of the truth nearly cost her life once, and she refuses to be collateral damage in his battle against the shadows. She leaves, seeking distance to clear her mind. He doesn’t suspect the real truth – that she isn’t leaving to find peace.

She’s simply returning home. Back to the Dollhouse. Back to the life of November.

TRIVIA

CONTINUITY