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The final episode of the first season of Dollhouse wasn’t originally aired but it ties a lot of the plot together and makes some important arguments towards the ethics of the dollhouse technology.  The final episode, called “Epitaph one”, brings the viewer into the future, about a decade or so later.  The technology from the dollhouse ‘got out’ and now hardly anyone on Earth is in his or her own body anymore.  The story follows a small group of survivors that are still in their original bodies.  The group stays alive by following a code of avoiding and destroying all “Tech” because that is how people end up getting their body stolen.  The group eventually ends up in the original LA Dollhouse and they find the chair used for imprinting.  They begin uploading memories into a man who has lost his personality.  These memories allow the viewer to see what happened with the technology to make everything get out of control.  One scene takes us to a group of actives and dollhouse employees who have barricaded themselves from the outside world by living in the dollhouse.  We find out that Topher has gone mad because of the moral dilemma he came to face.  DeWitt goes to comfort him and he just rambles about how they could make an army in an instant with a single phone call.  He ends his rant by saying, “that’s brilliant, why didn’t I think of that?  Wait?  Did I think of that?”  This his Topher realizing what the consequences of what he did.  He wonders if what he has done was because of curiosity or of arrogance.