Since most of us haven't seen "Epitaph One," the season 1 finale of Dollhouse, and effectively part 1 of the two part series finale, Vacantlook of B5.com has graciously allowed us to reprint his synopsis of "The Lost Episode."  This explains a lot about what was going on in Friday night's finale, explaining some of the more confusing points about how, exactly, the world got that bad, and who some of these new characters were

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The big "Dollhouse" finale aired an hour earlier than it normally does, and really with no advance word. Owing to my own incredible stupidity, I ended up missing it as I was watching Ben 10 at the time.

I'm watching Caprica right now, which I'll have up tonight, and I'll do Dollhouse when it comes up on Hulu tomorrow. I'm really sorry for this. It's just sloppy.  

You know what? This was such a barn-burner that I’m not even gonna’ bore you with my normal preamble, let’s just get right to it. In my massively spoiler-heavy synopsis to come, I’m going to list things in chronological order, rather than the order they were revealed in the show.

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