Victor stays at the Hyperion Hotel. Joss Whedon previously used the fictional Hyperion Hotel as the base of operations for the titular hero of the TV series Angel, from the second through fourth seasons. A hotel by the same name, as an in-joke, was also referenced in the TV series Bones, in the second season ep "The Girl with the Curl." (Bones stars actor David Boreanaz, who played Angel). Victor also bears a slight resemblance to the Angel character -- dark, moody, deeply saddened and troubled by what he's experienced and done.

It is revealed that Victor's real name is Anthony Ceccoli

The Rossum logo is shown here as an eight-armed starfish or octopus.

Victor/Roger: Catherine, we need to talk.
Adelle: I don't want to talk. I want Roger. I want to roger Roger.

Adelle: Oh, come on. You're not real. You're a Doll. One whose contract is up and I was just getting in one last go-round before they release your body into the wild. And if anyone should be getting upset, 'Roger', it's you. Because this time tomorrow you're not going to exist any more.
Victor/Roger: Catherine, I'm sorry, I - I know you're upset, but don't make up stories. (she kisses him passionately) I don't believe for a second you'd ever stoop to the level of those pathetic souls who have to hire your programmable love dolls to... get what they need (Adelle breaks down at such a blunt description of her situation)

(looking at a brain scan)
Topher: Do you see what I see?
Boyd: I don't see anything.
Topher: Exactly. There's nothing left in Ballard's head. Alpha scrubbed him clean. Even if I could make the chair work on someone without active architecture, I'd be lucky if I could make him walk in a straight line.
Boyd: Nnnn, he's stable, physically.
Topher: As a zucchini.

(Adelle walks in, clearly piqued)
Adelle: 'Another woman', Mr. Brink?
Topher: Wha? Uh... (looks around, then being cute) You're the only one here.
Adelle: Who else is in on this practical joke? Boyd? Ivy? Echo?
Topher: (clearly confused by the line of questioning) If it was funny, I want to take credit for it. (realizing she's very pissed off) I don't think this was funny.
Adelle: 'Miss Lonelyhearts' was dumped by Roger this evening.
Topher: Ehhh, are you sure the dementia hasn't gotten to her?
Adelle: (all patience gone from her voice) Stop being cute. How long have you known the identity of Miss Lonelyhearts?
Topher: (mystified, then realizing) You? Ohhh, my God!?!? What have I said to you about her? Ewwww, octogenarian, walker jokes, the thing about the 'early bird special'? (laughs, embarrassed) I didn't know.
Adelle: If you didn't alter the imprint, I want to know who did. (they go into the imprint room)
Ivy: Roger came back early. He didn't say why but my money is on a broken hip.
Topher: Ahhh... (embarrassed at her ignorantly insulting comment) She definitely didn't do it. (looking at the imprint) It wasn't on our end. Roger's parameters are exactly as you...she!... she requested.
Adelle: So where did the 'mystery woman' come from?
Victor: (waking from the chair) Has anyone seen Sierra?

Topher: Look on the bright side. Roger didn't reject you.
Adelle: No, Victor did!
Topher: It's just 'grouping'. Which won't be a problem after we set him free tomorrow.
Adelle: Just make sure this doesn't happen with any other Actives. We can't have clients being rejected by Dolls who are programmed to love them.
Topher: Yeah. We're lucky this happened to you. (stops dead, realizing the unfortunate element in that statement)
Adelle: If anyone finds out about this.... (menacingly) You won't be so lucky.

Boyd: You've got it all figured out.
Adelle: Hardly. I still want to know what's going on in that very special brain of hers.
Boyd: She's not a blank slate any more. She's a person, like you or me. And keeping her away from Ballard is killing her.
Adelle: Perfect.
Boyd: You want her to suffer.
Adelle: Pain reveals who we really are. Let's see who this girl really is.

Topher: Afghanistan war vet, severe PTSD, which we cured. This one actually makes me feel good about myself.

(Victor wakes up, his original personality and mental constructs restored)
Victor: Did it not work? (looks around, sees Ivy) You were not just standing there. And you were wearing different clothes. Well, not that different.
Topher: What did I just tell you?
Victor: That five years would seem like... five seconds.
Topher: Welcome... to the future. Where cars fly, robots serve our every whim, and genetically engineered dinosaurs rule the earth.
Ivy: It's pretty much the same as when you left.
Victor: And... the war?
Topher: Still going.
Victor: So that's it. Five years, just like that.

Echo: How long have you been sitting here?
Sierra: I'm waiting for Victor. We're going to have dinner together.
Echo: Sierra. Victor's not coming back.
Sierra: But he always comes back from his treatments.
Echo: This time he isn't. He left. For good.
Sierra: He wouldn't leave me.
Echo: He's free. They gave his life back to him.
Sierra: But you're not happy for him.
Echo: I needed him. I thought he could help me get everyone out.
Sierra: I'm sad, too. But not for us. For him. He's not ready to be by himself.

Echo: Where's Paul?
Adelle: He's not dead, if that's what you're thinking.
Echo: What did you do to him?
Adelle: Mr. Ballard has been moved to a more secure location. One where your illicit keycard will be of no use.... No need to fret. He's receiving top notch care. Do you think anything goes on in my House without my knowledge?
Echo: I don't know, it seems like a lot went down without you knowing.
Adelle: Yes....Well, I'm not surprised that Paul... and Boyd managed to keep your secret from me, but Topher? He can barely keep a belch to himself. (sits down) Come on, don't be rude, it's just a friendly chat.
Echo: You really want to do this? Pretend that we're equals? Go toe-to-toe?
Adelle: Why? You having trouble keeping up?
Echo: You think I'm scared of you? I have a serial killer in my head.
Adelle: Yessss, if memory serves me, one that's petrified of women. All those people in your head, I know their deepest, darkest secrets. You're forgetting who put them there in the first place.
Echo: So now you're trying to take credit for making me? You didn't make me. I made me. You may think all these people knocking around in my head are useless. But that's forty more brains than you have. So I think we can agree that I'm smarter, tougher, and a whole lot scarier than you could ever hope to be.
Adelle: If you're so powerful, why are you still in my house sneaking around trying to find your comatose boyfriend?
Echo: Lady, if I wanted to be somewhere else, I would be. But there's work to do here. Now you can be on my side, or you can be on Rossum's, but the time for playing both is over.

Topher: Protocol says to maintain a Doll's biolinks for ninety days after they leave the House to monitor the re-integration of their original neural topography...
Boyd: This Victor's read-out?
Topher: Was Victor's read-out. At 1:53 AM last night his biolinks went kaput. As in no signal. I can't even raise his GPS.
Boyd: I'll send a van to bring him in for a diagnostic.
Topher: (pointing at screen) Those aren't "I'll send a van to bring him in for diagnostic squigglies". They're "fight for your life" squigglies.
Boyd: I'm on my way.

Echo: Ready to process the room? You want 'FBI', 'Private Investigator', or should I surprise you?
Boyd: So how, exactly, does this work? You accessing other personalities.
Echo: I used to have to make an effort to switch between imprints, but now I can slip back and forth without even thinking.
Boyd: Who am I talking to now?
Echo: Echo. You're always talking to Echo. But Roma Clarr and Eleanor Penn are duking it out in the background over who gets to help me figure this one out.
Boyd: I'll take all the help I can get.
Echo: (looking around) They came through the front door. No sign of a struggle. And they left the place pretty clean. Whoever did this, they're professionals.
Boyd: It was an inside job.
Echo: You see a clue I don't?
Boyd: Victor's been out of the House, what, less than twenty-four hours.
Echo: Which isn't enough time to be on anyone's radar...
Boyd: And they knew enough about our tech to deactivate his biolinks and GPS.

Boyd: Victor's file was accessed three months ago. With continued break-ins leading up to his release.
Echo: Someone was making sure he was still on schedule. Can you run a backtrace?
Boyd: (fiddles with the computer for a bit) It's a Rossum server. Defense-grade firewall. Can you hack into it?
Echo: Someone in here can.

Echo: Have you ever heard of 'Scytheon'?
Boyd: It's Rossum's military contracting wing. Their answer to Blackwater
Echo: They're the ones who kidnapped Victor. They've got a dossier on him. Personal history, military records, Dollhouse engagements. They've got it all. He's been placed in a classified program codenamed 'Mindwhisper'. It's being operated out of a bunker on the California-Nevada border.
Boyd: According to this, Mindwhisper's recruited dozens of ex-actives. The Active Architecture allows their minds to be linked via neural radio. Hear what everyone thinks, see what everyone sees...

Boyd: Rossum's building an army. They kidnapped Victor.
Adelle: Rossum's building an army? (sighs) Remember what happened the last time we poked our noses where they didn't belong? We failed and I nearly lost control of the House, or something like that.
Boyd: I'm giving you a chance. To help Victor. They've turned him into some kind of a supersoldier.
Adelle: It's what he wants. And isn't that why we're in business? To give people what they want?

Topher: Neural Radios? That's the short bus version of this tech.
Boyd: What's the end-game?
Topher: Group Think. And not the bad kind that gave us the Bay of Pigs. This would be the much badder kind. Multiple minds, thinking as one... Imagine war minus the individual. He's thinking about one single thing. The objective.
Boyd: Soldiers that won't stop fighting until they've accomplished the mission.
Topher: Once you're absorbed into the group mind the individual ceases to exist. If we don't rescue Victor before he's fully integrated into the group mind, we lose him for good.

Ivy: Why didn't you let me in on this earlier?
Topher: You were on a need-to-know basis.
Ivy: Need-to-know or need-to-fetch?

Boyd: DeWitt's out cold. We got at least half the day.
Topher: Oooohh!! After we're done here, can I go to her office with a Sharpie?

Topher: Did everything take?
Echo: Locked and loaded. But I need one more think to pull this off.
Ivy: All I have left is Naughty Pirate Wench.

Sierra: (angrily, physically attacking Topher) You !! You promised me I wouldn't remember that day! You told me I could skip it!?!?
Topher: Priya, calm down.
Sierra: Why? I don't want to remember Nolan, I don't want to remember any of it!
Topher: (to Ivy) Get her a beer. (to Sierra/Priya) I couldn't delete that day because then you wouldn't remember him!
Sierra: I don't want to remember Nolan!
Topher: Not Nolan! Not Nolan. I couldn't delete that day because you wouldn't remember Victor. Before I wiped you, you told me you knew. You saw Victor, and you told me you knew.
Sierra: That I loved him?
Topher: Exactly.
Sierra: Why? What's going on?

Victor: There's two soldiers A-10 Formation, XMA-10 assault rifles and k23s and flash grenades. They're about to make an offensive move (calmly, to Priya) I'm Anthony, by the way. You can call me Tony.
Sierra: Priya.
Victor: Nice to meet you. (fires at the enemy soldiers) So you're from Australia?
Sierra: Maybe we should save the small talk until after the gunfight.
Victor: No, it's good. The more I can remember about me --us, the easier it is for me to keep them out.

Adelle: (furious)You sent Echo and Sierra to retrieve Victor.
Boyd: Someone had to make the call.
Adelle: I ordered you to leave it alone!
Boyd: I was hoping you wouldn't remember that conversation.
Adelle: What are you saying?
Boyd: I'm saying you're a drunk. You're obsessed with keeping Echo under your thumb, and you'll do anything you can to keep Harding smiling. We may not have agreed in the past, but at least we put this House and the Actives first. What happened to that woman?
Adelle: She's standing in front of you.
Boyd: No she's not. If you don't find her soon you're going to lose control of this House. And I'll be the one knocking down your door.
Adelle: I hope it doesn't come to that, Mr. Langton.

Ivy: She shouldn't be able to do that.
Topher: Welcome to the conspiracy.
Ivy: Can I go back to getting you juice boxes?

Echo closes one of her eyes as she shoots the camera out in order to get into the bunker. I believe it's a pretty safe statement that no professionally trained military person would ever, ever do such a thing.

Title: Stop-Loss

Stop-Loss is a term specifically related to the US military and the soldiers affected by it. A soldier nominally signs up for a specific period of time, but part of the contract does allow the military to unilaterally extend the term of service, potentially indefinitely. The general concept is to prevent losing key personnel in a time of war. The concept was first applied immediately before and after the Gulf War, and has been reapplied at times during the Iraq War.

Topher: ... the thing about the 'early bird special'?

Many restaurants which cater to an older clientele have an 'early bird special', that is, a special meal or set of meals available in the late afternoon up until around 7pm to satisfy the blander dietary needs and/or early-to-bed requirements of said older clientele. They are often cheaper as well, to provide for the fixed-income requirements of many elderly people.

Boyd: It's Rossum's military contracting wing. Their answer to Blackwater

Boyd is referring to Xe Services, formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, and prior to that Blackwater USA, a private military contractor and security consulting firm. They are, as of the airing of the episode, the largest of the three private security contracting services utilized by the US State Department. They are closely associated with certain activities performed by private companies in Iraq during the followup to the Iraq War.

Topher: Group Think. And not the bad kind that gave us the Bay of Pigs.

The Bay of Pigs (probably a mistranslation, but it's now a meme) is an inlet on the southern coast of Cuba. It has historical significance as the location of an abortive 1961 attempt by Cuban refugees, with the CIA's assistance, to invade and depose Fidel Castro. The failure of the attempt is often blamed, perhaps incorrectly, on the newly installed president John F. Kennedy's reluctance to fully commit to the effort. It has generally become a meme for referring to colossal failure.

Topher: You really think we'll be able to pull this off without Cruella DeWitt finding out?

Topher is riffing on Cruella De Vil, the main villainess in the 1955 book The One Hundred and One Dalmatians, popularized by a now classic 1961 Disney animated film where the character was voiced by Betty Lou Gerson. Cruella dognapped and otherwise acquired 101 Dalmatians with the intention of having them skinned to make a fur coat from them. The part was later played by Glenn Close in the live-action adaptation, 101 Dalmatians (1996), and its sequel 102 Dalmatians (2000).

When Sierra is awakened, she's left with her memories of the events that occurred at the end of Belonging (2x04). Topher had promised her he would edit those out when he awakened her at that time.

(after she has beaten two soldiers despite having a bag over her head)
Echo: Don't piss off a blind girl.

Echo is referring to the events of "True Believer (01x05)", in which she was imprinted with an extensive set of skills, along with a lack of optic nerve function, designed to render her blind for an important mission.

If you stop and think about it, the Dollhouse and Victor's contract with the military were much the same -- they both got to use him as they saw fit for a period of time, including placing him in dangerous situations if that fit their needs.

The chief difference is, the Dollhouse paid a lot more.

Yes, you can easily argue moral justifications on the side of the military could be construed as higher, but just the same there are those who would vehemently disagree. I'd say the chief valid argument is that, in the military, Victor still had the opportunity to make his own moral choices about what he did under orders. Victor surrendered even that to the Dollhouse.