A/N: Hey peeps! New update comin' at ya! Now, there's more Dollhouse being incorporated, and we'll still be in touch with everyone else. Now, do not fret, I will still be updating "Going for the Dough", just not at this very moment due to a few...difficulties. Yes, so I haven't neglected GftD at all. More TDI characters are gong to be introduced, and remember when I said I wasn't going to have any of my OCs from GftD come back in this fanfic? Yeah...I lied. I decided as a last minute thing to have Chase play a role in this fanfic. Tawny and Blaire might too, as with Julie, but they'll probably be lightly mentioned. But I can guarantee that there's more drama coming up! Yes, so review, disclaimer is in the first chapter, we're good to go!

"Unh…where am I?" Simone asked when she came to. All she saw was that it was dark, and there were control boards inside what she assumed was a van.

"Welcome back. Don't worry, we'll take care of you." A voice replied. It was kind of nasally, as though it belonged to a nerd.

"Shut up Harold. I'm her Clerk." Another voice argued. He sounded normal.

"Yeah Chase, and it's my fault that you lost track of her."

"That was a poor error of judgment."

"Yeah, that's going to sit really well with Heather." Ice-cold bitch. Crap, I forgot about her. Chase thought to himself.

"What counts is that we found her."

"About time too. You know, as your superior, I should fire you, but I won't—unless Heather wants it." Harold grinned while he was driving the van. They were driving through the outskirts of Las Vegas, and they were almost at their destination. A large office building rose in the distance, and both men knew they were going to face their destinies in there.

Las Vegas changed over eight years. After the Eco-Recession of 2007 (in the making for much longer), and the USA finally rebooting itself in 2010 and beyond, Vegas was no longer Sin City. The casinos had suffered so much during the recession that they couldn't rebound completely. The casinos were still lively, and so was the real estate, but it didn't attract quite the crowd it used to. People gambled over the internet, not in an actual casino. Anything that a casino had (besides the hotel aspect) could be replicated over the internet on a laptop or a computer in the comfort of one's own home. So businesses started developing in Vegas, and enough time passed that Vegas had its own business district with looming and sparkling skyscrapers.

They stopped in a shaded driveway right in front of the entrance to a building. Another van was driving off just as they arrived.

"Ready for your Treatment?" Chase asked Simone.

"Um, sure." Simone took Chase's hand and he led her to the elevator. There was a woman waiting for her with a stack of fresh clothes.

"I'll see you soon."

"Bye, um…?"

"Chase."

"Right." Simone smiled before the elevator closed. The woman in the elevator guided her to a room where Simone then changed into a pink spaghetti strap V-neck top and blue gaucho knit pants. A guy with brown hair, a beige crew neck shirt and red open button down shirt, black jeans and white shoes was manning a control board. A chair in the lounge position was all ready and was booting up.

"Hello. Just take a seat."

"All right." Simone sat down on the chair and put her hands on the designated spot. She relaxed.

"Now, this will only pinch for a second." Simone suddenly went into a seizure for a good 3 minutes as the machine started extracting everything from her: her personality, her past, and her memories. It ended, and the chair was brought back up into a 120 degree recline. "Hello Courtney. How are you feeling?"

"Hm? I must've fallen asleep…did I?" Courtney asked.

"Only for a short while." Courtney looked around the room.

"Shall I go now?"

"By all means." The guy showed her the exit, and Courtney got up and walked out. He waited for a few more seconds before powering down the machine and pressing a few buttons on the dashboard of the chair. A disk popped out, very, very hot to the guy's touch, and he quickly brought it into the next room. It was yet another technology filled room. But Chase was waiting in there.

"Everything go all right with the wipe Cody?"

"Yeah, totally." He put the disk into a device to wipe out all of the information on it. "And…the imprint is gone. You could always ask Court if the wipe went fine, but she won't remember. Why, did something happen to her that I should know about?"

"She finally made a living for herself."

"Ah, but that's the living we gave her. Even though she was placed under the FBI and RCMP's watch, we gave her the smarts to become famous. She must've helped in a dozen powerful medicines and cures that could save someone's life. We're humanitarians. Then again, she would've stayed in Singapore as the client asked if Christopher hadn't gone after her. The FBI and RCMP just HAD to step in. But she's back here, and that's what counts in the end." Chase looked out over a spa-like sprawl. There were buffed wooden floors all around, a white carpeted section, and tall square lamps. It was modern, chic, something out of a high-class spa.

"We'd spend our lives in jail if anyone found this place." Indeed they would. The people in the complex were all beautiful, all in their 20s, and all mind-wiped. Some were meditating by a small pond, others exercising in a fitness section, some reading, some getting a massage, and others just walking about. Courtney was making her way down some stairs.

"We're just misunderstood, that's all. Yeah, great humanitarians like us often are. I mean, look at Courtney. She hasn't a care in the world. She's living the dream." Cody gave a wry smile.

"Who's dream?" Chase asked. Cody chuckled softly.

"Who's next?" Cody stared at all of the people, idyllic written all over their faces. "Hey, I gotta go. We just got a new inductee, and I need to wipe this person's slate clean. She'll be a brand new Mankin soon enough, like all of the other Mankins here."

"All right. I'll just…wait here."

"You do that." Cody left the room immediately and walked the top floor to the other room. Courtney, meanwhile, was reporting to her physical with Dr. Beth Levin. Beth's hair was now hovering just above her shoulders, was wavy, and had a side part. Beth had Lasik Eye Surgery (paid by Heather; the surgery had improved so much that her vision no longer reverted back or wasn't perfect) and wore a white lab coat, a maroon colored V-neck shirt, a black A-line skirt, and black high heels. She was also considerably taller and skinnier.

"Courtney! Welcome back! Just take a seat right here." Beth beamed. Courtney hesitantly sat down on the grey leather seat. Standard measures were taken, such as measuring heartbeat, looking at her blood work, testing to see if all of Courtney's nerves were working, and most things doctors would test for a normal person. But Courtney wasn't normal.

"My head hurts." Courtney remarked as she rubbed the back of her head.

"Really? Let me check." Beth started pressing with two fingers to see where the pain was coming from. Standard procedure, really. Courtney suddenly yelped. "It's there?" Beth felt a lump. That was from when Courtney was struck with the butt of the gun when she was kidnapped, but Beth didn't know that. "You probably hit your head hard on something."

"I don't remember."

"Well, it'll be all right. Otherwise, your blood work is fine, same with your internals." Beth filed away her results on Courtney. "Would you care for a massage?"

"They're relaxing." Courtney smiled.

"I'll call the staff to set up a table for you, okay?" Beth was about to walk to the phone when Courtney suddenly stopped her.

"Um…I don't remember what fell on me." Beth saw this as out of the ordinary. Normally, other Mankins would just get up and walk to the massage area. But not this time. Beth still looked at her sweetly and offered a small smile.

"Does that bother you?" Her voice disguised her shock perfectly.

"Should it?"

"Don't worry; we'll look after you."

"Does someone look after you?" Courtney reached out to touch Beth's face, but Beth recoiled back, disgust on her face. She never liked people touching her face—or the fact that Heather, who was supposedly watching over her, could betray her at any second.

"Why don't you just wait in the massage area?" Beth left, a little more quickly than normal, to the phone to call up the staff for a masseuse. She looked at Courtney as she walked out, an eyebrow raised in suspicion. I wonder…what happened to Courtney?

"Do we have her down?" Cody asked as he briskly walked into the room.

"Yes. Everything's ready for you to operate." One of the assistants replied.

"What are you doing? Why am I here? GET ME OUT!!!" When she saw Cody's face, her face paled. "Cody? What are you doing here?"

"Bridgette! Long time no see!" Bridgette was wearing a white tube top that covered her breasts skimpily and another wrap that covered her groin area skimpily too. She was struggling to get out of her restraints. However, it was hard for her to move, considering there were pins stuck in her knees and most of her joints, along with two pins stuck in her forehead.

"Cody, what the hell are you doing to me? Why am I here?"

"Might as well tell you." Considering you won't remember any of what I'm going to say anyway."You're going to become a Mankin. We'll wipe your memory and your personality clean, and we'll be free to imprint upon you any memory, personality, or trait our company, Mann Corporation, so desires. We'll hire you out to whoever wants to pay, and you serve that client's needs until you are done. Then you'll be brought back here for Treatment, and the cycle will continue."

"That's illegal!"

"That's the same thing they said about genetic engineering, and look at where it got us."

"YOU BASTARD! YOU BETTER GET ME OUT OF HERE! Geoff will be sure to arrest your sorry ass for this!"

"We're nowhere near LA. We're in Vegas. So don't count on Geoff—or for that matter, anyone—to save you." Bridgette's eyes widened at this news, and then glared at Cody.

"I'm engaged to Geoff. He won't stop looking for me." Cody wryly chuckled.

"We'll see about that." And with that, Cody started the operation of wiping her memories and personality clean. Bright light flooded the room at steady intervals, and Bridgette went into shock and started whimpering and crying as the procedure went on.

Meanwhile, Courtney had left Beth and was about to walk to the massage area when she saw bright light flashing on the couches. She looked around to see where it was coming from, and it happened again. Upstairs. Courtney was intrigued, and her curiosity pulled her up the wide wooden stairs and in front of a door that was unlocked. She opened it and went inside. There was yet another room, and that was the source of the bright light. There was whimpering coming from the room, and Courtney walked closer and closer to the door, and she slowly opened it. The assistants and Cody didn't notice her walk in, but Bridgette did, and she turned her head and saw Courtney. Bridgette mouthed something to Courtney that she immediately understood. Courtney, help me. However, something in Bridgette's face triggered something in the back of Courtney's mind that immediately invoked a sense of panic and curiosity, along with a memory.

"Hey, I'm Bridgette, if you didn't already know. I have to have a bottom bunk." Bridgette set her stuff down by a bunk. Both girls were not amused by the fact that they had to stay in a smelly, musty old summer camp.

"Oh, sure. I'll take the top bunk, if you don't mind." Courtney set her stuff down at the foot of the two bunks. "I'm Courtney, by the way."

"Oh, I already know. You helped Izzy out of the water."

"DID SOMEONE SAY MY NAME?!" Izzy barreled into the cabin. "Oh, it's just you two. Well, I'm gonna go explore the island! I'm sure there are a lot of cool things to do here!" Izzy ran away.

"She's a little nuts, isn't she?" Bridgette laughed.

"Well, kind of. But I think she'll be helpful to our team." Courtney remarked.

"YOU'VE GOT A HALF HOUR TO UNPACK AND MEET ME BACK AT THE MAIN LODGE, STARTING…NOW!" Chris yelled.

"Don't you hate our host?" Bridgette asked.

"He knew we were going to be here, so I'm not pleased with him. Actually, I'm not pleased with all of my teammates, especially Duncan."

"What, that guy with the piercings? He creeps me out a little bit, but I think Geoff is really cute." Bridgette sighed.

"Well, I'm not looking for love here. I'm looking to win."

"Maybe you'll find love with Duncan!" Courtney glared at Bridgette after she said that. "Kidding, kidding!" Courtney's glare softened.

"That would be funny though. Me…getting together with Duncan!" Both girls shared a laugh before they went back to unpacking their things.

Bridgette…? This compelled Courtney to ask a question out loud.

"Why isn't she sleeping?"

"What?" One of the assistants asked. Cody quickly turned around, eyes wide in shock.

"Just keep mapping the tissue." Cody quickly walked to Courtney and gently pushed her out of the room, making sure to close the door behind him. "Courtney! What are you doing here?"

"She—she hurts." Courtney pointed behind Cody to the room.

"She does…that's because it's her first time." Cody blocked Courtney's gaze as she tried to get a better look at the room. How does she know that Bridgette hurts? Was it the whimpering? How would Courtney be able to distinguish that anyway? "And…uh…we have to do, uh…more extensive work on her."

"Work?" Courtney asked, tilting her head to the side like a little child would.

"We're making her better. In a little while, she'll be strong and happy, and she'll forget all about this and," Cody noticed Beth peeking from the open door. "You will have a new friend living with you. Her name's Bridgette."

"Bridgette…how pretty."

"Right…shouldn't you be getting your physical with Dr. Levin?"

"Courtney, we're ready for your massage." Beth reminded her.

"Ah, here she is." Courtney turned around and saw Beth. She offered a small smile before walking to Beth. "Something hurt my head." She told Cody.

"I bet it's nothing to worry about." Cody smiled broadly. When Courtney turned around, Cody quickly and silently asked Beth what happened. Beth offered no reply, but briefly smiled at Courtney as she passed her. Then, Beth left with Courtney. All that time, Bridgette had been watching and praying that Courtney recognized her. Then, Bridgette's memories were gone completely. In a half hour, while Courtney was getting her massage, the procedure was complete. Bridgette was then dressed in workout clothes, and then taken to Beth for her first physical, then to some weight lifting. Bridgette couldn't lift too much, but it was enough. The company didn't want their girls all that strong anyways. Bridgette was put through rigorous exercise and taken to a treadmill to test her endurance. The company had to have her fit in order for the Mankin to execute their task flawlessly if the need ever came. The staff was monitoring her endurance and Cody was being brought up to date on Bridgette's status. Everything was going fine as far as Cody could see, and he confirmed that she was just fine on a touch panel. The panel was then taken to Beth, who also confirmed it, but Cody was watching from afar.

Beth…After his failed attempts at winning Gwen's heart, he attempted to win Beth's, but it was hard when she was on TDA. After the three seasons of TD, they lost touch, but he kept a strong desire for Beth, and she was drop-dead gorgeous now, at least, in Cody's eyes.

Courtney was wandering the complex after her massage, on the bottom floor of course, but as she wandered around, she started having more and more flashbacks of her past. But they happened each time she saw a new person who looked vaguely familiar. While she was walking about the fitness area, she saw a somewhat muscular woman working out. She was very pretty though.

"Oh, you'll get breakfast Owen, right after you complete your 20 kilometer run around the lake!" Chris grinned.

"Oh, so you're funny now! You know what I think would be funny—?" Eva started advancing toward Chris, but Duncan and Geoff restrained her.

"Eva! Try to control your temper!" Courtney furiously whispered.

"You're enjoying this, aren't you?!" Eva yelled at Chris.

"A little. You have 30 seconds!" Chris grinned once more.

Courtney saw that Eva looked a lot like the woman who was exercising, so she decided to try and ask the woman to confirm her suspicions.

"Eva?" The woman kept weight lifting.

"Hi Courtney."

"So…you're Eva?"

"Yes. Now leave me alone." This remark brought another memory to Courtney's mind.

"Harold." Chris called out after a long dramatic pause. Eva, who was enraged, stood up.

"Nice. Real nice. Who needs this crappy TV show anyway?!" Eva stormed away from the campfire.

"Buh-bye Eva!" Courtney waved good-bye to the retreating Eva. Eva didn't take too kindly to that, and growled before proceeding to throw a long stick with a sharp point at Courtney. Courtney ducked just in time, otherwise the stick would've nailed her in the forehead. "Touchy!" Courtney exclaimed.

Courtney suddenly feared Eva, and she backed away from her. She kept wandering the place, and soon found a blonde girl with HUGE breasts meditating by a pond. When she saw her, another memory came to mind.

"You were with that blonde Gopher girl, weren't you?!" Courtney yelled at Tyler. He had just come back from taking a break outside of the dodge ball arena.

"NO! Maybe…So?!"

"SO, she could have been getting you to spill all of our weaknesses to her!" Courtney's stern face immediately fell off her face as she saw Lindsay talking to her hands, as though she were having a conversation with them. Courtney mentally face palmed herself.

She looked at Lindsay, wondering who she was and who the guy was from her memory. So she got down on one knee and lightly tapped Lindsay's leg. Lindsay's eyes immediately opened.

"Claire? Hi Claire." Lindsay said in an almost monotone voice.

"It's Courtney." Courtney corrected.

"Right. I must meditate." Lindsay closed her eyes again.

"Do you know someone named Tyler?" The name sounded strange to Courtney as she said it.

"No." Lindsay simply replied. How does she not know Tyler? Tyler clearly knew her. However, she still did not know Lindsay's name. Courtney got up and kept wandering the area.

Chris was in Japan, and he was packing his suitcase. He replayed the moment he was told that he was to leave for the USA, specifically Los Angeles, in his mind.

"Christopher Maclean, have you finished searching in Japan?" The Chinese man, Chow Soo-Hyun, asked over the phone.

"Almost. I just have one last lead to follow up on, and I'll be done."

"Good. Follow this last lead quickly, because we've been tipped off that Dana might be in the USA."

"What? Then I'll go now."

"Not until you follow on this last lead. My sources…aren't always reliable."

"You can count on me sir."

"Remember, if you let me down, your life will be PUT down." The line went dead, and Christopher hung up and heaved a great sigh.

His flight left in a day, and so he was packing and making sure he left no trace of himself behind. That way, the RCMP couldn't find him. LA, here I come.

Izzy and Owen reported straight to the secretary in the crime lab.

"Owen Green and Izzy Daniels here. We're here to see Lieutenant Geoff Carte." Owen sternly commanded as they both flashed their IDs.

"Lieutenant Carte wanted us here as soon as possible." Izzy added.

"Hang on one moment." The secretary quickly called Geoff, and he told her to have them wait in Conference Room 2B. "So you are…wait in Conference Room 2B." The secretary gestured to the same room where Geoff, Sadie, and Noah met Ezekiel and DJ just yesterday. The couple left to the room. Meanwhile, Geoff gathered Sadie, Noah, Ezekiel, and DJ, and they all left to the room. Geoff entered first.

"Owen! Izzy!"

"Geoff!" Owen immediately had Geoff in a bear hug. At this time, Sadie, Noah, Ezekiel, and DJ entered the room.

"Geoff, I thought we were going to be alone." Izzy looked at them. "Who are they?"

"You don't recognize them?! Look, its Noah, Sadie, Zeke, and DJ!" Owen put Geoff down and looked at all of them with wide eyes. "But what are you guys doing here?"

"Well, I became a coroner, Noah became a CSI, DJ became an FBI agent, and Ezekiel became an RCMP agent." Sadie quickly explained.

"Oh wow! Looks like we all got into crime one way or the other!" Owen laughed.

"Right-o dude!" Izzy, for some reason, wasn't laughing.

"Look, Geoff, I felt really guilty about doing this. I mean, extracting information out of Duncan, one of your best friends from TD?" Izzy asked. Geoff stopped smiling.

"Izzy, come on. This is the only way I can know what Duncan is hiding from us."

"Oh, don't worry. He's hiding more than you can imagine. But this is a moral issue! Duncan really trusts us to find Courtney! But didn't you know that she's been dead for years?"

"What?" Noah asked.

"She's been dead…for years?" DJ asked aloud.

"Yeah. I guess news doesn't travel fast among us. Courtney died in a car crash with a drunk driver while she was attending Harvard back in 2012." Owen finally summoned enough courage to say that she had been dead.

"That's not possible. Look at this picture." Noah gave Owen and Izzy Simone's picture.

"Oh my gosh, that's Courtney." Izzy remarked.

"Exactly. So we're dealing with a ghost here." Ezekiel commented. All of the other has-beens gave a weird look towards Ezekiel. "I saw this happen only once, and that was in Mexico. What seems to have happened here is that Courtney got into an accident—a planned accident, might I add—and was kidnapped from the wreckage. Her body was probably never recovered. Cloning was still in its infancy in 2012. Either way, she disappeared off the map in the perfect crime, and then resurfaced as a different person with a whole new identity."

"So something happened in the time after the car crash and before Courtney became famous as Dana." Geoff commented.

"Exactly. Now we need to find out what that was." Owen and Izzy exchanged glances, both thinking the same thing: What the hell are we getting ourselves into? Is Duncan coming along for the ride?

Nighttime. Courtney was going for a shower just as Bridgette finished. Bridgette offered a smile, and Courtney smiled right back, but still remembering Bridgette's words in the operating room. Courtney, help me. They echoed through her mind as she took her shower. After she was done, she got dressed into a royal purple silk nightgown that went to her mid thigh, and she along with Bridgette, Eva, Lindsay, and a drop-dead gorgeous guy were ushered into sunken beds. Courtney got in hers and tried to go to sleep, but her sleep would be plagued with some old memories.

At the same time, Duncan was dreaming about his time in TD, and of his latest meeting with Courtney. They were funny, wonderful, sad, upsetting, but they kept plaguing Duncan. Geoff went to bed alone, missing the warmth that Bridgette gave off when she was still with him. Little did he know that Bridgette wasn't all that far away, but she didn't remember him. Sadie and DJ were both plagued by each other's sudden meeting, and they both didn't sleep a wink. Noah was thinking about his time with Katie, before she was kidnapped eight years ago. He shuddered in his bed just thinking about never seeing her again. Izzy and Owen were both happy sleeping in each other's arms, but they were still thinking about the mess they got themselves into. They knew that their life wouldn't be dull for a long, long time.

A/N: So how'd you like this latest chappie? I bet you loved it! Or hated it, I really wouldn't know. But here's a few more tidbits if you got confused.

Mankin is a play on the word mannequin. Hope this helps you with the reference from the last chapter!

Couples so far: DuncanxCourtney, DJxSadie, NoahxKatie, BridgettexGeoff, BethxCody, IzzyxOwen, more to come

Songs that should be in your mind (because they were in mine!): "Broken"-Lifehouse and "About You Now"-Sugababes (not the cover this time around)

Now for the rundown: Is Chris going to realize that Courtney is really in Las Vegas and not Los Angeles? Are Izzy and Owen going to pull out of the mess they got themselves into, or is it too late? Will some of these couples reunite? How much more is Courtney going to remember from her past? How did Chow Soo-Hyun get the tip off that Courtney might be in LA? Will Duncan lose trust in Geoff completely, maybe even Izzy and Owen? How did all of these ex-stars get involved in crime?! How did Chris even become a biochemist?! How did Beth and Cody end up working for Heather?! And is Lindsay GOING TO ACT SMART AND NOT DUMB FOR ONCE?! Most of that--and more!--coming up NEXT!!! Review please!