Season 2 catches up with former FBI agent Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon) in the aftermath of his showdown with escaped serial killer Joe Carroll (James Purefoy). As the lone survivor of a new killing spree, Lily Gray (Connie Nielsen) is called in to help Ryan and Mike Weston (Shawn Ashmore) solve the case, but Ryan's reluctance to re-join the FBI finds him working alongside his niece Max Hardy (Jessica Stroup) behind closed doors. As Ryan crosses paths with some complicated people, he believes that Joe is nowhere near finished wreaking havoc.

Eliza Dushku returns for the second season of Dollhouse, Joss Whedon's slick sci-fi endeavor following an underground company that renders people into "dolls" after wiping their memories and imprinting a new personality based on the likes of the highest bidder. Echo (Dushku), has begun to retain fragments of herself, and begins to wreak havoc for the evildoers at the Rossum Corporation.