Episode Report Card Erin: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Truly, Madly, Deeply
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 18 | Aired on 03.15.2003
Conference Room Of Endless Expositions. Yay! Will's back! And he's still not wearing a suit! Get a SUIT, Willage! Hell, I'll even buy you a tie! One that matches your eyes...right, so, Will's filling in the troops about Brücker and the research they did. Basically, they sponsored genetic research and the mapping of sequencing human chromosomes. Yeah. No idea. Like radio static. La la la. Also? It's rumored that Brücker catalogued the DNA of possibly millions of private citizens. Wall of noise. Fizzzzzzzz.
This brings out the ubergeek in Marshall and he pipes up, "Well, if that's true then, for one...um, I'm sorry to interrupt, I just -- is that suede?" Hee. Will's all, uh, yeah, freaknut. What is UP with this guy? I love how Marshall is a universal annoyance. He bugs everyone equally. He's an equal opportunity pain in the ass! Hee hee. Marshall finally gets down to brass tacks and announces that, if Sloane gets his hands on this DNA info, he could easily develop a genetically targeted virus or could pollute the entire water supply just to kill one specific person. Radio static, people. Seriously.
Jack shuts Marshall up by announcing that he'll instruct the NSA to add derivations of genomes and genetics to the Echelon watch list. Yawn. Everyone gets up to leave, but Marshall stops Syd and asks her about that moment when her mother called out her name before the building exploded. "Well, why'd she do that?" he stammers. "Does that seem weird to anyone or is that just me? It's cool if it is just me...it is just me, isn't it?" Hee. Jack pipes up that Irina may have wanted to save her daughter's life. Syd, newly betrayed by her mother, states, "I doubt that's the case."
Anonymous Airfield Of Terrible Terrorists And Their Witless Wives. Arvy and Em enter a plane, and Arvy informs his wife that it's his plane. Em's reached the end of her tether, and tells Arvy that she's been more than patient and to bring on the explanations already. Just then, Irina stands up. Her hair's all messy again (I love that!) and she's sporting a gray turtleneck sweater with buttons on one shoulder. How does she look gorgeous in something as plain as that? It's baffling to me.
Em's totally flummoxed at the reappearance of her once-dead friend. Irina moves forward and hugs her, and if it was Em's wedding band finger that was cut off and sent to Sloane all those months ago, her finger has miraculously reappeared. I honestly don't know if it was ever stated just which finger it was that was cut off, but I have yet to see one missing from either of her hands. I'm just sayin'.