Episode Report Card Erin: A | 1 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Sark. Do I even need to say anything else?
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 8 | Aired on 02.22.2005
Nadia, speaking for the uninitiated in our audience, asks who Anna Espinosa is. Syd says she's a former Soviet agent who was raised in Cuba which, actually, is an exact reversal of Syd's description from Season One. Way to pay attention, writers. So, whatever, Anna's back in the picture, apparently, because several days ago, the London office intercepted something about a dead drop and surveillance of the drop brought up a picture of Anna Espinosa performing the drop. Jack turns to Marshall, who starts one of his infamous Marshallspiels. He pulled up the files on Anna, revealing that she specializes in close-quarter kills, strangulation, edged weapons, guns, high-level thefts, and security breeches. Damn. She spent six-and-a-half years on Interpol's most wanted list, and, after she left K-Directorate, she went freelance, working for the highest bidder. I'd love to be able to tell you just what K-Directorate was, but when I did a search through the recaps and brought up the earliest mention, there was no description to be had, probably because we were never actually given one. I mean, other than "they are the bad guys."
Marshall brings up another screen, showing the symbol on Anna's hand, and says that she's also one of the Followers of Rambaldi. At this announcement, Nadia looks decidedly ill. Probably the after effects of all the Green Goo™. She gets up to leave as Jack says that Anna is scheduled to meet a contact in Brussels 36 hours from now. Both Syd and Weiss watch as Nadia just…goes to her desk, right outside the conference room. Um. Nadia? I hate to break this to you but, everyone can still see you. If you're going to have a freakout, by all means, have it; just do it in the bathroom or the kitchen like everyone else. And grab me some Cheez-Its™ while you're at it.
Jack, who's about as sensitive as a piece of ahi tuna, just looks at Sydney all, dude? You listening? Syd turns around and says, "You want us to surveil the meet." Jack says that, yes, she, Dixon and Marshall, due to their familiarity with Anna's methods, will be tracking her movements and finding out what the meeting's all about. "If the opportunity should present itself," says Jack, "you're authorized to bring her in. The category of force you choose to exercise will remain…classified." Heh. In other words, you can kick the shit out of her, hit her over the head with a blow-up doll, make her wear a diaper and parade through the Richmond Wal-Mart, and force her to put together an IKEA sofa blindfolded and in the dark, and no one even remotely call you on it.