Episode Report Card Erin: B- | 1 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Pssst. Lauren's evil. Pass it on.
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.10.2004
Oops Center. Jack's phone rings and he picks up. It's Stogy. He informs Jack that Sloane was telling the truth. The black budget front for the trust is "Project Centigrade." Jack is in Stogy's debt. A fact which Stogy hopes to benefit from someday. "Be careful, Jack," says Stogy. "The Trust is not a group to be taken lightly." Just then, Dixon walks up and says he needs to speak with Jack in private. Uh-oh. In Dixon's office, Dix asks if Jack recalls Dix asking for Dr. Nancy's notes from her sessions with Sloane. Jack's all, yeah, so? Did they reveal anything? Um, yes, as a matter of fact. In Dr. Nancy's notes, Sloane admitted to having an affair with Irina, while she was still married to Jack. Funny. I don't remember that little tidbit of information coming up during their "sessions." I remember it coming up right outside the coat check area at the illicit non-doctor-patient-privilege restaurant meeting at which Dr. Nancy chose to wear her highly inappropriate cavernous-cleavage-revealing black dress. Was that an office visit? Because it sure as hell didn't look like one.
Well, whatever Dr. Nancy's idea of "ethics," the fact remains: Sloane shtupped Irina while you guys were hitched. Jack's expression goes from stony to stonier, then his lips kind of twitch and twist, and then his eyes go bloodless. It's…wow. Have I mentioned how much I love Victor Garber? Because if I haven't: LOVE. We hear the sound of the prison doors buzzing open. We then see Jack, slipping through the prison waters to his prey. Sloane. Jack's lips are so tight, they are nonexistent. He moves slowly to Sloane's cell. Sloane gets up, obviously hoping that Jack has brought him good news. "I found no evidence of the existence of the so-called Trust," chills Jack. "Oh, I find that very hard to believe, Jack," says Sloane. "A man with your contacts?" "I've done everything I can," says Jack. "I'm afraid the secrets you keep…are hard to uncover." Oooh. Burrrrn. "Some of them, you'll have to take to your grave." "If I die," says Sloane, "I won't be able to help you find The Passenger before The Covenant does, Jack." Jack just stares at him. "You have no idea how that will affect you," says Sloane. "You. And Sydney."
Speaking of Sydney, she's walking up to Jack, who's now sitting at his desk. He tells her that he heard about the doctor in Milan. "We were wrong about The Passenger," she says. "It's not a weapon, it's a person. The doctor sacrificed his life trying to protect her. When he saw me, it was almost like he recognized me. Like I was his worst fear, come to life." She leans forward. "Dad, when he tried to kill me, he was trying to protect The Passenger from me." "Sloane told me that after il Dire said 'peace,' he searched for every possible meaning in that message. He traced the etymology of the word to its Greek form, 'Eirene,' also the derivation of the name, Irina. Sydney, I think The Passenger may be your mother." Syd just looks off, freaked out by the idea that Lena Olin may be returning! Please? Please! PLEASE!