Episode Report Card Erin: B | 2 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT This is the end. My foolish friends, the end.
By Erin | Season 5 | Episode 17 | Aired on 2006.05.22
"Hand me The Sphere, Sydney," says Sloane, now armed with a pistol. "And I'll let you all walk out of here." Sydney's all, oh, sure. And what's to stop you from killing us all right after I hand you The Sphere? I don't think so, little man. Sloane says that despite what Syd may think, he's not heartless. Yeah, tell that to your DAUGHTER, dude. Syd says that if he wants it so much, they'll walk out of there together, and then they'll talk. Sloane knows Syd well enough to know that she's not going to give in, so he does the only thing he can think of that will get him back The Sphere. He shoots Jack.
Jack falls and Syd drops The Sphere and goes to her father as Vaughn gets rid of the guards. As Syd weeps over her fallen father, Sloane picks up The Sphere, thinking he's gotten away this time. He looks up, and Syd is looking directly at him with her gun pulled. There's a pause, then Syd empties her gun into his body, including a final shot directly in the center of his forehead. He falls back with his arms splayed like a shorter version of our lord and savior, Jesus Christ. He lands in a shallow basin in front of the dais that's filled with the flow over from mini-Clifford. It's thinner than blood, so now I have NO idea what it's supposed to be.
The Sphere rolls out of his hand and hits Sark's foot and I couldn't help but wonder if she hadn't killed him so fast, would Sloane have taken a page out of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and told Sydney that the only way to save her father was to have him drink from The Sphere? I mean, at this point, we have no idea what The Sphere is or why it's filled with red liquid or what that liquid does. It's entirely possible that it's the key to eternal life and all she had to do was spill a bit over Jack's wounds and a little more into his mouth. I don't know. It's a good idea. NOT THAT THE WRITERS WOULD KNOW THAT.
Syd bends over her father and calls out "Dad" several times, and then we're back in the flashback zone and Syd's entering her father's house, and Jack's on the phone obviously improvising a conversation with someone about "rudder controls" because, see, he doesn't work for an airplane company, he works for the CIA! Syd hands him an envelope and asks him to open it. It appears to be money, and Syd tells him it's for her tuition. He asks if she robbed a bank, and she says "sort of." Actually, she got a job at a bank; you may have heard of it. It's called Credit Dauphine and it has really neat offices underground.