Episode Report Card Erin: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Doctor, Doctor, Gimme The News!
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 6 | Aired on 11.09.2002
Syd's not really pleased that Spy Daddy's come a-callin'. He's all, I see your mother's latest maneuver had its intended effect. Syd's all, and just what "maneuver" might that be, Daddy-o? The one where she PLEADED GUILTY AND ACCEPTED THE DEATH SENTENCE WITHOUT APPEAL? Actually, this is precisely the maneuver to which Spy Daddy's referring. Syd's all, ooooh, yeah, she's got us right where she wants us with that move, dude. Nice thinking. Spy Daddy's all, not "us," sweetheart, YOU. Mommy's not an idiot, you know. She probably figured out pretty quickly that I'm a backstabbing prick who set her up. So, like, WHY do you think she pled guilty then? Huh? Because she had a crisis of conscience? Heh. Right. THAT WOMAN HAS NO CONSCIENCE.
Syd's all, okay, you know WHAT? Your consistently paranoid jealousy is really starting to get on my wick. I think Mom realized the verdict was a foregone conclusion. Now go back to your little video games, you pathetic pisher. Spy Daddy's all, oh, please! The woman pled guilty so there wouldn't be a trial! She didn't want you to see photos of the agents she savagely murdered, including Vaughn's father. "She knew if you sat through that, whatever sympathy she'd manage to elicit from you would vanish," Jack spits. "So, she cast herself as the victim to compel you to save her and guess what? You fell for it."
Okay, he's really stretching here. I mean, it's obvious that he loves her in his own fucked-up way, but accusing Irina of pleading guilty just so Syd won't see the carnage she's responsible for? Hello? Syd can check that shit out any old time she wants in the CIA archives, I imagine. I mean, the only thing keeping Syd from being exposed to the horrific past of her mother is, quite frankly, Syd. All Spy Mommy's doing is trying to get in good with her daughter. I'm sure her intentions are much more nefarious and complex than that, but for the moment, I'm finding it pretty damn hard to believe that Mama Hari would plead guilty to something she didn't even do just to pull the Alpaca wool over her daughter's often-tearful eyes.
Spy Daddy pulls the letter that Syd wrote to Devlin out of his inner coat pocket, saying that he wants to give her a second chance to think things over. Syd's all, uh, how in the HELL did you get that? Instead of answering her, Spy Daddy clenches, "I spent a decade with this woman. And another twenty years analyzing how she could have deceived me for so long. Trust me when I tell you, I am protecting you."