Episode Report Card Erin: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT If it ain't broke, Spy Daddy will BLOW IT UP.
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.19.2002
Syd boo-hoos about how her mother was counting on her trust, and sniffles on about how that trust would have gotten her killed. Vaughn goes to order one of his men to secure the perimeter. The man ignores him, and instead hits Vaughn in the head with the butt of his gun. That is NO way to behave with your superior. Oh. Wait. It's Sark.
Never mind how he found her. Sark orders his men to enter the building. "You escaped K-Directorate after lockdown," he says, performing the official "I Am Evil And Therefore I Talk A Whole Hell Of A Lot" dance. "Clearly you had no trouble decoding the map. I'm surprised Klaus Richter was so willing to reveal his secrets. If I didn't know any better, I'd guess you had another source." Just then, Sark's men enter the building and it blows sky-high. Sark's disappeared.
Spy Daddy gets on the horn. "Sydney? Are you okay?" "We're okay, Dad," she breathes. "We're coming home." Vaughn puts his arm on Syd's back, and they walk off. Back at Ops Center, Kendall picks up the phone and orders Mama Hari transferred to Camp Harris for unrestricted interrogation. "You were right about her, Jack," says Kendall, walking off. Jack, knowing in his heart that he did wrong, just contemplates his navel.
As The Poignant Strings Of Sydney's Ultimate Betrayal play, Mama Hari sits in lotus position and meditates. Guards enter and roughly interrupt her calm. They pull her off the bunk and awkwardly shackle her. She looks mildly perplexed, but doesn't put up any kind of fight, and actually emits a sort of glowing serenity that cosmetic companies would KILL for. Jack watches on the monitor as Irina's dragged off the premises.
"I thought there might have been a chance," says Syd, down in The Subbasement Of Dreams And Desires, "to believe...to believe that she had no hidden agenda." Syd turns, starting to cry, and we see that she's talking to her father, not her non-boyfriend. "Everything you said was right," she says, crying harder, "and I was so stupid!" Jack quickly walks over to his daughter and takes her in his arms. The dam bursts, and she's all-out sobbing now. "I'm sorry, Dad," she sobs. "I'm sorry that I doubted you. I'm sorry, Dad."
And even though what Jack did was absolutely deplorable, we still love him anyway, because Victor Garber simply BREAKS OUR HEARTS in this scene. They both do.
Yeah. I'm crying. Shut UP.
No, Viggo. I don't need a tissue. It's just...so...sad! I mean, he did this terrible thing and yet he did it because he loves her and you just can't hate him and -- oh. You're wearing the shorts. And the shades. And you have the whistle around your neck. Drop and give you twenty? Honey, not now, I'm crying. Ow! Viggo! Don't -- sorry, Master Chief! Yes, sir, Master Chief! Right away, Master Chief!