Episode Report Card Manimal: B | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Spirit
By Manimal | Season 1 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.15.2001
Chamber Of Horrors. Sydney is being buckled into a chair with some very large leather straps that coincidentally bear a resemblance to some Hermés leather belts that were all the rage a few seasons ago. See, kids, this is what a standing subscription to Elle gets you -- a working knowledge of leather goods that cost more than some cars. The goons leave, and Sydney tries to get herself unbuckled. But then a cadaverous-looking doctor comes in. Close-up of Cadaverous Doctor putting on rubber gloves. Sydney starts breathing hard. CD takes out a mini-tape recorder and hits play. He puts it on the tray next to her.
SD-6. Jack enters a conference room and looks around. The camera does that three-hundred-sixty-degree whirly thing.
Chamber Of Horrors. CD whips out a mini-taser gun thingie. Sydney introduces herself, and then says that she's seen him around the office, and that she always wondered what he did. She gasps as he tightens a rubber tie around her arm. CD doesn't say a word. Sydney mutters that she guesses this is what he does, and CD takes out a syringe and fills it.
Marshall's lair. He's doing something under a magnifying glass when one of his computers beeps. He checks it, and his brow furrows. Oh, no -- has he fallen victim to Michael Vartan Disease? Cut to Sloane's office. Marshall holds some paper files and tells Sloane he should see something. Sloane moves v-e-e-ery slowly.
Chamber Of Horrors. The Cadaverous Doctor is filling the syringe, still. Sydney is trying to fast-talk her way out of the situation, but CD is having none of it. He taps her arm, looking for a vein. Mmmm, veins. Sydney's face tightens up as the needle gets closer. Sydney's still flinching and the needle's still on the verge of entry when a goon enters the room. He says there's been a change of plans.
Sloane's office. Sloane's POV as he tells Sydney that she's been under suspicion as the mole for the past few weeks. He then tells her -- and us, for the three thousandth time -- about the Geneva transmission, and how they suspected it was her, but they just learned it was Russek. Sydney breathes, "Russek."
Chamber Of Horrors. Russek is being buckled in by the large not-Hermés leather straps. I'm sorry, I just can't get over that. He's struggling like a madman, of course, and yelling that he wants to talk to Sloane. The CD shoots him up. Russek screams.
Sloane's office. He's all twinkly and approving as he tells Sydney that he knew she would never betray them, and that when he learned Russek was the mole, he felt vindicated. He holds out both hands to Sydney. He looks like he's at her bas mitzvah or something. Yick.