Episode Report Card Daniel: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT One Screwed Over The Cuckoo's Nest
By Daniel | Season 1 | Episode 7 | Aired on 02.24.2008
Inside the house, Silberman says it's a good thing Ellison told him about this. "I told you, I'm on your side," says Ellison. "I wish that were true," says Silberman, who rhetorically asks what would happen if the wrong people got hold of the hand: "I can't let you stop her." Ellison points out that Sarah's dead, so stopping her ain't really a thing. "So was Jesus, once," says Silberman. Ellison's all, "wha?" but doesn't have a whole lot of time to think about this, because Silberman jams a needle into his neck.
Back at the Connor Compound, John plops a bunch of t-shirts in front of Derek, saying he didn't know how many he'd need because it depends on how long he's staying, which sounds like a passive-aggressive way of getting Derek to get his ass out of there, if you ask me. Derek checks out the shirt. I'm going to pretend it and all the others are from 1999: "'Limp Bizkit Significant Other tour'? What the hell?" John says it can't be easy sleeping on the couch, and he knows, because he's slept on a few of them himself. Rather than pointing out that sleeping on a couch is infinitely better than stretching out on cots in underground bunkers in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, Derek pretends to give a shit, and John talks about moving from friend to foster family while his mom was in a mental hospital: "You go around blowing up buildings and ranting about robots, it happens." "Sounds rough," says Derek, looking at another t-shirt ("who the hell are the Backstreet Boys?"). Then John starts talking about Todd and Jannelle, and how they were okay (which is him looking back with rose-coloured glasses, I think), and how they wanted to adopt him. "I'm sure your mom would've died before she'd let that happen," says Derek. "Yeah, you'd think," says John. Sensing what John's hinting at here, Derek tells him that you don't know what a person's going to do when they get stuck between four walls: "It screws with your head. Makes you do things you never thought you'd do." "Some people never give up. Some people always fight," crabs John. "Fewer than you think," says Derek, showing admirable restraint in not telling John to stop being such a fucking baby already. I guess John is his future commander-in-chief. Derek asks whether John ever wonders what happened to Todd and Janelle. Nope, says John: "I got them killed."
In an old apartment building -- the kind where the stairs go up the middle of the floor and apartments encircle the landing -- Dmitri's freaking out that Maria has brought someone to his hideout. "She can help us!" Maria tells him. Cameron follows them into their room, where Dmitri yells at his sister some more. Cameron says that she has money, and holds up a diamond. This gets Dmitri's interest. "You're the one who reported the Turk missing," she says. Dmitri says that he was visited by a man who wanted to pay him to steal the Turk. Since he owed a lot of money to the men who helped him to bring his sister to the States, he agreed. From the look on her face, this is more or less news to Maria. So he screwed with the Turk's endgame protocols so they'd lose, because had they won -- "and we would've won" -- he never would've got the Turk (which Dmitri calls "her") out of there. He was paid $20,000, which wasn't enough for ponytailed Russian mobsters, apparently.
A car pulls up outside, and Dmitri checks the window. Two tough-looking guys get out of a black car. Apparently, the first ponytailed douchebag warned them it takes more than one guy to handle the surprisingly feisty ballerina bodyguard, because there are two of them. (One of them even has a ponytail!) Dmitri goes back to Cameron and tells her that he needs more diamonds. "Who bought the Turk?" she asks. Dmitri pulls a card out of his jacket and gives it to her. "Thank you for explaining," says Cameron, and heads out the door. Dmitri and Maria freak out. "You promised you'd help us!" says Maria. Cameron ignores them and walks out into the hallway, and then past the two burly guys coming up the stairs. They ignore her, draw their guns, kick in the door, and head inside. We watch Cameron's expressionless face as she descends the stairs, ignoring the screams and gunfire coming from upstairs. Well, at least Maria's students can have next week off.