Episode Report Card Erin: D+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT A cup of No-Doz and an espresso IV, STAT!
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 17 | Aired on 04.26.2005
Airfield of Isn't This Damn Story Over Yet? Everyone starts moving toward the plane. And here's where something happens that I had to rewind six times before realizing that it was never going to make sense to me. That nerdy guy from back at the club seems to be walking toward the plane at the same time as Stubbly and his gang. I can't tell if he's a member of Stubbly's team or what, but he talks into his wrist, just like other CIA members do when they're on comms, and he says, "I'm in place, do you read?" A man's voice tells him to go ahead. At that moment, something on Dirty Broderick's belt beeps and he puts an earpiece in his ear just in time to hear Nerdy Guy say, "[Lambert] has gathered a total of six team members and they're en route to the plane." "And Agent Dixon is still imbedded?" asks the other voice. "Securely," says Nerdy Guy, walking right past Lambert and his men. See, what? Huh? Is that guy CIA? Did he just make a burst transmission and Dirty Broderick picked it up? Is he a member of the team? Is he a member of the CIA? Is he working with someone else entirely? I. Have. No. Idea.
It doesn't matter, really. All that matters is that Dirty Broderick goes right to Stubbly with this intercepted transmission, and Stubbly grabs a gun and all the other team members grab guns, and everyone points their guns at Dix and Raimes. Dix is all, uh, what's happening? Vaughn tells Dix through comms that he's in position. Stubbly wants to know which one of them is Agent Dixon. Dix plays it like Stubbly's crazy and Raimes just plays it like he's paranoid. Stubbly's all, you're an agent! Dix is all, you crazy! Stubbly's all, no, YOU'RE an agent. Raimes is all, you crazy! And so on. Stubbly puts down his gun and turns to walk away, saying, "Kill both of them." Before the guys can pull the trigger, though, Raimes takes action, knocking Dix out of the way and shooting the hell out of the team members. Dirty Broderick shoots Raimes and he goes down. Dix picks up the fallen gun and shouts, "Enough!" Vaughn tells Dix not to shoot Lambert because he has to lead them to the Hydrosec. "Let me finish this!" says Dix, turning to Raimes. He picks up him and says, "This is how you deal with traitors! What you got to say now, Agent Dixon?" Raimes looks at him as we wonder just how much longer we have to endure this ho-hum episode.
After the break, Dix is still pointing his gun at Raimes. "Any last words?" he snaps at Raimes. "Hey," says Raimes, laughing, "casualty of the business I'm in." Vaughn interprets this correctly, saying to Dix that Raimes is offering himself up as a sacrificial lamb. Heh. I actually typed "sacrificial lamp," which is an entirely different sacrifice involving bulbs and dimmer switches. Vaughn tells Dix to shoot him. Dix shoots him. Then he turns around and says they have business to do and they need to get the hell out of there before Raimes's backup shows. "You're welcome!" he says, handing over the gun. The three of them get on the plane, leaving the dead inexplicably behind. Vaughn just watches them go.