Episode Report Card Erin: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Vampire LeSyd
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 6 | Aired on 02.08.2005
A bit later, the Appleseed gang receives a Batvision message from Sloane and Doc Pineal. (Seriously. It's Sloane and the Doc in some room, beamed directly to the SpyCam or something. It's sort of hilarious, actually.) The doc tells them that Nocturne incorporates a stimulant that overrides the pineal gland. Vaughn pipes up that there was intel a few years ago that the North Koreans were working on an experimental project like this once, trying to create 24-hour soldiers. Doc Pineal says that there were plenty of other experiments as well, but they all failed because no one really understood the biochemical nature of dreaming. Vaughn asks if the Cahills' visions were actually a form of dreams. "Nightmares, yes, in a manner of speaking," says Doc Pineal. "Problem being with these dreams? Once triggered, there's no waking up." Sloane asks if Sydney is listening. Before she can answer, Sloane starts talking about how his plan is working and how she's starting to trust him all over again. Syd looks to her left, trying to dispel the nightmare, but Sloane shows up right next to her, saying that at some point, he'll betray her, and the people she cares most about will die. Nightmare Sloane disappears, and Vaughn's all, dude? You okay? Syd responds by getting up and stalking into the other room. At least she didn't say she was fine again.
In the other room, Syd grabs Andre and starts screaming at him to tell her the truth about the drug. He whimpers that he's not lying and that he told her everything. She grabs him by the neck and starts choking him. "I'm one of them," she gasps. "Do you hear me, you son of a bitch? Cahill bit me!" Vaughn comes in and rips her off Andre. He gasps and says that he lied; it wasn't Cahill who called him, but the other way around. He called Cahill to tell him that the original sample drug he gave him wasn't Nocturne at all; at least not the Nocturne they're making nowadays. Instead, it was an old sample that was meant to be destroyed. This drug? Well, it goes right through skin. "And [Cahill] didn't know this," hisses Vaughn. "I need money!" simpers Andre. "I lied to him! I'm sorry." Syd starts getting another headache. Jack wants to know where the drug came from. Andre thinks it came from Prague. He apologizes to everyone. He's kind of cute for a weasly Romanian drug dealer.
Apple Store. Weiss is having some sort of epiphany about Nancy Cahill's last words. He determines that "grappig" means something other than "funny." Nadia plugs it into some intelligence search engine and comes up with "The Grappig Group" in Prague. Turns out that Grappig is a loose affiliation of biochemical engineers headed up by Baldy McScaryPants from the beginning of the episode. Weiss says that Nancy Cahill had found where Nocturne originated, but she was too far gone to do anything about it. The Grappig intel is communicated to the Appleseed gang by Sloane. He seems to think that even if they can recover a sample of the drug, there wouldn't be enough time to engineer an antidote; Syd needs medical attention, like, now. Vaughn states that, if Grappig realized they made a bad batch of Nocturne, they may very well have created an antidote themselves. Jack spits out that they're going to Prague, end of story. Heh.