Episode Report Card Erin: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sharon! This episode sucked!
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.04.2003
Back from commercial, Syd's dancing with Blond Drug Man. He's asking about how she learned her trade. She tells him she was a biochem major at Harvard, not that they'll be asking her to give any commencement speeches in the near future. Blond Drug Man's all, their loss, my gain, ja? Syd's all, I need one liter of your product. "Oh, just like that, then?" says Blond Drug Man. Syd's all, I'll chemically alter it and make it better than ever. Blah blah blah. Really! I mean, really! Syd's just trying to get into other parts of the building, okay?
Blond Drug Man's Sanctum Sanctorum. Syd and Blond Drug Man enter, and he goes off, telling her to make herself comfortable as he'll only be a moment. Blond Drug Man goes off into a corner and gets something and returns to Syd momentarily, handing her a vial that he declares has a street value of $50,000. Syd's all, mind if I give it a spin? Blonde Drug Man's all, be my guest. Syd, with her Annie Hall-homage tie intact, sticks a needle into the vial as Blond Drug Man says that, if she's gonna take that vial outta here, he's gonna need some collateral.
As Blond Drug Man comes up behind her, Syd's all, I don't have any money on me. Luckily, Blond Drug Man is flexible on that whole "collateral" thing. "I do accept other forms of payment," he says, sniffing her hair. Again with the squicky hair-sniffing thing. Ew. "Ooh! There's an air bubble in there," he notices. Syd quickly moves into action, pushing the Blond Drug Man down to the floor and then pushing the needle to his neck.
Oops Center just watches as she does this, Marshall, Dix, and -- gasp -- Vaughn among them. "Do exactly as I say, or I push the plunger," she says. "Where's the alarm terminal that protects the subbasement?" "Bitch," hisses Blond Drug Man. "Tell me where it is, or you get an aneurysm," she spits. "Okay…down the hall, first door," he says. "But I only manage the facility. I do not know the codes! I swear!" Syd elbows him in the face and moves on to the code box.
At the alarm terminal, Syd and her tie need a minute to hack into the system. Dix hears this and alerts Weiss and his team that they're not to breach until given the signal. Weiss copies this and states that the team is holding. Syd pulls something out of her shoe and plugs it into the terminal. It's a code breaker. Dix informs her that her entrance to the sublevel will be through the last door down on the north hallway.
Suddenly, at Oops Center, Vaughn speaks up. "Marshall, why does all this cabling run through the control room?" Marshall responds, "Looks like some sort of filtration system." Back at the alarm terminal, Syd's got the code. She enters it. "What could it be used for?" asks Vaughn. Marshall spews something about it being possibly a halon-based fire-suppression system. Vaughn leaps forward and grabs a headset. "Sydney, stop! You've got the wrong code! The alarm will be triggered by that sequence!" Syd, hearing the sound of Vaughn's voice, looks almost…well…orgasmic. "Remember the security system in Nepal?" Vaughn continues. "It's the same system. Those numbers can be converted into a password. That is the real code. Read me the sequence." Vaughn turns to Marshall. "Gimme a pen!" Marshall hands him one, and as Syd reads off the sequence, Vaughn writes it down. Weiss's team is hanging on. Vaughn figures it out. "Top Hat," he says. "Try 'Top Hat.'" Syd enters it.