Episode Report Card Erin: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The bitch is back.
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.17.2005
Marshall bursts into Jack's office and announces that Jonski Voightskovich from the last episode is actually Covenant and that he made some calls from the same place and at the same time as Dixon saw Irina. Unfortunately, tracking Jonski is gonna take some time. Jack orders Marshall to head over to Sloane's computer and access the Blackwell Index in order to speed up the process of tracking Jonski down. Marshall's all, uh, the Blackwell Index? But I thought Sloane gave that over to Langley? Did he? Jack? Anyone? Bueller?
Meanwhile, Vaughn meanders over to Nadia's desk in an effort to avoid asking Sydney to marry him. He asks Nadia how she's doing and she says she's trying to stay focused. Vaughn looks down and sees Nadia looking at Martin Bishop's file. "He killed my mother supposedly," she says. "If she's alive, then the CIA obviously missed something." Yeah, big emphasis on that there "supposedly," Nadia. Vaughn's all, uhhhh, yeah, dude. Researching Martin Bishop isn't probably the most productive use of your time, you know? Nadia's all, the huh? Vaughn's all, talk to Jack. Then he runs off elsewhere in an effort to delay his proposal just a wee bit more.
Sloane's Office of West Elm Furniture. Marshall's at the computer, accessing the Blackwell Index while Jack watches. Marshall nervously blurbles something about how when Jack helped Sloane steal the Blackwell Index, he didn't know Sloane was going to switch sides, did he? Jack's all, NO. And stop talking for the LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND HOLY. Marshall gets the Blackwell to work and they bring up the stats on Jonski. Jack wants all aliases, contacts, et cetera. Nadia enters and demands to speak with Jack. Marshall leaves them alone. Nadia wants to know the truth about her mother's death. "Martin Bishop didn't kill Irina," says Jack matter-of-factly. "I did." Nadia looks like she's been slapped in the face with a nine-iron. Jack explains the contract hit scenario and the getting set up by Elena scenario and Nadia's all, whatever, does Sydney know? Jack doesn't answer, instead saying something about how if Irina is alive -- "I hope she is," snaps Nadia, cutting him off. "And you should too." She stalks off.
Vaughn has finally, FINALLY decided to ask Syd to marry him, so what does he do? He grabs her and says, "Syd, something's happened," and basically walks around the corner, hoping she'll follow. She does. She follows him into the Conference Room of Endless Expositions and there are all these newscasts on, saying that something funky is going on in Russia. Oh. Wait. Something really is going on? Vaughn just wasn't using a clever ruse to get Syd to follow him so he could ask her to marry him over by the donuts? Damn. Anyway, something bad is happening in Russia, but no one knows what it is because the Russians aren't saying. All they know is that there's a military perimeter around the city of Sevogda. Quarantine? No idea. Everyone watches the monitors warily. Jack enters and says no one has any clue as to what in the hell is going on, including all the damn governments. Just then, Marshall's computer beeps and he gets a feed from his hacker friend in Russia.