Episode Report Card Erin: A | 2 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT The Ice 5 Man Cometh
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aired on 01.18.2005
Later on, in Kelly's office, she's on the phone negotiating supplies with someone as Syd listens and gets a good look at the office. Kelly's Belfast accent is better than I originally thought when I watched it on Wednesday night. At first I thought she was just barely disguising her Scottish brogue, but then I remembered that on Wednesday night, I'd had approximately four Grapetinis at China Grill and couldn't hear my OWN accent, let alone anyone else's. Anyway, Kelly gets off the phone and it's pretty clear that she recognizes that Syd's verrrry new at this whole hospital thing. As they speed down another hallway, Syd comically tries to put the surgical gloves on and I'm fairly certain she's doing it on purpose so Kelly will continue to think she's sort of a 'tard. Like, the more helpless and hapless Syd is, the less likely Kelly is to think that Syd's a government agent in search of a biological weapon, you know?
The girls head into a hospital room and take a look at a guy with psoriatic arthropathy. I looked it up, but the explanation is so long and involved that I'll just say: it sucks. Kelly informs Syd that the old guy needs to be greased from head to toe and then hands Syd a big jar of goo and tells her to go to it. Heh. Syd sucks it up and moves toward her patient to commence the greasing up. Over at the Apple Store, Marshall's blathering on about the Ice 5 container to Nadia. He also shows Nadia some pictures of baby Mitchell and blathers some more about how Mitchell eats things like little plastic cars and has to be taken to the hospital all the time. Nadia just says he's beautiful and Weiss enters, saying that Nadia's immune to Marshall's cute baby story charm. Nadia's not sure. Weiss wants to know if Marshall has any weaponizing theories about Ice 5. There's some general geek-flirt going on between Nadia and Marshall that Weiss totally picks up on. But really, there are only two things we're supposed to get from this scene. One: the CIA is going to nab the Ice 5 sample and then try to sell it on the open market in order to determine what kind of weapon it's supposed to be and who's shopping for designer weapons. And two: Marshall's not supposed to be flirting with Nadia. As Weiss leaves, he stops at the door and mouths, "You're married," to Marshall, who then gets this hilarious guilty look on his face.
Back in Montenegro, Syd's going through cabinets and supply cases looking for the Ice 5, but she's having no luck. She pulls out her lock pick and goes to work on a locked door, but the door behind her opens up and she has to toss the pick into a wastebasket and pick up a box and pretend to be looking for syringes or something. Good thing she has excellent reflexes, because it's Kelly at the door and she's all, "Wot are yew doin' in heeyah?" Syd calmly says the thing about the syringes and says that they're almost out and she was looking for a purchase order. Kelly doesn't have time to critique this answer because, at that moment, we hear the sound of someone shouting from the hall. Kelly runs out to handle it and Syd goes with her. A soldier on a gurney is shrieking and crying and it's probably because the left side of his face has been frozen. Oh, and his arm has been snapped clean off, just like Muck's leg. In Montenegrin, a soldier explains that the injured man was in a jeep accident and that he was carrying "the container." Kelly shuts him up but quick and gets the injured soldier to the Secret Lab of Icy Experiments. She runs her key card through a key pad and enters a code, which Syd sees. Syd goes to follow everyone into the Secret Lab of Icy Experiments, but Kelly won't have that and she dismisses Syd to continue her fake syringe search.