Episode Report Card Erin: A+ | 2 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Say goodbye to reality, Uncle Arvin.
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 16 | Aired on 04.19.2005
The elevator crashes and Syd heads down to the subbasement. Bad Baldy's already there and he's prying open the elevator doors. The case is inside, amidst the blood and bones and debris. He grabs it and hands it to Sloane Clone and they both scurry off. Syd readies her gun and enters the subbasement. She looks in at the crashed elevator and sees the dead bodies of the men. She tells Jack and Sloane that Omar is dead and the coil is gone. Sloane looks like he just had a plate of bad jalapeño poppers.
I have a confession to make. I love Grey's Anatomy. And I hate hospital shows. Like, I only made it through the first couple of seasons of ER and that was only because of The Clooney. I'd watch The Clooney eat rice cakes, yo. But I'm having a full-on love affair with Grey's Anatomy. It's probably because in the last two episodes they used not one but two Tegan & Sara songs and that's just rad, y'all.
Apple Store. Sloane's sitting in a chair, staring at a blown-up picture of Joel Grey's face. I know you've done many evil things in this lifetime, Arvin, but that's no reason to torture yourself with Munchkin Porn. Also? Sloane's wearing striped socks. Orange and red striped socks. I shit you not. He's wearing his typical dark Nehru suit and…brown shoes and striped socks. What the? I didn't see them the first time around, but now I have them paused and…the hell? I rarely find socks amusing but, in this case, I'll have to make an exception because, damn.
Syd enters and breathlessly says that she saw Sloane Clone at the hotel. She says that everything about the clone, his clothes, his posture, the way he looked at her…it's the way Sloane looks at her. "And how is that, Sydney?" he says calmly. "Let's just say it was equally disturbing." Heh. I'll bet. Sloane says something about how he's surprised she didn't think of it before. Syd's all, what? He's all, the elevator, the cables. She's all, Moscow, four years ago. Sloane tasked Sark with getting a certain Rambaldi item he required, and Sark chose to obtain it in exactly the same way as Sloane Clone did the coil. "Why would someone be impersonating you?" asks Syd. "It appears to be more than that," says Sloane. "This man -- his strategy, his appearance, his affinity for all things Rambaldi…" Syd looks at Sloane in surprise. "You think he actually believes he's you?"
Sloane just sighs and wonders aloud if he should recuse himself from all involvement. Sydney doesn't think that's a good idea; she wants Sloane to stay in it. In fact, she thinks he should go deeper -- all the way to the heart of the matter: Rambaldi. "You're asking me to go back to Rambaldi?" he asks. "God help us," she whispers. "Yes." Sloane doesn't look entirely displeased by this turn of events.