Episode Report Card Erin: C | 1 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Blowback? Blow me.
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 14 | Aired on 03.06.2004
Aaaand we're back on the ship. The guard is dropped by the tranq dart. Syd and Vaughn head for the ship door. Sark and Lauren come across the fallen guard. Sark spies the dart in his neck and says something about how it's a tranq dart, a CIA calling card. Right. Because the CIA doesn't kill anyone. "I wouldn't be so sure about that," says JFK from his permanent seat by the bar down in Limbo. Lauren, by the way, has huge black greasepaint circles around her eyes. Ostensibly, this would be a precautionary measure so that there would be no danger of someone recognizing her by her eyes, which are visible through the holes in her ski mask. However, Sark doesn't have the same makeup on his eyes, which just…ow. OW! I think I hurt my brain. Must. Stop. Thinking.
Sark and Lauren head off after Vaughn and Syd, and we see Vaughn getting shot. Syd drags him off. Vaughn's fine. He's wearing a bulletproof vest. They go to get the bomb. Sark and Lauren follow, splitting up so that Sark heads to the engine room and Lauren heads to the upper deck. Syd heads to the engine room, with Vaughn heading to the upper deck to cover her. See where this is going? Syd locates the plasma thingy and removes it from its case. As she does so, we see Lauren, looking down at her. Lauren pulls out her gun and is about to shoot Syd when Vaughn shows up and yells at her to freeze. She does. He tells her to drop the gun, and she does. Then he orders her to put her hands in the air and turn around. She does. "Take off the mask!" he says. She doesn't respond. "Seriously? Take off the mask, dude! I know it's you, Lauren! But I just gotta get a look at all that black shit on your eyes. The Eyeliner of Evil has gotten WAY outta hand, honey."
Lauren's about to take off the mask when Sark shouts, "PUT THE GUN DOWN, AGENT VAUGHN." Down below, Sark's pointing a gun at Syd's head. Oops. There's a stand-off here as neither Vaughn nor Sark is particularly interested in putting their guns down. "If you love her," Sark weasily shouts, "you'll put the gun down now." Syd's all, don't do it, dude! Lauren's all, wait a second here, you're gonna drop the gun? YOU LOVE HER? Sark's all, man, that was a stroke of genius on my part because Lauren's gonna be piiiiiiissed. Vaughn's all, look out below! And he drops the gun. Oh, come on, you knew he would. Why else would the writers force David Anders to ask that stupid question?
Lauren just looks at her husband in disbelief. And then she nails him one across the face. Heh. Vaughn goes down. This distraction allows Syd to take a shot at Sark. Lauren gets her dropped gun and starts shooting, allowing Sark to run for the hills. With the plasma charge. More shooting. Some running. Syd tells Vaughn that Sark has the bomb. Syd and Vaughn split up to chase after their quarry. Chasing. Running. Shooting. Up on deck, Syd loses Lauren. Elsewhere, Vaughn doesn't lose Sark. He jumps on top of him, and they both fall to the ground. Sark gets away, though, and runs to some stairs. Vaughn trains a gun on him and orders him to hand over the bomb. Sark flicks a switch, setting the bomb to go off, tosses it to Vaughn, and then runs off.