Episode Report Card Manimal: B | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Spirit
By Manimal | Season 1 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.15.2001
Sydney looks anxious.
SD-6. Sydney's desk. Jack approaches and tells her that he heard about what happened. He asks how she's doing. She says he's fine. Jack says, "Russek. It was a shock." Jack tries to look surprised, but looks a little smug instead. Don't ask me how I get about a paragraph of subtext from three seconds of facial expression, but I do. Victor Garber is good. Sydney suspects something and asks, "You didn't." Jack denies it.
CIA Warehouse. Vaughn tells Sydney that Russek is dead. Sydney looks sick. They talk about her counter-mission -- to find Hassan's identity and to keep it from SD-6 and give it to Vaughn instead. For the Sydney-Vaughn cheering section out there, she says, "Give it to you," rather than "give it to the CIA." It's amazing how those junior-high skills of parsing every breath, nuance, and molecule of conversation for romantic possibility really never leave ya.
Some anonymous pawn shop. Will and Gadget Inspector 2 are analyzing the tape the Bogeyman left for Will. Apparently, the bullet was a 9mm shot at close range, twice in the chest and once in the head. Will says that it's how Eloise Kurtz was killed. They listen to the tape over and over again as they figure out that it's not necessarily the same person who killed her who gave Will the tape, or the one who gave Eloise the transmitter blah blah blah BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH.
Is this show over yet? Can I take a nap?
Will. Asks. Again. Why someone would tell him about the tape and send Kate Jones to see him. They scroll through the tape again to hear a man's voice saying, "Did you tell him about SD-6?"
Some little So-Cal bungalow. Sydney parks, gets out, and knocks on the front door. Oh. It's Will's place. Sydney apologizes for snapping at him previously. That's nice of Sydney. Will says that she doesn't have to apologize, but that he's worried about her. Sydney says that he's right, and that's why she's there, since she does need to do something non-job related, and that maybe the four of them could go to Lake Arrowhead next weekend. Okay, this is not Mayberry Fucking RFD. L.A. is like New York; you call first, you don't just show up on someone's doorstep. Will agrees, but he's not super-enthused.
Sydney reads his face and whisper-asks if he's not alone. Suddenly Jennie, wearing Will's button-down shirt, pops up behind him. They exchange fakey-nice greetings. Will asks Sydney if she wants to come in, now that he's been caught. Sydney's voice goes sorority-sister saccharine as she says no thanks, that she has to go home. Jennie out-saccharines her and says that it was good to see her. You know, if Sydney didn't get the hint, I think Jennie should've lifted her leg and peed all over Will. Come to think of it, seeing that would be the only moment of enjoyment I've had watching Will. Point made, Jennie disappears and Will closes the door. Sydney walks away after the door closes and says meditatively, "Hmm."