Episode Report Card Manimal: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Doppelganger
By Manimal | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.27.2001
Apparently all the pipes in this building lead straight to Fantasy Island, because when Sydney comes to, she's by this beautiful little pond with a Brazilian kid leaning over her. If a giant pipe leads out of a factory/building or whatever, wouldn't you expect that it would be there to drain off sewage or waste, and would thus probably go straight into some contaminated body of water? Although I guess it is leading us straight into this cockamamie plot, so same difference. Of course, Sydney speaks Portuguese. Hey -- could we get some subtitles, here?
Bus. Sydney. Cell phone. She calls Dixon and says that whatever she tells him, he has to believe her. Dixon tells her that the news agencies reported he had an arrhythmia. She fills him in on Patel with the bomb planted inside him, and says that since it's so small, it's on a wireless remote. Sydney tells Dixon to find Patel and meet her in back. Sydney hands the phone back to the kid, who's on the bus with her. She says thanks.
Dixon walks through the conference. He checks the time. Patel is due to speak in a few moments. He looks worried.
Conference. Protesters. Sydney weaves her way through the crowd. She walks up to an ambulance and feigns fainting. The driver gets out to help her. She sneaks around the other side of the truck and steals the ambulance.
Dixon enters the room where Patel and his bodyguard are waiting. Dixon and the guard argue. Dixon then sucker-punches him. Patel is agitated. Dixon then apologizes, looking completely distressed, and punches him in the nose. Why doesn't Dixon get a show?
Building back entrance. Sydney pulls up. Dixon -- using a fireman's lift, I might add -- hauls Patel out of the building and throws him in the back of the ambulance.
Conference. They announce Patel. Ambulance. Dixon can't believe he punched Dhirin Patel, whom he worships, in the face. Sydney wants to know if he ID'd the trigger. Dixon says no. They exposition about how Dixon had basic medical training, but nothing to prep him for this. Sydney is whiny and irritating. My goodness, how I hate her. If hate were people, I'd be China.
Did I mention there's a big, throbbing heartbeat interweaving with the soundtrack? I would kill for some original music choices here. Maybe "Heart Attack" by Olivia Newton John. (They don't have to be good -- just original.)
Sydney and Dixon put Patel under. Jacquenod comes after them. Sydney starts driving as Dixon operates. Since the bomb's on remote, Sydney has to stay out of range. The next few moments are filled with Jacquenod yelling, "Get me closer!" Sydney driving extremely rapidly through the streets of Sao Paolo, and Dixon cutting into Patel's chest. Did I mention that Patel starts coming to a couple of times?