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
Marshall starts gibbering about his great cover idea for Syd and Vaughn. He thinks they should pose as radio astronomers looking to back up their recordings of interplanetary noise. Lauren throws a pissy glance Syd's way. Syd catches it and delivers a smoldering "what's YOUR problem" look right back at her. Marshall hands over some cheat sheets for Syd and Vaughn to check out en route. Dix steps up for his third line of the evening, and informs them that the Covenant may have intercepted communications from the CIA on their North Korea op, as well as that whole thing with the Doleac Agenda. "Langley has assigned a counterintelligence team to determine whether someone within the agency has been leaking information," he says as Lauren quietly freaks out. "Jack will run point on their investigation inside this office." The Brows of Destruction practically leap off Lauren's face and run for the exit. Her ass is SO toast if Jack gets hold of her, and she knows it. "Marshall? Lauren?" says Jack. "I've scheduled you both for the first round of interviews. You'll be available later this afternoon?" Lauren quickly lies that she's due in Washington for an NSA briefing, but she'll gladly reschedule it if Jack really wants her to. Heh. Jack's fine with that, and says Weiss will take Lauren's place instead. Everyone bolts.
Lauren storms off with Syd following. Syd's all, dude? Lauren ignores her and keeps chugging along. Syd's all, DUUUUDE? Lauren continues to ignore her. They pass off-screen, and we catch up with Vaughn and Weiss. Weiss is all, dude? How you doin'? Vaughn's all, fine. Weiss is all, hey, guess what? It's me, dude. And I'm askin' HOW YOU DOIN'? Vaughn just says he's hanging in there. Weiss asks him how Lauren was about it, and Vaughn looks over at his wife, still talking to Sydney. "She didn't remember," he says ruefully. We don't really know what they're talking about until later, which I think is kind of the point. Weiss is all, and you didn't SAY anything? Vaughn's all, nah, she's been busy. Being eeeeevil. Weiss is all, oh, yeah, that's probably it. She's not a CLONE or anything. Vaughn walks off and Weiss remains, sort of looking at Lauren like, is that an antenna I see coming out of her head? She's TOTALLY a FemBot! Over by Lauren, Syd walks off, and Lauren looks over and sees Weiss staring at her. She gives him her best "I am SO evil" glare, but since she's not wearing the Eyeliner of Eternal Darkness, it doesn't really work.
Switzerland. I guess. There's no black screen with white letters, so it's really anyone's guess. But I don't think Hell-Lay has buildings built prior to 1962. At least, none that I can see. We hear a cell phone ring, and luckily, Dr. Nancy is there to pick it up. It would appear that she's still in Switzerland, because it's Sloane on the other end. He's calling to apologize for his craptastic behavior the other day. Oh, and he's also working a gray turtleneck sweater and a dapper gray suit. What IS it with Rifkin and Garber and the turtleneck sweater look? I mean, I would MARRY a man who could work a t-neck sweater like they do. Really. REALLY.