Episode Report Card Erin: A | 111 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Hell Hath No Fury
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 7 | Aired on 2003.11.09
Airfield of Wayward Lovers. Vaughn's car pulls up. Vaughn and Syd get out, Vaughn saying, "Grazie, Don Carlo," into his cell phone as he exits. Syd opens the back door to get her stuff, and Vaughn makes his way around the car to her. "There's a café at the corner of Villa del Corso and Villa con Dante -- Café Ruby. There's a pay phone with a false bottom. You'll find money and a new passport." "Good thing I'm already packed," says Syd, trying to put a bright face on a tarnished penny. "You should go," says Vaughn, clearly wanting to kiss her. Syd pauses. "Vaughn," she says, looking at him, "why are you doing this? My life is already a disaster. Now yours is too." Her eyes are ripe with tears. "What happened between us," Vaughn says, "everything…the way it is…isn't anyone's fault, Sydney." He takes a really good look at her and she at him. "And even though everything's changed," he says, "some things…don't." Syd starts crying in earnest. We're talking tears flowing and snot blossoming, okay? "I'm not gonna lose you twice," he says. They hug, and it's as heartfelt a hug as any from the first or second season. There's clutching and mauling and really, can they just get back together and save us all the damn angst?
They pull back from each other, and there's that moment. You know the one I'm talking about. The one where you're sort of close enough to kiss and all anyone has to do is just lean a little in the right direction and BOOM! You're making out. But that doesn't happen here because Syd finally pulls away and they kind of look at each other, both knowing that they're destined to be together, have always been destined to be together, and this is just a momentary hitch in the cog of their wheels. Syd looks at Vaughn. "Thank you," she says, barely containing her weeping. She smiles brightly at him, then runs off to catch her plane to Rome as Vaughn looks down at a really interesting spot on the tarmac.
Rome. I wish I could make pithy comments about this city, but I can't. Know why? Because Syd's just about to get thisclose to discovering Julia, mmm-kay? In an elevator, somewhere in Rome, Syd gets out on a floor. She moves down a hall and passes a dude that I am SO sure is a plant from the NSC or some other government agency. How do I know? Because, about two seconds after he passes Syd, he goes down a staircase and looks back at her significantly. That's not a random dude, dudes. That's a plant of some sort. I'm just sayin'.