Episode Report Card Erin: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Box, Part II
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 13 | Aired on 02.09.2002
Kill me.
WCAC shoves Commander Stupid and Spy Barbie into an anteroom and orders Syd to tie up Vaughn. As much as the idea of engaging in a little S&M with Inspector McStupidpants melts Syd's butter, she's not all that fond of taking orders from women who are prettier than her, so she whips around and kicks some WCAC ass. After winding up with her gun, Vaughn orders Syd to tie WCAC up. Before she can accomplish this task, however, WCAC speaks up and announces that she's a British SIS agent and she's working undercover in Shovelhead's outfit in order to find out who "The Man" is. Vaughn wants to know what's in the vault. WCAC doesn't know anything except that whatever is in there has something to do with someone named "Rambaldi." Boy, that Rambaldi dude sure gets around.
WCAC tries to convince them to let her go; otherwise Shovelhead will send someone looking for her and he'll know about Vaughn and Syd. Vaughn's not buying it. He's all brave now that he's got a gun in his hands that probably weighs more than he does. WCAC states that if they leave her there and Shovelhead finds her, she'll tell him there's only one rogue agent after his ass, thereby declaring her a member of the good guys. Syd's tired of listening to a woman with poutier lips than hers, so she gags her but good.
Sittin' on the dock of the bay of stupidity. Will's finally sobered up and made it down to the docks. We know this because of the establishing shot of a huge boat with the words "Alba Varden" written on the back. Heh. A couple of posters, including my close personal friend EgoShredder, pointed out that this is actually the evil South African's boat from Lethal Weapon II. I'm not sure if this is a clever Hollywood inside joke or if the producers just couldn't afford to go down to an actual dock, so they just swiped some left-over footage from that Richard Donner masterpiece. Anyway, Willage Idiot meanders over to a bank of lockers, which are surrounded by mysterious steaming pipes and creepy violin-packed music. In the time it takes a country to rebuild after a devastating earthquake, Willage Idiot manages to open the damn locker. It contains a single envelope, which he opens. Inside is a pathology report on McNeil's wife. He flips through it pretty fast, so I'm not sure if there's something we're supposed to see here. I mean, I see the picture of a dead woman, but no glaring notification of any wrongdoing. I mean, other than that, you know, she's dead and all. Apparently, Will sees something of relative importance because the music swells. We can only assume that, since it's on record that McNeil's wife killed herself, Willage Idiot finds an item amongst the papers that suggests otherwise. Whatever. The lame foray into Will's dumb-ass storyline has now ended.
Sub-Basement Of Extended Explosives Exposition. Spy Barbie and Vehement Vaughn are storming down a hallway as she tries to explain to him the location and set-up of the steel plates that lead to the explosives. Vaughn tries to give her his Binaca Blast, but she dismisses his help with, "I memorized the laser grid." Heh. Of course you did, Sydney. That way, Vaughn won't have to come up with a second Binaca Blast for you to use. Hooray for plot devices! They split up with a promise to meet in the room where old computers go to die after they've accomplished their tasks. "Maybe we can go to that hockey game," she says. "Maybe," says Vaughn. Oh, just shut up and DO IT ALREADY.