Episode Report Card Erin: C+ | 2 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT If by "awful" you mean "awfully convenient for Jack."
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 3 | Aired on 01.11.2005
Syd kind of rolls her eyes and moves over to her father. "Dad," she says, by way of greeting. "It must have been lost in the mail," Jack says dryly. "Your invitation?" Syd responds in mild surprise. "Unless it was an Evite," he returns, a smile kind of touching the corners of his mouth. "I don't read Evites." Hee. I bet you don't. At first I was like, um, Jack? Agent Weiss ain't your friend. He was one of your co-workers, but y'all aren't beer buddies or anything. But then I realized that Jack was messing with Syd and that this entire conversation was yet another example of Jack's dryly bizarre sense of humor. That Jack. He's such a comedian! Syd gets the joke and she and her father share a couple of shy smiles. Yay! I love the Spy Family black humor moments.
Outside on Syd's patio, she and her father discuss the Bahamas mission. Jack says that the trip paid off and they now know who has the Valta. What's the Valta? You'll find out in a minute. Syd's all, dude? You came here during a party to tell me that? We have a briefing tomorrow morning, party killer. Jack's all, yeah, I know, but I found out that you're letting your sister stay with you. Syd's all, yeah? And? Jack's all, um, did you know that Sloane got approval from Langley to let Nadia be a permanent member of the Apple Store? Syd's all, yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever. If you're wondering whether or not I've told Nadia that you offed our mommy, no, I haven't. So either grab a beer from the fridge and lighten the hell up or just go home and organize your machete collection, okay?
Syd goes on to say that she plans to tell Nadia the truth at some point and Jack thinks she's doing it out of spite. Syd says she's doing it out of respect, which…yeah, I don't get. Her mother left her when she was what, seven? And Nadia basically never even KNEW her mother. So, what, these two motherless children are now suddenly all farklempt that their evil bitch of a mother is dead? I mean, yeah, I'd be a wreck if my dad killed my mother, but I actually LIKE my parents. And they've been around since I was born, so one of them killing the other one? Devastating. But if my mom had turned out to be a Russian spy who had married my father just to get secrets out of him and bring me into the world as some sort of cracked-out Rambaldi defense weapon and then disappeared, only to wind up running an evil organization that plotted world destruction -- oh, and tried to shoot me not once but TWICE -- and showed up, years later, in CIA custody, in order to basically mess with me and my life from behind bulletproof glass, and my father killed her in order to stop HER from killing ME? Not so much with the boo-hoo over here, is all I'm saying. At this point, I think Syd would actually congratulate Jack for a job well done. Not Nadia, maybe, sure, because Irina never pointed a gun right in HER face, but Syd? Dude. Give it up already. Your mom was a bad guy. Move on. And go get your dad a beer. And get me one while you're at it. All this plot questioning is making me thirsty.
So, yeah, Syd wants to tell Nadia. Jack doesn't think that's a good idea. Syd needs to tell Nadia the truth. Because telling lies is bad. Jack's all, this ain't about what you need, Syd. And go get me a beer. And Syd's all, no, this is apparently all about what YOU need. And get your own damn beer. Jack's all, um, need I remind you that Nadia has sworn to kill the man responsible for your mom's death? Syd's all, hey, how'd you know that? Were you at the Russian Mausoleum of Murdered Mommies at the same time we were? Jack's all, never mind how I know. Sometimes I just know things. Especially if it furthers the plot and makes me seem even more of a bastard than I already appear to be. Nadia comes out on the patio. Syd and Jack whistle and put their hands in their pockets and pretend to be talking about the weather. Nadia asks her sister where the candles are, because it's cake time. Syd just says she'll be right there and Nadia goes back to flirting with Weiss.