Episode Report Card Erin: F | 1 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT "The Shed"? It's more like The Shit. And not in the good way.
By Erin | Season 5 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.12.2005
Later, Marshall tells Boobs that all she needs to do is copy the encryption key and get it back to him and then he has to crack the key and she has to go back to the office and OH MY GOD THIS IS BORING. He asks her if she can open a portal into Dean's server from her workstation; she can. Marshall gives her a handy credit card flash drive that can hold 240GB of memory. Nice. Boobs is as impressed as I am, and says so. Marshall then returns the compliment by saying how impressed he was with her NSA hack job. He says she's gonna be okay, and she seems slightly reassured by this.
Back with Sloane and his Meeting of Convenience, he's standing outside some building with the Red Square CGIed in the background. Dolshenko drives up and gets out of his car and they greet each other warmly. Sloane tells him they're alone, and hands over the money. Dolshenko puts the money in his car and then moves to the trunk. Sloane goes to open the trunk, and there's nothing there. No cure, no nothing. Dolshenko pulls a gun on him and says that he wants Sloane dead because he's responsible for the death of his daughter. When Clifford the Big Red Ball exploded and Sevogda was put under "quarantine," all the residents were murdered to keep any information about the tragedy from escaping the immediate vicinity. Dolshenko's daughter was one of the "quarantined" people. So he lied to Sloane; aside from Nadia, there are no survivors and there is no cure. He orders Sloane to turn around, but Sloane says he won't. "If you're going to shoot me," says Sloane, "I'm not going to make it easy for you. I know your pain, Sasha. Killing me won't heal it. You're not a killer." As Dolshenko's hand starts trembling, it's fairly clear that he's no killer. "Don't become one now," continues Sloane. "Don't make this your daughter's legacy." Dolshenko puts the gun down and drives off, leaving Sloane behind. And that's the last we see of him for the rest of the episode. Does he call Dix? We don't know. Does he run off to meet Irina at a teahouse? We don't know. Does he get some blow and a couple of hookers? WE DON'T KNOW.
Van of Dumb Undercover Ops. Syd's telling Boobs that she'll be listening in and able to hear everything, even whispers. If anything goes wrong, they'll abort the mission and get her out of there. Syd says that's the easy part. The hard part is that Boobs has to walk back into that office and not let anyone see that she knows the truth about the organization. When Boobs has the encryption key, she's to let them know and they'll do a brush-past in the lobby as discussed. Boobs asks Syd how many of the employees know the truth. Syd says it's impossible to know, but in her case, it was about half a dozen out of fifty agents. Syd then decides that this would be the perfect time to whip out a picture of Vaughn and show it to Boobs. She asks if Boobs has ever seen him and Boobs answers that she has, that Dean said he was a turned CIA agent and that he's in custody. Syd tells her what really happened to Vaughn and then tells Boobs to get revenge on Dean by doing this task and doing it well. Boobs sucks it up and gets out of the van.