Episode Report Card Erin: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT She's alive! ALIIIIIVE!
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 20 | Aired on 05.17.2005
So, Sloane and Nadia meet up with Drake and he's very complimentary, both to Sloane, for being nearly as obsessed with Rambaldi as he is, and to Nadia, whom he seems to recognize on sight as, like, a savior or something. There must be a picture of her next to the definition of "The Passenger" in the Rambaldi World Destruction Instruction Booklet. He invites them to sit, making sure to put a handkerchief on Nadia's tree stump, and tells Nadia that meeting her is akin to meeting the Virgin Mary. Nadia's all, the huh? With the who? AM I PREGNANT WITH THE CHRIST CHILD? Sloane intervenes, dragging Drake around to the subject at hand. Drake's all, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you got the Sphere of Life, right? Sloane's all, no. Not yet. But we know where it is. Drake's all, DUDE. I told you to get the Sphere FIRST. Not come here first and THEN get the Sphere! Dumbass! I knew you'd screw this up!
For some reason, Sloane just ignores what Drake's telling him and says that he needs the information contained in the Rambaldi manuscript. Drake's all, did I stutter? I'll share that info with whomever shows up with ALL the Rambaldi artifacts in their possession. And by ALL, I mean, including the Sphere of Life, you jackass. Drake suggests that Sloane come back when he has everything (and that means the Sphere too, dipshit!) with him, and then he turns to Nadia and basically slavers all over her hand and begs her to come back too. Sloane asks Nadia to go away so he can threaten Drake without her watching. As Nadia leaves, Drake says something about her being the "living embodiment," so it would seem that all his adoration does have to do with Nadia being The Passenger. Sloane doesn't really give a damn, however, and he hisses and spits at Drake that his daughter isn't an artifact. Drake's surprised at Sloane's protectiveness. Sloane's surprised he hasn't killed Drake already. "You brought her on this journey for one reason," says Drake. "Only she can retrieve the Sphere of Life. Only she knows its secret location." Sloane turns to Drake with his beady little eyes burning. "I didn't come this far to quit." Well, then, dude, you probably should have thought of that when you didn't go get the Sphere of Life FIRST before coming here. Numbnuts.
Siena. Sloane and Nadia are tracking the Sphere of Life. Beep beep beep goes Nadia's PDA. She declares a certain spot the place and they head into a dark cave. As they head down a flight or two of dusty stairs, Sloane blabs something about how Rambaldi prophesied that a man would come who would discover the true meaning of Rambaldi's work and in doing so would change the world. Sloane always wanted to be that man. Down they go. Deeper and deeper. Finally, Sloane opens a door on rusty hinges and lights a lamp. A bunch of other lamps burst alight with flames and Sloane gets this greedy look in his eyes. "It's made of glass," he greeds as the camera pulls back and reveals…the Sphere of Life on a pedestal, surrounded by a floor of stained glass in the shape of the Rambaldi symbol.