Episode Report Card Erin: B+ | 114 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Papa, Can You Hear Me?
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 8 | Aired on 2003.11.23
The Shaft Boys are racing through the halls, looking for Sydney. Pruitt overrides the overriding or something and gets himself and the MP out of the security room. The Shaft Boys continue looking for Sydney. Unfortunately, when they make it to her cell, she ain't there. Nope. She's in The Least Hygienic OR On The Face of The Planet and Doc Avari's moving toward her with the gas. Suddenly, the doors are blown wide open and Jack knocks tranq darts into everyone in the room but Syd. Jack and Vaughn start to release her from the straps when suddenly Doc Avari gets up and aims a gun at her. "Sydney!" yells Jack. Syd grabs a scalpel and gets Avari right in the throat. Bet he wishes that thing were sterilized now, huh?
Jack removes his mask, and Syd's all, "Dad!" "You're all right, sweetheart," he says, lifting her off the table. "You're all right." Oh, goodness. He's such a good daddy. The Shaft Boys grab Syd and get the hell outta there. Before they can leave, however, Pruitt shows up and starts shooting at them. There's shooting and more shooting and more shooting until d'oh! Someone shoots Pruitt from around the corner. He falls. And we see Lauren holding a gun. She looks seriously green and drops the gun like it's on fire.
Outside, a chopper's fired up and ready to go. The Shaft Boys head out with Syd, and Sloane opens the chopper door for them. Syd looks in surprise at Jack. "He's with us," he says. "Get in." Everyone loads onto the chopper and it flies off. Inside the chopper, Syd looks sadly out the window. Vaughn holds onto his severely shocked wife. "They wanted a code deciphered," says Syd as Jack looks at her with his version of concern. "That's what all this was about -- a code." "What was it?" asks Jack. "Coordinates," says Syd. "I gave Head the wrong coordinates. I didn't know what to do." Jack puts his arm around his daughter and they put their gargantuan foreheads together, closing their eyes in relief. "You made it, Sydney," says her daddy. "You made it." Jack looks at Sloane, who's leaning over the front seat, smiling beatifically at them both. Syd just kind of looks at him, then closes her eyes.
Next week on Alias: Or, actually, tonight, because I've been hanging out with the Mom for T-giving and haven't been able to do this damn thing until Sunday. Syd pays a visit to David Cronenberg, and that can either mean really, really good things or really, really ucky things. I'm betting on ucky.