Episode Report Card Erin: B | 135 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Ding-Dong, The Moronen's Dead!
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 22 | Aired on 2004.05.23
I have to apologize here, because I lost about two minutes of the show. The two minutes right before commercial, to be exact. Goddamn Chicago tornadoes. And the tornadoes weren't even IN Chicago! They were in, like, fucking WAUKEGAN or something. SO WHAT? SHOW THE FINALE! Who cares about the weather when you have a finale to recap? All I know is, Moronen slammed out of some doors after braining Vaughn with the crowbar and -- special report. That's it. Special fucking report. For what? Some RAIN, people. And some flooding. What is this, biblical times? Do I have to get two of every mutt in the neighborhood and look for high land? Because if I don't, then PLAY THE FUCKING FINALE.
So, yeah, I missed the final Alias dance. That just seems…wrong. When the report ended, we were already into commercials. After the commercials, Syd had already been taken to custody and was engaging in a face-to-face with Cotter Smith, Mel Harris's husband. You remember her from thirtysomething, don't you? That's what I thought. Way to keep your old friend's husband in dollars, Ken Olin. So, I'm assuming what I missed during the special report was that Moronen got away and Syd was taken into custody. And that's it. If it's anything more extensive than that, I'm sure one (or one hundred) of you will let me know.
Oops Center Interrogation Room. Syd's sitting at a table, and Cotter Smith enters. He's a counterterrorist threat analyst. Or something. Syd wants to know why she's there. Cotter's all, uh, because you blew up Oops Center. Or had you forgotten? He says she was logged in around 7:30 PM at Nadia's safe house. Syd rather snottily agrees that she was there and that she brought her sister a sandwich. I understand that being hauled out of your house with no explanation as to why can be rather irritating, but she's acting as if Cotter had an affair with her mother and it produced a sister she never knew about or something. She's like, what's this all about, peon? Cotter fills her in on the bombing, and Syd's flabbergasted. She's all, how is that even -- Cotter just flips up a laptop screen, and Syd's treated to the vision of Moronen-as-her, sitting at the computer console, and Marshall, entering and then getting shot. Syd's all, dude! Marshall! Is he okay? Was anyone…was anyone killed? "It would do you good if you had an alibi," is all Cotter will say. Syd just stares at him.