Episode Report Card Erin: A | 1 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Daddies with glass tables shouldn't throw daughters.
By Erin | Season 5 | Episode 13 | Aired on 05.02.2006
He pores over it, using tracing paper and a magnifying glass to get at the hidden message. The doorbell rings and, instead of locking the document away in a nice strong safe or something, Sloane just shoves it under his desk blotter. So much for being a criminal mastermind. He goes to the door and it's Nadia, suddenly all happy to see him and wanting to move in. She wants to get to know him and he invites her in. That night, Sloane brings her some chamomile tea (her favorite) and he admits to her that he didn't think she'd want to be with him at all. He tells her she has every right to be angry, but when he first met her, he didn't know how to be a father. But he realized that he needs her more than she will ever need him.
He goes to check on dinner, and Nadia fiddles with her hospital bracelet some more. Deciding that, of all people, Sloane probably has the greatest chance of having several thousand dangerously sharp objects hidden in and around his mansion, Nadia gets up to go find one of them so she can finally remove her bracelet. She goes directly to Sloane's desk, of course, and is in the process of cutting off the bracelet when she sees a corner of Page 47 peeking out from beneath the blotter. She pulls it out and is horrified to discover what it is.
Sloane enters and tells her to let him explain, and that she's going to have to trust him. Nadia's not really in a trusting mood here and she says that he's been lying all along. Sloane says he handed everything over to the DSR except for that one page. He couldn't part with it. Nadia's not interested in his excuses. Just talking about Rambaldi, Sloane's face and voice -- it all changes. He says that this isn't an obsession as much as it's...faith. "Did you have any idea what your faith cost me?" Nadia says, coming toward him. "What did you think -- that I was sleeping peacefully? The last twelve months were an extended nap? I heard people talking. I felt tubes being shoved down my throat. I couldn't open my eyes. I couldn't move. I couldn't scream. But I felt everything. So forgive me if I don't have much tolerance for your faith."
Nadia moves over by the fireplace as Sloane begs her to understand. She's done trying to understand. In fact, she's done period. It's time for Sloane to choose. It's her or Rambaldi. Sloane pleads with her not to make him choose between the two most important things in his life. "I suppose then, you lose us both," she says, tossing the page into the fire. Sloane gasps as suddenly, the Rambaldi symbol appears on the page. "My god," he says. "The message! I see it!" He leaps to pull the page out of the fire, but Nadia gets in the way. She doesn't want him to have it. He finally just shoves her off and she falls smack into a glass table. Sloane kind of looks down like, "Oh! How'd THAT get there?" Nadia's still alive, but she has a big chunk of glass stuck into her jugular. Sloane sobs and tries to comfort her. But she dies anyway, thinking her father loved some dead prophet more than her.
Apple Store. Marshall's filling Jack in on his plan to apprehend SydAnna. He's doing so with a big map and a collection of Mitchell's toy cars and Weebles. Heh. Jack is thoroughly disgusted by this entire escapade. Marshall starts to go into the details of the plan and Jack just goes, "Thank you. Notify me when they have her in custody." "But…I wasn't finished yet --" stutters Marshall. "That's fine. Thank you," snits Jack. "But the car was --" "I get it," snaps Jack. Hee.