Episode Report Card Erin: A | 1 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Sark. Do I even need to say anything else?
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 8 | Aired on 02.22.2005
In the Apple Store medlab, Doc Pineal looks at the Rambaldi burn on Nadia's neck and claims that they'll have to do a skin graft to fix the problem, but they can do it. Syd enters and says that they know who Anna's working for and they're going to track her down. Nadia says that Anna said things about them, that they'll be torn apart. "What does that mean?" asks Nadia. We cut to Sydney's desk, where Syd's telling Nadia about how she requested clearance to Irina's files after she "died." She goes on to say that there was an audio tape of surveillance of a hotel room in Hamburg. On the tape, Irina was talking to a man whose voice was never identified. Irina was describing the symbology of the <O>. Apparently, the outer markings represent Irina's two daughters and the center is the object over which they will do great battle. With each other. "And then Mom went quiet," says Syd. "It was almost like the next part was too painful." "Tell me," says Nadia. "Nadia, it's insane." "What?" "According to Rambaldi," says Syd, "only one of the daughters will survive."
Nadia kind of looks off to her left, as if searching for someone with the crazy jackets to come and take her sister off to the happy place. Syd's all, dude? I ain't gonna lie to you. Some of Rambaldi's predictions have come true. I know. I can't believe it myself. So, like, if you wanna go back…Nadia picks up on what Syd's thinking. "To Argentina? Do you believe in all this? Rambaldi?" Syd kind of looks down. "No…but the people who do are dangerous. They're zealots who will stop at nothing to make their visions into reality." And here's where I fall in love with Nadia just a little bit. "Are you kidding me?" she says. "Change my life because some freakshow made a prediction four hundred years ago? Anna contrived to tear us apart to make some ridiculous prophecy come true. But we're together now." Heh. It's the "freakshow" comment that endeared her to me.
Prison Cell of Sleepiness. We hear some hissing and see some vents and we're supposed to understand that sleeping gas or something is spilling down into the cell. We see Sark, passed out on his bunk. His cell door buzzes and a bunch of guys in masks storm in. It looks like the "bunch of guys" is actually Marshall, Vaughn, and Jack. I think. I don't know. They all have masks on. All I know is, Marshall hands Vaughn a gun and it glows and Vaughn plugs something into Sark's neck. Then Vaughn and Marshall leave, and Sark doesn't stir. Later, in Marshall's Garage of Geekiness, Vaughn states that Sark is supposed to be transferred to Alder tonight. Marshall says, "Good. Because the tracking device is in." Vaughn wants to know when the delayed activator goes live. Marshall tells him twenty-four hours. Also, if anyone tries to run a counter-surveillance on Sark, they won't pick up the tracker. He goes on to say that he made another modification to the tracking device: it's packed with a high-density explosive -- just enough to blow off Sark's head in case he tries to go off-book, whatever that means. "You mess with a Friend of Flinkman," says Marshall, "you're messing with Flinkman." Heh. Vaughn is all, uh, good job, dude. And remind me to be nicer to you in the future.
Prison of Hot Inmates. Sark's being walked out in full wrist and ankle chains. He's shoved into the back of a truck and locked in. As Sark rides along in the back, we hear agents "communicating" with base, telling them the status of the prisoner. Suddenly the wheels screech and Sark is basically tossed around in the back of the truck for a sum total of two minutes. No kidding. It's back and forth and SLAM and whoops and SLAM and another whoops and then there's gunfire outside and more SLAMMING and THROWING and did someone have something against David Anders? Because, as far as I can tell, he's been in this episode for about five minutes and all he's done is be kicked all to hell. The truck finally rolls to a stop and the back opens. It's raining now, and some dude yells at Sark to "come viz him" and tosses him the keys to his wrist and ankle chains.