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'm right; Vaughn tries everything in his power to put Syd off his trail. He does this mostly by cryptically answering Syd's direct questions with vague and leading answers that only pique her interest. She wants to know where he is and he's all, "Doesn't matter." Nice, dude. You couldn't say, like, "McDonald's, drowning my sorrows in a Big Mac with extra special sauce"? These two are perfect for each other. They're both the Worst. Spies. Ever. Syd's not into Vaughn's lame answers, and she quickly surmises that something's rotten in the state of Denmark and its name is Moronen. She asks Vaughn what's going on, and when he doesn't answer, she gets this heartbroken look on her face that really says it all. "Sark talked, didn't he?" she asks. "And you know where [Moronen] is." "I'm taking care of it," is all Vaughn will say. "I don't know what you're thinking, but you cannot do this, Michael," says Syd, pulling out the Christian name ploy. It's very similar to the one your mother used when she asked you to clean your room for the fourteenth time and finally called up the stairs, "Frances Mary Katherine Healy Gallagher! You clean your room this minute or you can FORGET about spending the night at Molly McFeely's house this Saturday!" And you'd scramble to do it, because nothing's scarier than an Irish mother on a rampage armed with a full battery of Christian names. And yes, before you can even ask it, we had soda bread and beef in Guinness every St. Patrick's Day from the time I was four years old. And I wonder why I drink.
Wendy Kroy: I thought you drank to forget.
Regina: Well, that too, yes. Why do you drink?
Wendy Kroy: Because it's there.
Regina: Good answer.
So, Syd thinks that using "Michael" will pull Vaughn out of his vengeful tailspin, but no go. He's dead set on making his wife pay, and nothing Syd says or does will stop him. Not even reminding him that he'll be arrested for murder. Which, really, if he gets rid of the body in an efficient manner, is a totally moot point. Or, as Joey Tribbiani would say, "That's a moo point." Syd keeps on talking, however, trying to plead to the softer side of Vaughn, but just then Moronen pulls up, and Vaughn just…hangs up on Syd. Seriously. It's that clipped. Syd's all, baby, don't do this, I love you, if you do this, and you get away with it, it'll haunt you forever and I don't wanna lose you aga-- "I gotta go." Click. Heh. For some reason, I found that really funny.