Episode Report Card Erin: A+ | 2 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Say goodbye to reality, Uncle Arvin.
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 16 | Aired on 04.19.2005
Santiago. The CIA kids drive a black van onto the secure premises of the Sloane Clone hideout. Vaughn and Dix dart a couple of guards and drive on through to the building. Inside, Arvin Clone is resting comfortably in his office when Bad Baldy enters and informs him that the Xanthium shipment has arrived. Arvin Clone orders Bad Baldy to head to the loading dock and make sure the shipment is properly handled. "I'll get Dr. Sinclair and meet you at the lab," says Arvin Clone. Back at the dock, more guards arrive and the Appleseed Gang quickly darts them all. Syd checks with Dixon to see how many other guards he can get a visual on. Looks like seven so far. He can't find the hostage yet.
The hostage is getting mightily irritated with her working conditions. Sloane Clone enters and tells her that the Xanthium has arrived, so she can begin assembly. Considering that Clifford the Big Red Ball is already spinning away in another room, I'm confused as to just what it is that Sinclair is supposed to be assembling, but whatever. It's eight o'clock on Sunday night and if I don't get this damn recap done in an hour, I won't be able to watch Patrick Dempsey flirt deliciously with Ellen Pompeo and then my whole weekend will be ruined. Sinclair quips that she could have worked more efficiently if he hadn't, you know, sanded off her damn fingertips. Sloane Clone and his guards haul Sinclair out in to the hallway. Dixon spies her and tells Syd where she is.
Vaughn states that they should split up and one team go to the lab, the other team go after the hostage. Syd shoots a look at Sloane and says, "I go with Sloane." "I was just going to suggest that myself," he says. Heh. Weiss, Nadia, and Vaughn go to the lab, Syd and Sloane go to Sinclair. Once inside the building, Syd's faced with a code box. She puts a Marshall doodad on top and it gets right down to the business of hacking the code. Sloane stares ookily at Syd. Man, he is creepy. "Strange, isn't it?" says Sloane. "What's that?" asks Syd. "You in general? Or you staring at me right now?" "All our years working together," says Sloane, "this is the first time I've been with you in action. Up close." Oh, ew. He's just wrong. He's so wrong that I'm not even going to mention the fact that Sloane and Syd HAVE, in fact, been together in action, because Sloane creeps me out so much right now that I don't want to even THINK about any other time they were in close proximity to each other. I mean, really.
Dix leads Vaughn, Nadia, and Weiss through the halls. They stupidly turn a corner and run right into Sloane Clone and his men. Shooting commences. Vaughn mentions that they should probably hold their fire because Sinclair is with them. They run another way, attempting to cut off Sloane Clone, and run smack dab into a locked door. Weiss pulls his thumb out of his butt long enough to shoot the shit out of the door. Heh. Elsewhere in the building, Sloane Clone hears the shooting and demands a radio from one of his guards. He gets on the horn and tells Bad Baldy to secure the device at the hangar and meet him by the side exit. Bad Baldy makes his way to the hangar.