Episode Report Card Erin: C+ | 1 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT Thank you for flying Exposition Airlines
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.10.2004
Syd picks up her cell phone and calls Kendall. "I'll do whatever you want," she says, hanging up on him before he can respond. "And that's how we started working together," says Kendall, back on the Exposition Express to Boring Storyville, Population: Two. Syd became Julia. We get an extended shot of Sydulia stalking down a supposedly European sidewalk, looking extremely hot, as No Doubt's version of "It's My Life" pulses over the soundtrack. I'd have preferred the original Talk Talk version, but then, my soft spot for eighties bands and music knows no bounds.
Apparently, Syd was sent to Algeria to meet with Soymoan. Hi, Soymoan! Sigh. Too bad we only get a damn 8 x 10 photo of him instead of the real flesh and blood version. Mmmm…flesh…Soymoan…mmmm. Excuse me. Anyway, Sydulia and Soymoan started working together, and their mission was to find the Rambaldi Cube o' Flesh. While Syd worked with the Covenant and Soymoan, she kept Kendall in the loop by passing on intelligence to CIA operatives in the field.
Then, one day, Syd informed Kendall that Soymoan had found Lazarey. You'll forgive me if I don't recap Kendall's complete explanation of just who Lazarey is; if you know what's good for you, you'll go back and read all the damn recaps. They're far more entertaining than this episode and A MUCH FASTER READ. I'm of the opinion that this episode tends to toss a bunch of explanatory crap in with the more meaningful stuff because, well, it HAS been a month since the last episode; god knows what we've remembered or forgotten.
So, anyway, it was believed by the Covenant that Lazarey knew the whereabouts of the Rambaldi Cube o' Flesh. Soymoan told Syd that she was supposed to get the info out of Lazarey, then kill him. As it turned out, she saved his life. Syd went to Lazarey the night before she was supposed to kill him and struck a deal with him. They faked Lazarey's death in order to put on a show for whomever might be watching on the closed circuit cameras. Lazarey was even carted off in an ambulance. Once inside, he rips off his own neck wound. Hee. And ew.
Unfriendly Skies. Syd starts spewing at Kendall about how she wants to know what she's doing here, why's he telling her all this now, and where in the HELL are they going? He tells her that they're going to his facilities in Nevada: Project Black Hole. Heh. Heh heh. "Four years ago when I was called in to question you?" he says. "I was never FBI. I was Special Research, called in to oversee the project." "I've never heard of Project Black Hole," says Syd. "Thank you," says Kendall with this really cute, really proud smile on his face. Hee.