Episode Report Card Erin: D+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT A cup of No-Doz and an espresso IV, STAT!
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 17 | Aired on 04.26.2005
Apple Store. Sydney says she's going to do some research on Linus. Marshall runs up to Sloane and gives him the background info on Sonia that he requested. Sloane skips to the last page and looks veddddy interested in what he reads there. He grimaces and enters his office. Over at Sydney's desk, she's found Linus. "He has a degree in nonlinear cryptoalgorithms and stochastic systems analysis," says Sydney. "Because if they called it 'code-breaking,' they couldn't charge thirty grand tuition." Heh. Over at Nadia's desk, she's linked with Amsterdam's urban surveillance network. She finds Linus at the Hotel Ruisseau. Syd gets on the horn and tells Vaughn and Dix where to find the hacker.
At the hotel, Linus exits his room and walks down the hallway. Vaughn pops the tip on a syringe and walks toward him. As he passes, Vaughn throws his arm up over his head in an attempt to, what, stab Linus in the neck with the needle? It doesn't work, though, and Linus has obviously watched The Matrix one too many times, because he goes all jujitsu on Vaughn's ass. Running running running. Chasing chasing chasing. Fire escape. Running. Climbing. Chasing. Linus finally hurls himself over the side of the fire escape into a waiting dumpster full of garbage bags. Vaughn, thinking he's superhuman or an X-Man or something, hurls himself over the side too, only he's another two floors up from where Linus jumped, and I don't care if those garbage bags are filled with cotton balls and bubble wrap, Vaughn would have been DOA if he'd actually jumped from that height. Seriously. There's suspension of disbelief (Rambaldi, Sark loving Lauren, Syd running in heels, Marshall having sex) and then there's out-fucking-rageous and no-goddamn-way (a machine that says "Peace," Sloane and Irina having sex, Will and Francie having sex, Syd missing for two years and it never really being dealt with). The garbage bag jump, I'm afraid, falls into the latter category.
They both survive, of course, and jump out from the bags to continue the chase. Vaughn tells Dixon they're coming his way, and Linus runs right into a car. He gets up, though, only to be smacked down a second later by Dixon. "I would have had him," gasps Vaughn, bent over double. Heh. "I know," says Dixon. Heh heh. Back at the Apple Store, Syd walks up to Nadia and informs her that they got Linus at the hotel, so good work on that. Nadia says thanks and "we aim to please" and Syd comments on what a good mood she's in. Nadia says she is and they both chalk it up to things going well with Sonia. She goes on, saying that she never knew what Sonia saw in her as a child, but that she called Nadia her "special one" and Nadia carried that knowledge with her when she left the orphanage; someone, somewhere believed in her. Syd says she was lucky to have a person like that in her life. Nadia agrees.
Fake Derevko Hospital Room. Sonia's sleeping. Sloane enters and gets right to the point. "Why did you really come here? Tell me." Sonia's all, the huh? Sloane's all, yeah, I know about José, I know about how the police found his body, and how they found a suspect's fingerprint but couldn't identify it. I could, however, and did. Wanna tell me about the time you killed that José guy? Sonia finally spills the beans and says that he was hurting her girls and this pissed her off because she was the one who hired him. You might recall José from the opening scene of the Nadia-centric episode. Sloane changes tack and asks Sonia if José hurt Nadia. Sonia says he tried, but she didn't give him a second chance. "I would have done the same thing," says Sloane. Heh. I bet you would.