Episode Report Card Erin: C- | 1 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Can I get mustard with that?
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.01.2004
Inside, SDAP is performing some rather nasty experiments on what looks like a fish or something. I have no idea. Vaughn and Syd come around the corner. SDAP, not seeing them, just bitches that he said no disturbances and he meant no disturbances! Syd's all, yeah, I think you can make an exception for an old friend, no? Then she knocks him out with the butt of her gun. After they've strapped SDAP's arms to his wheelchair, Syd smacks him awake and tries to get him to remember her from Taipei. Syd asks him what info he gathered from her little sister back in the day. SDAP, who is now trembling like a lilac bush in a summer storm, just says, "Drawings…numbers." Like, this is the guy who used to torture people with a smile on his face? He's not all that tough now that he doesn't have his dental tools. Or the use of his legs.
So, yeah, whatever, SDAP tells Syd that little Nadia drew an equation and coordinates that would lead to a place. Syd's all, oh, yeah? And where is this place? And what're we supposed to find there? "Rambaldi…" whines SDAP. "What, his body? His gravesite? His consciousness? What?" stammers Syd. Before SDAP can answer, Vaughn practically shouts, "Where's Arvin Sloane?" Syd kind of looks at him like, dude? One thing at a time, okay? SDAP's all, uh? Sloane? No idea. Vaughn doesn't like this answer, so he does what any person would in this situation: he picks up a tester rod, dips it in a beaker of acid, and drips a bit onto SDAP's leg. This scene is so gross and wrong that I barely even notice that there's absolutely no way Vaughn could have known what was in the beaker in the first place. Vaughn's all, I know you can't feel this, dude, but you can see it, and you can imagine what it'll feel like when I just drop the rest of this beaker all over you. Syd's all, dude? You're losing it. SDAP's all, dude? You're losing it. I'm all, dude? It's lost.
Vaughn presses SDAP for more info on Sloane. SDAP finally offers up that he and Sloane met in Zurich and discussed inoculations and The Passenger. "Where is he?" asks Vaughn threateningly. Syd sort of lamely steps forward. "Vaughn," she says in an almost tearful tone. Vaughn ignores her. SDAP still answers that he has no idea where Sloane is. Vaughn's all, spill it, dude. Or I'm spilling this acid on you. Syd once again tries to stop Vaughn, saying that he shouldn't do this. "Why not?" bites Vaughn. "He would." Well, yes, Vaughn. But I think the point here is that you wouldn't normally do something like this, so would you please tell the real Vaughn to come out and play and leave the Sybil-ing to Sally Field? SDAP breaks down crying and says that if he knew Sloane's whereabouts, he would tell them. "Wrong answer," says Vaughn, letting loose with the acid. SDAP shrieks, and Syd looks at Vaughn like he has little red horns growing out of his head and a twisty red tail poking out of his ass.