Episode Report Card Erin: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Ding-Dong, The Moronen's Dead!
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.22.2004
Safe House of Rambaldi-Channeling Sisters. Nadia's sleeping. Someone enters her room and puts a hand over her mouth. Of course, she immediately wakes, and it's Sloane, paying her a little late-night visit. Which just…yeah. There are all kinds of wrong connotations in that sentence. Sloane blah blahs something about how the device on his wrist is allowing him to go undetected in the safe house. Or something. Yeah. I'll buy it. Especially since the CIA now owns the technology to make realistic rubber masks for all their agents to use on any damn job they please, even though they've never used them before, for any assignment, EVER. Whatever. Sloane basically just says that he knows that Nadia knows where the Rambaldi artifact is, and that she didn't tell the CIA. Wait, so now it's back to being an artifact? Wasn't it Rambaldi himself just…yeah. I really should shut up now. Sloane loves it that Nadia didn't tell the CIA, because he doesn't think they can be trusted. Well, duh.
There is much more blah blah in this scene than really ever should have been. Basically? Sloane says that this Rambaldi artifact thingy is something that holds his essence or his soul or something. He calls it the Sphere of Life. Is that anything like the Circle of Life? Because if they get to the artifact and I have to hear that goddamn Elton John song, someone's going to die. Sloane wants to claim the Sphere with his daughter. Nadia tells him to keep his beliefs to himself. Sloane tries to get Nadia to admit that what she saw while she was under the Green Goo™ was transcendent and resplendent and divine. The look on her face suggests that it was. Sloane says he can see it in her eyes. She tells him he has twenty seconds before he's caught. He leaves her instructions on how to find him, and hopes she uses them. He kisses her on the forehead (ew!) and leaves. She just looks after him, confused.
In a nice crossover, we hear a siren wailing outside Nadia's window that turns into a siren at a hospital and we see Syd, waiting on Vaughn's arrival. He's slammed through some doors on a gurney, and I don't know how to say this, but he's ON HIS BACK. Yeah. Because that's the position they put you in when you've been STABBED IN THE LUNG. Syd chases after the gurney until it's taken into the operating room. She stands outside, wrecked at the thought of losing him again. A bit later, Jack approaches Syd as she's sitting in a waiting area. Jack feigns concern, and Syd just responds, "You were right. [Moronen] has to pay." Jack doesn't like this idea, saying it's up to Vaughn to take Moronen out. Syd doesn't really care if Jack likes it or not; she needs his help. She also needs information, expedited credentials, IDs, et cetera. Jack continues fighting Syd on this matter until finally, Syd just goes, "I want her to die. And that's going to happen whether you help me or not." Jack looks at his daughter, realizing that he's not so evil that he can't help his wittle girl murder her ex-boyfriend's satanic wife.