Episode Report Card Erin: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sloane's Dead! Long Live Sloane!
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.17.2004
Hee. The sock thief commercial kills me. "Dee dee dee dee dee! Here I go as I steal the socks!" Hee. So it's NOT the Covenant after all. And could we just talk about howNYPD Blue shouldn't be on the air anymore? And also? Trish is a bitch. But she's not a whore. Because if sleeping with 35 people makes you a whore, then hi. I'm a whore.
Oops Center. Using the real code key, Marshall was able to decipher the documents. Do they tell us who The Passenger is? No. Of course they don't! That would be too easy! Instead, they tell us about an artifact called "The Hourglass." Okay, now I think the writers are just doing this to piss me off. I mean, really. Whatever. The Hourglass was sold to a guy named Mesa Radon, who, as it turns out, is the guy who's running Yakuza's U.S. shipping business. You know who the Yakuza are, right? Japanese mafia. That detail's only important if you want to think that Syd murdering a bunch of guys later on in the show is really okay.
So, this Radon dude owns a building in Little Tokyo that's a Yakuza stronghold. There's a nightclub down below and a personal art gallery on sublevel two, which is where The Hourglass is being held. Or shown. Or whatever. Marshall shows them the schematics of the gallery, then tells them that if they're going to go get The Hourglass, they'd better hurry; according to Rambaldi, The Hourglass will only show the location of The Passenger to one man -- her father. Which, considering that Sloane's about to be executed in six hours, might be kind of difficult. After the meeting, Syd corners her father. Jack tells her that the Justice Department has refused to stay Sloane's execution, even in light of current circumstances. Syd tells her father that if Sloane dies, she'll never be able to find her sister. Considering the fact that your sister's considered a weapon, Syd, I'd think twice before running off in search of her, yeah?
Jack seems to agree with me, because he says, "Has it occurred to you that your half-sister might be a danger to you?" "Yes, of course," says Syd. "But it's equally possible that I could help her. She could be an innocent victim." "With Irina Derevko and Arvin Sloane as her parents?" says Jack. "I. Don't. Think. So." Hee. Syd sees that she's getting nowhere with her smug son-of-a-bitch of a father, so she hauls out a gargantuan lie and says that she requested to see Senator Reed's personal effects and that she knows the truth about The Trust. Jack pulls out The Pursed Lips of Fuck, I've Been Caught in response. "Dad, are you really so bitter that you would sacrifice my sister in order to get payback for a 25-year-old affair?" "Sloane deserves to die," is Jack's lame return. "Yes he does," says Syd. "But not for this." Jack says he'll talk to the Director of Legal Policy at Justice. He has operational control over Sloane's case, and he's coming to Oops Center to oversee the execution. When he arrives, Jack will turn over the information he has on Sloane and The Trust. "That should…exonerate Sloane," finishes Jack. "Thank you," says Syd, walking away. "Sydney," he says, "what, exactly, did you find in the senator's effects?" "Nothing," says Syd. "I requested them but they haven't arrived. Now I don't have to look." Jack looks after his daughter as she walks away, the expression on his face saying, my little baby! I've raised her well! And dammit! Foiled again!