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 rightly surmises that the Covenant basically set her up, knowing that if they gave her enough clues, she'd actually go after the cube herself and lead them to it. Yeah, the explanation is more convoluted than that and takes Syd far longer to spit out, but that's pretty much the gist of it. Kendall wonders why Syd didn't just destroy the damn thing when she had the chance. Good question, K-Dog. Unfortunately, Syd doesn't have the answer, having, you know, NO MEMORY OF THAT TIME. Syd questions out loud whether or not there was someone else involved or if there was some other step or something. Kendall just kind of leans back and tells her that when they get to Black Hole base, he wants her to look at every Rambaldi artifact and see if anything jogs her memory. Syd just snaps around and shouts that she needs a phone and she needs it RIGHT NOW.
Then we're in Marshall's Dugout of Do-Goodery and General Geekitude. His phone rings, and he picks up. It's Syd, pleading with him to tell her that he really did put a tracer on the Rambaldi cube that the "jerks" removed from Oops Center. Marshall's all, sorry, dude. I didn't do it. Syd's all, I know you did! You won't get in trouble! Marshall's all, nope. No how. Nuh-uh. Not me. Syd's all, seriously, Marshall? DID YOU PUT A TRACER ON IT? Marshall's all, I SWEAR I DIDN'T, okay? Syd just snivels and says, "Okay." There's this pause, then Marshall leaps out of his chair and is all, okay, I totally DID put a tracer on it, but you can't tell anybody, okay? Hee. Hee hee.
Syd's all, Marshall? I love you. Marshall's all, I love you too. But, seriously? DON'T TELL ANYONE ABOUT THE TRACER. Heh. Syd wants to know if he can locate the Cube o' Flesh. Not exactly, says Marshall, but he can narrow it down to a ten-yard radius. Syd just grins through her tears. "Marshall?" she says. "That's called locating it!" Heh. She wants to know where it is. Instead of finding out, we instead switch to a shot of a gloved hand taking the Rambaldi DNA from one place to another in what looks like a lab of some sorts. Well, now, that was an exciting shot. Here's another: David Anders as Sark, pacing back and forth behind the "scientist" who's performing what I assume to be the fertilization. Hell, any shot of David Anders is an exciting shot. But maybe I'm biased. Rowr. While the "scientist" guy, who really looks like a thug, continues his work, just for shits and giggles, we get a close-up of some test tubes with "Sydney Bristow" labels on them. Yeah. We get it. THEY'RE MAKING SYDBALDI BABIES HERE. Moving on.
After a string of rather unimpressive commercials, we're back with Kommandant Kendall and his Krazy Krew of Kut-Ups. Except. Wait. Are they at Oops Center? What happened to Project Black Hole? What, it wasn't in the budget to head back down to Mexico or whatever? Come on! I feel gypped. Anyway, at Oops Center, Kendall orders the troops, which include Vaughn, Weiss, and Syd, to drop onto Patagonia and stop the fertilization. Okay. So now it's okay to talk about Syd's Lost Years and the whole fertilization thing? I don't…what? And how does Vaughn feel about some of his ex-girlfriend's non-Vaughned eggs out there, just running around willy-nilly getting all fertilized an' shit by some dead Italian guy's DNA? He is looking rather, shall we say, green around the gills at the moment…