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
After the plane takes off, Vaughn runs over to Raimes and checks his pulse. On the plane, Dixon deals with the reality of having shot a former friend point-blank on a tarmac. Vaughn gets on the phone and orders a med unit to take care of Raimes. Over at the Apple Store, Syd tells Weiss and Marshall that Vaughn just reported in and that Raimes is critical but stable. Guess getting shot at point-blank range ain't as serious as we've been led to believe, huh? Weiss goes off to track Dixon's flight, and Marshall says he might be able to triangulate Dixon's coordinates using a satellite or something. Whatever. They have everything under control, I guess. Until next week, when Dixon just shows up for a meeting like it's any other week and no one seems to remember that he was on a plane headed for god-knows-where not one week ago and Dix is all, what? Oh, like Sloane can go off and beat some guy to death with Clifford the Big Red Ball in the background and no one even thinks to ask him about it, but one week later but I go up in a plane in search of a water contaminant and it's some big-ass deal that I'm back this week with no explanation? Huh? Can't I get a little love?
Jack walks up and asks Syd if she has a minute. She does. She saunters into Sloane's Office of West Elm Furniture, where Nadia's already seated. "What's this about?" asks Syd, kind of rudely, actually. Sloane tells her to come in. Nadia stands. "There's something we need to tell you," says Jack. "Something you have the right to know. It concerns your mother's sister." "Katya?" asks Syd. No, Syd. Not that sister. The other sister. Elena. Jack goes on to say that Elena was one of the foremost assassins for the KGB, responsible for the murders of countless diplomats. Yeah. Those pesky diplomats. Always…diplomatting and shit. Can't let them get away with that! "She earned the reputation as being the cruelest of the Derevko women," says Jack. Man. That's saying something, huh? She must be a real doozy, then. Irina marries men to get secrets from them, Katya stabs guys in the hands, and Elena is the cruelest? Damn. She must set iguanas on fire and beat blind children with spiked sticks or something.
Nadia wants to know why they're telling them about this now. Sloane says it's because, thirty years ago, Elena disappeared, rumored to have had a falling out with Irina. Elena then severed all ties with the KGB, as well as her family. No one could find her, not even Irina. "But you found something," says Syd. Jack did. He got some intel from an associate of his about a year ago and it led them to one of Elena's safehouses in Warsaw. "Inside, we found this," says Sloane, sliding over two thick leather-bound books. The girls flip them open and inside is a detailed catalogue of both of their lives. "Given what's here," says Jack, "we can assume she's been surveilling you both for at least a decade." "We can also assume that she's responsible for the attack on [Sonia]," says Sloane. Well, that's sorta true, Arvin.