Episode Report Card Manimal: B- | 306 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Color-Blind
By Manimal | Season 1 | Episode 7 | Aired on 2001.11.25
Credits.
Goon has Sydney in hand as he walks her down the hall. Sydney turns and watches as two orderlies unlatch the main door with a double-lock system; both orderlies have to insert two different keys at the same time. The goon leads her down the hall and into another room, where Shepard is drawing. Sydney approaches. Shepard is painting a desolate little landscape with a twisted tree and a yellow sky. Sydney comments on the sky color. Shepard tells her to get away, already. Sydney persists. Shepard tells her to piss off. Sydney deduces that he "can't see colors." Shepard asks who she is, if she's not one of the people who did this to him. Sydney tells him that she'll tell him what he needs to know, but he needs to help her escape. She fills him in on the dual-key lock. Shepard refuses to go. Sydney points out that they're both dead. Shepard points out that she wants him to believe her, but she ain't tellin' him doodly-squat. Man. I don't find John Hannah attractive, but a Scottish accent really goes a long way.
Sydney looks around frantically and shushes him. Then she tells him the story of Martin Shepard: The Littlest Programmed Assassin. Shepard, understandably, freaks out. Sydney tells him that when he carries out orders, he only sees things in black-and-white to distance himself, but now that he's starting to see things in color, he's healing. She's all up in his face. Shepard hollers, "Guard!" and gets pulled away from her yammering. The goon announces menacingly, "Lockdown." Sydney tells the goon that she has the info Dr. Ratched wants.
Los Angeles. The Fanciest Newsroom In The Entire World. Jennie delivers a memo to Will from Legal. "It's about reporters quoting other reporters." "What's it say?" asks Will. Jennie breathes in his ear, "Cut it out." Yick. Yick on both of them. She calls out, "Happy Thanksgiving!" off-camera.
Will looks up in time to see another reporter looking at a screen with a story about Kate Jones/Eloise Kurtz on it. It's also got a huge picture of her on it. Okay. I vowed to myself that I would not nitpick over every little thing, since sometimes the writers have to resort to these devices for the sake of expediency, and this is a small thing, but this really bothered me for some reason. There's no way that a major metropolitan newspaper would waste precious column inches running a photo of some gunshot victim unless she were famous or possibly the victim of a serial killer or some gangland slaying they could milk. The headline reads, "Woman Found Shot in Echo Park."