Episode Report Card Erin: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Swing Out, Sister
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 20 | Aired on 04.24.2004
Vaughn takes the phone and dials the CIA. He gives his officer number to dispatch and asks to be patched through to Director Dixon immediately. The driver, understandably, looks at Vaughn like he's covered in asphalt and little cars are driving up and down his front. Dix answers and asks Vaughn where he is. Vaughn just says that the Covenant knows the location of The Passenger. They do? Because as far as I can tell, even VAUGHN doesn't know the goddamn location of The Passenger. I mean, not unless he was shoved into the back of the car where the brain wave machine was doing its business, I really don't see how he could know where The Passenger is. Did we SEE Brill give him that intel? No. And how the fuck would BRILL know, anyway? Was HE shoved into the brain machine car? NO. God. GOD.
So, whatever, Vaughn's totally blowing it right here. He tells Dix that Sark's moving on the lead and that he, Vaughn, is the one that gave up the intel. Oh, whatever. Vaughn's noticing that Driver is a bit too interested in the phone conversation. Dix asks where The Passenger is now. Vaughn doesn't answer, instead looking over at Driver. "You cut out, bad reception," says Vaughn, although there is no bad reception. Elsewhere, we see someone working a computer. They input, "Vaughn, what's wrong?" and then we hear Dixon saying the exact same thing. It's a voice simulator, and a very good one. Sark and Moronen are sitting in a car somewhere, and we see that it's she who's doing the voice simulating. Or something. Whatever. I mean, really. Whatever.
"Is Sydney back from Hong Kong?" asks Vaughn. Sark and Moronen look at each other. Vaughn and Driver look at each other. Suddenly, Driver reaches over to do some damage to Vaughn, but Vaughn beats him to it. A fight ensues, and Vaughn slams Driver's head into the dashboard a half dozen times. Driver's out, so Vaughn has to drive the truck. Too bad he drives it right into a parking lot and into a bunch of cars. The truck finally halts, and Vaughn gets out. He stumbles off. The truck explodes behind him. A car peals up and screeches to a halt. Sark and Moronen get out, guns at the ready. Sark yells at Vaughn to get down on the ground. Vaughn drops to his knees. "You're smarter than I thought," says Moronen smugly. Then she drops him with a roundhouse kick to the face. Okay. I have to say, I kind of enjoyed that. Because, Vaughn? YOU'RE AN IDIOT. You're hot and everything, but quick on the uptake you're not.
Chechnya. Syd makes her way through the prison. She's somehow figured out that her sister's in the hospital wing. Yeah. I have no idea. She enters a hospital room and sees a bunch of patients. She spies some medical charts and finds one for "Talia Kozlov." Noting the bed location, Syd makes her way over and sees a tiny, defenseless girl with dark hair and staring dark eyes, strapped to a hospital bed. Syd breathes what looks like a sigh of relief, and we mercifully go to commercial before Syd can start crying. Again. Some more.