Episode Report Card Erin: B | 161 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT You Give Me Fever
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2003.12.07
Syd's all, I wouldn't have come here if I didn't have to. Will's all, baby? I missed you the most! "You're like the most beautiful thing I've ever seen," he says. Aw. Missed you, Will! Missed you! Syd blah-blahs about Creepy Cronenberg and the box of St. Aidan Flakes. Will doesn't miss a beat. "St. Aidan was a contact of mine," he says. "When I was an analyst at the agency. Yeah. St. Aidan was his code name." Syd wants to know his real name. Will never knew it. Syd wants Will to put her in touch with this dude. Will's all, can't, baby. He'd only meet with me. You know, maybe I should contact him myself! I'll go in there! Syd's all, NO! Will's all, dude? I've been shoveling cement around construction sites for two years. Please please PLEASE let me go do some spy shit again! Syd finally relents and asks him what the protocol was for contacting St. Aidan.
We then see Will in a phone booth as he informs us in voice-over that he used to call an answering machine in Bucharest and dial a confirmation code. Then he'd hang up and wait for St. Aidan to call him back. The phone rings and Will picks up, asking the distinctly Russian voice on the other end to meet with him. The Russian voice tells him that Tuesday night will do -- 11 PM, at the same place they used to meet. Funny how two years have passed and yet there's no mention of "Hey, where ya been?" or "Now? You're calling me NOW? Yo, bitch! I coulda used some euros way back when. Thanks for nothin'!" Nope. Just business as usual in the informant-for-hire universe.
Dream Dugout, Now Known As Creepy Cronenberg's Corner of Pain. Cronenberg's laid out on the dream table, bleeding profusely from his wound. He's strapped down, and Sark has set him up with an IV drip. Sark wants to know what Sydney told him. Cronenberg mumbles his way through some dialogue. Sark slaps him. Heh. Cronenberg kind of laughs then tells Sark that the morphine he's set him up with is very good, just like the old days. Hee. Sark turns the drip down, eliciting begging from Cronenberg to turn it back up. Cronenberg spills the whole dream, including the Syd-on-Syd fight and Syd's revelation that Will was involved. He even tells Sark that Jack called witness protection. "Meaning Tippin's still alive," says Sark with a glimmer in his eye. "Meaning I could really use some more morphine…and some candy…and maybe a few strippers," says Cronenberg. Nice. Go ahead and give him more morphine, Sark. In fact, give him the whole damn bag. Goddamn blabbermouth. Wait. What're you doing with that switch, Sark? Oops. I was kind of only kidding, dude. Um. Buh-bye, Creepy Cronenberg.