Episode Report Card Erin: C+ | 2 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT If by "awful" you mean "awfully convenient for Jack."
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 3 | Aired on 01.11.2005
Bishop Manor. Syd and Syd's Industrial Strength Blonde Wig of Spydom are showering. Bishop's watching from the doorway. Ew. While Syd and her wig are wet, Bishop goes through her things that, um, obviously survived the blowing up of the car, I guess. The shower stops and, after coming across Marshall's Laser Watch, Bishop quickly drops it and retires to a chair across the room. Syd exits the bathroom and sees Bishop there, smiling like the cat that ate the canary. The Strings of He's A Wife-Murdering Bastard trill over the soundtrack. Syd compliments his shower. They chat about nothing, really, and then Bishop mentions that he hasn't been in this room in three years. "Not since my wife left me," he says with a sneer.
His cell phone rings and Bishop says something in German to the Burgermeisters. He hangs up and checks Syd's bruises, which are extensive and an ugly purple-yellow. Bishop rightly surmises that all of these bruises didn't come from the accident and he wants to know who she's running from. Syd just cryptically answers that she left someone, only he didn't want her to go. "Who is he?" says Bishop, already enamored of Sydney's strong-but-wounded bird act. "I can have someone…talk to him." Syd just says she's all right now that she's with him, and then Bishop tells her he has to go into town for business, but when he gets back, they'll have dinner. Syd trots out a Southern belle accent for good measure and says she's not going anywhere. Especially since she doesn't have a car. Bishop orders her not to leave the house because there's security everywhere. He leaves, and…we go to commercials literally four minutes after we just went to commercials. Wow. They're stretching this hummer out, aren't they? I'm not complaining, mind you; the more commercials, the easier the recap!
After the break, we catch up with Jack and Nadia as Jack is administering her psych evaluation. He asks her a question about a hypothetical mission and whether or not she'd abort it when the shit comes down and Nadia is all, um, that depends. And Jack is all, actually, it doesn't. Yes or no? Nadia's all, okay, then. No. Jack notes the response and asks another complex question about a mission and a team member and neutralizing a target. Nadia's all, um, is the phone system the new PBX matrix -- Jack cuts her off all, dude? ANSWER THE QUESTION. "Why is my partner a man?" asks Nadia. "The sex of your partner is irrelevant," purses Jack. "Oh," responds Nadia. She answers the question with another no. What are the questions? Does it matter? No. No, it does not. All you need to know is that Jack is grilling Nadia, she's handling it well, and Jack's learning that, given the chance, Nadia would probably kill him where he stands. Heh.