Episode Report Card Erin: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Two Spy Daddies Are Better Than One
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 10 | Aired on 03.08.2005
Apple Store Hallway Where No One Apparently is Concerned About Security or Sloane Overhearing or Anything. Syd and Dix are discussing the fact that the decoder's still in analysis, and Dix is convinced that Sloane's only pretending to follow protocol. Dix, of course, has been monitoring Sloane's phone, and he's made more than a dozen phone calls to a number in Brussels. Unfortunately, the calls he made were encrypted, so they have no idea what was said. Dix says they need to get into Sloane's house and copy his encryption key so that they can hack into his phone calls. Before Syd can say, "Dude? You're mental," Sloane shows up and tersely requests her presence in his office.
Sloane's Office of West Elm Furniture. Sloane bitches at Sydney for her fake fuck-up at the police station. Syd snaps that she wasn't caught, so what's the problem? Sloane's all, dude? You took a long time in the evidence room. Oh, and most vacationing American snots do NOT get rescued by black helicopters, a-ight? Or didn't that occur to you when you were SCREWING AROUND in the evidence room? Syd blah blahs about the decoder disk being misfiled, but Sloane totally isn't buying any of her crap. They snit back and forth at each other until, finally, Sloane sneers, "Perhaps I shouldn't but…I expect better from you." Oh, snap. Syd takes this bitchy put-down rather calmly and turns to leave. She stops, gets an idea, and turns back around. "This might not be the best time," she says, thinking on her feet, "but I thought you should know: today's Nadia's birthday." Sloane looks surprised. "She says she doesn't want to celebrate," she continues, "but maybe she'd change her mind if the invitation came from you." Hee! Oh, this is so wicked of her. She's totally thrown Sloane for a loop, because he gets up, all, whuh? Birthday? Daughter? Know? Not. Help. Me. Hee. "Well, what do you think she might like?" asks Sloane. "Something simple," says Syd, looking off to the side where a big placard reads, KEEP GOING, YOU'RE TOTALLY SNOWING HIM. "A family dinner, maybe? At your house?" she says innocently. HA! She's an evil little minx when she wants to be. She went into his office ready to tell Dixon to just drop it already, and the second Sloane was bitchy with her, she turned right around and got herself invited to his house! Heh. Nice, Syd.
Hospital Comatose. Vaughn's sitting by his uncle's bedside, watching a basketball game. Fake Nurse Rosemary enters and blah blahs something about Uncle Coma listening to the game. Vaughn wonders aloud if she thinks Uncle Coma can hear him. She blah blahs something about how you never know and some coma patients have been known to wake up just at the sound of a loved one's voice. Vaughn doesn't seem so sure. Rosemary's all, blah blah was your father a good man? Vaughn's all, blah blah yeah, whatever, just give me that secret key you've been hired to give me and let's move this B plot along, shall we? Rosemary claims that Uncle Coma had something for "Bill," but seeing as Bill's dead, he probably meant for Vaughn to have it. She hands him an envelope and inside is a bus station locker key. Rosemary gets this "look" on her face that might or might not be evil, and she leaves so that Vaughn can add another three or four wrinkles to his forehead without being disturbed.
Scissor Sisters Barbie Penthouse. Syd's getting ready for the party. Well, if by "ready" you mean "sticking a secret spy device in her purse and looking really guilty while doing it." Nadia enters and asks Syd what she thinks. I don't know what Syd thinks, but I think Nadia looks like she's dressed for a hot Valentine's Day date, not dinner at dear old dad's house. But maybe that's just me. Syd says it looks perfect and Nadia says thanks and Syd says sure, Nadia can borrow that necklace any time and…it's a really weird awkward moment because it kind of sounds like a snotty sister moment the way it was cut. I don't know. It was just…odd. Anyway, Nadia is saying thank you for the whole family dinner thing. Syd's all, really? Because, uh, you seemed really annoyed and downright bitchy, actually, when I told your dad about your birthday. Again, the tone of this scene is…odd. Syd sounds like she's pissy with Nadia, even though Nadia's basically saying sorry for being such a pill earlier. Weird. Nadia just says she thought she didn't want a fuss for her birthday, but now she's glad Syd pushed the issue, because a family gathering now feels like a good idea. Nadia wraps up the whole "I'm going to make you feel super-guilty for spying on my dad" conversation by saying that the fact that Syd is willing to have dinner with Sloane means a whole lot to Nadia. Syd just swallows that big pill of irony down with a heavy gulp.