Episode Report Card Erin: C+ | 1 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT Thank you for flying Exposition Airlines
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.10.2004
Syd parks it as we get a shot of smoke billowing from the plane's jet engines. What, is it on fire now? Also? Why are they on a fucking plane? This couldn't have taken place at, say, the Denny's off I-290 or something? Whatever. Syd's sitting down for what winds up being the longest home movie EVER MADE. I could recap the whole thing. I could also attempt to swim to Antarctica. Guess what? Neither one of those things is happening at any time in the near future.
What actually happens in the little home movie? Well, she cries a lot. Then she says she can't go along with the plan as she and Kendall discussed. "You know what this is about," she whispers, looking kind of scared. Syd-on-the-plane is all, dude? What in the fuck am I talking about? Good question, Sydney. Good question. Kendall, however, ain't answering. Instead, he just makes a face and continues watching the movie as if to say, dude? Why should I tell you when little Blonde Sydulia here can do it just as well? Or at least with a lot more lip-gloss?
Syd-on-the-screen says that she's taken care of the DNA, and that she can't trust it with the CIA. Primarily because somehow, everything they ever get their hands on winds up getting stolen. No, Syd. Everything they ever get their hands on THEY LOSE ALMOST INSTANTLY. Seriously. Rambaldi hearts, scientists, dead agents with a penchant for colored wigs -- you name it, the CIA's lost it. Syd-on-the-screen announces that she herself elected to have her memories erased by some random doctor who knows how to do this or something. At the end of the video, Syd-on-the-screen beseeches Kendall to not tell her what she's been through in the past two years, if, by some miracle, she survives the memory wiping. She cries some more and then the video ends.
Syd turns to Kendall and asks him why he's telling her all this if she, you know, TOLD HIM NOT TO. He starts blah-blahing about how Rambaldi's prophecy speaks of a second coming. Oh, Jesus. Oh. I mean, oh, JESUS! Heh. Syd's all, oh, great, those freaks want to clone the dead Italian guy, right? Kendall's all, oh ho ho! If only it were that NORMAL. No. The Covenant believes that Rambaldi's work was destined to continue beyond his time, and in order for that to happen, well, he'd need an heir, wouldn't he? Syd just stares at him for a second and then gets this kind of sickened look on her face.
Suddenly, Syd starts reciting the prophecy. "This woman here depicted will possess unseen marks, signs that she will be the one to bring forth my works; [at vulgar costs] this woman will render the greatest power, unto utter desolation." Yeah, yeah, yeah. Been there, done that, read the Oprah Book Club recommendation and turned it into a three-hanky weeper already. God. Kendall pipes up that Rambaldi's fanatical followers believe the DNA can be transformed and used to fertilize the egg of a surrogate mother. "Someone referred to in his prophecy as 'The Chosen One,'" he finishes.