Episode Report Card Erin: A | 1 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Sark. Do I even need to say anything else?
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 8 | Aired on 02.22.2005
Sark unlocks himself and hauls ass out of the truck. The yelling dude keeps urging him forward, telling him to get into this van. Sark kind of jumps over "dead" bodies in the street and finally gets into Yelling Guy's van. "Alpha, do you copy?" says some voice over comms. The rain beats down and the camera moves in to the window of the prisoner transport vehicle, where the driver is supposedly dead. "Do you copy?" The wipers on the window move down once, twice, and the driver opens his eyes, totally aware. Heh. This whole thing was an Apple Store set-up. Nice.
Jack's Office. Syd knocks and then enters. She says that chatter picked up on a meet between the CRF and some dude named "Vorich" at the Shilanost Chemical Labs in Estonia. Jack is all, dude? Shilanost is NOT on our radar. Syd is all, yeah, it's a long shot, but if Anna is there, it'd be our best shot at getting her back in our sights. Jack gets up out of his chair and tells his daughter to take Nadia with her, and to go for observation only. He's all, dude? This is a surveillance, not a boxing match, okay? "Can I trust you to maintain your professionalism?" he asks. Syd kind of slyly smiles and says, "She brings out the worst in me, Dad, but, yes, of course." Syd pauses. Jack's all, what? Syd's all, Anna never even checked the sample. Jack's all, yeah, well, Marshall never thought he could make a decent fake anyway. Syd's all, you were right. I was stubborn. I didn't need the real deal after all. "You trusted your instincts to ensure the return of a fellow agent, a member of your family, and you succeeded." Syd kind of acknowledges this and looks down.
Van of Fake CRF Protocol. The guy who got Sark out of the transport vehicle is now yelling at him to go and take a provided motorcycle to CRF headquarters, pronto! Sark puts on a helmet and gets on the motorcycle and drives off. The fake CRF guy tells the Apple Store that Tango is in motion. Back at base, Jack tells Vaughn and Marshall that Sark will lead them to the CRF. For now, they wait. Marshall, always hungry, says, "Who want to order Chinese? I'm starving." No response. "Thai? Indian?" Um, Marshall? You guys don't exist. I'm thinking that "ordering in" is a foreign concept 'round these parts.
Elsewhere at the Apple Store, Sydney's rampaging through the halls and Sloane catches her. He says something about Sydney and Nadia going after Anna. Syd's all, um, aren't you supposed to NOT be talking to me right now? How 'bout we stick with that program, huh? I'm fairly fond of it. She continues stalking off. Sloane says something about Anna's beliefs and the lengths she'll go to because of them. Syd turns back, all, uh, you wanna talk about beliefs, GREEN GOO BOY? Because we can, if you're up for it. "From where I'm standing," she says, stepping closer to him, "it was your madman obsession with Rambaldi that dragged me and Nadia into this endless pit of confusion. So given that, let me ask you, what is it you believe?" Sloane looks decidedly uncomfortable. "I believe that if the two of you go out on this mission, and Anna Espinosa has her way, that only one of you will return home…alive." Ron Rifkin manages to stick some emotion into about every other word, making it seem like Sloane really cares about these two girls. Syd's not buying it, though, because she just storms off with a raised eyebrow or two.