Episode Report Card Erin: C+ | 1 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Welcome to the Apple Store. Would you like a gun with your iPod?
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 1 | Aired on 01.04.2005
Back again in the dining car. Vaughn pulls out a briefcase and nervously asks Rick Yune if he really wants to do this in public. "Mr. Vadik is not afraid of the public," says Rick Yune. "And neither am I." So Vaughn opens the case, types something into the keyboard, and the interior hatch opens up, or whatever, revealing the bogus isotope. He places it on the table. Rick Yune reaches into his bag and pulls out some device and scans the isotope. We go back to the Seduction of the Smarty Pants, already in progress. Syd's in the nightie and Nerdy Guy's again wondering where he can get a condom on such short notice. Back again in the dining car. Vaughn nervously says something about how you can't test power with "toy from hardvare store." Rick Yune just grins at him. That man is dangerous. Dangerously hot! Thank you! Don't forget to tip your waitress!
Rick Yune seems satisfied with his preliminary test of the isotope, because he tosses a small velvet bag at Vaughn and says he'll receive the other half of his payment once the full battery of tests have been completed. Vaughn takes the velvet bag and says something about Rick Yune not being very discreet. Rick Yune just says some crap about terror happening every day and no one noticing it until something detonates and how he and Mr. Vadik rely on that. Yeah. No idea. Vaughn closes the case and opens the velvet bag, revealing that it's full of diamonds. We head back to Syd and Nerdy Guy again, but we already know what happens there, so why don't we go back to Vaughn again because, really, that's where the interesting shit is going down.
Rick Yune is staring at Vaughn while Vaughn looks at the diamonds. Suddenly, his focus narrows and he says, "You look familiar." Okay, that can't be good. Vaughn ad libs that some people say he looks like the hockey player, Alexei Kovalev. I looked up Alexei's picture and…no. The only way Vaughn could look like Kovalev would be if someone slapped him around for a couple of hours with a two-by-four and then stapled a Doris Day wig to his head and threw him out onto the ice. Rick Yune agrees with me. "No," he grits. "That's not it." And we go to commercial number two of the four thousand commercials that take place between the "0:35" and the "1:59" markers on my TiVo timeline.
When we return, Rick Yune's still staring suspiciously at Vaughn. Vaughn hems and haws and says that maybe they've met before or…maybe he knows his boss, Mr. Vadik. And, since we discover later that Rick Yune IS Vadik, this is the precise moment that Rick Yune knows that Vaughn is full of the -- how you say? Shit. Rick Yune nods at one of his henchmen in the back and the guy comes up and puts a meaty hand on Vaughn's shoulder. Vaughn's all, vat is zees? Rick Yune's all, I don't know who you are, but you ain't Nerdy Guy, okay? He then announces that he's getting off the train a little early and looks out the window, where a helicopter has just arrived. He tells his henchman to find out who Vaughn is, gets up, grabs the diamond bag, and walks off.