Episode Report Card Erin: B- | 116 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Thank you for flying Exposition Airlines
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 11 | Aired on 2004.01.11
Oh ho ho. Not so fast, Mrs. Fairy. There are forty more minutes to this episode, and it's MY job to recap them. Not that I'm totally loving my job at this moment, because FLASHBACK EPISODE ANYONE? But it's my job and I have to do it, so I'll kindly ask you to STEP OFF. Kendall shows Syd a picture of Creepy Russian Guy and tells her that his name is Oleg and that he's the one who was with her in the van, and he took her to some Covenant facility outside St. Petersburg. Syd recognizes him as the man she shot back in episode one. The scene where Syd shot him is then replayed, you know, in case we don't REMEMBER IT. If you want a recap of that scene, however, you'll just have to read the recap for yourself. Homey don't play recap the recap. Syd wants to know what Oleg did to her. Kendall tells her that the Covenant needed her cooperation, that it was somehow crucial to their operation. Of course, Syd wasn't about to cooperate, so, you know, they just had to brainwash and torture her a little bit. You know, for fun!
We get extended shots of Syd being tortured and brainwashed and generally beaten to a pulp. Sensory deprivation. Electroshock. Oleg even ran an IV with a barbiturate into one arm, then shocked Syd awake with an amphetamine IV into the other arm. Nice. "I will kill you, you son-of-a-bitch!" Syd shouts at him while shaking with amphetamines. "I promise you!" Once Oleg believed Syd had been broken, he started with a reconditioning process, trying to program Syd to think that her name was Julia Thorne and that she was born in 1973 in London. "My name is Sydney Bristow, you ugly bastard," is all Syd has to respond. Heh.
All righty. More hypnosis, narcotics, and solitary confinement scenes. If you like that sort of thing, then I suggest you go right back and watch your tape again. Because Homey also don't recap the useless expository torture scenes. Especially ones involving the eating of rancid dog food, followed closely by the vomiting up of rancid dog food. I mean, hey, the whole sequence is very well done and thoroughly creepy, but if I tell you that Sydney was tortured and brainwashed for nearly nine months, you'd know what I meant, yeah? Yeah.