Episode Report Card Erin: F | 1 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT "The Shed"? It's more like The Shit. And not in the good way.
By Erin | Season 5 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.12.2005
Hotel Room of Fuck It, Not Caring Over Here. Syd's interrogating Boobs about the lab hack. Boobs just wants to contact the American embassy and she has rights and blah. Syd says terrorists don't have rights. Boobs says she has no idea what Syd is talking about. Getty enters and says that Boobs is traveling on a student visa that was issued two weeks ago. Boobs starts futzing with her watch, and Getty leaps at it. Boobs suddenly drops the student act and states that they're all making a huge mistake; in a few minutes, the place will be swarming with agents. Uh-huh. Don't care. The watch turns out to be an electronic location transmitter and Boobs was trying to send a signal. Boobs states that she works for the CIA, and Syd's all, huh, that's a problem, sweets, because WE'RE CIA. Boobs thinks that if they're all CIA, then they're on the same side. Except for how Boobs really works for Gordo and he's not CIA.
Syd tells Getty to get on the phone to Langley and verify her story. Boobs says Langley won't verify it because they're Black Ops and off book. How convenient. Marshall pipes up that according to the stress analysis, Boobs is telling the truth. Jack gets on the horn to them and gives this hilarious alternate excuse for Boobs passing the stress test, saying that the more likely scenario is that she's performing some sort of self-hypnosis, making herself believe that she's really working for the CIA. Heh. Victor Garber's totally laughing his ass off in this scene.
Suddenly, Syd seems to realize that if Boobs believes what she's saying, then maybe she really does think she works for the CIA, just the way Syd thought she worked for the CIA back in the days of SD-6. Syd heads back in to talk to Boobs as Getty and Marshall listen in the other room. She tells Boobs a story that greatly mirrors her own recruitment story; basically, that she was approached at school, in a public place, and a man asked her if she wanted to serve her country and when he told her it was for the CIA, she couldn't believe it. The gist of the story is that Boobs is working for an SD-6-type organization, but totally thinks she's working for the CIA. I cannot believe that THIS is the storyline they're going with for this character. Are they fucking serious? Of all the storylines to go with, they have to REPEAT ONE FROM THE FIRST SEASON? Are there even writers this year? Or is there just a Magic Eight Ball and monkey with a typewriter and an endless supply of bananas in the writer's room?
Syd asks Boobs if her story rings a bell. Boobs thinks Syd read her file. Syd didn't. Thirteen years ago, the same thing happened to her; she says she can prove that Boobs works for an illegal organization. The transmitter Boobs had, the signal is supposed to go to Langley. Syd thinks Boobs should send a signal as she normally would and they'll watch where it really goes. Boobs builds a trace program that piggybacks onto the watch signal, and they all gather around the monitor while Boobs transmits her signal. Marshall hits a button and the signal starts. It goes to Langley. Boobs looks relieved. A second later, the signal is re-routed and winds up going to Prague, to a location on Vlasska Street. Syd asks what's at that location and Boobs tells her it's their temporary office. Dean needed the office so that he could oversee the transfer of Substance 33. Syd's all, wait a minute, Dean's in Prague? Yeah, says Boobs. In fact, you won't believe this, I mean, I almost don't believe it myself, but he's RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER.