Episode Report Card Erin: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Papa, Can You Hear Me?
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.22.2003
After yet another batch of horrific commercials, we're back with Doc Avari and his neurostim tools. He explains that after he drills a hole in Syd's skull, he'll insert a cranial shunt and drain the water from her brainpan. Ew. Once she's unconscious, they'll remove her skullcap and begin the neurostim. Yuck. Head's in the room, along with a non-surgical-glove-clad assistant. Nice sterile environment you got there, Doc. If the procedure doesn't kill her, then it's for damn sure all the rampant germs and infections will handle the job quite nicely.
Outside, a camouflage truck drives up to the outer gates. The team that Shaft's assembled is inside, along with Jack and Vaughn. Jack informs the team that an operative inside will gain access to the security room and initiate a reverse lockdown protocol, which will lock the majority of the MPs into their patrol areas. Once that's done, they'll go get Syd. "Hope your man knows what he's doing," says Shaft. "She does," says Vaughn. Heh.
Inside, Lauren (see -- I told you I'd do it) enters the security room and requests to see Head. An MP goes off to inform Head that she's here to see him. Lauren takes a seat on a table next to the security console and sticks a device to it. Outside, Shaft and the boys wait for the lockdown to go into action. While they wait, Lauren sits inside, waiting herself. Just then, Pruitt enters, dressed in a nice suit from Big & Tall. He orders a chopper to Fort Lewis. He sees Lauren and warmly greets her, saying that Head's spoken fondly about her. They shake hands. At that moment, the device Lauren placed goes off and the monitors go down.
Outside, the gate starts to go up, and Shaft and the boys take down the outer guards with tranq darts. The boys move inside. Back in the security room, the MP at the monitors tells Pruitt that something's overriding the system. We hear a voice over the PA system that announces they're in lockdown and that all the doors are sealed. Pruitt tries the door, then turns and looks at Lauren. "What did you do?" he spits. "Nothing," she says innocently. And then Pruitt cracks her one on the face. Heh. Sorry. That was mean.
The Shaft Boys are racing through the halls, looking for Sydney. Pruitt overrides the overriding or something and gets himself and the MP out of the security room. The Shaft Boys continue looking for Sydney. Unfortunately, when they make it to her cell, she ain't there. Nope. She's in The Least Hygienic OR On The Face of The Planet and Doc Avari's moving toward her with the gas. Suddenly, the doors are blown wide open and Jack knocks tranq darts into everyone in the room but Syd. Jack and Vaughn start to release her from the straps when suddenly Doc Avari gets up and aims a gun at her. "Sydney!" yells Jack. Syd grabs a scalpel and gets Avari right in the throat. Bet he wishes that thing were sterilized now, huh?