Episode Report Card Erin: A+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT "Almost thirty hours" is more like it
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.11.2002
After the break and a little personal time with what we at Casa Del Rouge like to call Blood Omen 2 -- Electric Boogaloo, we're back at SD-6. Uncle Arvin's sitting at his desk, ruminating over the blowout he just had with Auntie Em and how he's probably going to have to leave work promptly at five tonight, pick up a new silencer, have a light bite to eat, and then off his wife. Syd enters, ostensibly to chat with Sloane about life, liberty, and the pursuit of dark eyeliner, but really she's there to get his fingerprints and allow Spy Daddy access to Sloane's computer.
Syd parks it and pretends to look distressed so that Sloane will move away from his terminal. He falls for it and walks over to her, gripping her shoulder in that creepy fashion we've all come to know and love. Fingerprints? Check. As Spy Daddy continues working on the whole computer-access crapola, Syd tries to bait Sloane into saying all the words in the English language so that she and Spy Daddy can manufacture a password. See, Spy Daddy has to access the mainframe in order to find out what the password is; then he and Syd need to create a sound byte of Sloane actually saying the password; then Syd needs to use latex fingertips with Sloane's prints on them in order to gain entry to the surrounded-by-water storage facility. Oh, and they change the password every hour, so Syd has less time to get to the facility than it takes to describe this entire stupid caper. Seriously. I've watched this tape twice and I just NOW figured out what in the hell they were doing.
In the interest of saving time and allowing me to get back to my all-important snowboard racing, I'll sum up this scene in five words or less. Syd gets everything she needs. Got it? Did you actually think the writers would bother to concoct this 'shroom-inspired adventure and NOT have Syd get everything she needed in order to access the surrounded-by-water storage facility? Tension, who has obviously hopped into his car, revved the engine, and zoomed on over to the Best Buy on Howard Street in order to purchase his very own PS2, doesn't really play a part in this scene. Want more detail on this scene? Watch your tapes. I watched this whole episode while on the phone with my dear friend Wendy Kroy, and we were so confused and bored at this point that we'd both moved onto the more fascinating topic of When To Neuter Your Adorable Black Kitten, And Will He Hate You Forever When You Take His Testicles Away?
On with the show. Syd leaves Sloane's office, and Spy Daddy tells her she has fifty-seven minutes to gain access to the surrounded-by-water facility. Syd looks across the office and sees the ever-present Dixon, his face a veritable silk screen of suspicion. Due to the fact that Syd's on the clock (or, more likely, because Dixon is creeping her shit out), she stalks off in the direction of the exit.