Episode Report Card Erin: C+ | 93 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Double Your Premiere, Double Your Fun
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 2 | Aired on 2005.01.05
The guard turns and just as he sees her, Syd knocks him down, sending his Coke bottle rolling across the floor. The second it hits the marble pressure pad the sword case is sitting on, the alarm goes off and the security gates start coming down. Syd makes a run for it and slides through a series of crashing gates. She makes it out to an exterior door and exits. Sirens can be heard in the distance. A couple of cop cars pass right by her, and I'd like to give a high five to the sound guys for giving us Brit sirens, not American. At least THEY'RE paying attention to details.
Syd tells Dix that she needs an extraction pronto. Dix tells her it'll take them 60 seconds to get to her. She snaps that she doesn't have 60 seconds and she'll see them at the Lz. Whatever that means. Syd runs off down an alleyway and a copy car comes careening around the corner. She bolts, but the car cuts her off and, in a scene directly reminiscent of the pilot episode, Spy Daddy jacks the passenger door open and yells at his daughter to get in the car. Syd hesitates, and Jack's all, dude? Get in the car NOW and you can HATE ME LATER, okay? She gets in and Jack gets on the comm and we learn that Jack's code name is "Raptor," which just…hee! Hee hee hee. Did we already know that? Because that? Is priceless. That name didn't show up in any of the other recaps I searched through, so I think this is a new thing and I think this is a good thing because HEE. "Raptor." Hee hee hee. Know what else is funny? The exchange between the two of them once Syd gets in the car. "What are you doing here?" Syd asks breathlessly. "You know what else typically works in a situation like this?" spits Jack. "A simple 'thank you.' Get down." Hee! Syd ducks and Jack drives off. If I'm not mistaken, you can totally see Victor Garber hiding a smirk as he peels off. The man hates props, people.
The Apple Store on Michigan Avenue. Syd and Vaughn are walking along together, looking nice and chummy. Jack and Sloane are watching them. What's up with Sloane's jacket, by the way? It's one of those stand-up collar jobs that looks like it belongs on an accountant in Blade Runner or Demolition Man. I mean, it's cool and everything, it's just…no one else in the office is sporting anything like it, so Sloane winds up looking like he…accidentally got his jacket wrong or something. Anyway, Sloane just has to ruin the moment by saying, "You didn't tell her, did you? The truth." "I told her that I was responsible for the death of her mother," says Jack, turning to look at him. "Did you tell her everything?" Sloane asks. "She's better off not knowing everything," says Jack, turning back to look at his daughter with Vaughn. Yeah. That little moment made me wonder if Vaughn had something to do with the death of Irina. I know what happens at the end of the episode and I still think Vaughn might have had something to do with it. I just don't trust him. He's got a jones for killing duplicitous ex-wives, y'all.