Episode Report Card Erin: A+ | 2 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Say goodbye to reality, Uncle Arvin.
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 16 | Aired on 04.19.2005
Omar heads over to the bar and orders a rum cannonball. "Little early for the hard stuff," says a TWA stewardess from 1963. No, seriously. It's Syd. But she's somehow mistaken the assignment for a costume party, because she's wearing a bright red stewardess suit and matching pillbox hat that looks like it was pulled from the costume warehouse for Catch Me If You Can. What the? She looks awesome and everything but…wouldn't the Independence Air uniform have been, I don't know, a little less, EYE-CATCHING? Girl's supposed to blend the hell in, after all.
Whatever. Omar's drinking and there's nothing Sydney can do about it. A man approaches Omar and sits down. Everyone watches. The man stares at Omar and he's like, bitch? Do I know you? The man says he's there to check and make sure Omar's not carrying any weapons. He does a sweep over Omar with a wand, and Omar's clean. Jack orders Sydney to sit tight and see where this goes. The man gets up and tells Omar to come with him. Omar's like, hold the phone. I ain't goin' NOWHERE. The plan was to meet here. The man's all, plan's changed, dude. We're doing this in the penthouse. Jack tells Marshall to check the penthouse, and he brings up a picture of the penthouse room with two guards outside. Omar shoots Sydney a look as he walks off. Jack orders the whole team to move to the penthouse. Everyone scrambles. Jack tells Syd that they need audio on Omar, so she heads off with a cell phone in her hand.
At the elevators, the man says something to Omar about double-crossing Bad Baldy and Sydney walks up with her phone. She hands it to Omar and pretends that he left it behind at the bar. He takes it, immediately getting why she's handing it to him. She walks off and Omar asks the man if Bad Baldy came himself or if he sent someone else to do his dirty work. The man just says that Bad Baldy wants to do this face-to-face. The doors open and they enter the elevator. Syd and her blinking neon red suit follow them up in a sister elevator. Yeah, she's not too obvious or anything. I kind of like her funky pigtails, though.
As Syd and her electric hot lava red suit ride up in the elevator, another elevator across the way is going down and Sloane Clone's inside. Syd stares at him, gape-mouthed. He stares right back at her, doing his best Sloane imitation. "Something's wrong," says Syd to Jack. "He's here. The clone." "They're gonna cut the cable," says Sloane. Jack looks at Marshall, who looks at Sloane, who looks back at Jack. We get a glimpse of Omar in the elevator before SNAP! The cable goes. The elevator drops. And yeah, if the elevator were really dropping at the speed it looks like it is, these dudes wouldn't be slammed down on the floor, yo. They'd be up against the damn ceiling. But, whatever, it actually freaked me out when I saw it, so I'll forgive a little thing like…laws of gravity.