Episode Report Card Erin: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT "André"? Seriously? That's the best you could do?
By Erin | Season 5 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.28.2005
When we return, Vaughn is flat out on the hospital bed and Sarah McLachlan's singing about dirty little secrets and really, it's never a good sign when Sarah McLachlan's singing because her songs go really, really well with death. Two rather impersonal doctors enter and throw the blanket up over Vaughn's face and pull him out of the room. Syd just looks floored. Vaughn's body passes by Jack. He has almost no expression. Syd walks up to him and grimaces; she doesn't look nearly as wrecked as I thought she'd be. But I guess when you've discovered one fiancé dead in your bathtub, watching another one die of heart failure as a result of billions of bullets doesn't really faze you much, huh?
At the funeral, everyone looks stone-faced. Jack, Dix, Marshall, and Weiss are among the pallbearers and they carry Vaughn's body out to the hearse. Syd stands on the steps, looking every inch the grieving widow. I have to admit to a couple of well-dropped tears during this second viewing, mostly due to that bitch McLachlan. Stop singing about angels and drinking, dammit! As Syd watches the remaining men in her life place Vaughn's casket in the hearse, she gets a look on her face that I can only call "steely resolve." Jack turns back and looks at his daughter and recognizes that look. Because damned if it isn't his own standard steely expression looking right back at him.
London. 4 Months Later. Élodie Bouchez, looking even weirder than usual in a big red fright wig, is tending bar in a seedy pub. Syd enters, wearing a wig that's possibly even uglier than Élodie's. Syd parks it at the bar and Élodie asks what she needs. "You're a hard person to find," says Syd. "But if I can do it, so can they." Élodie says she has no idea what Syd's talking about. "I know who you are, Renee," says Sydney. Élodie's reaching for her hidden gun when Sydney says that this is about Michael Vaughn. "You're Sydney," says Élodie. "You should have walked away." "You don't know me very well," says Sydney. You can say that again. Also? Good thing that bar was there to hide your big belly or else we'd think you were pregnant or something.
Next week on Alias: Syd goes on a bad guy hunt and takes out her pregnancy hormones on DMG.