Episode Report Card Erin: B- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Tuck Everlasting
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.05.2002
Okay, so, now Vaughn tells Syd that Sloane's probably looking for something specific on the disk, but they don't know what, so this undercover guy Schmidt will scan the disk, figure out what's on it, then hand over a bogus copy that's close enough to the original to fool Sloane. Yeah. Like THAT'S gonna happen. Because it only takes a couple of seconds to analyze a disk and make a copy that will fool someone as eagle-eyed as Arvin Sloane. What-EVER. "Or," says Vaughn shyly, "you could just ask your mother about the contents of the disk." D'oh! "Kendall must really be putting on the pressure for you to ask me that," says Syd in her throatiest you-little-toad voice. Vaughn's all, yeah, yeah he is. And then he blabs on about how this is what Syd's trained for -- compartmentalizing her emotions. Syd's not buying it. Vaughn tries the hard sell of how Syd wants to bring down SD-6 and how, if Spy Mommy can help, why shouldn't they use her? Syd's all, because I can't, because I won't, because her hair is glossier than mine. You think you could shut down when you're around Spy Mommy? Then YOU try it. I gotta go get a facial.
Vaughn pays a visit to Kommandant Kendall and tells him that he spoke to Sydney, and she's not too interested in chatting with Mommy. They enter into a little heated back-and-forth about Syd's history with her mother and how Irina shot Syd and could have killed her. Kendall seems to think that the "could have" in that sentence is rather important because, after all, she's Irina Derevko; she wants you dead, well, you're DEAD. Kendall also seems to think that, even though Spy Mommy's a bad-ass of the first order, now that she's in custody, well, she'll do anything they want her to. Kendall apparently had a whole lot of crazy oats for breakfast. Vaughn stares at a TV screen where Lena Olin is pacing back and forth in all her captured glory. "When she got done with my father," he says, his eyes not moving from the screen, "he could only be identified by his dental records." "Nevertheless…" says Kendall. Yeah, he says more than just "nevertheless." But it really doesn't matter, does it? Because when someone tells you that a sociopath basically MAULED their father, you really should just shut the fuck up and go get a cup of coffee or something.
After Kommandant Kendall spews out all sorts of useless sentences about national security and the CIA and Spy Mommy's operation, Virtuous Vaughn snaps, "If I can get her to talk, I don't want you to ask Sydney to see her ever again." Kommandant can't make that promise. "You're not the easiest guy to work with, are you?" asks Vaughn. And here, Terry O'Quinn makes the funniest damn face, as if to say, "Wow. No one's ever called me on that before. This kid's got moxie. Somebody get me a donut!" Kendall begrudgingly agrees with Vaughn that he's the biggest son-of-a-bitch to work for since, well, since Sloane, and walks off.