Episode Report Card Shack: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Déjà Vu To A Kill
By Shack | Season 1 | Episode 17 | Aired on 03.16.2002
Cut to a warehouse, where Agent Anxious is having a secret meeting with Spy Daddy. Neither of them has had any luck finding details about Sydney's predicament. Jack is concerned, because Sloane wants to have a meeting with Sydney on Tuesday (and since we don't know what day it is, I have no idea how far away that is). Vaughn hopes the FBI doesn't take the prophecy as seriously as DSR did last episode, but Spy Daddy says that, "in the current climate," the FBI is being very careful and looking hard at anybody another agency tags as a possible threat. Yeah, but…okay, okay. I'll just go with it. Vaughn asks if Sydney's cover could be blown with SD-6. You'd think that giant forehead would house a larger brain. Duh. Barbie in chains means no speakie with bad man, Vaughn. Jack tells Vaughn that Directive 81A allows the government to imprison Sydney forever and ever with no trial. I want to know what that directive actually says.
Credits. When I was asked to guest recap this show, I had planned an elaborate anecdote explaining that the font they use for the show is called "Top Secret," and how it's this cheesy, cheap font that I used to use all the time at my college newspaper, but Glark had to step all over my story by posting that information on the message boards. Damn you, Glark! Damn yoooooouuu!
Back at the Federal Bureau of Recapping, Kendall asks Sydney to describe her role at SD-6. She tells him she started with deskwork and moved to reconnaissance. Kendall remarks AGAIN that she thought she was working with the CIA. OKAY, I KNOW! Kendall has this annoying tendency to recap things AGAIN right after Sydney recaps them. Sydney tells him that only a handful of folks at SD-6 are even aware that they're actually not CIA. Kendall asks why she's still in school. Sydney says she wants to become a teacher, and didn't want to give up grad school. Of course, she just said less than ten minutes ago that she was unhappy with grad school and pretty much became a spy because of that. Now her school situation makes even less sense than it did before. Not that it ever made much. Kendall asks Sydney about Danny and what happened to him. Previously on Alias: Danny sang badly and asked Sydney to marry him. She decided to tell him she was a spy. SD-6 had Danny killed while she was away on a mission. Sydney reacted as though she had drunk some rancid milk.