Episode Report Card Erin: B- | 116 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Thank you for flying Exposition Airlines
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 11 | Aired on 2004.01.11
And we're back with Kendall. He says the Covenant thought that if they had Syd and the Rambaldi Cube o' Flesh, they'd have everything they needed to fulfill Rambaldi's prophecy. Syd continued to work for the Covenant, but she was really working for the CIA, and she and Lazarey were working together to find the Cube. They finally found it nine months later. It was in the Fish River Gorge in Namibia. Yes, it's a real place. It's the second largest canyon in the world. What's the first? Why, I'm glad you asked. That would be the Grand Canyon, ladies and gentleman. Thank you! Thank you! Don't forget to tip your Google!
Then we travel to Palm Desert, California, where a CGI painting of a big-ass mountain is flashed at us so that we'll think we're all in Namibia. Syd and Lazarey enter some cave. It's really uncanny how much Syd looks like Lauren in these scenes. Which, actually, I think is the point. Finally, Syd and Lazarey come upon this humongous vault that's about five hundred years old. Then there's this elaborate set up involving twelve vault keys and entering the keys and unlocking each different lock. Yawn. Whatever. It's cool and everything but GET ON WITH IT.
Syd and Lazarey start unlocking the separate locks, and then Lazarey gets a bum lock and has to keep his hand on the key in order for it to remain open. Syd turns her final key, the vault opens, she pulls out her hand, and all the little lock doors slam down. Lazarey's trapped, and the cave's collapsing. Syd breaks off a stick and slaps it into Lazarey's mouth, telling him to clamp down on it. Uh-oh. That can't be good. She grabs a machete and lops his hand off at the wrist. Ew. Then Syd nabs the Rambaldi Cube o' Flesh, grabs Lazarey, and they get the hell outta the collapsing cave. They're safe.
Back on the Plane of Never-Ending Stories, Kendall tells Syd that part of Lazarey's agreement was that after the Cube was recovered, he be allowed to disappear. After Syd got the Cube, she was supposed to hand it over to Kendall. But she never showed up. Instead, Kendall got a disc. He heads over to a mini DVD player and pops the disc in. A picture comes up on a screen at the end of the plane. Syd gets up and moves toward it. Onscreen, Syd as Julia takes a seat in front of the camera. "You'd better sit down for this," says Kendall wryly.