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By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 1 | Aired on 01.04.2005
We leave Nadia then, and head back over to Ovary Electric, where Syd's preparing a tasty meal for her boyfriend. The doorbell rings and Syd runs to get it, thinking it's Vaughn at the door. Instead, it's Jack, and he just barges right in. He's all, dude? You have to quit shutting me out! We have to communicate! Come on! We work together! Syd just stalks off as Jack follows her. "I'm doing my job," snaps Syd, concentrating on chopping carrots. "No," Jack snaps back. "What you need to do is find a way to accept what's happened. If you can deal with Arvin Sloane --" "I love that you knew that," she snits. "That you approved it." Jack just grimaces and says, "It may be hard for you to accept that your father doesn't have the authority to make all the decisions that --" "No, what's hard for me to accept is all the decisions that you DO make!" Here, Syd finally looks at her father. "What's hard is looking at you, walking past you, smelling that sickening cologne," she says, putting something in the fridge. Hee. The cologne line killed me for some reason. "What's hard is…being your daughter and not being able to separate myself, as far as I may get, from the person I despise the most." Damn. That's harsh.
Jack takes it like a man, though, and performs the famous "Bristow Pout." "You went to see Nadia," he spits. "Did you tell her…what you know?" What does she know, Jack? WHAT DOES SHE KNOW? "I guess I thought," says Syd, turning from the fridge, "that maybe you'd come here, I don't know, to give me something, information -- something that would help make sense of what I was afraid you'd become, but there's nothing you could say. Of course, you were only looking out for yourself. Is that what you think of me? As an operative? That I would reveal your secret to that poor girl?" Jack doesn't respond. Luckily, he doesn't have to. Vaughn enters just then, obviously using the key that Sydney gave him right after she gave him that "let's take it slow" speech. "I didn't tell Nadia a thing," hisses Syd as Vaughn enters the kitchen with a bag of groceries which…yeah, isn't she already making him dinner? What's he bringing, a bag full of dessert? Silly boy. Doesn't he know that HE'S dessert? Jack ignores Vaughn and just walks off. Vaughn looks after him all, dude? Aren't you staying for dessert? He looks back at Sydney, who's rapidly slicing her way through a pound of onions or something. He approaches her, obviously attempting to give her comfort, but she just says, "Sorry," and skitters off.
Seconds later, Vaughn enters Syd's bedroom, where she's sitting on the edge of the bed, hugging her knee to her chest. "What's going on?" he asks. "It was Lauren who told me," says Syd, launching into her "What Jack Did Wrong THIS Time" explanation. So, Sydney tells Vaughn the story of the Wittenberg safety deposit box and how she went to find out what was in it and when she got there and opened it up, inside the box there was a classified file on black paper and…well, you know the rest. Oh, except for the part where Syd discovered evidence that Irina Derevko had been a security risk (well, duh) and how Jack asked for, and got, authority to execute her. Vaughn looks all d'oh! about this, but not nearly as d'oh! as he should, which kind of makes me think…Vaughn maybe had something to do with Irina's death? I dunno. I'm talking out my ass here, people. Anyway, back to the dramatic reveal: "And he did it," says Syd, bringing on the water works. "He killed her. He killed my mother." Vaughn pulls Syd into his arms and she curls up on his lap. "He did it, Vaughn. He killed my mother."