Episode Report Card Erin: B | 135 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Ding-Dong, The Moronen's Dead!
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 22 | Aired on 2004.05.23
Vaughn runs out into the Staircase of the Seventh Ring of Hell. Really. It's the staircase that's been used in at least two episodes per season since Season One. Is there some significance to this staircase being used over and over and over again? Or is there only one staircase they can use? Like, is it pertinent and full of portent? Or is this just simple economics? I need to know. So, whatever, the building's in lockdown. Agents are heading up to where the elevator dudes are locked in, and Vaughn slides down a fire extinguisher hose to the bottom of the staircase. His punctured lung is doing remarkably well, by the way. Thank you for asking! Vaughn peeks out behind the building and sees a bunch of agents outside. He gets on the walkie and pretends he's an agent himself and says, "Vaughn's going out the main entrance. All agents to the front NOW!" The agents outside run off and Vaughn easily escapes. And apparently climbs the ladder to the fifth dimension or something, because in about ten minutes he's going to be in Palermo. I wish I were kidding.
Speaking of Palermo, Syd's still there, but now it's night. This adds some credence to the idea that there was a time lapse between the time that Vaughn escaped from the hospital and this particular moment in time, but the amount of credence it lends couldn't fill a demitasse cup with a hole in it, so, really, let's not go there. Syd's just meditating or something when someone approaches her from behind and puts a gun to her head. Syd's her mother's daughter, however, and she quickly nabs the gun before the shooter can get busy. Syd gets up and is face-to-face with Auntie Katya. Katya lies that she thought Syd was a Covenant guard, so she was about to shoot her. Yeah. Covenant guards often hang out behind boulders with no weapons. Katya blah blahs some more about the Covenant and how she's infiltrating the camp, same as Syd, but it's really all bullshit because we all know now that she's a baddie so can we just get on with it already? Syd asks if Moronen's around. Katya says she was, but she drove away about an hour ago. Must've been while Syd was contemplating her navel. Syd just says they'll wait until she gets back before they make their move, and hands Katya her gun. Katya recommends that they take cover, and asks if Syd's alone. Of course she is, Katya. Duh. Syd turns to look away, and Katya brings her gun up again, and…click. Nothing happens. Syd holds up the clip. Um. I'm no expert here, but isn't the clip kind of, I don't know, heavy? Like, if you had a clip in your gun and someone took your gun away and removed the clip and handed it back to you, wouldn't you notice it? I just…sigh. Katya says, "How did you know?" "I didn't," says Syd. "But now I do." Syd darts her auntie and Katya drops. Jeez. Syd's quickly running out of decent family members.