Episode Report Card Erin: A | 2 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT The Ice 5 Man Cometh
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aired on 01.18.2005
And Kelly, who apparently has a piece of angel food cake where her spine should be, just steps up, takes the syringe, and moves toward Vaughn. As Kelly gets up the nerve to stick Vaughn with the needle, he tries to fast-talk his way out of deep freeze, saying he could have helped her, she hates what Fintan does, she wants out of this, he can still help her, et cetera. Fintan just orders her to stick the needle in Vaughn's eye. Kelly blubbers and blabbles, but in the end, she actually looks like she's going to go through with it. Luckily, Syd enters and knocks Kelly down before she can ruin Vaughn's pretty green eyes. Fintan makes a leap for Syd and…then they fight. Syd finally takes Fintan down with a swipe from an OR light, and then she does this hilariously unnecessary roll across the gurney that is SO Starsky. It totally is. And it's awesome and cheesy at the same time. Or maybe it's awesome because it's cheesy. I don't know.
So Syd starts to free Vaughn as Fintan slowly regains consciousness and grabs the fallen Ice 5 syringe. He moves toward Syd with the syringe, lunges, she parries, and they circle each other as Vaughn continues freeing himself from his straps. Kelly comes to and, just as Vaughn frees himself, there's a movement in the corner of Fintan's eye and he, thinking it's Vaughn, whips around and stabs…Kelly in the stomach with the Ice 5. Vaughn catches her as Syd takes this opportunity to drop Fintan with a roundhouse kick to the head. She turns to see Vaughn holding a dying Kelly on the ground. She's turning all frosty gray and shit. She sputters "I forgive you" to Vaughn and then freeze-dries from the inside out. Vaughn looks up at Sydney and we finally leave Freeze-Dried Kelly and her Brother of Doom behind.
Apple Store. Nadia's cleaning up some of her father's dirty work (I'm guessing here) when Jack walks up and tells her that Fintan's in custody, Ice 5 was acquired, and the whole team made it out safely. Nadia's glad to hear it. Then Jack asks to see the "Irina" photo again. He then feeds Nadia some booshit story about how Irina told him years ago that the picture was of her and her niece and that holding the baby filled her with a longing and a hope to have children of her own. "The next day," says Jack, "I asked Irina to marry me. I wanted my child to be loved like the baby in this photograph." Nadia looks at Jack, finally seeing a softness to the man who's usually harder than the spine on a stegosaurus. And then Jack goes and ruins the moment by saying, "Of course, her story could have been a total fabrication. Another one of her countless lies designed to draw me in." He pauses and the softness returns. "But…I choose to believe it was the truth. When we had Sydney, Irina held her in this exact same way. And I can only imagine that she did the same with you." Nadia gets tears in her eyes, and Jack conjures up his version of a smile. "So, for me," he continues, "I choose to believe. But then, I suppose, each of us needs to find our own sense of closure." Apparently, Jack finds his sense of closure with a weapon of some kind, but, you know, to each his own. Jack goes off in search of his moral fortitude as Nadia looks closely at the picture again and the camera gets reaaaaallly close up and tries to make us forget that it's Mia Maestro in the picture. Because it isn't! It totally isn't!