Episode Report Card Erin: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Careless Memories
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.12.2002
Actually, Irina just gets up, and she and Jack stare at each other for a good solid minute before Irina opens her mouth. "I've had a picture of your face in my mind for twenty years," she says seductively. "I remember a loving husband. A generous man. A patriot." Jack glares at her. "I may have been under orders," she continues, "to fabricate a life with you, but there were times when the illusion of our marriage was as powerful for me as it was for you. Especially when Sydney was born. Looking at you now, I see that illusion has finally gone." "I want to make something very clear to you," gruffs Jack, in a way that suggests he has an AK-47 hidden behind his back and he will MAKE it clear if need be. "There are people here who believe you can repay the debt you owe this country through your continued cooperation. I am not one of them. And if Sydney, in any way, becomes victim to your end game, I will kill you." Irina just smiles at him. "She's spent most of her life believing you were dead," he continues. "She'll get used to it again. No matter what 'bond' you try to forge with her."
Jack turns to leave. As the gates screech open, Irina delivers her parting blow. "You haven't told her what you did to her after I disappeared, have you?" Jack stops momentarily. Irina just glowers at him from behind her glass cage. He leaves, finally, knowing that, yet again, his bitch of an ex-wife has bested him.
Meanwhile, Syd's knocking the lock off the metal container. Inside is the ancient Rambaldi music box. Syd checks in with Vaughn and pulls the music box out of the container. She flips the lid and reveals an archaic version of a turntable. Both Kendall and Vaughn are listening in. "Stand by," she says. "I'm going to enter the code my mother gave me." Look. I don't mean to be a stickler for these things but, like, wasn't Syd all "don't refer to her as my mother" earlier in the show? If she has such a problem with the whole "mother" issue, well, shouldn't the writers stick with it throughout, at least, THE EPISODE? Like, shouldn't she be saying, "I'm going to enter the code Derevko gave me"? I mean, considering Syd's penchant for using last names and all, it would seem more normal, and certainly more cohesive as the story goes, for Syd to refer to her mother by her given Russian name.
I'm just sayin'.
Anyway, as Syd prepares to enter the code that the woman who is her mother only by circumstance gave her, Dixon's receiving signals indicating that they are, indeed, not alone out there. The soon-to-be-dead guys agree that there are some peoples comin', and they should be right on top of them, according to the radar, but no one's showing up in person. Dixon reads on his PDA radar thingy that there are multiple bodies coming in, but there's still no physical sign of them.
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