Episode Report Card Erin: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Vampire LeSyd
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 6 | Aired on 02.08.2005
Later, after Syd and Vaughn have changed out of their Goth gear and into their all-black spy ensembles, Syd approaches the Count and tells him they know his real name, Andre Sterescu, and everything else about him -- including his background in stolen pharmaceuticals. Jack shows Andre a picture of Jason Cahill and requests that he tell them what he knows. After a couple of threats from Jack of the Pursed Lips, Andre finally says that Jason told him he was a chemist. It should be noted that Michael Goorjian, the guy playing Andre, has a great generic Slavic accent going here. I mean, I don't know many people from Bucharest, but it sounds pretty good to me. ["He's from Oakland. Heh." -- Sars]
Andre goes on to say that Jason hired him to spy on the competition. Vaughn tells him that, in a way, yes, he was spying on the competition, only he was actually spying on behalf of the CIA. So, in essence, he was working for the good guys. Andre says that Jason called the meet and that, of all the jobs he did for Cahill, his most recent one involved him making a, how you say, pen. That's right, a pen. Syd's phone rings and it's Marshall. He tells her that she was right about the incubation period on the drug. Well, not the Cahill drug, specifically. Marshall says that a bunch of German and Czech chemists have been messing with a group of designer analogs or something and it looks like they created a drug that works like a virus. It gets into the bloodstream, where it incubates for a few days; then it infects you and permanently alters your brain. Nice. Marshall says that Doc Pineal is going to do a culture on the Cahills' blood to make sure that the drug they were on isn't one of these virus drugs. He asks Syd if she's feeling okay and she says she's fine. She totally isn't.
"Nocturne," says Jack to Andre after the commercial break. "Two weeks ago you delivered a sample to Cahill. Tell me about it." Andre tells him it comes in a small vial and that Cahill said it was like speed, only better. Once you take it, you suddenly have no need to sleep. Unfortunately, Andre says he doesn't know where it came from. As he spins some yarn about the Eastern Bloc, he pulls out his gun and checks it for bullets. As Syd watches, he spins the chamber, tells Vaughn that he has no idea where the drug ultimately came from, pulls back the hammer and puts the gun in his mouth. "Is too bad for you," says Andre to Syd. "Because you're dying too." He pulls the trigger and we hear a shot, but of course this is just a hallucination, because there Andre sits, totally fine. Syd kind of gasps and Vaughn asks if she's okay. Again, Syd tells everyone that she's fine. She totally isn't.