Episode Report Card Manimal: C+ | 1 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Color-Blind
By Manimal | Season 1 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.24.2001
SD-6. Spy meeting, but it's just Sloane and Sydney. Hey, where the heck is Dixon? Is he on leave? What happened? Sloane's telling Sydney that they decoded the FTL messages with Parkishoff's DNA, and that the Rambaldi artifact is somewhere in Tunisia. Sydney assumes that's where her next mission is, but Sloane says nay, that they sent an advance team there and the site had already been evacuated. Sloane tells her that FTL obviously doesn't know what they're sitting on, since they sent the artifact to Oxford to be analyzed and it's a huge risk to involve civilians in such an operation. He slides something across the table to Sydney and tells her that there's a reception at the university and that she's going in as a scout for the Marissa Foundation, looking for grant candidates, and to be on her guard, since FTL will be heavily alerted to any espionage attempts.
Newsroom Of No News Is Will's Fault. Will is talking to La Editress. La Editress tells him that she reviewed his notes; there was much more substance than she believed, and they can run the story. Will hems and haws and says that now he actually doesn't want to run the story, since Sydney asked him to drop the investigation. La Editress is justifiably peeved, and points out that it's now a legitimate piece, and if he doesn't do it, she'll pass his notes along to someone else. She also accuses him of being on dope, which made me giggle. Random drug accusations always make me giggle, except when they're leveled at me in an airport setting. She tells him not to chicken out on her now and shoves his file at him. God. Will is an idiot.
Warehouse of CIA-ish goings-on. Vaughn and Sydney, sitting on a box. Actually, it's just Sydney on the box. Vaughn tells Sydney that they want photos of the Rambaldi device, and that they'll plant a mini-camera in the Bible in Sydney's hotel room, and that Ana Espinosa was seen leaving the psychiatric hospital after Sydney and Shepard escaped. He actually says it much more succinctly than that. Generic romantic alt-rock cues as Sydney gets up to leave. Vaughn asks how her Thanksgiving was. Sydney says it was good, and that her friend got engaged. She asks how his was. He says he spent it with his mom. She asks about Alice. Vaughn says that they broke up. They exchange hopeful, tremulous looks. Sydney goes to leave, and Vaughn checks the pathway first. It's all in slo-mo. Christ. I know people are rooting for it, but I really could not care less if Sydney and Vaughn get together. It's like watching cottage cheese have sex with another equally white, bland dairy product.