Episode Report Card Erin: C+ | 93 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Double Your Premiere, Double Your Fun
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 2 | Aired on 2005.01.05
Later on, Syd's off in some random wing of the Apple Store. Jack enters and asks her how she found out about the whole "Mommy wanted to kill you" plan. Syd tells him about Rick Yune. Jack moves toward her. "You didn't know?" she asks. "I merely knew your mother had hired someone," he says, a look of concern coming onto his face. "I didn't know who. I knew only one way to stop him." "Why would she want me dead?" Syd asks. Oh, Syd, please. There are thousands of reasons. But the best reason that pops to mind is that Lena Olin's never coming back, and pretending that Irina was off somewhere in a cybercafé instant messaging with baddies all over the world was getting pretty damn old.
Jack approaches his daughter and tells her he doesn't know why Irina wanted her dead. Syd, on the verge of tears (again, some more), says, "You killed her to save me? You killed Mom to save me." Yes, Syd. In order to save you, he killed your mom. To spare your life, he offed your mama. So you could live, he…we could be at this all night. Jack moves to embrace his daughter and Syd puts her hands up, kind of like, "Okay, I get it, you saved me. But you still killed my mother, so I'm gonna have to wait on the parental affection bit for awhile, okay? Thanks. I'll see ya later. After about seven years of therapy." Syd walks off and Jack just looks after her, wondering if now would be an appropriate time to tell Syd that it wasn't actually HIM that killed Irina, but Vaughn. Dudes. If that's the storyline that plays out by the end of the season, each of y'all have to buy me something from my Amazon wish list. I'm holding you to it.
As the sweet strains of "The Wind" by Cat Stevens play across the soundtrack, Syd buttons up her gray flannel coat from the Mary Poppins collection and walks toward the exit. She stops right before the door and suddenly breaks down. Vaughn, never one for the timing, walks up behind her and interrupts her sobfest. She turns and tries to pull it together. He asks her if she's okay and she says that she is. But then she just loses it all over again and Vaughn pulls her into his arms. "Thank you," she says. They hug there in the hallway as the camera pulls back and Cat continues warbling on.
New-Fangled Ovary Electric. Syd and Agent Sean are hanging out and, through Agent Sean's casual conversation, we learn that Syd's new cover job is actually the SAME cover job she had when she was at SD-6. Only this time, Agent Sean's supposed to believe that this job is for real. What, she couldn't be in PR or security or something? Plenty of people leave law enforcement jobs for cushier jobs in the private sector as security consultants. Then she could travel all over the world and…I really don't know why I'm getting bunged up about this. Agent Sean's totally gonna be recruited soon anyway, so the cover story isn't going to matter for very long. Lord.