Episode Report Card Erin: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Careless Memories
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.12.2002
Uncle Arvin's Office Of Occasional Bad Touching. Syd enters. Uncle Arvin's looking less than fresh. He hands over Auntie Em's "seed box." It's antique and was very precious to Auntie Em. "Emily would have wanted you to have it," he says, once again proving that, even though he's a murderous son of a bitch, he can STILL make us feel sympathy for him. Syd thanks him, and goes on to say that she can't think of Auntie Em without thinking of her garden. "Neither can I," says Uncle Arvin, pressing his hand to his face and looking rather forlornly at Sydney. "I miss her too," says Syd, rightly guessing what's on Uncle Arvin's mind. Uncle Arvin then blathers on about how the office is where he feels most at home lately and that, at the house, he seems to be paralyzed. "If a stranger were to come to the house for the first time," he says, "they would think that Emily still lived there." Why, Arvin? Are you still setting a place for her at the dinner table? Are you having conversations with her about where to hang paintings? Are you keeping her rotting corpse in a rocking chair in a locked room at the TOP OF THE STAIRS?
Ew. I just grossed myself out.
As it turns out, I'm close in my assessment of Sloane's house. Em's clothes are still in the closet, and her make-up's still on the vanity. "The only thing that betrays this pretense of normalcy is her garden," says Uncle Arvin. "Where roses once grew, they're gone now. Her garden seems to have died with her." God, Ron Rifkin rocks my world. He's so convincing with Arvin's pain that even SYDNEY buys it and says through clenched teeth, "It's not your fault." Sloane looks up at her in surprise because, of course, it actually IS his fault. He wishes Sydney luck in Sri Lanka, and our session of the Telltale Garden hath ended.
Subbasement Of Dreams And Desires. Agent Amorous hands over a circuit board that Syd's supposed to attach to the satellite instead of the SD-6 board. SD-6 will still be able to monitor the satellite; the CIA has just modified the board so they can see what everyone else is seeing. "One more thing," says Vaughn, checking his list. "I'd like to get those naked pictures of you as soon as -- oops! Sorry. Forget that. Uh...we'd like to bring Will Tippin in for a follow-up on his debrief." Syd's all, whuh? Why? And you can forget about the naked pictures, boy-o.
Vaughn says something about how, since Sark's working on cracking the music box combo, and Will mentioned something in his statement about seeing Sark working on a laptop in between kicking the shit out of Will, it might behoove the CIA to bring Will in for a little refresher. Syd is SO not into this idea. "You're thinking, what, induced regression?" Vaughn's all, yeah, that's pretty much what we were thinking. Syd's all, so, what? You can force him to relive all that ass-kicking he was receiving? No fucking WAY, man!
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