Episode Report Card Erin: A | 2 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT The Ice 5 Man Cometh
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aired on 01.18.2005
Syd quickly gets on the phone to the Apple Store and tells them that not only is Fintan developing Ice 5, he's testing it on humans and she saw a room full of test subjects to prove it. Sloane says he's more concerned about the pressurized canisters Syd saw; it means Fintan's found a way to make Ice 5 airborne. Dix uploads the pictures Syd took inside the lab, and Jack surmises that if Ice 5 is released into a city, the damage could be in the tens of thousands. There are fourteen tanks in the lab, and Nadia and Weiss found a buyer in Damascus who wants the stuff in less than forty-eight hours. Syd wants to take Fintan down. Jack agrees, but doesn't think they can do it with their small team. Vaughn thinks they can accomplish it through Kelly. Turns out Kelly is former IRA, just like her bro, and they were both involved in a couple of bombings, one of which killed a father and his two boys. Sounds like Kelly's conflicted. She also has a problem with her brother; she's caught between being loyal to family and loyal to the rest of the human race. Syd thinks they can turn her. Dix thinks she's the only one who can get Fintan alone. "Have you determined how to approach [Kelly]?" asks Sloane. "Yeah," says Vaughn. "In confession."
Fade into Mazzy Star singing "Fade Into You" which, as nice a song as it was several years ago, totally makes no sense being in this scene. Because, hello? Is Montenegro twelve years behind in the music or what? I don't think so. Nice song, just a distracting place to put it, is all I'm sayin'. So, Father Hottie McSexy is hearing confessions at Tavern Nikolai. His confessional is currently vacant. Enter Kelly. She shyly makes her way over to the "confessional" and sits. Father Hottie McSexy orders her a drink. They toast each other. Syd and Dix listen to the conversation from the Appleseed Van. Vaughn gently brings Kelly around to talking about her brother and how she feels trapped by him. Kelly says something about how it's complicated and "love the sinner, hate the sin" and a long time ago, Fintan saved her and she owes him but he scares her and Fintan's done some awful things and they both have and she could always leave but Vaughn doesn't know her brother and it's a really nice scene and Vaughn looks hot, but let's just cut to the part where Michael Vartan kicks the ASS out of some dialogue here, shall we?
In the van, Syd correctly states that Vaughn can do it: he can turn Kelly away from the Dark Side. At the table, Vaughn says that he knows what it's like to feel trapped, to have a past you despise, that you can't escape. "We all have secrets, Kelly," he says. "I was married -- for a short time." "That being your secret?" she asks. Syd listens, her face a mask of curiosity and, yeah, not a little bit of pain. "That being part of it," says Vaughn. "The woman I was married to betrayed me. She betrayed a lot of people. And when I found out what she'd done, I let my hate for her consume me and I began to wish the woman I loved was dead." At that moment, they switch to Sydney, who realizes that when he says "woman I loved," he's not talking about her; he's talking about Moronen. Oh, man. "I woke up every day," he continues, "imagining how I'd do it. What was the best way. What was the most efficient way. I mean, it's all I wanted." Kelly watches him carefully. "That woman was evil and deserved to be punished, so I killed her and although that woman was the worst kind of evil, I also know that killing her was wrong. I don't sleep much. I -- I mean, I can't close my eyes without -- without seeing it. That -- that moment. That look on her face. She won't leave me. She won't."