Episode Report Card Manimal: B- | 306 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Color-Blind
By Manimal | Season 1 | Episode 7 | Aired on 2001.11.25
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.
Alt-rock plays as Sydney enters her apartment, talking on the cell phone. It sounds like Natalie Merchant on a weird day, or a Natalie Merchant imitator. It sure does play loudly and continuously throughout the next scenes. Sydney goes through her mail, and spies a postcard. It's got the landscape that Shepard was seen drawing earlier, but this time with a blue sky. The back says, "Blue skies again. I owe you," and is unsigned. Sydney smiles.
Alt-rock dies down as Sloane talks to Alain about his suspicion of a mole. Sydney walks through SD-6 in slo-mo and approaches her dad. Back to Sloane. Alain says that they may have more than one mole. Sloane says that if that's true, McCullough will draw them both out.
Sydney pauses behind her dad's desk and hesitates. She hands him a nice Tupperware container filled with Thanksgiving leftovers. Jack looks up and gives her the barest of smiles, which coming from him seems like cartwheels and huzzahs. Sydney smiles back. It's very sweet.
Sloane, phone. Alain says that whoever the moles are, they need to be made examples of, and Sloane scarily says that he is Taking Care Of It.
Next episode: Will potentially gets offed. Oh, don't tease me like that, ABC.