Episode Report Card Erin: A+ | 2 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Say goodbye to reality, Uncle Arvin.
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 16 | Aired on 04.19.2005
Sloane told his contact to hold the order and that he'd be over to pick it up, personally. Nadia follows her father to his office and basically harps on him not to go pick up the Xanthium. Sloane's all, dude? It's my contact. I have to go. Nadia's all, then I'll go with you! Sloane's all, honey? Isn't it your NAP TIME? He assures her that she has nothing to worry about, that he'll be fine as far as the Rambaldi stuff is concerned. Nadia thinks he's gonna lose it again. Sloane's basically had enough by now and he's like, seriously? I've proven myself to you and to everyone else, okay? Now let me go beat some bald dude to a pulp while Clifford the Big Red Ball spins uselessly behind me, all right? He tells his daughter that when he was studying the Rambaldi manuscripts at the DSR, the only thing he could think about was her. His thoughts kept returning to his daughter. He wouldn't jeopardize his relationship with her for anything in the world. "What about Siena?" says Nadia. Damn. Now I want to know what happened in bloody Siena. "I can't change what you witnessed in Siena," says Sloane. "But I can assure you that the man that you saw there no longer exists." Nadia doesn't want to lose him again. Sloane needs to know that she has faith in him. Nadia doesn't answer.
Sicily. We're at a racetrack. A gentleman sits in the empty stands as Sloane approaches and sits down next to him. They make small talk and then Sloane asks for the package. It's a tube of red liquid hidden in a pair of binoculars. The Xanthium man asks Sloane what the OmniFam organization he started back when Syd was missing for two years was really all about. "What was in that food you sent to those impoverished countries?" he asks. Whoa. It never even occurred to me that Sloane might have been, like, poisoning people worldwide. Yuck. Xanthium Man keeps blathering on about OmniFam until Sloane cuts him off and states that someone in the black market has been posing as him and he wants to know who it is. Xanthium Man is now decidedly nervous. He says that Sloane Clone followed all of Sloane's protocols and he didn't know it wasn't Sloane himself. Sloane orders Xanthium Man to tell him where the other shipments of Xanthium were sent.
Apple Store. Marshall's futzing around with some gadget in his office. Jack enters and abruptly orders him to pull up satellite surveillance on an address in Santiago. Jack turns and storms through the office, dropping orders left and right. "Weiss?" he says, passing Agent Sean. "Make sure the jet is on standby. Coordinate an in-country rendezvous with Sloane at twelve hundred hours." "'Twelve hundred hours'?" quips Agent Sean. "Jack, it's me. You can say noon." HEE. "Just do it!" snaps Jack. HEE HEE. Dix scoots up and questions why Sloane would be included on the tactical team. Jack just dismisses his concerns with a terse explanation involving Rambaldi and the Sloane Clone. Dix won't let up, though, and he follows Jack into his office and wants to know what the hell will happen if the Sloane Clone has assembled a device and Sloane gets in front of it. "I'm calling the shots here, Marcus," snaps Jack. "And you have a problem with my questioning Sloane's motives?" asks Dix. "As far as I'm concerned, at this juncture, Sloane's motives are irrelevant," says Jack. "If he can help bring the imposter to us, I say let Sloane do what he needs to do." Dix kind of rears back in surprise. "Go to Santiago," says Jack. "Let's end this." Dix looks like he just ate a piece of kibble doused in Pine-Sol®. Jack just bites the inside of his lip and wonders how soon it will be before his radioactive tongue can actually lick a hole clear out the other side of his cheek.