Episode Report Card Erin: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Stow it, Sydney
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 7 | Aired on 02.15.2005
Back with Leo, he gives up the lab location faster than you can say, "You're a dead man." Bitchit's had enough of his spinelessness and she just picks up her gun and shoots him right in the forehead. Syd knocks the gun out of her hand…and then they fight. Bitchit gains the upper hand once they fly over the side onto a lower deck. She grabs some rope and starts to strangle Syd, but Nadia shows up and kicks Bitchit's ASS. Bitch falls and we think that's the end of her, but she quickly gains purchase and reaches for a gun. Syd thinks quickly and grabs another gun and shoots Bitchit dead. Huh. That's another person Syd's personally killed this season. No more knives to fall on, I guess.
Syd gets on comms and tells everyone that they're ready for pickup. At the Apple Store, Jack tells Sloane that he did what he had to do. "Yes," says Sloane, removing his earpiece. "Although I imagine that it's the last time I'll be working with your daughter." Once again, Ron Rifkin proves how much he rocks, because there's this little moment before he turns and walks away where you can see how much what Sydney said hurt him. It's just there, behind his eyes. You can see it if you look really carefully. Jack looks after him and pulls the Bristow lip purse out of cold storage.
After yet another break, we wrap up tonight's episode with a little Super Hot Super Spy Sister heart-to-heart over a big bottle of Russian vodka. They congratulate each other on a job well done. We learn that Nadia was recruited from her juvenile detention home. She was reckless and angry as a youth, and some judge said he thought she was lost. Her training agent told her that she was good at getting in and out of situations without being noticed, not to mention the fact that she had no one -- no family, no ties. "I couldn't be compromised because I was alone," she says. "I always thought that's what made me a good spy." "And now?" asks Syd. "I might have been wrong," says Nadia, smiling at her sister. Aw.
Apple Store. It's obviously a day or two later, and Nadia's sitting at her desk while Weiss tries to charm her with a card trick. He wows her with a Queen of Spades switch and she smiles big and bright. "Your smile is so unbelievable," he says, totally squicking me out. That's something you say in the privacy of a romantic dinner date or something; it's not what you say in the middle of a cheesy card trick IN THE CENTER OF YOUR OFFICE. God. Could they make him seem more desperate and sad? The next thing you know, he's going to be Googling Irkustk and looking for a wife. Vaughn walks up and asks if they're going or not. Weiss is all, yes, we're going; we're just busy flirting here, thanks. Again, NOT SOMETHING YOU SAY AT THE OFFICE. I don't care that they face death and danger every damn day, HAVE SOME OFFICE DECORUM. Lord.