Episode Report Card Erin: C | 3 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Double Your Premiere, Double Your Fun
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 2 | Aired on 01.04.2005
Back to the theft. Syd's still sneaking down the shaft. Hee. "Shaft." Sorry. I'm twelve. She makes it to the sword room, shoots a line across the room, hooks it, and starts shimmying her way over to the sword. Once there, she balances à la Mission: Impossible, sprays some stuff on the glass, presses a button on something and SHRRRRIIICK! The glass shatters but remains in place. She then rolls the glass up like a yoga mat and does something with some wires and some metal thingies as Vaughn watches her on his screen. Marshall comments that the biggest challenge of this heist is the marble pressure pad beneath the case -- there's no way to deactivate it. It doesn't really matter, because one of the guards is heading her way and the rest of the team thinks she should abort the mission. But Syd stubbornly continues, insisting that she's almost there. So, after some tense moments wherein we're supposed to assume that Syd's going to get caught in mid-steal, the guard enters the room and…of course, the sword is gone and so is Syd. If by "gone" you mean "hanging from the ceiling just waiting for the guard to follow the zip line along the ceiling to her crouched hiding place."
The guard turns and just as he sees her, Syd knocks him down, sending his Coke bottle rolling across the floor. The second it hits the marble pressure pad the sword case is sitting on, the alarm goes off and the security gates start coming down. Syd makes a run for it and slides through a series of crashing gates. She makes it out to an exterior door and exits. Sirens can be heard in the distance. A couple of cop cars pass right by her, and I'd like to give a high five to the sound guys for giving us Brit sirens, not American. At least THEY'RE paying attention to details.
Syd tells Dix that she needs an extraction pronto. Dix tells her it'll take them 60 seconds to get to her. She snaps that she doesn't have 60 seconds and she'll see them at the Lz. Whatever that means. Syd runs off down an alleyway and a copy car comes careening around the corner. She bolts, but the car cuts her off and, in a scene directly reminiscent of the pilot episode, Spy Daddy jacks the passenger door open and yells at his daughter to get in the car. Syd hesitates, and Jack's all, dude? Get in the car NOW and you can HATE ME LATER, okay? She gets in and Jack gets on the comm and we learn that Jack's code name is "Raptor," which just…hee! Hee hee hee. Did we already know that? Because that? Is priceless. That name didn't show up in any of the other recaps I searched through, so I think this is a new thing and I think this is a good thing because HEE. "Raptor." Hee hee hee. Know what else is funny? The exchange between the two of them once Syd gets in the car. "What are you doing here?" Syd asks breathlessly. "You know what else typically works in a situation like this?" spits Jack. "A simple 'thank you.' Get down." Hee! Syd ducks and Jack drives off. If I'm not mistaken, you can totally see Victor Garber hiding a smirk as he peels off. The man hates props, people.