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
After the break, we return to the screaming Sinclair and the sanding Bad Baldy. Finally, he picks up the damn phone. Omar's all, hey! Bad Baldy's all, where you been? Omar's all, I had to lay low for awhile. Bad Baldy's all, you had to "lie" low, not "lay." A thing lays. A person lies. And this person thinks you should save the grammar lessons for a time when you're not REMOVING SOMEONE'S FINGERPRINTS WITH A BAND SAW. Like, how can you be a self-righteous grammar Nazi when you're wiping blood off the front of your shirt, you know? ["Also, get the grammar right in the second place. Things don't lay; you lay things. It's a transitive verb. Cram it, Baldo." -- Sars] Omar basically agrees with me because he's like, yeah. Fine. Whatever. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the grammar lesson, CAPTAIN CREEPY. Why don't we get together for a few practice sessions with dangling participles and I can give you that coil you're looking for?
Bad Baldy forgets all about the commas and synonyms and immediately wants to know where the coil is. Omar says he's looking right at it and the price just went up to $750K. Also, he wants a neutral place to meet for the exchange. Plus, no more grammar lessons. Bad Baldy tells him to call back in a half hour and he'll give him a location for the exchange. "Might not seem it," he oozes to Sinclair, "but this might be the luckiest day of your life." I somehow doubt that, Baldy. Back with Omar, he almost nervously says that the CIA better have his back out there. Syd and Dix run off to tell Jack that the meet is on and it's at the Bonaventure Hotel.
The day of the meet, Syd and Nadia are underground somewhere, futzing with wires and stuff. Apropos of nothing, Nadia says, "He's innocent." "Maybe," says Syd, always the optimist. "I know it, Sydney," declares Nadia. "I hope you're right," says Sydney in a tone that says she totally doesn't. "Do you?" asks Nadia, picking up on the tone herself. There's a moment where they both stare at each other, then Marshall buzzes in and says that with one more patch, he's tied in to the surveillance system. Syd does something to a wire, and back at the Apple Store, Marshall's patched in and ready to rock. In the hotel lobby, Dix moves through the lobby en route to his position. Weiss and Nadia enter, pretending to be a happy couple about to get married and considering the Bonaventure for their venue. Omar enters with the coil in a suitcase. Vaughn slides down the escalator and meets him at the bottom. He asks Omar for the time and Omar says it's time for him to get the hell outta there. Heh. Vaughn's like, dude? Just look at your damn watch and tell me what damn time it is, okay? One thing! I ask you to do ONE THING. Omar finally looks at his watch and Vaughn tells him that as soon as Bad Baldy arrives, the CIA will move in and arrest him and Omar has nothing to worry about. Omar thinks Vaughn's been licking the angel dust jar again.