Episode Report Card Erin: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Two Spy Daddies Are Better Than One
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 10 | Aired on 03.08.2005
Des Barres hits a switch on the laptop and turns to see what wonders the decoder can do. All that happens is the letters and numbers scramble and freeze, totally unintelligible. "What's going on, Jack?" says Geoff Downes. Sloane and the rest of the Appleseed Gang watch the action tensely. Michael Des Barres gets FAR too close to Jack's face, allowing us to see just what years of sex, drugs, and rock-'n'-roll can do to a good-looking British man. Dude looks RAGGED, y'all. Michael Des Barres then bitch-slaps Jack with his gun. Ow. Sloane tells Syd Jack's location and she runs off, telling Nadia to get there ASAP. She peels off.
David Gilmour tapes Jack to his chair as Michael Des Barres moves in and asks him where Sloane is. Jack huffs that Sloane's probably miles from here. "He knew the decoder was a fake," says Jack. "He sold me out. And when I find him, I'm gonna kill the bastard -- just as soon as I'm done with you." Heh. Nice. I'm not sure, though, if Jack really believes Sloane sold him out or not. He could really think that Sloane put him in this position on purpose. Interesting thought, no? Well, whatever Jack thinks, Michael Des Barres doesn't really care, because he just bitch-slaps him again and we cut to Nadia, loudly peeling around every available corner. Again, it's not like you're INVISIBLE or SILENT, Nadia. They can hear you, you know?
Michael Des Barres again asks where Sloane is. Jack hedges. Sloane watches. Nadia screeches. Michael Des Barres points his gun at Jack's head as…Nadia comes slamming through the glass doors, pulls a U, and puts a bullet directly into the chest of every one of the Aging Rockers. Niiiiiice. She totally takes after her mother. She runs over to Jack and he kind of…glares at her as if to say, "Hm. Maybe you're not so bad after all. But you're still the product of an infidelity and I'm a petty little shit, so, neener. I still hate you."
Minutes later, Syd, who apparently decided not to run all the way to her father's location like we thought she was going to about two paragraphs ago, is standing at a seagull-filled dock as Nadia pulls up. Syd walks toward her father and her sister. "Dad," Syd says. "I'm okay," he says, "really." He sees the sisters look at each other and then just says that he'll wait in the car. Nadia moves over to face her sister. "Thank you," Syd says. "I'd like to think, in the future, you'd do the same for me," is all Nadia says. Yeah. That's the least she can do, Nadia. You also might want to mention that you get a couple "your dad's a fuckwit" freebies outta this one.
Hospital Comatose. Oh. This story. I almost forgot about this. Well, now that we're here…Vaughn enters his uncle's room. Dude's out of it. Vaughn gruffly moves toward the bed and starts talking to his uncle. He tells him that he found the diary and he doesn't understand why there are entries made in 1982 when his father died in 1979. He begs his uncle to wake up. "Have you seen him? Has he been here? Is he alive?" he breathes. Nope. Nothing. Dude's not waking up. "Oh!" says a female voice from behind Vaughn. "I'm sorry! I didn't realize he had a visitor. Everything okay?" Vaughn turns, and it's a different nurse. He just says everything's okay and says he needs to talk to Rosemary. "I'm sorry, who?" says the nurse. "Uh, Rosemary, the nurse," says Vaughn. "She's been taking care of my uncle." "I don't recognize the name," she says. "What? That's impossible. She covers the three and ten o'clock rounds," he spits. The nurse looks a little spooked. "Sir? There are no three and ten o'clock rounds." She leaves then, and Vaughn clenches his jaw and looks a whole hell of a lot calmer than a man who's just discovered that his father might be alive and his uncle was possibly being watched over by a ghost has any right to be.