Episode Report Card Erin: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato, Four
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 5 | Aired on 11.02.2002
"What is remarkable," says Bald Lackey, "is what I extracted from inside the wine. I was so surprised that I redid the test. But I'm certain it's, uh, VTX." Bald Lackey places a small plastic bag on Sloane's desk. "A, uh, calcium-based antidote. Extremely scarce." "Antidote to what?" Sloane spits. "Uh, mainly heart-attack-inducing toxins, cerotic acid, sodium morphate..." Whoops! Where have we heard THAT before? Monsieur Mad As A Hatter holds onto the plastic bag and looks down at his desk. "VTX simulates death," continues Bald Lackey. "It slows the lungs, nearly stops the heart; which is how it prevents the poisons from causing cardiac arrest. And when the VTX is metabolized, the, uh, the body, it returns to normal."
Uncle Unhinged, trying to make this VERY clear to those of us in the audience who have hit ourselves over the head with bricks and therefore can't comprehend the simplest of concepts, says, "So if someone who was poisoned by sodium morphate were given VTX, they would appear to die?" "Yes, sir," says Bald Lackey. "Well, assuming they had no other heart conditions, in eight to twelve hours, well, they'd be just fine." First Mate Frenzied looks off into a corner of his office, calmly sticks some mouse ears on his head, and starts humming the theme from Hawaii Five-O.
Amy Aquino's Hypno Den. Amy Aquino tells Syd that she's going to count back from three; when she gets to one, she wants Syd to tell her where she is. Okay, 3...2...1...we're in Hypno Land. Syd's walking up a stairway. She's doused in an almost clinical blue light. She turns the corner and sees a young girl lying on her four-poster bed. "Where are you Sydney?" says Amy Aquino in a voice-over. "It's me," Sydney whispers, as her child counterpart not so subtly tucks her hair behind her right ear. The childhood Sydney is drawing pictures with crayons. "It's me," voices over Adult Sydney as she watches over her childhood self on the bed, "in my room. When I was little."
Back in Amy Aquino's Hypno Den, Syd evicts a couple of tears from her left eye. Amy Aquino asks her to tell if there's anything in this hypno world that resembles the puzzles they're looking for. Back in Hypno Land, Kid Syd's running down the stairs in her overalls. She makes it to a doorway, and we hear Jack's voice say something like, "I'm taking care of it. I'm taking care of her. Christmas. That'll be soon." As we hear his voice say, "Christmas is all settled," we switch between the Kid Syd and the Adult Syd's visages, showing how the child thought that "Christmas" really meant Santa and presents and not training children to be assassins and how FUCKED UP Syd's childhood really was.
Sydney spies the puzzle she's been looking for. Back in Amy Aquino's Hypno Den, Syd's freaking out. "Nothing can happen to you now, Sydney," says Amy Aquino. "You're safe." Syd's chin is buckling, though, and when we go back to her childhood, Sydney's watching as Kid Syd is calmly constructing the tower puzzle. Amy Aquino's trying to offer comfort with her voice-over, but it really isn't helping, because Kid Syd is putting this puzzle together in record time. Suddenly, the puzzle isn't a puzzle, but a gun, and Kid Syd's putting THAT together in record time. Kid Syd shoves the bullet cartridge in and holds the gun up as a signal that she's completed her task.
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