Episode Report Card Erin: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Bitch Is Back
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 6 | Aired on 11.01.2003
Sofia. Yes, it exists. No, I don't have anything funny to say about it. Vaughn and Syd are riding high above the city in a 'copter as they follow Francinator to an old abandoned hotel. Syd grabs the PDA thingy and asks Vaughn what the range is. He tells her they should be able to track Francinator from fifty yards. Once on the ground, Syd and Vaughn make haste up an outer staircase. The tracking device is beeping. "Do you have a signal?" Syd asks as she takes a blowtorch to the door lock. "Well, either [Francinator's] in there," says Vaughn, "or somebody's making microwave popcorn." Syd breaks the lock, and she and Vaughn enter the hotel.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the hotel, Francinator's sauntering her way over to the vault. Her eye makeup is much better in this scene. Syd and Vaughn keep tracking Francinator. They make their way upstairs, and Vaughn says she's thirty feet away. The tracking device beeps and beeps and beeps, and the beeping gets faster and louder as they head into a room. Vaughn reaches into a hole in the wall and finds Lange's tooth. "We can't track her without the chip," he says. Then a door opens out in the hall, and Vaughn and Syd make their way out. They split up.
Chasing. Chasing. And we're chasing. Syd makes contact first and follows Francinator through the kitchen, firing shots at her all the way. Syd runs out into the lobby, looking around for Francinator. Wow. For an abandoned hotel in the middle of Bulgaria, it sure does have a lot of OPERATIONAL LAMPS strewn around. Suddenly, Francinator comes out of nowhere and knocks Syd to the ground, pointing a gun in her face. She's all, hey there, I really should kill you, you know? 'Cuz, if I follow my orders and don't kill you, well, then, you're gonna kill me.
"Sorry about Francie," she continues, performing what we like to call The Evil Villain Exposition in the Eleventh Hour Soliloquy. Francinator goes on to blah blah about how, once she'd been doubled as Francie, well, the real Francie just had to die, right? We then flash back to the night Francie was killed, just in case we don't remember Francie with that bullet to the forehead. Back in the present, Francinator just keeps on talkin'. She talks so much that she reveals that back when Syd recovered Rambaldi's journal, she had no idea she'd uncovered a formula. Syd's all, what in the HELL are you talkin' about? Francinator's all, that formula you uncovered? It would ultimately be used in a medication that would heal my wounds. The wounds you gave me, BY THE WAY. "So yeah, you almost killed me," she finishes, "but you also saved my life." She cocks the gun, ready to shoot Syd, but Syd kicks the gun out of her hand, and The Best Girl Fight Ever Part Deux ensues.