Episode Report Card Erin: A | 1 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Two Spy Daddies Are Better Than One
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2005.03.09
Damien Blackwell was the head of the Gouse crime syndicate, and the Index is basically a master blackmailing list that has dirt on pretty much every last person you'd ever want dirt on. The Blackwell Index was encoded onto a mobile terminal, and the Alliance was never able to read it because it was enciphered using 4,096-bit encryption. It would take a supercomputer working on it 24/7 for twenty years to decipher it, according to Marshall. The CIA has also not decrypted the Index. Syd's all, and why should we care about this? Well, says Sloane, because the Index was stolen from the CIA research station in Sarajevo last night and we have no leads as to who might have stolen it.
"Why steal something you can't read?" asks Nadia. Funny you should ask, says Sloane. The decoder disk has been located. It's now in the possession of the French authorities. Jack surmises that their only logical next step is to go after the decoder because, without it, the Index is useless. Sloane says they'd like to be able to obtain it through legal channels, but, if they did, then this show would only be about ten minutes long and Syd wouldn't get to wear a short skirt and multi-colored pencils in her hair. So, they have to steal the disk from the French police. Sloane orders Syd to figure out a way to get herself arrested. There's this funny pause where everyone kind of looks around the table like, that shouldn't be a problem, right? Hee.
Minutes later, Dix is at his desk doing something on his computer. He's checking Sloane's phone records and he finds that at 4:12 PM the day before, Sloane made a call to a hotel in Sarajevo. Innnnteresting. Over by the Secret Elevators of Apple Store Access, Vaughn's heading out the door and Syd's chasing after him. Syd asks if there's any word on his uncle. Vaughn says that his mom called this morning and told him that his uncle's last stroke hit pretty hard and he still hasn't regained consciousness. Syd voices her concern and asks if he's gonna be okay, and Vaughn stoically says he's fine, it's just that when his dad died, his uncle swore he'd always be there for him and his mother, but he just…wasn't. He never stuck around. Nice. Nutshell? Vaughn's not that into seeing his uncle right about now. Syd wishes she could go with him and they share a nice, sweet kiss before Vaughn enters the elevator. The doors close and Dix comes up, telling Syd they need to talk.