Episode Report Card Erin: A+ | 273 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT "Almost thirty hours" is more like it
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 22 | Aired on 2002.05.12
Apparently, Sloane doesn't need to say the actual password. According to Spy Daddy, every word in the English language is comprised of 44 basic -- somethings. Do YOU know what he said? Because, seriously? I've rewinded this damn tape eight times and I can't make it out. It sounds like "faux-names," but I know that's not it. ["'Phonemes' -- abstract units of language perceived as single distinct sounds." -- Sars] I guess the point is that Syd's supposed to get Sloane to say a bunch of words in the context of their conversation so that Spy Daddy can manufacture a tape of Sloane speaking the password, which in turn will get Syd into the surrounded-by-water research site. Have you ever seen Sneakers? Yeah. It's kinda like that. But without Dan Aykroyd, River Phoenix, or Robert Redford. And Robert? Brad Pitt called. He wants his tousled brown/blond hair and laid-back sexuality returned to him immediately. And tell Paul Newman that Brad's got a new "partner" vehicle that Paul would be perfect for, okay?
Right. Back to the story. Spy Daddy tells Syd that once she leaves Sloane's office with his password, she'll have less than an hour to get to the surrounded-by-water facility before the passwords change. What? Huh? Yeah. I don't get it either. Don't care. Look at the fluffy bunnies. They're so cute. Huh? What? Julio! Don't surprise Mommy like that! Why are you wearing pants? Mommy didn't SAY you could wear pants! Go put on the bunny outfit that Mommy bought you in St. Tropez last July. Mommy needs fluffiness.
Marshall's Office Of Trinkets And Toys That Should Remain Untouched. Dixon enters and asks Marshall if he can remember what Syd's code name was back in the Argentina operation. Marshall informs Dix that it was "Bluebird." "Bluebird?" questions Dixon. "So, it wasn't 'Freelancer'?" Marshall starts to exit, but before he can grab his collection of Magic: The Gathering playing cards and head off to his friend's basement for a tournament, he turns and reassures Dixon that Sydney's code name was indeed "Bluebird."
After the break and a little personal time with what we at Casa Del Rouge like to call Blood Omen 2 -- Electric Boogaloo, we're back at SD-6. Uncle Arvin's sitting at his desk, ruminating over the blowout he just had with Auntie Em and how he's probably going to have to leave work promptly at five tonight, pick up a new silencer, have a light bite to eat, and then off his wife. Syd enters, ostensibly to chat with Sloane about life, liberty, and the pursuit of dark eyeliner, but really she's there to get his fingerprints and allow Spy Daddy access to Sloane's computer.