Episode Report Card Erin: B+ | 114 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Papa, Can You Hear Me?
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 8 | Aired on 2003.11.23
Then Syd's tossed onto her cot, shaking with leftover shock waves. The military dudes leave, locking the door. Pruitt whispers her name. She turns, and he gives her a blanket. Aw. That's awfully nice of the googly-eyed psycho. Pruitt tells Sydney his sob story, complete with a mention of Iran. He urges her not to give up whatever it is they're looking for. Syd just turns away, still shaking occasionally, and looks down at the paper clip in the palm of her hand.
We switch quickly to the black private dick who's the sex machine to all the chicks. Except, instead of sporting an ankle-length black leather coat, classy 'fro, and couple of guns, Richard Roundtree, a.k.a. "Shaft," is modeling a worn set of army fatigues while playing a nice quiet game of speed chess in the park. He takes a kid for fifty bucks and is in the process of reorganizing the board when a one-hundred-dollar bill lands in front of him and Jack says, "I'll put you in checkmate in ten moves." Shaft looks up and says, "Yeah, if I play with mah eyes closed." Jack takes a seat as Vaughn kind of parks it at the next table.
Jack and Shaft make a little country overthrow small talk and Jack introduces Vaughn. Shaft asks if he's Bill Vaughn's kid. Vaughn goes, "Yeah. He was my father." I actually thought this was kind of funny because, duh! If you're Bill Vaughn's kid, then let's assume he's your father; I assume this is intentional, a way to show that Vaughn is caught off guard. And yes, I giggled out loud. Jack and Shaft play chess as Jack fills him in on the extraction. The details aren't really important here, except for the part where Jack says something about Sloane being involved and Shaft says, "Weeeelll…look who's putting the band back together." Hee.