Episode Report Card Erin: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Two Spy Daddies Are Better Than One
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 10 | Aired on 03.08.2005
Outside, Nadia's screeching around in her not-at-all-conspicuous red car. Way to keep a low profile, Nadia. Angie and crew are still racing toward Sloane. She checks to see if the perimeter is clear and Nadia gives her the go. Angie and crew race up the stairs, guns drawn and open the door to find…Sloane, sitting alone at a table with a laptop in front of him. Dix is all, where's Des Barres? Huh? WHERE IS HE? Sloane just hoods his eyes up and says, "You have no idea what you're doing." Oh, no. Angie and Dix move in with their guns drawn and demand to know where the Alliance meeting is. Syd, strangely, doesn't have any weapon drawn. Sloane just calmly says that the Alliance meeting is in another building and that he is only surveilling the meet.
Everyone moves around to look at the computer, forgetting for a moment that Sloane's a dangerous bastard and could possibly have a concealed weapon. They watch the screen as we see the Aging Rockers from an unseen person's point of view. Des Barres is saying something to the unseen person about how he heard rumors that the unseen person had turned CIA. "The rumors were wrong," says the voice of Jack Bristow. D'oh! "Oh my god," says Sydney. In the room, we finally see Jack, and he's removing his coat and wearing a ridiculous pair of glasses that, I'm assuming, have the camera stuck in the frame. Heh. He takes a seat, saying, "It's good to be back." Hee. Yeah. He's not a bad guy. I didn't even remotely believe that shit for a second. He's duplicitous and morally suspect, but the dude would never work for the Alliance.
Because it can never be said enough, shut up, Sarah Jessica Parker. And shut up, Gap. And shut up, color pink. Shut up, all y'all.
Back with the Aging Rockers, Jack removes the decoder disk from his jacket pocket (what was the damn briefcase for, then?) and slides it over to Des Barres. Meanwhile, Angie's grilling Sloane about the Alliance, saying that if he knew the Alliance was regrouping, why not alert the CIA. Sloane's all, dude, you and I both know the CIA would never allow me to convene the Alliance leadership. Angie's all, uh, DUH. Sloane's all, yeah, so, THAT attitude is pretty much why I resorted to subterfuge. I had to draw these guys out into the open in order to ID the players and the infrastructure. Angie's all, you shoulda come to me. Sloane's all, yeah? Well, I didn't. I went to Jack. Jealous, much? Nadia, meanwhile, is listening to all of this on her earpiece.
Syd's all, you sent my father to do your dirty work? Oh, shut up, Sydney. Let the man talk. Sloane says that Jack demanded to go and Dixon says he's lying. You shut up too, Dixon. Sloane says that Jack wouldn't trust Sloane around the Blackwell Index either, but he knew the Aging Rockers would recognize him, Jack, as Sloane's right-hand man at SD-6. "He insisted on delivering the decoder himself," says Sloane, pointedly looking at Sydney. Suddenly, light dawns on yonder Bristow forehead. Syd looks at Dix and Dix looks at Syd. "He doesn't have the real decoder," she breathes. "Oh, no, you didn't," groans Sloane. Oh, but she did, honey. She did.