Episode Report Card Erin: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Careless Memories
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.12.2002
Syd practices her Brit accent on her tour guide as they walk through the facilities, discussing the ducts or something. Apparently, the ducts can channel over a million pounds of thrust. Yawn. Just get to the ass-kicking, okay? Syd and her mark enter the elevator, and she asks him for the time. He obliges, and she shoots something at his face from her watch. The mark is down for the count. Way to go, Inspector Dingus!
Syd informs Dix that she'll be in the canal in two minutes. He responds that he's ready and waiting to cut the surveillance feed on her signal. Back in the VIP observation room, the clock above the launch video screen informs us that we now have twenty-three minutes until launch. Sark circles the room as the final checks occur.
Somewhere else in the building, Syd's now sporting a spicy red jumpsuit and spicy red goggles to match her spicy red wig. She struts out to the ducts, opens the suitcase, unfolds the luge, hits the green button, and away we go! By the way, you ride a luge with your feet forward. This contraption has Syd riding face-forward. That ain't a luge. That's a skeleton. I'm just sayin'.
To the tune of several James Bond flicks, Syd shoots down the duct, hitting a top speed of about 125 mph. She parks it just before reaching the launch pad and informs Dixon that she's in place. Dixon shuts down the surveillance for five minutes. The launch clock reads 19:28.
In the VIP observation room, the screens flick to fuzz. Syd climbs to her destination and simply unlocks a panel in the side of the rocket. Yeah, you'd think it would take more than that, but luckily we're all still too wowed by the snazzy "luge" scene to pay too much attention. Syd has a little over three minutes until surveillance is restored.
Meanwhile, Sark's getting antsy in the observation room. Russian Dude informs him that it's just a power surge and the screens will be back up in three minutes. Sark wants to know if there's any other way onto the launch pad that isn't visible from the observation room. Russian Dude says something about the ducts, and Sark immediately knows something's rotten in the civil war state of Sri Lanka. "Move up the launch," he clips. Russian Dude's all, whuh? Sark snits around and intimidates Russian Dude by announcing that if they don't move up the launch, all of Sark's colleagues will assume that Russian Dude and his pals are a bunch of pantywaists. Russian Dude can't have that, so he moves the countdown up.
Dixon informs Syd that she now has less than a minute to finish her task. Yeah, launches are a hell of a lot more precise than this, and moving up a countdown more than twenty minutes is totally unrealistic. Remember the duct? Remember the whippet-fast luge-y thing? Yeah. That was cool, wasn't it? Syd looks terribly panicked, but her lipstick is the perfect shade of spicy red, so we don't notice so much.
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