Episode Report Card Erin: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Box, Part II
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 13 | Aired on 02.09.2002
WCAC: Let's go!
Sloane: Crybaby!
Shovelhead: Shut up!
WCAC: LET'S GO!
Sloane: Pussy boy!
Shovelhead: SHUT UP!
WCAC: SHOVELHEAD! COME ON! TIME'S A-WASTIN'!
Sloane: Awww…poor wittle putty tat!
Shovelhead: THAT IS NOT WHAT HAPPENED! I'M NOT LISTENING! I'M NOT LISTENING! LA LA LA LA LA!
WCAC: COME ON!
Sloane: Rock-a-bye baby, on the treetop. When the wind blows --
Shovelhead: SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!
WCAC: SHOVELHEAD!
Shovelhead: SHUT UP!
And then Shovelhead turns and drills her.
No, not like that! He pumps her full of lead! End of British SIS Agent/Wicked Cool Asian Chick/Shovelhead's Girlfriend. I mean, she's wearing a bulletproof vest and all, but she looks pretty damn dead to me. Shovelhead kneels next to her, touches her gingerly, straightens his tie, and then announces that he's going to the vault.
Okay. Remember when Syd had to lower herself into Marshall's office to pick up the scrambler device and accidentally picked up an earring? Well, you didn't think that wasn't going to come into play at some point, right? Right. Here's the earring's shining moment. Syd's tied up on the floor across from Marshall. He's looking over at her and notices that the earring is sitting on the floor next to her hip amidst all her discarded tools. Yes, it's pretty stupid that all her tools and shit are on the floor next to her, when it was very clear that one of the FLCs spilled her stuff all over the desk in Sloane's office, but this show's not about being smart, now is it? So, Marshall spies the earring and tries to capture Syd's attention in order to direct her toward the earring. He succeeds, and Syd looks down at the earring.
Down in the vault, Shovelhead's made a decision. He gets on the walkie-talkie and tells the remaining two FLCs to kill 'em all. At this point, it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever that Shovelhead hasn't just shot Sloane in the head, but then this show's not about making sense, now is it? Braidy FLC and Billy Idol FLC ready their guns for a little SD-6 massacre and yell at the agents to get themselves up against the wall. Right. Because they couldn't just open fire. They have to have an orderly little group to spray with bullets. What. Ever.
As Marshall moves over against the wall, he says something to Syd about "last July" and indicates the earring. Syd finally gets it, scrambles to get the earring, and grabs it just as Billy Idol FLC picks her up and throws her over to the rest of the group. Syd drops the earring after apparently triggering something on it, and it blows up in the FLCs faces. Syd and Dixon must have attended the same Working Without Hands seminar, because she manages to take out Braidy FLC with a few choice kicks. Dixon finishes the Braidy job with a few more handless kicks, and Syd turns her attentions to Billy Idol FLC. She nearly downs him, but he proves not so easy to fell. He grabs his gun and is just about to give her a bullet to the gullet when Dixon drops him with a single shot from Braidy's gun. Nice work, Handless Spies!