Episode Report Card Erin: C- | 1 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Can I get mustard with that?
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.01.2004
Her creepier-than-ever father walks over, removes the pen from her hand, and slides the paper from the writing table. "This is his endgame," says Pontchartrain Doppelganger. "We have to believe that he will kill Nadia to achieve it." Sloane takes the piece of paper to a wall across the room and pins it into place. As the camera slides back, we see that whatever Nadia's writing is actually forming a pattern that is revealed as the Rambaldi eye. Wow. She's not only channeling Rambaldi, she's channeling the guy in our studio department who makes all those lame banners out of 11 x 17 paper that he then has to tape together so that they'll make sense, and then he hangs them up on the wall of the conference room and no one even notices them because we're too busy drinking all the free beer and talking about how much we hate the new girl. Man. Nadia's obviously got a lot of other people in there with her and Rambaldi. And some of them are really big geeks.
Conference Room of Endless Expositions. Dix prays that they'll get to Nadia before Sloane up and kills her. But he also wants Syd to be prepared for every outcome. Primarily that one outcome wherein Nadia's already dead. Syd claims she knows that Nadia's still alive. Which, of course, she is, because we're watching her right now. Sloane goes to grab another jug of Green Goo™ and brings it back over to Nadia's side. She's awake now, and as soon as she sees the Goo™, she starts to cry and beg and plead. Sloane just says that he doesn't want to hurt her. The fact that he's wrapping a rubber strap around her upper arm in order to make the veins pop out kind of negates that statement but, you know, whatever. Then Sloane totally loses me here when he goes off on some fucking Tangent-with-a-capital-"T" and starts yammering on about Abraham and his child and it really doesn't fucking matter because Sloane's a really bad dude and something about an angel or something. Yeah. If you conspiracy theorists out there feel like analyzing this scene and figuring out what it means, by all means, go right ahead. I'll be over here in the corner chewing broken glass.
What's the point of the story? Abraham had to make a terrible choice. Sloane obviously sees himself as Abraham, and having to sacrifice his daughter in order to get him some Rambaldi intel is Sloane's terrible choice. Meanwhile, Sloane's so busy blabbing stories no one gives a shit about that he doesn't notice Nadia grab the stylus she was writing with earlier. She tearfully says something about how Sloane's a man of faith and how she understands this. Sloane's egocentric enough to totally buy this, and apparently his egocentricity turns him completely blind as well, because he doesn't even see Nadia using the stylus to unlock her right handcuff. Sloane goes to inject her with the Green Goo™; Nadia escapes from her shackle, grabs the needle, and stabs Sloane in the chest. "How do YOU like it?" she screams as Sloane groans and falls over. Heh. That's right up there with "One in five, you little bitch!"