Episode Report Card Erin: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT She's alive! ALIIIIIVE!
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 20 | Aired on 05.17.2005
Mexico. Sloane lands in a field somewhere and Syd goes to meet him. There's no pilot in the little plane, by the way, which means that Sloane now counts piloting planes amongst his many talents. You know, alongside killing the fiancés of employees, drugging your daughter with Green Goo™, and, of course, world domination. Sloane's totally pissed at Syd, by the way, and he thinks this course of action is reckless. Syd thinks it's just plain darn good sense; she's not letting him get within five feet of the one guy who knows how to put all the Rambaldi stuff together. Sloane's all, DUDE. I had everything I needed last time and I gave it all up! Now can you get off my back already? Syd can't and won't. Sloane declares that he would never do anything more to hurt Nadia, so the idea of him being all into Rambaldi and shit again is just off the track, all right? Now shut up and lead me to Drake so I can take you out of the running. Syd takes him to meet Drake because she could really use a nap right about now and Sloane's packing the sleeping pills.
Once at Drake's Airstream, Syd and Sloane quickly realize that Elena has already been here, because all of Drake's security guys are dead. Oh, and Drake's dead too. Sloane blames Sydney; if he hadn't had to rendezvous with her, he'd have beaten Elena. Sydney blames Sloane; if he hadn't had a sick obsession with Rambaldi, they wouldn't be here at all. Syd starts walking the perimeter of the trailer until she sees a camera in the trees. She runs inside the trailer and starts rooting through cabinets and shelves. Finally, she finds a screen and some controls and discovers that Drake had security cameras everywhere, including one inside the trailer. Syd rewinds the feed to back when Elena was there. Sloane takes the remote from her and Syd looks at him like, dude? Not so grabby! Sloane then stops the rewind and they start watching it from the beginning.
It's fairly boring, really. Drake's surprised that it's Elena who's assembled everything, not Sloane. Elena's surprised that Sloane threw it all away -- for what? The girl. Syd looks kind of…upset by that remark. I don't know why. Sloane shoots her a glance. Again, don't know why. Drake asks Elena if she has a secure facility where she can assemble everything. She does. It's a factory outside of--CLICK! Sloane shuts off the feed and quickly jabs Syd in the neck with a tranq, apologizing to her as he gently lays her on the ground. At least he didn't let her just whomp down or anything.
Apple Store. Jack's phone rings. It's Syd. She's awake and she tells her dad what happened. He asks her if she's okay. She's fine; she's just pissed that she saw this coming and Sloane STILL beat her. Jack tells Syd that he'll pass along the bad news to Angela Bassett. Speaking of Angie, she's having a tête-à-tête with Dixon over in Stairwell #47. He's all up in her grill, bitching at her for letting Sloane get away when she had the chance to keep him chained up at the Apple Store. Angela's all, baby, don't you worry 'bout a thing! Dix is all, oh, whatevah. You're just gonna let Sloane walk. She's all, end of discussion, beeyotch! Dix goes to walk away and she roughly stops him. "This man's taken lives," says Dix. "I did what I thought was best," says Angela. Dix softens and says, "In spite of all this, it's good to see you." AND THEN THEY KISS. Ha! Dix is gettin' him some! Woo! Hee! "Weekends aren't enough," she says. "Tell me about it," he says, grinning. They kiss again. HEE.