Episode Report Card Manimal: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Mea Culpa
By Manimal | Season 1 | Episode 9 | Aired on 12.08.2001
Outdoor table, some café or restaurant. Francie, Will, and Sydney are chatting. Will asks if Dixon's going to be okay. Sydney says they don't know. Will tries to go over the story again. Francie snaps at him to leave Sydney alone. Will says he's asking because he cares. Francie snaps again, "Leave her alone, or I will kick your ass, I'm not kidding." Will has the sensitivity of a callus.
Some bank, being robbed. Masked men enter. Sloane's VO tells us that it looks like a normal bank robbery. Cut to The Spy Conference Room Of Non-Champions. Sloane tells us that two of the robbers hacked into the bank's mainframe and redirected funds while the others did the robbery, and that they work for Anini Hassan, all the way back from the second episode. Goddammit, Alias writers! Is this some kind of vendetta, making me scroll through all my past recaps looking for this dude? Argh. Sydney asks why Hassan would do that. Sloane tells us that the U.S. government froze Hassan's assets, and that he wanted to access his money. Also, that Hassan's been AWOL for the last two weeks, and they put up with him because they used to get good intell from him, but now he's a loose cannon. Except they don't say the words "loose cannon," but I wish they had; it would've made the scene about two minutes shorter. Jack enters. Sydney gives him a wary look. He says that Hassan needs to be brought to justice. Sloane says that Hassan can partner with a hostile country and provide them with all the arms they could want. For some reason, "Anthony Russet" (played by Miguel Sandoval) from Episode Four is in this episode, too.
Jack explains about some guy called "Logan Jurassey," and I have no idea how to spell it. Also, what a terrible name. It's straight out of a soap opera or a Harlequin Romance. Apparently he's Hassan's accountant, and throws big parties. Sydney's to go over there and crash a party somewhere in Italy, grab Hassan's offshore account number, and drop it off in Donati Park.
Will. Some other gadget inspector. He's filling the dude in on the entire history of Danny's murder/Eloise Kurtz's murder. Gadget Inspector 2 asks who killed her as he dismantles Eloise Kurtz's ugly brooch. This just gives Will an excuse to go on and on even more and fill us in on the last few episodes. GI2 stops and breathes, "Damn! This momma's gorgeous!" "This momma" is a transmitter, and it's on, so all of Will's babbling has been heard by some mysterious force. Da da da dum. Will asks who it is. GI2 obviously has no idea. Will…is retarded.