Episode Report Card Erin: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sydney The Destructor
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 16 | Aired on 03.09.2002
Emily continues blathering on about Uncle Arvin and his work and her illness. She says that she won't be alive next Christmas. Emily's all calm and resigned about it, in that way that people who are dying in movies and television tend to be. You know, "I'm dying and that's okay. I'm at peace with it." Whatever. My father knew he was dying and he was all, "I DON'T WANT TO DIE." I've never met anyone who knew they were going to die who wasn't at least a LITTLE upset about it. Blah blah blah, Emily's dying. Fa-la-la, Sydney's upset. This scene must end NOW.
But it doesn't. It just goes on and on and on, and Sydney starts equating Emily's speech about fears and the unknown with her Rambaldi sketch and her current predicament with the DSR. How do we know this? We know this because, as Emily gibbers on and on, we're treated to intermittent flashes of the sketch itself and the mighty bad DSR agents, as if we DON'T ALREADY GET IT. Finally, Emily says something about how she finally stopped being too afraid to know the truth, and Sydney gets this pained expression on her face.
Emily's speech must have made some impression upon Sydney, however, because the very next scene is Sydney walking in slo-mo into the DSR office and telling the mighty bad DSR agents that she'll agree to any tests they want to give her. And…scene.
Next up, it's Double-Oh-Geritol having a little one-on-one with Uncle Arvin. Ew! Not like that! They're just talking! Gross. Get your minds outta the gutter. So, Double-Oh-Geritol's telling Uncle Arvin that what he's about to say, Sloane may not believe. This "Jean" dude they discussed before is a friend of Sloane's, but not a friend of The Alliance. Double-Oh-Geritol then shows Sloane a picture of Jean and Kazanow walking together. Sloane's all, this doesn't mean anything. Double-Oh-Geritol's all, take a look at my laptop here. Basically, it looks like Kazanow's been dumping large amounts of cash into Mrs. Jean's brokerage account. This leads Double-Oh-Geritol to believe that Kazanow has infiltrated The Alliance, and Jean's his way in.
Sloane's not buying it. He believes Jean's a friend. Double-Oh-Geritol plays his "You're probably right, Arvin. He's probably harmless. Let's just gamble on this" card. Since Sloane wants Kazanow dead, he's not really fond of this plan. Double-Oh-Geritol finally comes to the conclusion that Jean has to be taken out, and Sloane's the only one who can carry out the hit. No, it doesn't really make sense to me either. Sloane's very disturbed by the idea of icing his good buddy. and decides that Jean isn't a traitor and that the intell that Double-Oh-Geritol has provided him with is erroneous. Thus endeth this performance of The Ready-For-Retirement Players.