Episode Report Card Erin: C+ | 2 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT If by "awful" you mean "awfully convenient for Jack."
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 3 | Aired on 01.11.2005
The Spy Daddy & Nadia Show. Nadia's hooked up to the sensor thingies again and Jack's asking her yet more hypothetical questions. She's sitting in a chair with her leg loosely crossed over the other one, her black bra straps showing, and an expression on her face that says, "Enough with the questions already, Little Hitler." Finally, when she's sort of had enough, she looks at him and says, "Mr. Bristow?" "Yes?" "I don't mean to seem impatient," she says calmly, "but I've never done anything that's lasted as long as this." Jack just looks at her. "How sad for you." HEE. Jack made a sex joke! Hee hee hee. Just then, the phone rings. Jack picks up and suddenly cancels the rest of Nadia's evaluation and storms off.
Then Sloane is filling Jack in on the Bishop situation. Seems as if the regular non-black-ops CIA is headed over to deal with the Valta. Sloane also tells Jack about Syd's current predicament. Jack wants to know if they can extract her, but Sloane informs him that they can't yet because the Valta raid is a top priority. If they blow her cover by extracting her, the whole op could be busted. Jack's all, huh. That's interesting. Okay, then. Guess I'm going to Spain to get my little girl. Oh, and I'm taking Nadia with me. Sloane's all, hey, what about the psych eval? You learn anything? Jack's all, enough to know how to deal with the situation at hand. Sloane's all, uh, okay. Well, have fun in Spain!
Bishop's Bachelor Mansion. Bishop pours some champagne and he and Syd engage in some useless banter. Vaughn pipes in and says, "If you can hear me, tuck your hair behind your ear." Syd tucks, and continues the conversation with Bishop. Vaughn tells her about the raid and instructs her to get the hell out of there. Syd, pretending to talk to Bishop, basically says that she's sticking with it. Vaughn repeats that she should get out. Blah blah Bishop, blah blah Syd, blah blah destiny, blah blah Syd cover story, blah blah Bishop still clueless. Yawn. Don't care. Get to the good stuff.
Yards De Los Alamedas. The CIA, with Weiss leading the way, is making its raid. They get to the container that has the Valta, and Weiss pulls a pin on what I'm assuming is a grenade and tosses it into the Valta container. Suddenly, a baddie shows up and starts shooting. Chaos ensues. The Valta blows up. More chaos. More shooting. Back at the Bachelor Mansion, the Appleseed Boys watch as Syd continues to work her brilliant plan of…talking to Bishop. Marshall's perplexed. "I don't get it. Why doesn't she just kick his ass, you know, and then run?" Why doesn't she indeed, Marshall. Dix just says that Syd doesn't want to blow her cover. If she keeps working her cover, and something goes wrong with the raid, she can still get out clean, with Bishop none the wiser.