Episode Report Card Manimal: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Mea Culpa
By Manimal | Season 1 | Episode 9 | Aired on 12.08.2001
Los Angeles. Will. Dark street. He's walking as he's reading. Hey, I do that! He walks over to his car to find the words "glove box" written in the dust on his window. He gets inside, and finds an envelope with a mini-tape inside. He listens to it. There's some muffled, scratchy words, and on my VCR, it recorded it as being played at high speed, so I can't understand a thing it says, but then there are gunshots, so I'm assuming it's Eloise Kurtz or Danny-related.
SD-6. Marshall looks worried as he hands over a document to Dryer and tells him that while Sydney was in the bank vault, there was an additional transmission that was a signal for intelligence. He mumbles that Dryer told him to alert him on anything unusual. Marshall's face falls as he says, "I didn't just get someone in trouble, did I?" Marshall as the narc -- who'd have guessed?
Carl Dryer walks in snaky slo-mo like a blight and hands more docs to Sloane. Sloane looks sad, but resigned. He nods slowly.
Sydney's apartment. Her phone rings. Sydney wakes up. Strings play. It's Dixon's wife -- Dixon's awake. Cut to the hospital. Sydney walks down the hall with Mrs. Dixon. They pass Sloane, whose eyes flicker but who otherwise doesn't acknowledge Sydney in any way. Sydney turns to look at him, but she has to keep up with Mrs. D.
Sydney enters Dixon's hospital room. He smiles wanly. She says hello. They exchange affectionate words. Sydney starts to cry, but turns it into a smile. Sydney asks if he remembers what happened. Dixon says the last thing he remembers is trying to link to the satellite, and her smile. Sydney laughs.
Cut to Sydney exiting the hospital into the parking garage. She heads for her car, only to get cut off by a large, shiny American motorcar. She sees various men in various suits surrounding her. She runs for it, but then gets hit by a shiny blue car coming from another direction. All eighteen thousand of the men run over and hold her down as they shoot her with a tranquilizer gun and then load her into a car. Everyone piles into their shiny American motorcars, and they zoom off.
SD-6. Sloane's office. His phone rings. He picks up. A voice says, "We got her," and hangs up. Sloane looks sick and tired. Sloane and I have something in common.
Next week: Will utters the words "SD-6," Sydney goes blonde and wears a bikini, and apparently if we think we know what's going to happen next, we should think again.