Episode Report Card Erin: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Vampire LeSyd
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 6 | Aired on 02.08.2005
Syd quickly cuts herself free of her bindings with the palmed knife. Vaughn tries to check in but gets no answer from Jack. Vaughn somehow discovers that something other than a digital clock is plugged into a power strip on the floor. He follows the cord to a case against the wall and opens it. Inside, there's a collection of rainbow-hued vials on one shelf and a box with yellow and black vials below it. Either the yellow vials are marked "grab this one because it's the Nocturne antidote, dummy" or Vaughn's psychic, because he grabs a yellow vial and a single hypodermic from a table and runs off, telling Jack he has the antidote. The hell?
Once outside, Vaughn opens the van doors and sees that neither Syd nor Jack are inside. "Help!" screams Syd in the distance. Vaughn runs toward her voice. At the end of an alley, Syd's freaking out. "My father -- I think --" she gasps, looking down at an unconscious Jack on the ground. "Sydney," breathes Vaughn, "what did you do?" "I think I killed him!" cries Sydney. She bends over as if she's checking on Jack and Vaughn moves over to her. Suddenly, she gets up and is pointing a gun at him. Vaughn's all, uh, what the? Syd's all, get down on your knees, boyfriend! Vaughn's all, I have the antidote! Put the gun down! Syd's all, don't lie to me, pretty boy. Vaughn puts his hands up as Syd paranoids that this is all a big game to Vaughn. "A cruel joke at my expense," she spits. "What's a game?" he asks. "You and me," she says. "Admit it." Vaughn says it's not a joke and asks her what she's scared of. See? I told you that comment he made to Syd at the rink earlier was going to come back around.
"I am scared!" she cries. "I'm scared that you're going to betray me again. Like you did when you married Lauren." Oh, snap. Vaughn says he would never hurt her. Syd tells him to stop. Vaughn tells her to give him the gun. Syd tells him to stop. Vaughn moves forward and…click. There are no bullets in the gun. You know what that means, don't you?
And then they fight.
It's a really good fight, y'all, and both Vartan and Garner do a damn fine job, as do their stunt doubles. Kick kick kick, punch punch punch, whoops! Syd gets Vaughn up against a dumpster and tries to strangle him. He gets the better of her and gets HER up against the dumpster. She tries to bite his hand but, while a lot of people on the boards thought they heard her break the skin, my TiVo tells me that she barely scratched him and no blood was spilled, so that answers the question of whether Vaughn was infected or not. More fighting, back and forth, kick punch hit. Syd spies a lead pipe on the ground and introduces it to Vaughn's arm and leg. Vaughn goes down and Syd raises the pipe, about to brain him with it. Before she can, Jack miraculously appears and tackles her, putting her in a sleeper hold. Vaughn gets up. "You took the bullets out," he gasps. "It seemed a reasonable precaution," Jack wryly responds. Heh. Syd's knocked out on the ground, so Vaughn has a chance to deliver the antidote.