Episode Report Card Erin: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato, Four
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 5 | Aired on 11.02.2002
As Syd and Stubble Guy exit the hall, we see the camera that Syd shot into the ceiling focus onto the device on the wall. Dix informs her that the camera placement was good work. Looks like the device on the wall was a key entry pad. Stubble Guy shows Syd into a dimly lit room with file cabinets and informs her that birth records are in the file cabinets on the right, marriage and death records on the left. "The correlation is unintended," he laughs. Oh, no it isn't! Marriage is directly related to death, in my opinion. Get married? Die. Maybe not immediately, but sure as hell a LOT sooner than you'd like. Trust me, marriage = death. Yes, Viggo, I know you feel the same way. That's why I dig your chili so very much. Now check the bath temperature and light some candles. And when Clooney gets here, make yourself scarce. Don't worry, we'll all head over to Garfield Park for a little autumnal hoops action, okay? A promise is a promise.
Dix zooms in on someone entering a code into the keypad. Back at the file room, Stubble Guy's about to exit, but stops and turns to Syd. "One problem," he says. "All documents are in Hungarian. How do you expect to know what they're saying?" Syd's thought of this, apparently, since she answers, in Hungarian, that it ain't no problem. "Ah," says Stubble Guy. "That's good." "My grandparents taught me," says Syd with a smile. Stubble Guy smiles at her and leaves.
Dixon, who's watching the hallway with the keypad, informs Syd that she's clear to move in. Syd leaves the file room and makes tracks to the keypad hall. Dix tells her the combo, which she enters. It clears, and she opens the door and runs through the inner halls. She comes upon a door that's locked, but that's no problem for our Little Spy That Could. She just whips a lock-picking kit out of her breast pocket and goes to town. In a split second, she's inside. She tells Dix to stand by as she goes CIA silent. Oh, I mean "radio" silent. She turns off Dix and turns on the CIA via her necklace. "Mountaineer in position," she says, "come in, Boot Camp."
Okay, a word about the code name switch. It really pissed me off when I first heard it, and then, while I was recapping, it occurred to me that Dixon overheard the "Freelancer" code name back when he got shot. That led to Syd getting into trouble with Sloane, so I'm assuming that, when Spy Daddy told Sloane the alternate code name was his choice because he didn't trust Sloane, the CIA had to come up with a new code name for Syd. This isn't really ever explained to us, but I'm pretty sure it's the answer that makes the most sense.
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