Episode Report Card Erin: B- | 1 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Pssst. Lauren's evil. Pass it on.
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.10.2004
Of course, Vaughn the Ball-Less quickly caves, thinking the best of his wife, even though she's an idiot savant spy with bad eyebrows. Back in Oops Center, Dix and Syd are doing their version of the walk-and-talk. Dix confirms that the ten names that matched the DNA were all just aliases for the same woman. Syd surmises that it's possible that il Dire gave this info to Sloane as well as the message of "peace." Dix says that they ran a crosscheck on all the aliases and medical information, and it turns out that this woman was always treated by the same physician, Doctor Robert Viadro. His practice is in Milan, and Syd and Vaughn are heading there tonight.
Milan. I…have nothing smart to say about Milan, other than that I wish I were there right now. We're at a beautiful house with a fountain. A doorbell rings. We're inside the house, watching as Dr. Viadro, played by Vincent Riotta of Under The Tuscan Sun, goes to answer the door. And I must note here that, while I declared Vincent the un-cute one from the movie, that doesn't mean I didn't like him. In fact, I was secretly hoping that Frances would get together with him at some point, even though he wasn't in the book, nor would their getting together at some point actually be a good thing. I just liked him a lot. He was sweet and hunky and oh, so Italian. Ahem. So. Dr. Viadro goes to answer the door. Unfortunately, it's neither Syd nor Vaughn. Instead, it's Moronen. And she needs to speak with him. "It concerns The Passenger," she says, lifting up her gun and pointing it at his head. She pushes her way in, and we go to black. Ten more minutes and I'm going to be knee-deep in even more Ewan-purchased Pinot and a whole lotta Gerard. Mmmm. Those Scotsmen. Keep 'em coming. And coming. And…excuse me.
Back with Viadro and Moronen. He backs up and says, "The Covenant!" "That is none of your con--" Viadro knocks her gun out of her hand. She dives for it as he grabs a vase and chucks it at her -- sadly, not really doing any damage. He runs up some stairs. She follows. He runs into a room and shuts the door. She finds the room and tries the door. Locked. Inside the room, Viadro runs into a closet and shoves a coat off a wall, revealing a code entry panel which, actually, the coat knocked off at first. I mean, when I rewound the tape, Viadro knocked the coat off, and the front of the panel totally came off. The actor, Vincent, deftly puts the front back in place, but if you watch carefully, you can totally see the front flipping off. Which, um, would make it a pretty ineffectual little code panel, now wouldn't it? Heh. It's the little things that bring me joy.
So, whatever, he enters a code. Outside, Moronen shoots the door open and busts her way in. In the closet, Viadro gets the secret door to the panic room open and slips inside. He hits a button to close the door, but Moronen makes it there in time to shove the door back like a defunct elevator door. Like, what? What kind of panic room comes with a door that easily retracts? The whole POINT of the panic room is to…glug. Glug glug glug. "Good," says Moronen as she enters. "We have some privacy." Before Viadro can do anything, Moronen decks him with the gun and he goes down.