Episode Report Card Shack: C+ | 173 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Déjà Vu To A Kill
By Shack | Season 1 | Episode 17 | Aired on 2002.03.17
Sydney is escorted out in cuffs by three guards. They make their way outside. Suddenly a silver van comes zooming up to the door. Three men in ski masks and large guns jump out and force the FBI men to drop to the ground. I can't believe that these guys are so worried that they have Sydney in chains, but were totally surprised by this turn of events. It bothers me that the dramatic tension of this show revolves mostly around whether or not people are going to behave stupidly in any given situation. The men load Sydney into the van and drive off as the FBI guys call in the van's plates.
Inside the van, two of the men take off their masks to reveal themselves to be Agent Amorous and Sean. See, since they wore those masks, the FBI can't possibly figure out that her friends from her office would come rescue her, even though they've been trying through other channels to free her already and do this sort of thing for a living. Sydney's all surprised. Vaughn tells her that they're going to prove that the prophecy isn't about her. The driver, still masked, tells Sydney that they'll explain it all on the way. Sydney's recognizes the voice as Spy Daddy's, and acts all surprised that he would help rescue her.
After some commercials, Spy Daddy drives the van inside the warehouse. Vaughn and Jack take turns explaining why they're sending Sydney to Italy. Sydney is pissed, though, because now she's certain that the FBI is going to think she's guilty of something. She says fleeing the country will prove that she's trying to act in opposition to the American government. Jack said he had no other choice; he had to protect her cover. Sydney whines that she's a fugitive from justice. Uh, no. You're on the run from some overly credulous government organizations that place greater weight on a five-hundred-year-old book of prophecies than a two-hundred-year-old document detailing people's rights as American citizens. Jack explains that once she sees the mountains, the CIA will reveal what they did to the relevant agencies, and then they'll have no choice but to drop the issue. Sydney's cover will be preserved, and all will be happiness and joy. But Sydney worries that the prophecy may actually be about her. Spy Daddy points out that if that's the case, then everything's predestined anyway, and nothing they do matters. Of course, if that's the case, then nothing the FBI does matters either, and they can't stop the prophecy from coming true by imprisoning Sydney. Sean points out the police sirens and tells them all they have to move. Vaughn locks Sydney in the trunk of a sedan and drives it out of the warehouse.