Episode Report Card Erin: A | 1 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Sark. Do I even need to say anything else?
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 8 | Aired on 02.22.2005
The troops disperse after learning that they're leaving tonight and they'll have twenty hours in-country to prepare. Syd goes immediately to Nadia and asks if she's okay. "My father pumped me full of electric green plasma, dude. OF COURSE I'M NOT OKAY," she yells. In the scene. In my head. Boddington's is making me hallucinate. Or maybe it's the 'shrooms I got at the dog show. Hm. In reality, Nadia just says she got lightheaded, and Syd suggests they go grab some lunch before she has to leave for Brussels. "I'd love some lunch," says Nadia. "I'm channeling Rambaldi and MAN, can this guy eat!"
Patio of Sisterly Abductions. Syd's relating the story of "The Stadium, The Box and The Key," which I am totally not going to repeat here because that is what links are for. Basically, what we're supposed to learn from this story is that Syd had her mortal enemy right next to her and couldn't kill her, which, again, is totally different from what Syd expressed to Vaughn directly after that scene. Syd takes a sip of her iced tea and says that she swore to herself that if she ever had the chance again, she would not hesitate to take Anna out. Syd then asks what's going on with Nadia. And here's where we enter Exposition Café as Nadia delivers a dissertation on "Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Rambaldi…But Were Afraid to Ask." I'll just transcribe it, because it's easier than trying to paraphrase THREE SEASONS OF STORYLINE. "I know only a few things about Rambaldi," says Nadia. "I know he was a prophet, fifteenth century. I know my father was -- is -- I don't know…obsessed with him. Last year, when my father connected me to Rambaldi, I started to hallucinate and…I saw something awful. Sounds and fast images -- they went by quickly, but…there was one vision that felt so real. We were both together, scared and upset, holding guns aimed at each other. And I remember my hands were shaking. And I pulled the trigger. Blood was pouring down your chest, and…I wanted to say I was sorry but you just looked at me as if you'd been expecting it. As if you knew all along…knew I was going to kill you." You get all that? Because my fingers are tired.
Nadia thinks she sounds insane, but Syd's totally with her on this. She starts to say that there's something she's been meaning to share with her sister, but just then a waiter comes up and says there's a call for Sydney, conveniently far, far away from their table. Syd goes to get it and…surprise, it's Anna. She says hullo and tells Syd to turn around. Anna's sitting right next to Nadia, and they're looking rather chummy. Just in case Syd's thinking of pulling her gun out and going to town on Anna's head, Anna warns her that any action she might take could result in some snipers putting her ass down. Judging by the circle of red dots now appearing on Sydney's chest, remaining actionless seems to be the best form of action at the moment. There's something that Anna needs Sydney to do for her. Gina Torres's head is about three times the size of Mia Maestro's. It's totally bizarre. Mia's head could actually fit inside Gina's and that's…that's just not right. Anna says that she has been looking forward to working with Sydney again, and we mercifully go to the credits before I can contemplate what other body parts of Mia's would fit nicely inside Gina's.