Episode Report Card Erin: B- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Tuck Everlasting
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.05.2002
I know I'm harsh on these kinds of scenes but, like, it has NOTHING to do with disliking either Merrin Dungey or Bradley Cooper. I think they both rock. (Are you listening, ABC? I'm not just kissing ass, but, like, tell Merrin and Bradley that I think they're both fabulous actors and that Wendy Kroy wants to eat macaroons off Bradley's biceps and that an interview or even an autographed picture wouldn't be too much to ask, ya know?) It's just that these scenes act as a hiccup to the general ass-kicking action of Alias. Now, I know every episode can't be as heart-stopping and adrenaline-filled as fifteen minutes of Snatch, but could you, I don't know, TRY? For me? Just once? Thank you.
Spy Barbie? Meet Spy Mommy. Sydney's jogging through a park as we listen to Vaughn voice-over about what Sydney has to do to get to the underground facility where her mother's being held. Suffice it to say, she doesn't have to take the Red Line to Howard. Nope. She has to run past a homeless man, put a coin in his cup, head beneath an underpass, listen for an out-of-order phone to ring, clearing her of all surveillance, enter a memorized code into the phone pad, enter a storage container, go down a steep set of stairs, and then, a quarter of a mile later, she'll be at the operations center which, despite apparently being underground, has excellent natural light.
As Sydney enters, a nebbishy young woman by the name of Vicki Crane walks over to her and welcomes her to Oz. I mean, Operations Center. Vicki brings Sydney over to Kendall, who's very glad Sydney changed her mind. So are we all, Kendall. So are we all.
After donning a skimpy sweatshirt to cover up her skimpy sports bra, Sydney makes the long trek down Hannibal Hall toward her mother. It's made even longer by the slo-mo in operation. Clarice Starling -- sorry, I mean, "Sydney Bristow" grits her teeth and enters the lamb holding area outside of Irina's cell. Irina has apparently decided against the black tank top and black pants that she wore to greet Vaughn, and has instead opted for "incarceration chic," sporting her original outfit of drab gray over-shirt and drab gray capri pants.
Sydney steels herself for the confrontation. Irina turns to her. "You didn't pull the alarm" is all she says. Syd just looks away like she's being scolded. Irina walks over and says, "I wouldn't have pulled it either." Syd tries to be all business and demands to know about the contents of the disk. Irina does something that NONE of us were expecting. She TUCKS HER HAIR BEHIND HER EAR. I didn't see that coming. Did you see that coming? Wait. Does this mean that Sydney and her mother share some inherent traits? Does it? No! It couldn't mean that!