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By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 1 | Aired on 01.04.2005
Vaughn looks around nervously and sees Rick Yune talking to another henchman. He gets on the comm and tells Syd they've been made and that there's a baddie heading her way. That's the moment, back in Nerdy Guy's room, where Syd kind of cocks her head to the right and looks worried. The rest of the scene with Nerdy Guy goes as it did in the beginning of the episode and, as the Henchman drags Vaughn out of the dining car, Syd makes her break down the hallway toward the baggage car. Vaughn removes his fake glasses as he and the henchman make their way to a sleeping compartment. They enter, and Vaughn does his best to kick the guy's ass but the guy has about a hundred pounds on him, so it doesn't go as smoothly as I imagine he hoped it would. Vaughn's fight is actually kind of funny, what with the Hulk versus the Green Lantern thing they have going.
Baggage car: fight fight fight. Sleeping car: fight fight fight. Baggage car: fight fight fight, oops! Out the door. Sleeping car: fight fight fight, d'oh! Hulk down. Vaughn goes running toward…the baggage car, I guess, even though -- how would he know they're there? Yeah, I don't know. So, anyway, we're back to where we started and Syd's about to fall but then Vaughn shows up, kicks the baddie's ass, flings him out the door, and saves Syd just in the nick of time. She flings herself into his arms and they hug and then there's…a moment. You know that moment. Where you can totally tell you're going to have sex with this person, like, soon. They look at each other and then we're…transported to Sydney's bedroom and she's wearing the same gray tank she was wearing when Vaughn showed up at her door before the train mission and she and Vaughn are totally going at it in her bed and…see? I totally understand that having the emotional sex scene right after the rescue is much more cathartic and cinematic and even though I disagree with the usage of the oldest U2 song since THE BEGINNING OF TIME, I still think this was an appropriate place for the love scene. But…did they have to go all the way back to Syd's apartment to do it? I mean, you're on a train, on your way to Latvia, you have an intense emotional moment following a death-defying series of fights, you look soulfully into each others eyes and…you jump onto a plane, take a three hour flight to Zurich, change planes, take an eleven hour flight to Los Angeles, hop a cab, drive to Sydney's and…go at it as if no time has passed? See, that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, which is why, again, I think this is a flashback. Or, at least, IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN.