Episode Report Card Erin: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Careless Memories
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.12.2002
Headquarters Of Hypnosis. Will's being led into a waking nightmare by a nice lady at a microphone while Syd and her non-boyfriend watch. We go back in time to the moment when Will was shackled on a cargo plane, his face resembling a pepperoni pizza with anchovies. Seriously. The make-up crew went overtime on his face. It looks BAD. Hypno Will tells Hypno Lady that he's on his way to Taipei and he's afraid the baddies are going to kill him. God, this is actually really sad. And Bradley Cooper is doing a royally kick-ass job in the acting department.
"I'm afraid they're going to get Sydney," says Will, crying. Hypno Lady tries to assure Will that he's revisiting what has already happened and that this is just a memory, but considering what kind of shape Will was in at the time, he's having more than a little trouble just "letting go." Hypno Will describes what he sees before him -- namely Sark, working on his laptop, with the screen conveniently facing toward Will. Syd and Vaughn glance at each other.
Hypno Lady wants to know if Will can see what's on the screen. Unfortunately, it's too far away. Oh, and Will was AFRAID HE WAS GOING TO DIE so, like, laptop screens weren't really at the top of his list for observational opportunities. Vaughn steps forward and informs Hypno Lady that Will said in his statement that he was picked up and carried off the cargo plane. "Maybe he got closer," suggests Vaughn. Jesus, Vaughn. Who knew you were so damn ruthless?
Hypno Lady moves Will forward in time to the moment when he was removed from the plane. Hypno Will sees one of Sark's henchmen coming for him and freaks the fuck out. He's scrabbling at his handcuffs, shrinking into his chair, pleading for his life. Syd lunges forward and demands that Hypno Lady wake Will up. Hypno Lady assures Syd that everything's fine; Will's just reliving the WORST FUCKING MOMENT OF HIS LIFE. Yeah, everything's just FINE.
Hypno Lady demands that Will tell her what's happening. Hypno Will, back on the cargo plane, tells Hypno Lady that he's being carried off the plane and that he's passing Sark's computer. She wants to know if he can see what's on it. Hypno Will tells her that he's passing too fast. She tells him to go back and pass again. "This time, when you pass the computer," she says, "I want you to stop." Hypno Will goes back in time, passes the computer, and stops.
"Names," he whispers. "I see names." Hypno Lady asks Will to read them to her. And in an amazing stroke of luck, the names are all that appear on the screen, and because they're in 24-point Arial Bold, they're as easy to read as a billboard on I-294. Will recites them dutifully. Dostoyevsky. Nabokov. Tolstoy. Chekhov. Guess the encoder had a fetish for Russian authors, eh?
Hypno Lady looks to Syd. She nods. Hypno Lady tells Will that when he hears a tone, he'll wake up and feel rested and refreshed and will bok like a chicken any time someone says the word "dude." She sounds the tone and tells Syd and Vaughn to wait a minute while she checks Will's vitals. Will looks out at Sydney, tears in his eyes, and Syd kind of smiles sympathetically at him, then turns to Vaughn. He quietly asks if she's okay. "I doubt the code that activates Rambaldi's music box is a list of Russian authors," she says, all business. "It must be some kind of cipher text." "Look," says Vaughn, engaging his forehead-wrinkling mechanism, "under normal circumstances, I would never ask this, but would you kiss me? Just once? It doesn't even have to be with tongue!" Actually, he just asks her to talk to her mother. Again. Some more. For those of you keeping track, this latest painful request for Syd to painfully talk to her painful mother is officially Number Three.
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