Episode Report Card Kim: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Taken
By Kim | Season 3 | Episode 16 | Aired on 03.20.2004
Oops Center. Lauren types the username "Judith_Barnett" onto a screen that says, "Classified U.S. Government System. For Authorized Use Only. Unauthorized use will result in Criminal Prosecution." I'm amused by the words they chose to capitalize there. It's not just criminal prosecution. It's Criminal Prosecution! I kind of wish that they had used an exclamation point at the end. Anyway, Judith Barnett is Dr. Nancy, which it took me a moment to remember. After logging in, Lauren gets to a screen that says, "International Air Traffic Control Database." She types in Sark's flight number and sees a screen that apparently indicates all of the flights currently in the air. Would this information really be that easy to access in today's world? And why is Lauren doing this from work? I have to take Regina's advice and go grab a drink.
Vaughn enters the room and Lauren quickly hits a key, which brings up an innocuous-looking document. Vaughn asks Lauren how things are going, and Lauren lies that she's compiling a list of questions to ask Sark during the interrogation. Vaughn asks, "That's it?" Lauren looks momentarily terrified. How has she not been busted yet? Vaughn clarifies that he thought Lauren's father was supposed to arrive an hour ago. Relieved, Lauren says that her father went "straight into a meeting with Jack Bristow and Director Dixon." Vaughn nods and asks if Lauren's going to be okay while her father is there. Lauren says she's about to find out. I would love to know what Lauren has told Vaughn about her relationship with her father.
Senator Reed at first sounds like Leo McGarry, so I think he must be from Chicago, but then I remember that he's a Senator from Virginia, and then I remember that his daughter has a British accent, and now I think the casting people are just fucking with us. Anyway, Senator Reed says that he had to go to great lengths to get Sark extradited, so he's expecting great results from the interrogation. He adds that said results will also help him to get continued funding for the Task Force. No threat implied there, eh? Dixon thanks Reed and checks his watch before adding that Sark will arrive within the hour, and Syd and Weiss will escort him to the Oops Center. Jack adds that they know that Sark has been "promoted to co-command the Covenant's North American operations," and that it's imperative that they find out the identity of his associate. And hey, Lauren just walked in the door! How ironic!