Episode Report Card Erin: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT She's alive! ALIIIIIVE!
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 20 | Aired on 05.17.2005
Angie accuses Nadia of overriding the security codes at the DSR because the command came from her laptop. Angie also brings up the fact that the order to move the Hydrosec came from Nadia's laptop as well. That's the same moment when one of the agents comes across the Necklace of Surveillance and within minutes, Nadia's off the hook. Jack and Sloane show up, and everyone discusses how in the hell Nadia wound up with a bugged necklace. Why, it was a gift from Auntie Elena, of course! No one immediately assumes that kindly Sophia is Elena, but Jack blurts out that if they look at what was stolen, the answer is obvious: Sophia is Elena Derevko. Jack also attributes everything that's been happening for the past few months to Elena, including Vaughn's dead daddy journals, Sloane Clone, McCullough, everything. Nadia can't believe it. Especially since it was assumed that Elena had been hunting Syd and Nadia in order to harm them, but really, she'd been hunting them in order to put some sort of sick Rambaldi endgame into play. "If Jack is right," says Sloane, "if Elena has gathered Rambaldi artifacts, her final step would be to assemble them. We can't let that happen." Dun dun DUUUUUN.
And now is the time on Alias when we go, "Bring on the Lena! Bring on the Lena!"
Apple Store. Nadia enters Sloane's office and says that Elena never made it to the airport. Duh. Marshall's checking traffic cams for any sign of her. Nadia's been busy, checking flight manifests and bus and train stations. Sloane says that they'll catch her, don't worry. Nadia thinks she's to blame for all this. Sloane says he is. I agree with Sloane. He says that it was his Rambaldi obsession that got Nadia involved in all this in the first place; it's his mess, it's his responsibility to clean it up. He says that if Elena has gathered all the Rambaldi pieces, there's only one place she can go. "To see Lazlo Drake," says Nadia, totally on the same page as her father. "I'm on it." She goes to leave and Sloane once again says that they'll find Elena. "I will end this," he declares. Nadia leaves.
Land of Sepia-Toned Flashbacks. Also? China. I blame the Pinot Grigio for making me not get that this trip to China was a flashback almost immediately; watching it now, it's pretty damn clear from the lack of film color that this whole scene takes place in the past. Damn you, Pinot Grigio! Damn you! Right. Anyway. China. Sloane and Nadia are being driven along a hillside and Nadia's all, dude? Why are we in China when I told you the Sphere of Life is in Siena? Sloane's all, 'cuz I need answers to some questions and Lazlo Drake has 'em. Now shut up and drink your Rambaldi Life Juice. Sloane blathers something about how Lazlo Drake discovered the Rambaldi Artifact Assembly Template manuscript. It's a veritable how-to guide to the proper assembly of the cool-ass Rambaldi stuff. Assemble the cool-ass Rambaldi stuff properly, and poof! You can bring forth his final prophecy! "Just know that we're going to make the world a better place," says Sloane, "and we need Drake to do it." Nadia doesn't look so sure.