Episode Report Card Erin: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Swing Out, Sister
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 20 | Aired on 04.24.2004
The men ignore this intrusion and get a move on the expositing. Vaughn's all, yeah, dude, I know how my father died. Brill's all, save it, little soldier. You don't have a goddamn clue. "He doesn't, you know," grunts the Fairy. "Have a clue, that is. ABOUT ANYTHING." Brill kicks the Fairy in the head and tells Vaughn that Papa Vaughn was actually on an operation that wasn't sanctioned by the CIA. Vaughn's all, dude! No WAY! My dad would NEVER go against the CIA! Brill's all, dude! WAY! "He was a follower of Rambaldi," says Brill. "That's impossible," snaps Vaughn. Was so! Was not! Was so! Was not! So! Not! "ENOUGH!" scraps the Fairy, whipping out a bottle of Cuervo. "GET ON WITH IT!"
Brill reveals that Papa Vaughn died protecting "the little girl." The Followers of Rambaldi (heretofore known as "FOR") knew the little tyke was The Passenger, so they broke her out of KGB custody. But Papa Vaughn didn't trust the CIA either, so he took her to the safety of the warm and cozy confines of…the FOR clubhouse. Or something. Vaughn's still not buying that his dad was a FOR or that he would go against his country. Brill just says that Papa Vaughn was the best man he ever knew and he gave his life to make sure that The Passenger would be safe. "Now, if you don't stop what's happening," says Brill, "his sacrifice will be for nothing." Yeah. I don't know. Didn't Irina kill Papa Vaughn? If he died protecting Spy Skipper, then why would Irina have tried to stop that? Did she choose Sydney over Spy Skipper because the prophecy says something about -- wait. I'm violating my own rules. Where's the vodka. And the whiskey. And the tequila. And while we're at it, WHERE'S THE LIGHTER FLUID?
While I'm injecting grain alcohol into my left butt cheek, Weiss is checking up on Moronen, who's pulling into a service station to get gas. She gets out of the car, and Weiss quickly realizes that the woman he's just followed is NOT Moronen, but a double. He gets on the horn to call Vaughn as Brill is ending his interpretive exposition dance on Papa Vaughn. "All right, now you know what you've got to do," he says to Vaughn as he restarts the elevator. "Just make sure that they don't get to her." Now, this is important: at no time do we hear Brill tell Vaughn ANYTHING about The Passenger's location or why Vaughn has to get to her before the Covenant does. Nor do we hear ANYTHING about the Prophecy. The reason I point this out is because, later in the episode, it somehow comes about that Vaughn actually knows the location of The Passenger. So, either Brill says something to Vaughn that happens off-screen, or he says nothing at all and the producers just kind of forgot about that little continuity point and were counting on all of us to be so drunk we wouldn't notice. [Hic.] Guess what? [Hic.] WE NOTICED. [Hic.] Excuse me.