Episode Report Card Erin: C+ | 1 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT Thank you for flying Exposition Airlines
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.10.2004
The details that Oleg tries to feed Syd about Julia Thorne's past are that Kenneth Thorne was her father, Daniel and Tom were her two brothers, she had her confirmation at All Souls Church, and her entire family died in a fire. I'm not sure if any of this has any significance, but if Lauren Reed turns out to, like, BE Julia Thorne or something, I thought I'd better mention it in order to give all the conspiracy theorists out there a head start. After losing her family, this Julia Thorne became a contract killer, and her first targets were the men who destroyed her family. While Oleg's yammering at her about Julia's past, Syd looks straight ahead at a screen showing what looks like a child's birthday party. Oh, and she looks like two tons of sleep-deprived dogshit in a two-pound bag.
The next shot we see of Syd, she's cleaned up and sitting at a table, reading a book. Oleg enters and says, "Julia?" Syd puts away her book and looks up. "Yes?" Oleg serves her lunch, and Syd's face holds almost no emotion. Back in present time, Kendall tells Syd that, once Oleg believed she was ready, he gave her a test that proved that she believed she was actually another woman. We switch to the smoky interior of some room. Uh-oh. Smoker. A smoker is in the room. Badness and evil are just around the corner, my friends. Smokers are naughty. Naughty naughty! Nice people never smoke! Only naughty ones! Speaking of which, if you'll excuse me, I have to go lick a box of American Spirits.
Oleg enters the smoky room and introduces Sydney. She enters, dressed in a periwinkle suit and sporting a blonde wig. At the table in front of her are several people whose faces we can't see. One of them speaks up, and yeah, it totally sounds like Quentin Tarantino, obviously reprising his role as McKenas Cole, a.k.a. "Shovelhead." More on that in a second. Some guy is wheeled into the room in a wheelchair. Shovelhead orders Syd to kill the guy in the wheelchair. She stabs him without even flinching. We get a glimpse of the dudes at the table, but I can't identify anyone. One sorta looks like Sloane, but I can't be sure. Again, more on this in a minute.
Regurgitation Airlines. Syd wants to know who the guy in the wheelchair was. Kendall has no idea. "So, I was programmed," surmises Syd. "No," says Kendall. "Not by the Covenant." Well, if not them, then who else? The same guy who programmed Michael Jackson to think that it's not only okay to sleep with little kids, but that it's also okay to announce it to the world while wearing BLUE SATIN? Kendall gets up and walks over to this twee little coffee pot and pours himself this twee little cup of coffee. I have no idea why this cracked me up, but it just did. Like, he drops a bomb on Syd and just has to have some Starbucks? Poured from the world's SMALLEST coffee carafe? The whuh?
Syd's just as confused as I am. She doesn't know how she could just murder a guy without having been programmed first. Kendall reminds her that Spy Daddy put her through Project Christmas when she was a kid. Syd's all, yeah, yeah, yeah, my dad sucks at the parenting thing. Tell me something I DON'T know. Kendall's all, dude? Project Christmas made you virtually immune to programming. Get it? No, really, do ya get it? Syd wasn't programmed. During that whole scene. She was only pretending to be Julia Thorne. Which means that she pretty much killed that dude in cold blood and didn't even flinch.