Episode Report Card Erin: D+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT A cup of No-Doz and an espresso IV, STAT!
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 17 | Aired on 04.26.2005
And now is the time on Alias when we wonder if we can get through this recap in under two hours because GOD was I bored.
Fake Derevko Hospital Room. Sonia's crowing about how beautiful Nadia's become. Nadia says she finds it hard to believe that she has a home and a family now. "Your father's a good man," says Sonia. "I can tell." "Yeah," says Nadia. "Except for when he's braining a bad guy with part of a Rambaldi model. I don't like him so much then." Nadia says she should rest and goes to leave, but before she can, Sonia removes a St. Marcos pendant from around her neck and gives it to Nadia. Nadia, attempting to get herself nominated for Worst Spy Of The Damn Millennium, just takes the pendant and doesn't even bother to take it into Marshall to see if it has the same camera built into it that the Tie of Doom and Destruction did. Sure, if my former guardian gave me a pendant, I wouldn't think to have it analyzed, but then, I DON'T COME FROM A FAMILY OF SPIES.
Apple Store. Marshall is quickly becoming the Joke Du Jour and I'm not really into it. Last week, he was futzing with a lightsaber or something, then he was interrupted, causing one of those "D'oh!" moments that he's so good at. This week, it's him wearing a VR helmet and playing with a square or something when Sloane interrupts him, causing, you guessed it, a "D'oh!" moment. It's just…it's getting old. Sloane hands over the Sonia palm print and says it's a latent fingerprint, which it so isn't, because PALM PRINT, and he orders Marshall to gather up all intel on the print and deliver it directly to him. Marshall's all, yeah, sure, no problem. Sloane's all, thanks, and, uh, I'm going to go now, because I don't want your geekiness to rub off on me. Actually, Rifkin's expression is really hilarious here. He kind of smacks his lips and does a subtle eye-roll. Heh.
Elsewhere at the Apple Store, Jack's pulling the skin off his own palm. Ew. He's picking at and picking at it and DON'T PICK AT IT, JACK. You'll only make it worse. Didn't your mother teach you anything? A generous swab of Neosporin and big gauzy bandage is what he needs. Just then, Syd storms in without even knocking and Jack twitchily hides his palm. She tells him that they found Raimes and that he's traveling with Stubbly Lambert. Jack tells her to have the team shadow Raimes and then bring him in for questioning because he wants to know why Raimes hasn't contacted Langley. "I'll let them know," says Sydney, in a voice with almost no inflection. Jack looks like he's about to tell her about his sickness, but he decides not to at the last minute and just tells her to let him know when Vaughn and Dixon have secured Raimes. She says she'll keep him posted and walks out. Jack continues to dig and peel at his palm. IT'LL NEVER HEAL IF YOU KEEP PICKING AT IT.
"UNKLE" by U.N.K.L.E. plays across the soundtrack as we move to a club in Amsterdam. Lots of young people getting stoned -- this is Amsterdam, after all -- and drinking and generally hanging out. The camera careens around the room and we see Vaughn, zeroing in on Raimes and Stubbly Lambert. Vaughn tells Dixon he has him, and then he walks off and "bumps" into the waitress, dropping something into Raimes's whiskey. The waitress delivers the drinks and everyone toasts. Suddenly, Raimes gets up, looking decidedly ill. He rushes off to the bathroom, passing a geeky-looking dude sitting on a sofa. The geeky-looking dude looks at Raimes with more than a little interest.