Episode Report Card Manimal: B | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Spirit
By Manimal | Season 1 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.15.2001
Underground parking garage. Will. He approaches a Mr. Stoller and tries to pump him for information. Apparently, in all of Will's searches for SD-6, the only match was for a deposition in a case that Stoller tried. It's too boring to recap, but the point is that David MacNeill was the client in the above-mentioned case. He was a computer programmer who didn't want to sell his business; one company wouldn't take no for answer, and the government starting investigating his business the day he said no to said company. Now MacNeill is serving sixteen years for larceny. Will asks why MacNeill plea-bargained if he was innocent. Funny, Stoller never said he was innocent. I hate Will. Will is a terrible reporter. Stoller says dryly that his wife killed herself, and that his daughter -- Stoller's goddaughter -- now lives with them, and that David wanted her to be safe. Will opens his eyes really wide and says that Stoller thinks it was murder.
Kenya. Sydney walks down a hallway to Driscoll's suite. She takes out a cell phone. Cue another pointless flashback. Marshall apparently has rigged the phone so that it can scan and produce a key card for a hotel room. Gee. Keen. The background music for the Kenya scenes have a lot of drums.
Sydney breaks in and starts riffling through Driscoll's passports just as Driscoll's large bodyguard walks down the hall toward the suite. Sydney's at the computer when the bodyguard enters. The bodyguard pulls a gun and asks, "Who the hell are you?"
Sydney feigns indignation at Driscoll, pretending that he's standing her up. The bodyguard asks again who she is. Sydney feigns more indignation that he doesn't recognize her, and approaches the bodyguard. Once she gets close enough, she grabs his gun, and they start fighting. You know, I'm all for believing a woman who knows how to fight could take down a man twice her size -- which this bodyguard is, by the way -- but if that were true, they'd have to be a helluva lot quicker than Sydney. I'm just sayin'. She side-kicks the guy through a wall that has large glass panes set in it. The wall breaks down to reveal a surgery room. Sydney walks in and sees the photos of the most recent surgery on the computer screen. It's Hassan, as she saw him at SD-6. Cue another pointless flashback as Sydney remembers the Saddam Hussein look-alike she bumped into a few moments earlier. It's the same guy. There are more pointless flashbacks to Episode Two when Sydney watched Hassan shoot his partner in the head.