Episode Report Card Erin: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Vampire LeSyd
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 6 | Aired on 02.08.2005
And now is the time on Alias when don our favorite black velvet formal wear, light the red candles, and worship Nosferatu while jamming out vamp-style to DJ Master JJ and the Vampire Cru.
When we come back from the break, Syd's being given a CAT scan as Jack watches pictures of her brain on the monitor in the other room. Later, a doctor enters a room where Jack and Syd are waiting to hear the results. Doc tells Syd that her blood work is negative. So that's good news. He checks the bite and declares that it looks fine. Jack wants to know what the CAT scan was for. Doc tells him that the Cahills came in contact with a drug that affected the nervous system. Both of the Cahills had an enlarged pineal gland. By the way, looking up the pineal gland on Google not only brings up several medical sites, it brings up sites about crystals, fantasy characters, ESP and alien life forms. I wish I were kidding. Ever heard of something called "The Third Eye"? Yeah. Me neither. Until I Googled "pineal gland." Some things just…shouldn't be known. Or have websites created about them.
According to the Alias doc, the pineal gland converts melatonin, which regulates sleep cycles and body temperature. But, if there's an acute imbalance of melatonin, someone's behavior might change, even leading them to perform acts of violence. Syd mentions the drawings in the hidden hallway, saying that Cahill seemed to be suffering from extreme paranoia and was seeing demons. He's also currently suffering from an extreme lack of THE TOP OF HIS SKULL. Could we…I know the inclusion of a corpse is par for the course on CSI, but could we just MOVE AWAY FROM THE DEAD BRAIN ON THE TABLE, PLEASE? It is seriously skeeving me out.
Doc Pineal tells Jack and Syd that he initially thought the drug they were dealing with was a psychotropic, but he found no traces of any hallucinogens. Jack snaps that no matter what drug Cahill was on, he couldn't have transferred it to Syd by biting her, so what up with the CAT scan, homes? Doc Pineal says that since the Cahills dealt with emerging drugs, he just wanted to take every precaution. But luckily, all of Syd's tests indicate she's just fine. She totally isn't, by the way.
Sloane's Office of West Elm Furniture. The troops are gathered on the red sofas, listening as Sloane tells them that Langley wants to know what drug the Cahills were exposed to and they want to know everything about it; where it's being manufactured, why it's being made, what it's supposed to be used for, et cetera. Sloane wants to know what the team has learned so far. Vaughn states that neither of the Cahills left Amsterdam in the past month and, in her final days, Nancy Cahill made twice her usual phone calls. But, since they were deep undercover, the phone calls were sent through several routers, so they have no idea who she called. Marshall pipes up that if Vaughn gives him the routing numbers, he might be able to hack a back trace. Marshall continues that Cahills' hard drive was erased but he still might be able to reconstruct some of the files.