Episode Report Card Erin: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato, Four
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 5 | Aired on 11.02.2002
"Look around you," says Amy Aquino, back in her Hypno Den, "tell me who else is there." Sydney, full-on crying at this point, escapes back into her childhood. Kid Syd looks up to her left for approval on a job well done, and there's her father, taking the gun out of her hand and saying, "Good work, Sydney." Back in Amy Aquino's office, Syd gasps and wakes up, fully aware of the damage her father's done to her.
As the beginning strains of Joni Mitchell's "River" play over the soundtrack, we see Sydney standing in an alley of some sort, watching as a car screeches up in the rain. It's Jack. "Sydney! Get in!" he shouts. When she doesn't respond, he gets out of the car and goes to her. "What is it?" he asks. She looks up at him, her expression hooded. "I have this memory," she says, "from when I was six years old." Syd looks out to the rain, watching it fall. "My mother had just died in a car accident. I felt so scared. You were never home. So, who was going to take care of me? Then I overheard you talking. You were in your study. On the phone. You were talking about Christmas. About me." Syd shrugs. "You were taking care of my Christmas presents. Suddenly, I...I felt so safe. You were taking care of me."
Syd's expression hardens. "That memory is a lie. You weren't talking about that at all." Jack's expression changes to one of a father quickly realizing that he's done wrong by his only daughter. "Sydney," he starts. "I've seen the footage," she says calmly. "Mom's briefings with her KGB handlers. She was sent her for one specific purpose. To steal information from you about a project you were developing for the CIA. An operation to train children to be American spies. Project Christmas." Syd's eyes are welling up with tears, even though it's obvious that she doesn't want them to.
"Ever since Mom came back," she says, barely containing herself, "you were afraid she'd figure out what you did to me. You weren't trying to protect me from her, you were trying to protect your secret. So, the first opportunity you had, you set her up. In Madagascar..." "Sydney, understand something --" "No, DAD, YOU understand something. You took away my choices in life. You programmed me to be a SPY." Jack kind of swallows and looks like he'd rather be in a pit of vipers doused in gasoline than right there at this moment. "I will never forgive you for this," says Syd, walking off into the rain. Jack looks after her, knowing that the daughter he'd only recently regained is lost once again.
Not having anywhere else to turn, Syd manages to make her way through the many security hubs without fanfare and enters Ops. Vaughn's hanging at his computer, obviously having just kicked ass at a game of Solitaire. Syd walks in and stands in the doorway, her mascara dripping down to her chin. Vaughn cracks his knuckles and challenges every last one of the desk jockeys to beat his high score, looks around randomly, and spies Syd, drenched, sad, and obviously in need of a hug.
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