Episode Report Card Erin: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Missing? I'll tell you what's missing.
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.18.2003
Conference Room of Endless Expositions. Killjoy and Syd are briefing the troops on what they learned from Bogden. Namely, that the stolen samples from the first job have already been delivered to the Covenant, but that they won't be used until after the second job. Syd pipes up that the Covenant plans to modify the virus. Vaughn's all, why's that? And you look good today, Syd. I mean, honey! I mean, Syd! I mean, LAUREN. God. I'll get this straight somehow.
Jack literally babbles something about precursor agents and further synthesis. Before I can go, "The what? In the what what?" Agent Sean speaks up. "Okay, does everyone here speak science?" Marshall goes, "Yeah." "No, Marshall, they don't," snaps Sean. Marshall stutters, "Well…I could help explain --" "That'd be great," says Sean, cutting him off. "Sorry," says Marshall, getting up. Hee. Hee hee. Okay. This whole scene made me laugh out loud. Both times I watched it. Agent Sean's so indignant it's hilarious. And Marshall's obviously afraid of him. Tee hee hee.
Oh. Oh, no. The peanut butter scene. Oh god. This whole scene cracked me up. I really don't think I can do it justice. Marshall's all, okay, um, so what they nabbed, let's call it "peanut butter." "You know, yummy, nutty, creamy deliciousness on its own," he says. Oh, seriously. Laughing. I'm laughing over here. "But let's say you mix in something else in equally tasty, um, you know, perhaps, chocolat --" "Marshall," cuts in Dix. Hee. Hee. HEE. Okay, Marshall's point? Besides making us laugh? The Covenant wants to make the virus stronger and more deadly.
Syd's all, dude? Ain't Ebola strong enough? Marshall's all, oh, yeah, it totally is, but, um, they could make it, I don't know, AIRBORNE. Ew. And yuck. And that can't be good. Conveniently, the CIA has now discovered just who the team is that was hired for these heists. Simon Walker, a.k.a. my new imaginary boyfriend, Justin Theroux. Turns out, Simon's one hell of a contract guy who only hires freelancers for his team. One of his freelancers is some dude named Javier who's former Cuban intelligence. Another dude is Russert, acquisitions. And finally, Bogden, who, as we all know, is the security expert and, um, rather the worse for wear at the moment.
None of this is important except to illustrate that, now that Bogden's out of commission, there's a spot to be filled on Simon's team. Syd's all, and you want me to be his new team member, right? Dix is all, well, we would have asked any one of the other fourteen hundred qualified agents, but they're all out getting their legs waxed at the moment, so I guess you're up, Syd. All you gotta do is get on his team, place a tracking device on whatever it is they steal, and make sure you're leading us to the Covenant. Have fun with Simon in Sevilla, sweetheart. Vaughn and Weiss will be your backup, while Killjoy makes a totally unnecessary visit to Smarmy Sensei so that he can ridicule and belittle her while wearing a Buddha bracelet on his right hand. You'll see. Just wait.