Episode Report Card Erin: A | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The Long Kiss Goodnight
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.25.2003
Syd enters and takes a seat. Batty picks up a file and looks at it as Syd says, "I just wanted to introduce myself. Say hello." Batty has NO time for niceties. "What can you tell me about Danny?" he says, removing his far-too-pale-for-his-skin-color glasses and placing them on the desk. God, I just love Rutger Hauer. No, of course I don't love him more than I love you, Owen. But there is a certain dynamic that an older foreign guy brings to the party and, well, you just don't have it. Give it a few years, honey. I'm sure you'll be right where Rutger is now. .
Syd's relatively surprised, but remarkably composed. "What would you like to know?" she asks. And here's where we enter "blah blah" territory. Blah blah, were you engaged? Blah blah, yeah. Blah blah, tell me more. Look. I don't mean to be rude, but this entire segment was contrived to fill in the less informed about Syd's background and why she's with SD-6. Do we all know her background? I mean, how Danny died? Why? Who did it? Why she came back to SD-6? ARE WE CLEAR? Good. Moving on.
Now, because there's a titch of information here that's something we've never heard before, I'm going to include the following conversation. Batty asks what kind of doctor Danny was going to be. Syd responds that he was going to be a pediatric cardiologist. Batty wants to know if he liked kids. Syd says, "Danny had a younger brother who was...born with a condition, a heart condition, and they were told there was no treatment." Say it with me. THE HELL? When the...what the...the HELL? Okay, the reasons for this conversation appearing in this episode may very well become clear in future episodes (namely, is Sark Danny's younger heart-condition-having brother?), but for the moment, I'm agog with cluelessness.
Batty gets up and moves around the desk, parking himself directly in front of Syd. "If the people I work for would assassinate my wife," he says, his craggy face getting even more craggy, "I would not show up at the office the next day. So why come back? What for?" Syd of course responds, "The precepts of SD-6 were made clear to me when I was recruited. What happened was my fault. And I am a faithful officer of this agency." Batty just smiles at her, creating even more charming wrinkles on his face. "Thanks for coming in," he says, obviously dismissing her.
Then Syd's walking down a hallway with Danny's brother -- I mean, "Sark" -- in tow. He's all, the new boss sucks, doesn't he? Syd's all, I've seen worse, dude. Sark's all, what, am I supposed to take that personally? Syd's all, look, WHAT DO YOU WANT? Because, like, you're hot and all? But you're buggin' me, so BACK OFF. Sark's all, when I met with Batty earlier, I left his office feeling as unstrung as you look, honey. I'm just worried about you! That's all. You okay? You need a backrub or something? Syd snaps up and looks at him. "Just so you know, I'm fully strung." Hee. "We all have secrets, Sydney," says Sark. "And from what I've heard about [Batty], he'll discover them." Suddenly, Syd's interested. "What have you heard about [Batty]?" she asks. "Former German intelligence," Sark responds. "Has more enemies than various other Germans we're familiar with. He seems to think Sloane is a traitor. He's already unlocked Sloane's secret files on server forty-seven." Syd's all, there are only forty-six servers, dude. Sark's all, oh realllllly? "Well, he announced it to me as if it were a victory. 'I've already hacked Sloane's files on server forty-seven.'"
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