Episode Report Card Erin: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Darkness Falls
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 17 | Aired on 03.01.2003
Irina places her hand squarely on the table and says, "You know me. I love games." Knife Guy readies the knife and makes the first jump. Irina gasps with pleasure. I'm sorry. That looks so corny when I write it. But that's what she did! He speeds up, the music does too, and the game continues until, finally, he stops, obviously turned on by Irina. She grabs the knife and stabs his hand. He shouts, and one of his Useless Henchmen steps forward. Irina smartly takes the dagger out of Knife Guy's hand and puts it to his throat instead, yelling at the bodyguard to drop his gun. Useless Henchman wisely decides to drop his gun, and Irina starts questioning Knife Guy about the Rambaldi manuscript. Seems he doesn't have it anymore. Sold it for opium rights to a guy named "Chang." Irina seems to think for a moment, then slices Knife Guy's throat, stabs the Useless Henchman, and flings the dagger into the chest of the guard. Is it wrong that I find her even hotter now? I mean, wrong in ways other than the fact that I'm a straight woman with an imaginary Texan boyfriend?
Irina makes haste out of the back room, and some guard appears out of nowhere, with a gun pointed right at her. We hear a shot, but it's not from the guard. Instead, he's shot, falls to the ground, and we see that it was indeed her beloved ex-husband who just saved her ass. She looks at him in surprise, spins with her hair fanning out around her, and makes for the exit.
Plane of Impending Inappropriateness. Jack and Irina are seated opposite each other as Jack asks her how, once they get their hands on the manuscript, they'll let Sloane know that it was Irina who stole it? Irina, looking far more lovely than she did in her previous incarnation as a Bang and Cock hooker, what with her mellowed-out makeup and loose chignon, just says something about how, once word gets back to Sloane that she was in Bangkok, he'll know that it was her who nabbed the manuscript.
Irina gets quiet for a moment and looks out the window. "I did not see that fourth man," she says, showing the slightest emotion. "If you hadn't fired..." Jack says nothing, but there actually is a look of guarded tenderness on his face. How does Victor Garber DO that? Irina goes on to say something about the first time Jack introduced her to Sloane and how they were both working at the CIA at the time. "You were true friends," she finishes. "Yes," says Jack rather curtly. "We shared a similar unsentimental patriotism..." He pauses for a second, and his voice changes. "And a devotion to our wives." Irina nods slightly, acknowledging what Jack just said. I nod slightly, acknowledging that Victor Garber rocks my world. Jack then says something about how Sloane changed and that it was Rambaldi that did it. "Sloane has a personal connection to Rambaldi," says Jack. What? Like what? He's Rambaldi's descendant? He washed Rambaldi's car back in the old days? What? WHAT?
Irina blathers something about how she shared Sloane's obsession, to find a higher meaning in Rambaldi's work. No, really, Irina? That wouldn't have anything to do with that whole part later on in the show where you totally betray and humiliate the man who swore never to trust you again, now would it? Oh, but I'm getting ahead of myself here.
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