Episode Report Card Erin: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Two Spy Daddies Are Better Than One
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 10 | Aired on 03.08.2005
"Why steal something you can't read?" asks Nadia. Funny you should ask, says Sloane. The decoder disk has been located. It's now in the possession of the French authorities. Jack surmises that their only logical next step is to go after the decoder because, without it, the Index is useless. Sloane says they'd like to be able to obtain it through legal channels, but, if they did, then this show would only be about ten minutes long and Syd wouldn't get to wear a short skirt and multi-colored pencils in her hair. So, they have to steal the disk from the French police. Sloane orders Syd to figure out a way to get herself arrested. There's this funny pause where everyone kind of looks around the table like, that shouldn't be a problem, right? Hee.
Minutes later, Dix is at his desk doing something on his computer. He's checking Sloane's phone records and he finds that at 4:12 PM the day before, Sloane made a call to a hotel in Sarajevo. Innnnteresting. Over by the Secret Elevators of Apple Store Access, Vaughn's heading out the door and Syd's chasing after him. Syd asks if there's any word on his uncle. Vaughn says that his mom called this morning and told him that his uncle's last stroke hit pretty hard and he still hasn't regained consciousness. Syd voices her concern and asks if he's gonna be okay, and Vaughn stoically says he's fine, it's just that when his dad died, his uncle swore he'd always be there for him and his mother, but he just…wasn't. He never stuck around. Nice. Nutshell? Vaughn's not that into seeing his uncle right about now. Syd wishes she could go with him and they share a nice, sweet kiss before Vaughn enters the elevator. The doors close and Dix comes up, telling Syd they need to talk.
Down in the Annex to the Subbasement of Dreams and Desires, Dix tells Syd that he's been watching Sloane as Director Angela Bassett told him he should. Syd, deadly serious, says, "What has he done now?" in this tone that just reeks of, "Oh, for god's sake, WHAT NOW?" Dix is all, you know how, just now, Sloane said he didn't have any leads on who stole the Index? Syd's all, yeah? Dix is all, recognize the skeletal dude in this picture? Syd's all, hey, yeah! That's Michael Des Barres, former B-level rock star and husband of Groupie Extraordinaire Pamela Des Barres! Okay, so she just says that it's Michael Devereaux, a former Alliance dude who was once with SD-3, but she's totally thinking the other thing. Trust me. Dix is all, uh, yeah, whatever, Sloane contacted Devereaux forty minutes after the Blackwell Index was stolen and this was before Langley had even discovered the theft. Syd's all, how'd you know that? Dix is all, uh, don't tell anyone but, uh, I'm kinda illegally tapping Sloane's phone. Syd's all, DUDE. Dix is all, WHAT? We're supposed to watch him!
He goes on to say that the call was encrypted, but that he managed to trace it to a hotel in Sarajevo. He hacked into the hotel's CCTV feed and found this shot of Devereaux. Syd's all, oh man. You think Sloane's working with Devereaux, don't you? Dix is all, totally. I think he tasked us with stealing the decoder so that he and Devereaux can use it on the Index and take over the world! "He's using us…again," spits Dix. "And that's not something I'm gonna let him do." Oooh! Dix is MAD. I like Mad Dixon. He's spicy!