Episode Report Card Erin: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Truly, Madly, Deeply
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 18 | Aired on 03.15.2003
But he doesn't. Instead, after we get a quick glimpse of Syd ordering her boys to get moving, we watch as Sloane tells his wife that her betrayal doesn't matter. "All I need to know right now is if you want to come with me." Em's all, what? Now? Can I have a salad or something first? All this wire-wearing has made me hungry. Sloane's all, no, we don't have time for that. It's now or never. Are you with me? I'm SO not doing justice to this scene. Both Rifkin and Irving are rocking my world right now.
Syd orders the boys to move in. Em chooses to go with her husband. They kiss as Vaughn blows up a door at the other end of the house. The CIA moves in and starts shooting the shit out of everything. Arvy grabs Em, and they run to the kitchen and meet up with Irina. Sloane hits a button, revealing a secret passage. There's a pause as they all assess the situation. Then Irina yells at them to go, Sloane and Em run, and Irina pulls out her gun and tells Sark that she has the disk and is ready for extraction. Nice planning, Spy Mommy.
Irina then follows Sloane and Em into the secret passage. Syd comes around the corner and finds the passage. She gets on the horn and tells Vaughn about the passage. Then we're all caught up to the beginning and Syd and Irina are shooting at each other. Chase and shoot. Shoot and chase. We make it to the exit and Syd shoots her mom, eliciting a series of totally animalistic groans from Irina as she hauls herself out of the exit. Syd can't quite bring herself to actually kill her mother, however, and Irina manages to get the hell out of there as Syd picks up the genetic database that her mother conveniently dropped.
Outside, Irina rolls over, grimacing, and makes it to her feet. She runs off. Sark swoops down in a helicopter, looking devilishly handsome in his jeans with optional machine gun. Sloane and Emily, meanwhile, are making a break for it ACROSS AN OPEN FIELD. About eight years later, Syd makes it out of the secret passage, and Sark starts shooting at her. She ducks down. Sloane and Emily keep running IN PLAIN SIGHT. Someone's taking aim at them. It's Dix. He has Sloane in his sights, but just as he's about to pull the trigger, Sark's 'copter cropdusts him and Dix shoots Em instead. Yeah, because snipers are so easily distracted that they have itchy trigger fingers. Whatever.
Em goes down like a sack of boiled broccoli and Sloane cries over her fallen body. And there's blood, people. So, like, if Em's not dead, she's doing a damn fine impression of it. Oh, and I'm sure Amy Irving has plenty of work to keep her busy that has nothing to do with this show, so, like, I seriously doubt she'll be back. Irina approaches and hauls Sloane to his feet, dragging him to the 'copter. Sark continues to shoot at Syd, trying to keep her away.