Episode Report Card Kim: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Abduction
By Kim | Season 2 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.14.2002
Irina paces around on a fenced-in rooftop, surrounded by armed guards. Syd walks through the gate, escorted by yet another guard. She walks up to her mother, who smiles. Irina explains that she's allowed to be there for fifteen minutes, twice a week, and guesses that Syd put in the request. Syd admits it, and says that they appreciated her help in Kashmir. Irina says emotionally that she needs Syd to understand that she was eighteen when the KGB recruited her. The sad music starts up, and Irina continues, "For a woman to be asked to serve her country, it was a future. It meant empowerment, independence. I was a fool to think that any ideology could come before my daughter." Syd looks down as tears spring to her eyes. She starts to walk away, but Irina calls her name. Syd turns back, and they embrace. Immediately, the guards start yelling at them to stand down and put their hands up. They comply. Both are still crying. All I can think is that Irina's feet must be really cold, because Syd is wearing a winter coat, and Irina has on flood pants and those Chinese slippers. I hope she doesn't get frostbite or something!
Sloane's goons slam Sark into a chair in the torture room. Sark yells out that they have an arrangement, and Sloane responds that Sark failed to hold up his end of it, because the operation in Kashmir was a waste of SD-6 resources. A goon forces Sark's mouth open and inserts a glass ball. Sloane asks Sark, "Have you betrayed me, or are you simply incompetent?" Sloane explains that this particular interrogation technique was developed by the Khmer Rouge to minimize bruising so that photographs could be taken of prisoners. Because I know that when I am about to experience extreme physical and mental anguish, I want to know all about the history of the process, so that while I am whining and squealing, I can really appreciate all of the research that went into the whole thing. The goons buckle a leather strap around Sark's jaw, and Sloane explains that if he pulls on the strap, the glass will break. Ouch. Still not as bad as the dude who pulls out your teeth, though. But it does seem that most of these torture techniques revolve around the mouth. Sloane puts pressure on the leather strap and asks Sark if they were unlucky, or if Sark has another plan. Sloane releases tension, and a goon holds up a pan so that Sark can spit out the ball. Sark says that he didn't betray Sloane, and it's still his intent to combine efforts. Sloane asks what went wrong in Kashmir. Sark says that the Indians carried out an air strike and destroyed the Rambaldi artifact. Sark's contact, Gerard Cuvee, believes that Sark tipped off the Indians. Sark asks, with all due respect, if the leak could have come from SD-6. Sloane just looks at Sark real hard, his face betraying nothing.
Subbasement Of Dreams And Desires. Vaughn asks if Sloane has any idea that Syd sabotaged the operation in Kashmir. Syd says that if he did, she wouldn't be there. Vaughn guesses that since Sark failed to deliver, his partnership with Sloane may not last long. Syd says it isn't over yet, because Sloane is sending her to Paris with Sark tonight. Vaughn looks shocked, and asks why.