Episode Report Card Erin: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Ding-Dong, The Moronen's Dead!
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.22.2004
"We're both pawns in the same game," says Moronen, doing that familiar I Am The Villain So Right Before I Kill You, I Must Tell You Everything dance. "The difference between us is I know who controls me." Syd spies something across the way -- a gun, I'm assuming. Moronen sees this. "Who controls me?" asks Syd. "I guess you'll never know," says Moronen, knocking Syd with the shovel and running for the gun. She makes it back and is about to shoot Syd in the head when we hear Vaughn shout, "Stop!" Moronen quickly grabs Syd and hauls her up, putting the gun to her head. Vaughn orders Moronen to let Syd go. Moronen orders Vaughn to put the gun down. He won't. "If you love her, you'll put the gun down!" Vaughn immediately puts the gun down. He doesn't drop it, mind you; he just lowers it. "You really are a boy scout," Moronen quips. Vaughn raises his gun and shoots her. She starts to fall, and Vaughn shoots her again, just for good measure.
And millions of Alias fans get up from their sofas and begin a chorus of "Hallelujah!" Complete with angels singing.
Moronen drops, and Syd runs into Vaughn's arms. They embrace strongly, ignoring that whole punctured lung thing that Vaughn has going on. Syd pulls back. "What're you doing? How did you get here?" "Via a tesseract," says Vaughn. "It was easy. And I met these great kids along the way. They were looking for their dad." Okay, no, so he just says, "I came for you." And yeah, it's really sweet. Or it would be really sweet if Moronen weren't getting up off the damn ground. Syd and Vaughn move in for a kiss. FINALLY. Moronen starts to stand, Syd pulls back and looks at her hot savior boyfriend, and just then, Vaughn sees Moronen and shoots her. And shoots her. And shoots her. And shoots her. "1…0…6…2…" Moronen manages to gasp out before Vaughn delivers the final bullet. Moronen drops down into the pit and out of sight. And no, no "thud" is heard. She's SO coming back next year. But I'm going with the notion that she's really dead and that her coming back next year will be in flashbacks only. And yes, I am praying for the first time in fifteen years. And lighting candles. And saying novenas. Are you there god? It's me, Regina.
Vaughn asks Syd what that whole number thing was about. Syd just says she doesn't know, and leans in for a distraction kiss. Vaughn is easily distracted. Oh, and the kiss is really good. Or maybe I'm just that desperate.