Episode Report Card Erin: B- | 1 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Pssst. Lauren's evil. Pass it on.
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.10.2004
Moronen bitches at him about her precarious situation at the CIA and how this isn't the time to change protocol. She walks off toward the garage anyway. Vaughn picks up his phone and calls Weiss. "I need you to run a tap on Lauren's cell phone," Vaughn says. Oh, goody! Moronen takes the escalator down to the garage as Sark tells her that Bomani instructed him to meet with her face-to-face. As Sark and Moronen continue gabbing about Bomani, Weiss is back in the office, running the trace. He discovers that the call is encrypted and surmises that Moronen must be talking to the NSC. Vaughn tells him to run it through a filter. Or something. Weiss goes to work.
Moronen gets off the escalator as Sark tells her he'll be in the northwest corner of the garage. "You came all this way?" she asks, obviously suspicious. "Almost there," says Weiss. "We need to talk," says Sark. Moronen appears at the illuminated end of the garage. Sark is in darkness. "There are other ways to communicate," says Moronen. "Yes, but he insisted we meet face-to-face," says Sark, moving toward her. Suddenly, Psychic Moronen senses all is rather stinky in the state of Denmark. "What else did Bomani tell you?" says Moronen, as Sark appears, walking toward her. "Did he instruct you on the quietest way to murder me?" "Absolutely not," he says, fingering the silencer in his pocket. Yeah. I wish. "You pathetic little errand boy," she spits. Okay, well, if he wasn't going to murder you before, Moronen, then he's certainly going to murder you NOW. There's a reason you're called Moronen, you know.
Weiss is still working on the filter thing. "Tell Bomani he'll get proof of my worth the next time he sees me," Moronen shrills, "when I deliver The Passenger." "Okay, I got it," says Weiss. Vaughn's still watching from his post above the escalator, but now he's tapped into Moronen's phone call. He sort of hears the rest, through a lot of fuzz and feedback. "After all that we've been through, how could you do this?" she shrills some more. "I thought I could rely on you, especially now. I'll never forgive you for this." After all that you've been through? After what? A couple of murder sprees and a roll in the hay do NOT a relationship make, my dear. Trust me. I speak from experience. "Okay…" says Weiss. "What the hell was that?" "I have no idea," says Vaughn, hanging up.
Café Stella. Moronen's waiting patiently for her husband. When he shows up, she smiles delightedly at him. He takes a seat and asks how her errands went. She tells him they were fine. Except for that part where she thought Sark was going to kill her. Vaughn's all, yeah? So what'd you do? She's all, oh, just…things. "Okay…" he says, not willing to let it go. "Like…what kind of things?" Psychic Moronen strikes again. "Truth is, I got a call from my mother," she says. She goes on to say Mama Reed was bombarding her with questions, blaming her for not seeing through her father sooner. See? That's how she can explain away the last part of the call. So, if someone was listening…you know, just for that last part? Well, this excuse might explain it away. Okay. Right. So, Lauren's an idiot. That much we've established. But she's also…a savant? She's an IDIOT SAVANT? Maybe she can count toothpicks and cards too! Maybe she can help me win in Vegas the next time I'm there because, dudes? Regina needs a new pair of Prada.