Episode Report Card Erin: B- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Tuck Everlasting
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.05.2002
Spy Daddy informs Syd that her mother's at a joint task force facility. Syd could really give a shit. "How are you?" he asks sincerely. "The wound's healing, if that's what you meant," she snaps. "Actually, it wasn't," he responds. This is actually a really nice moment between them. Syd just tells him that she's fine and thanks for asking.
Londontown. Uncle Arvin's hanging out with the Alliance Boys (not to be confused with the Backstreet Boys, or any other "boy band," for that matter). That icky blond guy with the universal accent is back again, this time welcoming Uncle Arvin into the group as an official member of the Alliance. He starts lying immediately when he announces that Uncle Arvin is a man of integrity and courage. Yeah. Because pulling the plug on your wife in order to get ahead at the office is a major component of courageousness.
As Icky Blond Guy continues blathering on about how valuable Sloane's evil doings have become, some dude who resembles F. Murray Abraham walks up to Uncle Arvin and sets down a silver plate that's loaded with a vial of lidocaine, a dish with some kind of capsule in it, and some twisted version of an ear piercing gun. Sloane just sort of looks down at it and then straight ahead, setting his jaw, managing to show us that, while he knew this was coming, he still ain't all that pleased about it. Ah, Ron Rifkin. How I missed your subtle acting ways during the summer hiatus. Blah blah blah, Sloane's just the kind of eeeevil we've been looking to add to our inner circle. Bling blam blooey, real sorry to hear about Auntie Em's death, dude. Flim flam flummox, gee, thanks Icky Blond Guy, that means a hell of a lot coming from you, since it was YOU who basically forced me to do it, you king-sized prick. One of the other Alliance guys pipes up and asks if Sloane was made aware of the initiation procedure and the reasons for it. Sloane's up to speed on the whole cyanide-capsule-hot-fuel-injection procedure, yeah. F. Murray wastes no time in shooting the capsule directly into Sloane's neck. Ew. Oh, and EW.
Welcome to the Alliance, dude. Here's your toaster.
Subbasement Of Dreams And Desires. Syd's telling her non-boyfriend about Sloane's initiation. She's convinced that Sloane killed Auntie Em in order to facilitate his rise to the top. "Killing his wife wouldn't surprise me," says Vaughn. "Eating his wife wouldn't surprise me." Hee! Syd surmises that, since the Alliance thinks Spy Mommy's in hiding and they know Khasinau's dead, they're gonna want any assets they can get their hands on in regards to Spy Mommy's vulnerable operation. Vaughn's all, so, like what do you suggest? Oh, and your hair looks really, really nice today. Sydney's all, yeah, right, thanks. Oh, and my mother used blackmail extensively in her operation. She'd get dirt on people and force them to give her what she wanted. Pornographic photos (yay!), illegally obtained audio files, names, dates -- they're all on one disk. That seems awfully stupid, now doesn't it? Everything she EVER used all on ONE little disk? Wait. Did I just question the reality of Alias? I must not be drunk enough yet. Wait. I'm not drunk at ALL! Julio! JULIO! Ah, vodka…just leave the bottle…