Episode Report Card Erin: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato, Four
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 5 | Aired on 11.02.2002
Not until we've checked in on The Subbasement Of Dreams and Desires, King Kukla, Fran, and Ollie. Syd's obviously filling her non-boyfriend in on Triad. Vaughn's all, Triad? Never heard of 'em. You've never mentioned them. Are you dating them or something? Syd's all, it's a loose coalition of organized crime entities, and they deal mainly in drugs and prostitution, but lately, they've been expanding their horizons by dealing in weapons. And no, I'm not dating them. Although they're pretty hot in black facemasks. Vaughn's all, okay, then, why'd they kill one of their own? Syd's all, 'cause he was selling intel to SD-6, okay?
Back in The Conference Room Of Endless Expositions, Sloane explains that Hader told their SD-6 source Triad was engaged in a plot to deploy and develop sixteen next-generation weapons. Dixon's all, any idea what "next-generation" refers to? Sloane's all, nuh-uh. Not so much. And we're none too pleased about our lack of knowledge either. According to Hader, testing of the weapons is advancing ahead of schedule, which means they may well soon be put into the field. Marshall looks concerned for some reason, even though he's not at all integral to the scene and has nothing to do here except flex his overdeveloped jaw muscles.
Syd wants to know where the weapons are. Spy Daddy speaks up. "Budapest. During the Cold War, the Russians built a massive bomb shelter underneath the magistrate's bureau. The Triad has been using that shelter to serve as a testing facility." Pause. Pause. PAUSE. Everyone seems to be waiting for Sloane to speak up. He doesn't. Spy Daddy looks over at First Lieutenant Lunacy, who's contemplating his series of remarkable hangnails. Finally, Colonel Catatonia wakes up and announces that Syd's mission is to gain access to the facility, identify the nature of the weapons, retrieve the specs and test data off the central server, then proceed to the R & D lab and photograph the weapons. Everyone in the group exchanges not-so-subtle glances, suggesting that they're all onto the fact that Sloane's definitely ingesting great amounts of crackup corn flakes.
We return to The Subbasement Of Dreams And Desires so that Vaughn can sum up the situation by stating that SD-6 wants to engineer these next-gen weapons for themselves. "Which we won't let happen," says Syd. "Okay," says Vaughn, getting up for some reason. "I'll confirm with your father about your counter-mission." Syd's all, whuh? Since when does my...Vaughn's all, he didn't tell you? Well, since his instincts were so ultra-sharp during the Madagascar shindig, Devlin gave him operational approval. That is just so, so wrong.
Syd's all, oh. Vaughn's all, "oh" is right, sweetheart, and I gots somethin' to say about Madagascar. He launches into a speech about how, when he and Syd were approaching the building, Operations was monitoring them via SAT radar scan. Okay, I had to pause a lot during this speech, because it's pretty technical and I wanted to get it right, but as a result, I wound up pausing on Vaughn's face a whole hell of a lot, and NOT when it looked good. Like, he's all half-lidded with his tongue sticking out half the time and it just cracked me up. I found myself pausing for no reason, actually. Hee. Vaughn with his tongue sticking out. Hee hee.
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