Episode Report Card Erin: A+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT "Almost thirty hours" is more like it
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.11.2002
Back with The Non-Caped Non-Crusaders. Vaughn interrupts the security camera feed somehow, allowing Sydney to access the outer doors to the lab uninterrupted. Unfortunately, as she's trucking down the hall in her shiny pants and silly hair, a couple of security guards come careening around the corner. There's quite a bit of serious ass-kicking that occurs here. And, I'm happy to note, much of it looks like it was actually performed by Jennifer Garner. Looks like those jujitsu lessons are paying off.
Syd makes it to Room 47 and, in a burst of ironic humor, the writers make it remarkably easy to get into the room. All you need to do is press a big red button. Seriously. That's it. Yeah, there's only ancient technology behind the door. No big deal or anything. Syd makes her way to the room with The Circumference and looks up in awe. It's big. It's red. It's round. It looks like a giant practice golf ball, actually. It's a tad bigger than the device Sydney stole back in Episode One. In fact, it's bigger than the damn Astrodome. Syd agrees with me. "Vaughn?" Syd says. "It's bigger than I thought."
Syd can talk all she wants; Vaughn can't hear her. That damn circumference! Interfering with Syd's frequency so she can't talk to her non-boyfriend! Vaughn's worried enough to come after her. Some guards bust in on Syd, and she runs around trying to evade them. As she passes one of the "legs" of The Circumference (I don't know, people -- I'm making this shit up as I go along), she places one of the mercury explosive devices on its surface. The guards make it to the device just as it explodes.
Syd runs away, a fireball at her back. The Big Red Ball In The Sky explodes, water gushing out of it. One of my favorite Chemical Brothers songs plays in the background. Unfortunately, I can't remember the damn name. I'd call up Wedge and force him to listen to it in order to determine just which song it was, but I neither have the time nor the inclination. Oh, and I don't like Wedge anymore. I just remembered that. Maybe I should ease off the TheraFlu for a bit. ["It's 'Music: Response' off the 'Surrender' album. You're welcome." -- Sars]
At the same time as Sydney's running away from the Big Red Ball, Vaughn's running toward Sydney. He stops at the end of the hall, seeing Sydney running pell-mell toward him. She's running like the wind, but the water's definitely nipping at her heels. Vaughn just stands there like the leather-clad doofus he is. Under normal circumstances, Vaughn would have, of course, taken off at the first sight of the tidal wave heading for him, but this is Alias, and it's all a big set-up so that Vaughn falls behind, doesn't make it out, and dies.