Episode Report Card Erin: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Swing Out, Sister
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 20 | Aired on 04.24.2004
When we return, Syd is engaged in a bit of what we like to call "Saying WAY Too Much Than Is Absolutely Necessary." She tells the comatose Talia that they're sisters and that she's sorry it took her so long to find her. "But I'm here now," she says, "and I'm going to get you out of here." Syd starts to release her sister from the bed. "By the way, I almost forgot. My name is Sydney." Aw. And SHE'S EVIL, SYD! MOVE AWAY!
Marshall's Garage of Geekiness. Marshall's showing Dix some surveillance footage from Garland Industrial Plant. In it, we see the truck slamming into some cars. Then we see Vaughn stumbling away and the truck blowing up. Aaaand then we see Sark and Moronen shoving Vaughn into a car. Dix orders Marshall to pull surveillance feeds from everything within a five-block radius, because he wants to know where they went after leaving the scene. Then we check in with Vaughn, shirtless again (yay!). Moronen's placing some sensors on his temples. Sark comes up behind her and places a hand on her back. She moves off to do something to a computer screen. Vaughn's laid out flat on a cot again. Sark exposits that Vaughn's about to undergo a procedure that the CIA was more than happy to use on Sark at one time. Oh, get on with it already. "This time, my friend," says Sark, "it's for real." Sark places a mask on Vaughn's face and he goes under, as some blue liquid from an IV drip moves down into the IV itself. Or something. I don't know. Moronen sticks a needle directly into Vaughn's spine (ew!) and then ups the dosage or something on the IV. Drip. Drip. Glug. Glug.
"You met with a man," says Sark. "Who was he?" "Brill," says Vaughn. "He knew my father." "And did Brill tell you where The Passenger is?" "He told me…" "Where is she?" Vaughn's eyes close. "No," he whispers. "I'll ask you again. Where is The Passenger?" Vaughn doesn't respond. "Increase the dosage," Sark tells Moronen. She does so without batting an eye. Sark's phone rings, and he picks up. Apparently, whoever is on the other end of the line has just informed Sark of The Passenger's location. Sark gets off the phone and tells Moronen that they're all done here. "What about him?" asks Moronen. "Kill him," says Sark casually. Moronen just as casually ups the dosage on the IV, and Vaughn starts shaking.
Chechnya. Syd rather cavalierly wheels Talia out of the hospital room. A couple of guards see this and naturally chase after her. Syd, who's now dressed as a nurse or something, says that Talia needs a doctor. One of the guards tries to get Syd to take Talia back to her cell. Syd responds by kicking him in the face. And there's fighting and fighting and more fighting until, finally, Syd's kind of trapped. And that's when Talia's eyes move. Syd keeps fighting. Suddenly, Talia's fighting alongside her. They perform some tandem ass-kicking and the guards go down. "Who ARE you?" asks Syd. "Later!" says Talia. They run off, only to be met by even more guards. More ass-kicking ensues. Lots of improvised street tactics and general sisterly bad-assedness. Talia gets slammed into a fire extinguisher and is hurt. She still manages to get out of the situation by spraying her attacker with steam heat. More fighting. More kicking. More hitting. One of the guards hits Talia in the back of the head with the fire extinguisher. She goes down. Syd takes him out with an acrobatic kick. She picks up her sister and they try to make it to the tunnel.