Episode Report Card Erin: B- | 1 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT One down, one to go
By Erin | Season 5 | Episode 16 | Aired on 05.21.2006
Mount Subasio. Syd and Vaughn hike up a "mountain" as "snow" "falls." They reach a summit and find a crevasse. Syd wants to go in, but Vaughn isn't sure about it. She is. He hooks her up and puts a tracker on her. They "kiss" and it's not "awkward" at all and finally Syd heads down into the crevasse. Once inside, she makes her way through the K-Mart version of Superman's Fortress of Solitude while all the kids in line for the Matterhorn wonder if that second Mickey pop was possibly a good idea. The set is bad, is what I'm saying. There's been talk on the boards that the team ran out of money by the time they got to this set, so that's why it looked so cheap. And to that I say, poo on you, ABC. You dropped the ball with this show so many times, but now, in its eleventh hour, you can't be arsed to throw a little extra coin at a damn snow set? Fuck you, ABC. And fuck the possibly imaginary polar bear you rode in on.
Syd treks through the "ice cavern" and comes across Sloane, standing over by some "icicles" with the amulet raised above his head. "Sydney, you came," he says calmly. "Oh, and how do you like the place? I made it myself out of Styrofoam peanuts and rubber cement. I'm so crafty!" Sydney raises her gun and Sloane warns her that one shot could trigger a cave-in. Syd says he's coming with her, and Sloane asks if she remembers going to live with Emily and him. "I try not to dwell on it," she snits. Sloane blabbles a bunch of crap at her about how she was withdrawn and they tried to reach out to her but it was impossible, so they gave her a bunch of stuffed animals. We get a shot of Carrie and Marshall hugging back at APO as Sloane continues to blather about Sydney's sad childhood. And every morning, when Sloane went to wake her up, there they'd be, beneath her blanket. She had tried to "rescue" them from a storm. And even then, Sloane wondered when she'd realize that she can't rescue everyone.
We then see Sark hitting a timer on a device. We don't know what it is yet, but we can assume it's nothing good. We switch to Jack, telling the team that he's received word from Zurich and that his team is in place. Getty enters and says he found a schematic of the L.A. subway system at Sloane's safe house. It would appear that Sloane is targeting APO. Jack tells them to clear the building and tells Getty and Dix to head down to the subway system with a search team in order to locate anything out of the ordinary. He also wants Rachel and Marshall to evacuate all civilians from the subway system by calling in a bomb threat.