Episode Report Card Manimal: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Doppelganger
By Manimal | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.27.2001
Will's Newsroom Of No Return. He's on the phone -- big surprise. He fakes a cell phone call breaking up. Puh-leeze. That's as old as the "my email wasn't working" trick. Plus, everyone knows you have to crumple paper into the receiver to make it really sound good. Duh. Just then, his Cell Phone Of Contrivance rings. It's some informant telling him that Kate Jones was recently on a flight heading to Sao Paolo.
You've Been Badenweiller, But It Feels So Good! Sydney and Dixon break into the factory. Sydney's gone to a salon for a blow-out and some make-up application. Is there some rule that she can't fight evil unless she's first tamed frizzies and flyaways?
Sydney watches Dixon, worried, as he sets the explosives. Sydney goes for the inhaler. More funny, floppy running. Someone get the girl a track coach -- she looks like she's running laps at the local junior high.
Will. Kate Jones -- some tall blondie -- walks up to him.
Badenweiller. Sydney climbs, sneaks, and finally struts until she gets to the lab and steals the inhaler prototypes.
Will. He asks "Kate Jones" what her relationship with Daniel Hecht was. She pauses, then says, "Daniel and I were having an affair." Will gulps, but you can totally tell he's like, "Score!"
Sydney. More bad running. CIA ops. They swap the inhalers. The lead CIA op tells her that Vaughn's talked about her -- that he likes her. Sydney looks pleased. My God, it is junior high. What's next -- he's going to tell her to meet Vaughn behind the lockers after peewee football? Sydney's hair is really, really shiny in this scene. Spying: it's all about luster and bounce, folks.
Will. Kate Jones. Blah blah blah twisted ankle blee blee Danny was the doctor on call at University Hospital blibeedeeblah Danny asked me out.
Sydney. She disarms the explosive. Outside, Dixon peers at his watch and waits for her anxiously. The CIA ops start poking around in a CIA-ish manner -- arrogantly but sort of cluelessly -- while Sydney finishes up.
Will. Kate Jones. Yap yap wanted to go to Hong Kong together yip yip yap but then he broke it off yappity yap and that's how it ended. Will then busts out his bad move: that he had someone trace her credit card and then her Social Security number, and "Kate Jones? You died in 1973." Kate's face collapses and she says, "I have to go." Will shouts, "Who the hell are you?" Why the heck doesn't he run after her? What kind of reporter is he?