Episode Report Card Erin: C- | 1 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Can I get mustard with that?
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.01.2004
The next thing we see is Katya, Syd, and Vaughn running to jump into a jeep. Vaughn drives them away from the bunker. They reach a guard post outside, and Katya says she'll handle it. A guard walks up and asks for identification, and Katya starts some small talk with him. Meanwhile, the fallen guards back in the bunker are discovered. Katya keeps up with the small talk, including some innuendo about how she slept with a boy at some party who looked just like the guard she's currently talking to. Sydney watches the entire transaction with what looks like barely hidden awe. That's right, Syd. The apple really doesn't fall far from the tree. And if you're a descendant of either the Bristow or Derevko clan, the apple barely gets off the damn branch. What, is EVERYONE in their families spies? I wonder what their family reunions are like? They're probably held in underground lairs and everyone has to check their weapons at the door and the barbeque consists of imported Alaskan salmon and a stolen ton of Kobe beef.
The guard who discovered the bodies gets on the horn to the security gate. Katya hears the phone ringing and tells Vaughn to hit it. He does, and they screech out as the guards open fire. Of course, they get away. Back at Sloane's Secret Hideaway of Hideous Hijinks, Sloane's feeding Nadia a sedative through her IV. You know, so she can rest. Between scrawling sessions. How thoughtful of him. He blah blahs something about how her breaking all the remaining Green Goo™ vials yesterday made him proud. Yeah. He was proud of her courage. She's all, yeah, thanks for that, Dad. Because there's nothing more valuable to me in this life than your misguided PRIDE. Just shut up and stick me with some more of that electric Gatorade, okay? Then at least I won't have to listen to your sick shit anymore.
Actually, she just tells a story of how, when she was in the orphanage, every Sunday, all the other little orphans used to get all dressed up and clean so that, when the prospective parents arrived to look them over, they'd be sure to get picked. But Nadia didn't. No, she made sure she was as filthy as possible because she knew, in her heart of hearts, that her real daddy was going to come for her. Sloane smiles at this, thinking, of course, that he eventually came for her and now they're together! What a dick. "If I had known it was you I was waiting for," she says, "I would have cleaned up." Heh. And it's a credit to both Mia Maestro and Ron Rifkin that this scene comes off with as much feeling and heartache as it does.