Episode Report Card Erin: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sloane's Dead! Long Live Sloane!
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.17.2004
He heads out onto the back porch for some sweet tea with the ladies. There's some chitchat that doesn't really matter here. Basically, it's small talk, and it involves Vaughn asking Mama Reed how she's doing, and she just acts the part of the damaged mole-wife and Vaughn has to chew on the inside of his cheek to keep from pitching his glass of sweet tea directly at her head. Vaughn's phone rings, and he picks up. Syd tells him that the safe is in the study. Vaughn tells the ladies that it's Weiss and he needs help on a brief. He gets up to go upstairs and briefly takes his wife's hand. "You're cold," he says. Hee. "While I'm inside, I'll get you a sweater." Yeah. I don't think that's gonna help, Vaughn. While you're at it, you might want to pick up a blowtorch and some firewood, because that bitch is chilly.
Inside the house, Vaughn switches back to comms. He makes his way to the study and locates the safe behind a picture on the wall. He hooks something up to the safe and immediately unlocks it. Inside, he finds the manuscript. He pulls it out and heads over to the desk and unrolls it. He scans the document, sending it to Marshall. Never mind that Vaughn's scanning it top to bottom and Marshall's receiving it left to right. Just never you mind that. This is probably a good time to refill your glass with your alcohol of choice. Just a friendly reminder. Out on the back patio, Moronen asks her mother if the documents have been deciphered yet. Mama Reed's all, uh, yeah, GENIUS, because you just fucking GOT here and we were supposed to be doing it TOGETHER, but since your nosy HUSBAND'S here too, WE CAN'T GET TO IT. "You do your work," says Moronen. "I can handle him." "I wonder," snots Mama Reed. Just then, Moronen realizes that Vaughn's been gone awhile, and heads in to find him.
Vaughn continues scanning the documents. Moronen switches a light on in a room, and Marshall picks it up on his screen. Syd informs Vaughn that someone else is in the house. He continues scanning, until he hears a floorboard creak outside. Moronen continues coming toward him. She heads toward the study doors and walks right inside. Vaughn turns. Moronen asks him what he's doing in there. He turns around and produces their wedding album. Yeah. Again. Never mind that there's no way in hell Vaughn could have rolled up the documents, tied them securely, and put them back in the safe in that small amount of time. Drink more. Think less.
Moronen shuts the study doors, and they look at their pictures together. Vaughn puts the album down to go get Moronen's sweater as she sneaks a glance at the safe wall. Before he can leave, she tells him that their wedding day was the happiest day of her life. "Me too," he lies. "I want to be that happy again," she says as Syd listens in over the comm. "What can I do to make that happen?" Moronen asks as she puts her lips all over Vaughn's. Ew! EWWWW! "That's a start," says Vaughn. Syd's still listening as we hear the inexorable sounds of heavy breathing and kissing. Oh, gross. I don't like to hear that on a good day, but hearing it from THEM? How fucking nasty is that? Marshall looks really uncomfortable at what he's hearing. Heh. Comm porn. Syd looks nauseous. Back in the study, Moronen removes Vaughn's jacket and kisses the side of his face, and we get to see his expression. He basically looks like he's going to throw up and his skin is crawling and he hopes to God Syd's turned off the comm by now. Luckily, she just has. Still doesn't erase the constant loop going on her head of the sound of Moronen and Vaughn making out. Gack.