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 Dynamic Duo warily moves around the room, finding no one else present. There's a smashed bottle of Green Goo™ on the floor. Vaughn rightly surmises that there aren't any full bottles left and that there's no way to tag one and find Sloane. Syd just says there's a secondary protocol, and that's to retrieve all available data. Vaughn starts the uplink, and Syd starts to retrieve a sample of the Green Goo™. Vaughn tells Marshall he's starting the uplink. Marshall for some reason can't receive it. There's a signal he can't account for. I have no idea what's going on. Vaughn just asks if Marshall can download the data, and he says that he can and that Vaughn should just start sending it now. Syd comes over and looks over Vaughn's shoulder. There are video files on the screen, over one hundred and eighty hours of them, and Syd wants to see one.
When Vaughn opens one, we see what I'm assuming is Nadia, as a little girl, strapped into a chair similar to the one that Sloane has her strapped into now. The little Nadia is writing something onto a piece of paper. Okay. Can we just -- how'd anyone know that Nadia was The Passenger back then? Had someone already put The Telling together? Because I thought Sloane was the first one. I…what? What's happening? Jesus. I need several kegs of vintage grain alcohol to get through this fucknut of an episode. "It's my sister," says Syd, looking up and through some windows into another room. She sees the same chair that little Nadia is seated in in the video. Syd goes to take a closer look. Marshall suddenly goes, "No! Nononononono! There's a silent alarm! They know you're there!" And sure enough, a bunch of Russian guards enter the room right at that moment. Syd and Vaughn are trapped. And that's when Aunt Katya enters the room in full Russian uniform. And kids? Her hair? Is alarming. It's like the Lea DeLaria special, people.
And now is the next-to-last time on Alias when we dance.
After the break, Auntie Katya walks right up to Sydney and says, "Sydney Bristow. We meet at last." Before Syd can say anything, Katya turns around and orders a couple of guards to go outside and guard the perimeter. Then she tells some other guards to take Syd and Vaughn's weapons. Katya picks up one of the guns and sees that it's a standard-issue CIA tranq gun. "A tranq gun? How considerate." She laughingly turns to her remaining guards and says, in Russian, "I had no idea the CIA was so polite." And then she drops both of them with a couple of tranq darts. Heh. Katya tells Syd and Vaughn to take the dropped guards' uniforms and IDs. "Who are you?" Syd asks. "Your mother's sister," responds Katya. "Katya," is Syd's rather redundant reply.