Episode Report Card Erin: C+ | 93 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Double Your Premiere, Double Your Fun
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 2 | Aired on 2005.01.05
Syd goes to enter the vent and Vaughn wishes her luck. Um, she's not heading to the frontline, wingnut. She's scooting down a vent and stealing a sword. And we totally know she's gonna nab it, dude. We know. So save your wishes for when Syd has to scale the Eiffel Tower and shoot an arrow into Sacre Coeur while hanging upside down AND playing the violin, okay? ["I bet that totally happens, too." -- Sars] As Syd heads down into the vent, we switch over to Marshall, who's spending his minutes with Dixon being a total toolbox. But an enjoyable one. He's yammering on about how cool this whole situation is; you know, stealing a sword in order to nab a bad guy in order to nab an even BIGGER bad guy. Yeah. That's cool. "Come on," he says. "Come on. You would never let us do this -- back in the CIA -- back when you were double-breasted…serious…robot Dixon." And he does that last part like he's the robot from Lost in Space all, "Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!" Hee. Marshall can be annoying at times (make that really, really, REALLY annoying), but I did miss him. He's stupid funny. Dixon, however, does NOT find him even remotely stupid funny, so Marshall meekly apologizes to him for the robot comment.
Back to the theft. Syd's still sneaking down the shaft. Hee. "Shaft." Sorry. I'm twelve. She makes it to the sword room, shoots a line across the room, hooks it, and starts shimmying her way over to the sword. Once there, she balances à la Mission: Impossible, sprays some stuff on the glass, presses a button on something and SHRRRRIIICK! The glass shatters but remains in place. She then rolls the glass up like a yoga mat and does something with some wires and some metal thingies as Vaughn watches her on his screen. Marshall comments that the biggest challenge of this heist is the marble pressure pad beneath the case -- there's no way to deactivate it. It doesn't really matter, because one of the guards is heading her way and the rest of the team thinks she should abort the mission. But Syd stubbornly continues, insisting that she's almost there. So, after some tense moments wherein we're supposed to assume that Syd's going to get caught in mid-steal, the guard enters the room and…of course, the sword is gone and so is Syd. If by "gone" you mean "hanging from the ceiling just waiting for the guard to follow the zip line along the ceiling to her crouched hiding place."