Episode Report Card Erin: D+ | 1 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Whirligig of Death and Destruction
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 11 | Aired on 03.15.2005
At any rate, Jason's playing "Sam Houser" in this episode, and he's very cute, and he's Syd's target du jour. She approaches him, speaks horrible German, he reveals himself to be American, and they meet cute. Syd rightly guesses that Sam's from upstate New York, which…huh? How'd she do that unless she had previous intel? Syd pretends to be from Buffalo and carries on her cute-fish-out-of-water routine until she manages to nab Sam's access card. Sam gets called away and yeah, he's seriously sweet. Back with Marshall, he hands Syd a pack of smokes that is actually a mag strip encoder that will do something funky to the access card and give Syd full clearance to the building. Yeah. It's that scientific. It does something funky, okay? That's all you need to know.
Back with Syd in Salzburg, she does her thing with the encoder. Sam walks up and offers her a light, but Syd covers and pretends to be looking for lip stuff. Then Sam awkwardly asks her out. Aw. Syd shoots him down with a quick "I have a boyfriend," which, you know, she does, but, like, he's off looking for his non-dead father so, like, can't she just make out with Sam a little? Yeah. I might need a date. Sam is totally crushed and it's really sad and Syd escapes from his cocoon of desperation by asking where the bathroom is.
Of course, she's going nowhere near the bathroom; she's heading down to the secure area. She gets on the horn with Marshall and enters the area where the weapon stuff is. An alarm signal goes off in the security guard area, and a swarthy guy orders some dude to go see what's up, and then he orders the remaining dude to look up who gained access to the downstairs area. Syd makes it into the weapon room or whatever and finds some orange paper in a folder and it's been embedded, so she goes over to a copier and runs the thing with the lid open so she can read the embedded file. The targeting device has been moved and it's due to leave the country at six in the morning. Also? It's field ready. It's already weaponized.
Just then, the door to the room opens. Syd flies into action and gets the guard into a head lock with a knife to his throat. As she's trying to get info out of the guard, the Swarthy Dude from before finally hones in on the name "Sam Houser" as the person who accessed the lower level. Syd hears the order to detain Sam as she's still threatening the guard. She draws blood on the guard's neck and he finally gives up the name of the shipping yard as Delongpre. She kicks the shit out of him and gets the hell out of there as a group of guards go after Sam. Marshall looks up Sam's name and finds that he's just a guy, not a spy, not a bad guy, just a guy.