Episode Report Card Shack: C+ | 173 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Déjà Vu To A Kill
By Shack | Season 1 | Episode 17 | Aired on 2002.03.17
Kendall asks how often SD-6 sends Sydney on missions, triggering a musical montage to some awful song by Smash Mouth, a band that I utterly despise, so we're going to speed through this part. Previously on Alias: Sydney ran down hallways. Sydney slid down elevator shafts. Sydney punched and kicked people. Sydney drove an ambulance away from an exploding car. Sydney punched and kicked people. Sydney wore ridiculous outfits and wigs that caused her to stand out in a crowd, not blend in. Sydney punched and kicked people. Sydney rappelled through walls. Sydney parachuted. Sydney spent a quiet evening watching old '40s musicals on AMC. No wait, my mistake -- Sydney punched and kicked people. Back with Kendall, Sydney simply responds, "I keep busy."
Kendall asks Sydney what SD-6's goals are. She tells him that they're all about the Rambaldi these days. Kendall asks for details about Rambaldi. Sydney explains that Milo Rambaldi was Pope Alexander VI's chief architect, an artist, and an inventor. He was so forward-thinking in his ideas that he was executed as a heretic. We're treated to a five-hundred-year-old flashback of Rambaldi at work, just to add some variety to the clips. Now people are recognizing his genius, so the entire intelligence community -- CIA, SD-6, GRU, K-Directorate, among others -- are on a scavenger hunt to recover his works. Sydney explains that people believe Rambaldi had a master plan. Previously on Alias: Sydney and Dixon uncovered a secret vault in Argentina, where she found Rambaldi's book. In the book, Rambaldi describes some sort of construction. Nobody has figured out what it is, but Sydney says all the agencies are worried that the other agencies are going to figure it out first.
Kendall says he only has one more question. Thank god. The flashbacks are making me dizzy. He asks Sydney whether or not she believes that Rambaldi was a prophet. Sydney doesn't answer, but tosses the question right back at him. Then she looks worried and asks, "You're not going to let me go, are you?" Kendall just responds that they're done for the day. Jennifer Garner does a good job expressing fear. She's not so good with grief or anger. But she's good at fear.