Episode Report Card Kim: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Taken
By Kim | Season 3 | Episode 16 | Aired on 03.20.2004
Lauren hides in a hallway somewhere and calls Sark. Aren't there surveillance cameras? The writers from this show need to talk to the writers of 24 and get their stories straight about how these things work. Lauren tells Sark that things are proceeding as they expected. Sark gets in an elevator and says it's one of the "advantages of having a predictable adversary." Lauren adds that it helps that they had someone on the inside. What kind of crazy cell phones do these people have that work in elevators and concrete hallways? Although it occurs to me that I've never tried to use mine in an elevator, so maybe it would work. I'm just basing my theory on the fact that mine doesn't work unless I am within ten miles of the New York State Thruway. Sark asks Lauren how she's doing on her task of "securing a scapegoat." Lauren smiles and says it's taken care of.
Cut to Scapegoat...I mean, "Sloane," in his office with Dr. Nancy, who is preparing to go home. Dr. Nancy whines that she doesn't want to go. Sloane tells her to stay. Dr. Nancy says that she's used up all her sick days and excuses, and she has to go back to work. She adds that she's usually very professional. Sloane says that he found their time together "very therapeutic." Ugh. This whole storyline is grossing me out. I hope it has a point soon. Dr. Nancy says that if the agency finds out about them, she'll be discredited. Before she can even finish the sentence, Sloane assures her that they won't find out, and no one will know. He adds, "I give you my word." I feel like that's going to be important later. Dr. Nancy responds, "I wish that were enough." Sloane realizes that he's not going to see her again. Dr. Nancy just smiles sadly and kisses him before walking out.
Marshall plays a recording of the flight's radio transmission for Dixon and Jack. On it, Sark tells the pilot to claim that they are having communication problems, which the pilot does. Marshall mouths the words along with the voices on the recording, adding a little Marshallevity to the scene. Then we hear gunshots, and a man pleading for his life, and then the recording ends. Marshall says that they assumed that Sark bailed out over New Mexico, but then he heard something else on the recording twenty minutes later. Marshall plays it, and we hear Sark make a phone call asking for an extraction team, wondering if they have the hostages, and concluding, "Not if I see you first, love." Marshall explains that this later broadcast means that Sark didn't exit the plane until they were over Arizona. Marshall adds that he used various techniques (do you care, really?) to figure out that Sark headed south and ended up in a warehouse in Nogales, and Marshall thinks that's where Dixon's children are being held.