Episode Report Card Erin: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sydney The Destructor
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 16 | Aired on 03.09.2002
Unfortunately, Agent Amorous is a tad busy at the moment, due to the fact that Lindsay and a bunch of her trolls are rifling through his office files. Lindsay's from the Department of Special Research, a division of the National Security Agency, and the NSA has given her the authority to scramble through Vaughn's shit. Vaughn visits Devlin and wants to know why the NSA is investigating Sydney. Blah blah blah, there's nothing Devlin can do about it, bling blam blooey, Vaughn's pissed because he's Sydney's handler and should know everything that's going on in relation to her. Oh, that, and he LOVES her. Devlin tells Vaughn to shut the door cuz he's obviously gonna tell him something that Vaughn really shouldn't know.
Warehouse Of Doomed Love Affairs. Syd enters and says something about the surveillance photos. Vaughn's all, forget the damn photos. "You're being investigated by the DSR," says Vaughn. "DSR?" questions Syd, although, as a member of the damn CIA, she should probably, I don't know, KNOW WHO THE DSR IS. Vaughn blah-blahs about the DSR and how they've been empowered to investigate "fringe" shit. Like UFOs or something. Syd wants to know what they want with her. "They want to know why your picture's in the Rambaldi book," says Vaughn. Syd's all, not THAT again. Vaughn tells her that she's going to be called in for questioning and he just wanted to give her a heads-up. What. Ever.
Syd's all, it's just a damn picture. What's the big deal? Well, Sydney, the big deal is that the DSR decoded some of the text on the page. And? Well, Sydney, there is no "and" because Vaughn wasn't informed of just what the decoded text says. He was, however, informed that the text mentions future dates that indicate that this woman is still alive. The DSR is now referring to this page as "The Prophecy." Dun dun DUN! Except, you know, NOT.
Next thing we know, Syd's being interrogated by Lindsay and her partner-in-crime, a man we'll call "Cigarette Smoking Man Deux." I'm serious. The guy's all creepy and holding a cigarette. What, did J.J. call up Chris Carter and ask him if it was okay if he not only appropriated several X-Files storylines, but also some of its more interesting characters? If this shit keeps up, I'm gonna have to start referring to Vaughn as "Mulder" and Sydney as "Scully." Don't think I won't do it, either.
Anyway, CSM Deux starts the interrogation by bringing up something on the laptop in front of Sydney. He asks her to place the next picture in the series or something. Seriously, I don't know what in the hell this entire sequence is all about. It plays like an elaborate IQ test or something, and it's too whack and involved to even describe. Suffice it to say that Syd just answers the questions and CSM Deux smokes and Lindsay looks all smug and some other guy just takes notes. Next.