Episode Report Card Manimal: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Mea Culpa
By Manimal | Season 1 | Episode 9 | Aired on 12.08.2001
Newsroom Of Morons. Will's desk. It's the computer-altered voice of the bogeyman. It tells him to go to the corner of Seventh and Spring.
SD-6. Sloane tells Sydney that Hassan's bank account info wasn't actually in the hard drive, and that they're in a safety deposit box in a bank in Switzerland, and that she leaves tonight. He pauses by Sydney, places a hand on her shoulder, and says quietly, "You did a great job in Tuscany." Cree-py! Anthony Russet looks at her, narrow-eyed. Sydney is spooked.
Warehouse. Vaughn. He fills her in on the last two scenes: how Sydney was in danger, blah blah blah espionage-cakes. Christ -- why do they recap the scenes we just saw? Are you trying to put me out of a job, people? Sydney asks Vaughn how they knew not to step in. Vaughn admits that it was her dad. Sydney mutters that it's going to take forever to take them down. Duh. We've been hearing that from the beginning. Vaughn says that they have a doodad that might help. He hands her a transmitter that will enable them to hear every move she makes in Switzerland. And they'll track every move SD-6 makes with the money. He says he knows it's not much. She says that every little bit helps.
Seventh and Spring. Will stands near a payphone. It rings. The bogeyman asks how far he's willing to go to find out about Kate Jones, and is he ready. The voice says it needs to hear the words "I'm ready." What is this, a KISS concert? Will asks if his life will be in danger. Well, gee -- they've already killed two people, but I'm sure they have amnesty for retarded reporters with terrible hair. He says he's ready. The bogeyman hangs up. So does Will.
Geneva. Big, Swiss bank. It's very clean. Sydney enters, looking very forties with a chignon and Dior rip-off suit. She asks a clerk for Mr. Franco. Sydney, posing as Christiana Stevens, asks for a tour of the facility for her clients, who are thinking of storing diamonds. Man, this bank is swanky as all get out. They walk through the vaults, and Mr. Franco drones on. Sydney asks a question and takes out an atomizer. She sprays Mr. Franco, who passes out. The Alias mega-mix starts, and Anthony Russet on the other end of her two-way wrist transmitter gets the instructions for which box to raid.
Back at the front desk, the clerk Sydney talked to asks a guard to fetch Mr. Franco. Or I assume she does, because she speaks in extremely rapid French of which I barely have an understanding, but the guard she telephones gets up and starts walking toward the vault.
Sydney starts reading the bank account numbers. Vaughn and the CIA transcribe them, along with Miguel Sandoval. Vaughn hands the numbers to Greg/Weiss. Sydney tries to jam the security deposit box back in its slot, but it sticks with a few inches hanging out. MS asks if she's got everything under control. She says not just yet as the guard rounds the corner. She finds Mr. Franco collapsed and Sydney bending over him. Sydney says helplessly that he fainted, and she'll go get an ambulance. She calmly exits.