Episode Report Card Erin: C | 1 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Blowback? Blow me.
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 14 | Aired on 03.06.2004
She blathers something about how Sloane's living proof of how someone can change for the better. Sloane just slobbers at her, "You look beautiful." Oh, ew. Uncle Inappropriate Touching is back. Gah. She kind of avoids the comment and continues along her boring way. Basically, she's just greasing the wheels until she gets to her real purpose: the Rambaldi device. She says that it was instrumental in his transformation from master spy to humanitarian. Sloane says that it was critical. "It only revealed one word to you," she says. "'Peace.'" Sloane's all, yup. That about sums it up. "And yet there were eight yards of parchment scroll before the message appeared." D'oh! Haven't heard that one before. "Wh-what was on that?" she asks. Sloane just looks at her. "Oh, it was nothing," he says. "Blank paper. Sort of the equivalent of leader tape on a cassette. I discarded it." Yeah, right.
Dr. Nancy's not buying his story either. She's all, dude? You could have sold it. Or kept it. Studied it. Sloane's getting that pissed look in his eye. "It's hard to believe you would get rid of something you would normally consider holy," she says. "Are you calling me a liar?" he squints at her. Dr. Nancy mentions that secret he almost revealed to her the other day. Sloane just leans forward, savoring the moment. "I am not your patient," he sneers, "your client, or your lab rat. Now, we can speak in generalities, have an elegant meal, perhaps laugh together, but there are some truths that you will never learn from me. Do you understand that?" His eyes, by the way, look almost pitch black. Eeeee! Sloane leans back, his moment of evil finished. "You must be famished," he says, grabbing his wine. "I suggest the Barbary duckling. It's their signature dish." Dr. Nancy's had her fill for one evening, however, and whispers that this whole thing was a mistake. She leaves. Sloane just plays with his wineglass and looks off distantly.
Marshall's Den of Sleep Deprivation. He's managed to decode a portion of the file, and it would seem that the plasma charge will be showing up on a freighter in Lisbon in about fourteen hours. Vaughn asks how they're going to detect the bomb, and Marshall blathers on and on about some bomb sniffer he's giving them. When they're within 100 feet of the bomb, the thing beeps. For some reason, Marshall thinks he could have done better with the sniffer if he'd had a little more sleep, even though it seems perfectly adequate for the job at hand. There's a moment of comedy as Syd grabs the sniffer out of his hand and replaces it with the sheet of paper with the Lisbon message on it and Marshall just stands there, looking like he's just going to take a nap while standing up.