Episode Report Card Erin: A | 211 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT The bitch is back.
By Erin | Season 4 | Episode 21 | Aired on 2005.05.18
Sloane's Office of West Elm Furniture. Marshall's at the computer, accessing the Blackwell Index while Jack watches. Marshall nervously blurbles something about how when Jack helped Sloane steal the Blackwell Index, he didn't know Sloane was going to switch sides, did he? Jack's all, NO. And stop talking for the LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND HOLY. Marshall gets the Blackwell to work and they bring up the stats on Jonski. Jack wants all aliases, contacts, et cetera. Nadia enters and demands to speak with Jack. Marshall leaves them alone. Nadia wants to know the truth about her mother's death. "Martin Bishop didn't kill Irina," says Jack matter-of-factly. "I did." Nadia looks like she's been slapped in the face with a nine-iron. Jack explains the contract hit scenario and the getting set up by Elena scenario and Nadia's all, whatever, does Sydney know? Jack doesn't answer, instead saying something about how if Irina is alive -- "I hope she is," snaps Nadia, cutting him off. "And you should too." She stalks off.
Vaughn has finally, FINALLY decided to ask Syd to marry him, so what does he do? He grabs her and says, "Syd, something's happened," and basically walks around the corner, hoping she'll follow. She does. She follows him into the Conference Room of Endless Expositions and there are all these newscasts on, saying that something funky is going on in Russia. Oh. Wait. Something really is going on? Vaughn just wasn't using a clever ruse to get Syd to follow him so he could ask her to marry him over by the donuts? Damn. Anyway, something bad is happening in Russia, but no one knows what it is because the Russians aren't saying. All they know is that there's a military perimeter around the city of Sevogda. Quarantine? No idea. Everyone watches the monitors warily. Jack enters and says no one has any clue as to what in the hell is going on, including all the damn governments. Just then, Marshall's computer beeps and he gets a feed from his hacker friend in Russia.
It's raw footage from Sevogda and it's not pretty. Fires in the street, cars stopped in the middle of traffic, people running around and screaming, helicopters swooping. As the footage gets more specific, we see people shouting and fighting and generally attacking each other. Fires, bombs, chaos. Then the shot moves up to the sky and…IT'S CLIFFORD THE BIG RED BALL. Seriously. It's Clifford, and it's hovering over the city like some big red pregnant moon. Syd looks at it and says, "It's them." No, ya THINK?