Episode Report Card Manimal: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Doppelganger
By Manimal | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.27.2001
Sloane says that the problem isn't Germany, it's HAN-sell, which keeps all top employees under close surveillance. Apparently the Kevin-Sorbo-in-a-blond-wig photo is the last one available of Schiller, from his university days, but they do have a computer-aged photo of what he'd probably look like today. Hopefully not like an old Kevin Sorbo in a blond wig.
Marshall's turn. Marshall looks as nervous as a seventh grader on the debate team. He says, "Hello, everyone. Hope everyone's planning on having an enjoyable All Hallow's Eve." Sloane cuts him off with a single word: "Marshall." Couldn't you see Sloane running the Mafia or something? Why is he even dicking around with this low-level secret-agent stuff? Marshall stops. He's practically jigging with excitement. He says that what he's got is so cool that they'll all be saying, "Whoa, Marshall." Dixon and Sydney mentally eye-roll, but kindly. Marshall whips out a business card with a tiny transmitter that basically overrides the computer system's firewall so Schiller can send the info to a Canadian server.
Dixon runs up to Sydney after the meeting and says that he and the wife and the crumbsnatchers will be at her Halloween party. Uh. Would a secret agent really invite her partner to a party to mix with her civilian life?
Spy Daddy interrupts their conversation and asks for a minute alone with Sydney. He makes some more excuses about how busy he is and how they shouldn't plan on hanging out soon, as he is so busy. It's clear that he's lying. Sydney says she wasn't planning on making any more attempts. Sydney's face crumbles. Well...the face attempts to crumble. Mostly she just gets pouty. It's like she's completely wooden behind the eyes: no flicker or change of expression.
The Security-Guardless Building Of Covert CIA Meetings. Nighttime. Sydney parks and enters a labyrinth of halls, cages, tunnels, et cetera. Vaughn's there. He fills her in on her countermission: to get the real Schiller to the CIA while Kelvin, the CIA's stand-in (who knows Spy Daddy) will sub as Schiller at SD-6 and feed them false info. Ah. This sounds like a dumb plan. Apparently the vaccine's incredibly effective, and the CIA's afraid SD-6 would sell it to some radical leader who would only use it to protect his own. Which I'm sure the US would never, ever, ever do.
Kelvin leaves. Sydney asks Vaughn how she's supposed to pull off a double switch in front of Dixon. She wants to tell Dixon what's going on. Vaughn says nein, nein! Sydney says he doesn't know Dixon. He also points out that she can't volunteer Dixon for double agent-hood if he doesn't ask for it, and does Sydney really want to put everything Dixon has at risk and make that decision for him. That must be a rhetorical question. She had no qualms about putting her strictly-there-for-plot-purposes fiancé in danger. Of course, at this point it's pretty clear that Sydney couldn't find a prayer in the Bible, let alone a reasonable thought process.