Episode Report Card Erin: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sloane's Dead! Long Live Sloane!
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.17.2004
Back with Sloane, he looks up at the ceiling as the execution syringes start coming down. He looks terrified, but resigned. Then he starts shaking and his body starts flinging off the table. God. Back with Syd, she busts out of the gallery, only to come across another guard. She drops him quickly. Sloane. Dying. Syd. Running. Another guard. Another one. Syd drops the second one, but runs out of bullets before she can get the first one. The guard moves toward her. Sloane. Dying. Syd. Still hiding from the guard as he moves toward her. Suddenly, a shot is fired from behind the guard and he goes down. It's Vaughn, in a crouch, his gun pointed. I have no idea why, but I thought he looked really super hot at that moment. Yeah. I know. Sloane's dying and I'm thinking about Hot!Vaughn. Sorry. I'm a red-blooded whore, remember?
Syd runs up to Vaughn. Sloane dies as the gallery watches. We see the non-expression on Moronen's face, the sad acceptance on Dixon's, the relatively blank nothingness on Marlon's, and the pursed gravity on Jack's. It's a really nice moment in an episode just chock-full of nice moments. Outside in the hall, Syd's making her way toward the execution room. She comes face-to-face with her father and sees the black body bag with Sloane's body inside it behind him. "Sydney --" he starts. "Don't," she cuts him off. "There's nothing you can say." She leaves, taking The Hourglass with her. Jack just looks after her.
Elsewhere in Oops Center, Moronen McIdiot picks up her cell phone and calls her mother. "Sloane is dead," she says. "We can now locate The Passenger without his interference." Oh, please. Can't she LEAVE THE BUILDING to do that? God, she's dumb. And, yes, I'm referring to the character, NOT Melissa George, okay? And don't send me emails about it either. I don't care. The woman walks and breathes and spells and talks, okay? Let's assume she's not an idiot. Her character, on the other hand…whatever. She tells her mother about Sloane. Her mother's all, not quite, dude. "The code key you retrieved from the CIA is unusable. I can only assume that was deliberate on their part. Vaughn played you. He's likely to try again. But that will be his last mistake." Moronen hangs up on her mother and wonders if there are some banners or flags somewhere on which she can write, "I am a big fat TRAITOR!"
Somewhere in the basement of Oops Center, later that night, Sloane's dead body is just hangin' out. Chillin'. Sorry. It couldn't be helped. Someone walks in and unzips the bag. Then they take out a syringe and stick it into Sloane's neck. The camera pans up and it's Jack. Heh. Heh heh. Sloane suddenly gasps and comes to. Heh heh heh. Sloane's not dead. I totally thought he died, y'all. Really. "Surprised you didn't get the reference," says Jack. "Modified kaexelate cocktail washed with tetrodotoxin presented in a bottle of Chambertin Clos de Bez. Just like we used in Saigon." Hee. Sloane looks confused. And not dead. "But understand," says Jack, leaning over him, "this was not done out of compassion. I orchestrated this because and only because I need you." Sloane doesn't seem to like the sound of that.