Previously on Alias: Élodie's daddy was the man in the box. Then he was the man out of the box. Then he wasn't Élodie's daddy, but some other dude whose brain was transplanted into Élodie's daddy's skull. But none of that's important right now because it's basically not even mentioned throughout this entire episode.
We open on a typical suburban house where a family is enjoying an evening of togetherness around a televised football game. The family consists of a dad, a mom, a teenaged son, and a pre-teen daughter. They're all blond. Yeah, I totally knew they were Rachel's family the second they showed up onscreen. As the Family Rachel chills out, some black-clad figure shows up in the background and disappears quickly. Rachel's mom worries at her husband about how their daughter hasn't called them recently and suddenly the lights go out, the black-clad people move in, and wham! The Family Rachel, it is kidnapped.
Luckily, they're kidnapped by the Apple Store. Rachel watches her family from behind two-way glass as Sydney tries to comfort her with the notion that her family is safer now that they're out of that house, what with all the phone taps and surveillance equipment scattered about the place. The Family Rachel is being put into witness protection and Rachel won't even be able to call them. "How am I supposed to do this alone?" she wonders aloud. "You do it because you don't have a choice," grits the Pregnant Angel of Death to her. "You do it because you want the world to be safe for the ones you love." Way to ease her fears there, Sydney. Syd says that she knows people think she's wack for even continuing to work, but she refuses to sit home and just loaf around eating pinwheels and watching soaps when Vaughn's killer is still out there. Rachel takes strength from this and finally goes in to show her family that she's okay and to explain to them what's going on. Her parents seem understandably concerned, but her sister looks at her like, "Way to go, BITCH." And her brother looks at her like they're not related and he likes her rack. Heh.
Clandestine Meetings of Scummy Men. Sloane is filling in Gordo on the Family Rachel. Sloane tries to act reputable and says that he won't hurt Rachel or anyone else at the Apple Store, that that's not their agreement. Gordo's all, uh, yeah, our agreement is whatever-the-hell I say it is, okay? "Let me say this again," sneers Sloane. "I will not hurt those people." Gordo's all, yeah, whatever, I'm not asking you to. Not yet, at least. Sloane's like, we finished here? "Almost," says Gordo. "Have you heard of a weapons designer named Janos Vak?" Sloane says he hasn't. Gordo says he's disappeared, and tasks Sloane with using Apple Store resources to find him. "What would your colleagues do if they knew you answered to me?" asks Gordo. "That you were betraying them on a daily basis?" "The same thing I hope to do to you one day," snits Sloane. Heh.
Apple Store. Later that day, Sloane uses his computer to track down Vak and watches Syd waddle over and talk to Marshall, and he seems to be very regretful about what he's doing. But obviously, he doesn't have a choice, because if he mucks up his deal with Gordo, he'll go back to prison and Nadia (who?) will most likely die. After downloading Vak's info onto the flash drive Gordo gave him, Sloane attends a meeting in the Conference Room of Endless Expositions. Jack states that Sloane, in his position of limited capacity, was tasked with going over Rachel's debriefing. Sloane says that while he went through it, there was only one name that he recognized immediately: Janos Vak.
Vak specializes in targeting software that he calls "lasso technology," and Syd and Marshall jointly pipe up that this software would allow an incoming missile to be electronically intercepted and redirected, essentially "lassoing" it. Sloane says that based on Rachel's statement, Gordo's been trying to locate Vak for the past six months. Jack says that they're going to try to get to Vak first and then use him as bait for Gordo. Sloane brings up that Vak has partnered with an Algerian arms dealer in the past and that they should try to squeeze him for Vak's location. "The Algerian underworld is notoriously hard to penetrate," says Jack. "I think I know someone who can do it," says Syd. "Renée Rienne," says Jack. Who? Oh, you mean Élodie. Got it. Jack approves this course of action and tells Syd to get on the horn and see if Élodie can get a lead on Vak.
Meeting adjourned, Sloane corners Syd over by her desk and thanks her for the letter of recommendation she wrote for him. He then confesses that every day, he goes to the hospital, talks to Nadia's doctors, but can't set foot in her room. Ron Rifkin does this awesome lip quiver thing that is just barely noticeable, but that indicates just how upset Sloane is about his inability to go to his daughter's bedside. "I can't stand to see her hooked up to all those machines," he says, "knowing that it's my fault she's there." Syd seems genuinely touched by Sloane's confession, and she says that she knows he'll do everything in his power to find a cure for Nadia. "Yes, I will," says Sloane, the tone of his voice indicating that he will, indeed, do absolutely anything to save his daughter, even if that "anything" involves killing a bunch of Apple Store employees. What? You totally know he would. The man has no soul.
Marseille. The Algerian arms dealer is hanging out with his peeps, playing...dominos? Oh, no, wait. It's mah jongg. That's...an interesting pastime for a bunch of arms mercenaries. What are they, eighty and living in Miami? As they're determining whether to move the East tile or the one with the pretty little purple flower on it, a motorcycle approaches and then crashes right through the door and into their mah jongg game. It's Élodie. She gets up and quickly dispatches the dudes with some flashy knife work and a crack or two from her helmet. She fells the arms dealer with a dagger to the leg and then strangles him until he gives up some info on Vak. And...that's pretty much all we see of Élodie for the entire episode. Man. I hope she gets a nice per diem while she's hanging out in Hollywood basically doing a day of work here and an hour of work there.
Gym of Angry Blonde Girls. Rachel's hitting the shit out of a heavy bag. Getty enters and is like, oops. Sorry. I'll come back later. Rachel's like, dude, it's fine, you can use the bag. "No, it's okay," he says. "I don't really like to work out around other people." Heh. Rachel says she could use somebody to spar with. "I don't really...spar," he husks. Heh heh. Rachel's like, uh, yeah, neither do I, which is why I could really use your help, Mister Man. Getty finally agrees to help her out and they start sparring. As she hits his palms, Rachel asks how many fights he's been in and he twits, "Enough." "Did you win?" she asks. "Of course," he says as she continues to hit him. Rachel makes this face like, "Uh-huh, yeah, sure you did." Getty reads her expression and suddenly alters his story, saying, "Mostly. Wait. What'd you hear?" Heeeee.
Rachel backs up and hauls off with some half-assed spinning kick and Getty drops her easily. "Don't ever do that spinning kung fu crap," he says. "You'll get yourself killed." Rachel's like, fine then! What SHOULD I do? "For real?" he says. "I fight dirty." Heh. I bet you do. "Dirty?" asks Rachel. "Go for the eyes, the nose, the throat, the nuts--" "THE NUTS?" "--inflict as much pain as is humanly possible." Rachel says she doesn't think she can do that, and Getty goes off on her, telling her she shouldn't be here if she can't handle it and everyone's taking care of her and if she can't pull her weight then she should just pack up her playthings and go home to mom-- WHAM! Rachel clocks Getty with a tight right hook. Heh. "That was better," he grits. "I wanna see more of that." Hee. This scene is awesome. Just then, Getty's phone rings and he's told that they have a briefing in fifteen minutes.
Conference Room of Endless Expositions. Syd tells everyone about Élodie's interaction with the Algerian arms dealer and then says that Vak has indeed designed the lassoing program, so it's no longer a rumor, it's a fact. Oh, and Vak has sold it to some dude in China. Sloane asks where Vak is, and Syd says he's dropped off the face of the planet. Jack says that this is why they're going to go after the Chinese official. He's at the Chinese consulate in Bombay because he's marrying an Indian woman and Bombay officials are throwing them an engagement party and she has two sisters and one of them has a leg made of pansies and there are crocodiles in the sewers and seriously, how did they come up with this bizarro storyline? It's not bad or anything, I'm just totally baffled as to how they came up with the Chinese official-marrying-the-Indian-woman-and-hey-they're-in-Bombay angle. Very weird.
Dix says that the official keeps an encrypted copy of all his contacts and meets in a safe in his room, and that this should lead them to Vak. Jack directs Sydney to steal the intel, Dix and Getty to offer support, and Marshall and Rachel to run op-tech. We jet off to Disney Backlot #45 where a bunch of extras are pretending to be in Bombay. Syd's dressed up in a lovely green sari with matching bindi and Getty's escorting her through the party. Dix enters wearing a tux with a printed scarf around his neck. The three of them meet up and Dix says that the Chinese dude is still upstairs in his office. "Doesn't the man know it's kind of hard to break into a safe when he's sitting right in front of it?" quips Getty. Heh. He gets all the good lines in this episode.
Syd sees the Chinese general's fiancée over by the stairs, and she looks very unhappy. Syd thinks the general might be having second thoughts and probably isn't coming down tonight. They're going to have to get the intel another way. She checks in with Marshall and Rachel and asks what's going on upstairs. Marshall informs her that it's quiet and that there's just one guard outside the general's door. Syd then shares a moment with Dixon when she asks him if he remembers the King of Bahrain. "The one with the harem?" asks Dix. "Let's try that," says Syd. "What're you talking about?" asks Getty. "I'll need your watch," says Syd to Dix, ignoring Getty. "It's okay," snits Getty, "I'm not really here." Hee. Dix turns to Getty and says, "Just follow my lead," and they walk off.
Dix walks up to the fiancée and puts on this hilarious accent that seems to be a combination of some sort of African dialect, possibly an Indian dialect, and either a speech impediment or a cleft palate. I seriously have no idea where he's pretending to be from. According to closed captioning, he's doing an Indian accent, but I think closed captioning had too many martinis at lunch because...no. Just...no. Aaaanyway, Dix tells the fiancée that she can't marry the general because he, Dix, loves her, and he asks her to marry him. The woman is totally like, the huh? Who the hell are you? She's freaked out. Dix raises his voice and starts getting out of control and Getty finally figures out his cue and runs over to intercept Dix. He motions to the guard at the foot of the stairs to come and help him, and that's when Syd slips up the stairs and out of sight. But not before Dix hollers, "Ows is uh pohbidden wuv!" Tee hee hee. The soldier and Getty drag Dix off to another area of the party.
Upstairs, Syd goes directly to the general's office. In Chinese, Syd demands to see the general. The guard says he's not to be disturbed. Syd touches her belly and says, "Oh, he'll want to see me." Heh. Nice. The guard hesitates, and Syd just huffs that she'll introduce herself to the general's fiancée instead. She turns to leave, but the guard stops her and lets her inside the room. Watching the action, Rachel's in awe of Syd's improvisational (not to mention multi-lingual) skills. Marshall's all, hey, I've had to perform some Alias magic myself in the past. "D'you know what a spork is?" Ha! Way to throw the longtime viewers a bone, writers!
Inside the office, the general is indeed having second thoughts, and he sweatily says that he just needs more time. Syd knocks him out with a tranq shot from Dix's watch and then moves into action. She slaps a device on the safe and tells Marshall she's ready, and he tries to connect to it, but can't, because there's too much shielding on the building. Marshall decides that he needs to set a relay closer to the building, and Rachel volunteers to put it in place so Marshall can stay with the equipment and connect to the device as soon as the relay's in place. She runs off. Back inside, Getty and the guards drop Dix on his ass on the fringes of the party and Getty apologizes for Dix's behavior, saying he's not a bad guy, he's just had his heart broken. Aw. The fiancée decides that now would be an opportune moment to head upstairs and kick the general's ass. Dix gives Syd a heads-up.
Rachel sets the relay and Marshall connects to the device. He remotely hacks the combination to the safe and Syd is inside in seconds. She grabs the intel and gets the hell out of Dodge. Outside the building, Rachel and her Swinging Ponytail of Dumbness are heading back to the op-tech van, when she's intercepted by a guard. He hollers a bunch of stuff at her in Chinese, but since she doesn't speak Chinese, she can only stand there and look scared stiff. There's this moment where you think she's going to come up with something really good and save the day, but then she just pulls a Count Rugen and runs away. Ha! Awesome. The guard chases after her as she tells Getty she's busted. He tells Dix to wait for Syd because he has to go off and save Rachel's ass.
Getty picks up one of those velvet rope dividers and heads off to help Rachel as Syd calmly makes her way down the stairs and out the door, followed closely by Dixon. Rachel comes running around a corner and Getty goes, "Geddown!" He swings the divider into the gut of the following guard and the guy drops like a wet sack of dead chickens. Getty looks down at Rachel and asks if she's okay. "If by 'okay' you mean 'freaked and embarrassed,' then yeah, I'm okay," she says dryly. Heh.
Baby Shop of Sadness. Syd's sitting in a rocking chair, watching a little girl play with dolls. The girl's daddy comes up and puts a cute hat on her and then picks her up and carries her off. Aw. Syd looks hella-sad. The saleslady comes up and asks if Syd's finding everything okay and Syd says she is and that she'll take the rocking chair. The saleslady sees Syd looking sadly at the daddy and daughter and she comments that they get lots of dads in the store these days and that her husband didn't buy as much as a diaper. "Yeah," says Syd, standing up. "My dad wasn't exactly hands-on either." Heh. No shit. The saleslady then asks the totally inappropriate question, "What about your husband? Is he doing his part?" Syd's all, uh, no, thanks, because HE'S DEAD and was shot a bazillion times and THANKS FOR OPENING THAT WOUND and, like, pouring SALT in it, and what if I were a lesbian, huh, and I was having this baby with my life partner and didn't have a HUSBAND and how rude are you anyway? Actually, she just says, "He's been great. Wishes he could do more." But she's totally thinking the other stuff.
Sloane goes to meet with Gordo in the back of some tailor shop and Gordo is less-than-pleased with the fact that Sloane didn't tell him about the Chinese consulate plan. Sloane's like, whatever, dude. You're not the boss of me. You don't need to know every last thing I do. Gordo's like, shut up, shorty. Where's Vak? Sloane's like, the intel was encrypted, homes. I should have an answer for you by the end of the day. Gordo's like, see that you do! Yeah, it's kind of hard to be a badass and lord it over someone when they have you by the short hairs, Gordo.
Apple Store. Syd enters and walks over to Dix and he tells her that they've found Vak. He's in seclusion on an oil rig in the South China Sea while he finishes the software program. Syd's all, fab! How're we going in? Dix is all, uh, "we're" not. Syd's all, the whuh? Who's Jack sending then? Dix is all, uh, well, uh, that's -- Rachel. He's sending Rachel. Syd's flabbergasted. "He's sending her in solo?" she asks. Everybody drink! Syd wants to know why Jack would send Rachel in alone and Dix exposits that shore leave has been suspended for all the crewmembers of the oil rig until Vak finishes the program, but that, every other weekend, Vak is allowed some, how you say, "company."
Corridor of Daddy/Daughter Conflicts. Syd is dressing down her father for sending Rachel. Jack's like, uh, I don't remember anyone appointing you the director of the Apple Store, so shut your pie hole. Syd's all, hey, am I the only one who remembers that whole part where RACHEL RAN AWAY? Jack's all, honey, I love you, but unless Vak has a pregnant woman fetish, I don't really think you can do this particular assignment. Deal with it. He then goes on to say that Rachel going out to the oil rig is no different than when Syd had to go back into SD-6. Yeah, I don't see the parallels, but whatever. Syd agrees with me, because she says it's totally different -- she had Vaughn. "And Rachel will have you," says Jack. Again, don't really see the similarities, but I guess they had to come up with some way to get Jennifer Garner to sit out an assignment.
Marshall's Garage of Geekiness. Marshall gives Rachel a lipstick that's supposed to knock out Vak for two hours after she touches it anywhere on his skin. Oh, and he spring-loaded an ice pick into the base of a brush, you know, just in case. That Marshall. He's so handy. Later, Rachel's at her locker, getting ready to go, when Dixon enters and asks her if she's all set. She comments that she's been spending hours at the firing range, only to be sent on an assignment where she's not allowed to be armed. Dix tries to bolster her confidence by saying that Jack wouldn't be sending her on the mission if he didn't have complete faith in her abilities. Rachel just says that she appreciates Dix saying that, but she knows that everyone's looking for her to prove herself on this mission, especially since she bolted like a jackrabbit during the last one. "I'm terrified," she says. "But I'm more terrified of not trying. So, I'm going to put on my strappy shoes and my teeny dress and I'm going to try. And by this time tomorrow, we'll know whether I can do it or not." It's a nice moment and it's well delivered by Nichols. Damn. I'm liking her more and more. How'd THAT happen?
Parking Garage of Gordo's Insecurities. Sloane drives up and rolls down his window. He hands Gordo a file with Vak's location and details and then tells him that Rachel's going in to get the software. Gordo's stunned. Sloane says that once Rachel gets the software, he'll swap it out and hand over the real program to Gordo. He peels out, and Peyton walks up and says, "Did he just say they're sending Rachel?" Oh, and I know she has a first name (it's "Kelly," if you must know) but I like "Peyton" better because..."Kelly" is awfully pedestrian for someone as wicked as Amy Acker. Gordo says he doesn't trust Sloane and they're not going to wait for him to hand over the program; he wants Peyton to get the weapon herself. She thinks it'll be strange if she and Rachel cross paths. "She thought I was her best friend," she says. Gordo just says that if she runs into Rachel while on the assignment, he should put a bullet in her head. Wow. He must give a seriously damaging exit interview to anyone who quits his employ.
South China Sea. A speedboat approaches an oil rig as "I Like The Way You Move" by the Bodyrockers disco dances across the soundtrack. The boat stops, and Rachel emerges from the cabin wearing a dress the size of a handkerchief, a fake leopard fur coat, a ridiculous orangey-blonde wig, oversized shades, and a pair of hoochie-mama stacked heels. In short, Rachel looks like a ho. She also looks like Traci Lords, who, for the first part of her career, also looked like a ho. Being a ho was the first part of Traci's career, though, so looking like a ho is allowed. Also? Traci Lords rocks. I wouldn't consider myself a porn aficionado or anything, but if you haven't seen any of Traci's early films, I suggest you head over to eBay right-the-hell-now and do some bidding. What? Chicks watch porn. They just get bored with it really, really quickly. I mean, how many scenes with plumbers who've forgotten their pants and women wearing tear-away dresses can one person stand?
So, Rachel and her bad ho self get up on the oil rig. We pause before heading to her assignment so that we can flash back to Rachel getting ready for her ho gig. She tells Syd that it's a mistake and that she's never done anything like this. Syd says she's playing a character. "Who was the sluttiest girl in your high school?" "Mandy Camarillo," says Rachel without even pausing. Heh. "You didn't have to think very hard on that one," quips Syd. Rachel says that Mandy was a tramp who stole Rachel's prom date. Syd tells Rachel to act like she's Mandy Camarillo and Vak is her prom date. Rachel still looks nervous, so Syd tells her that she'll be on comms the whole time. "The way Vaughn was for me," she says. I think equating Syd to Vaughn is totally the writers setting up the foundation for some serious HoYay in future episodes, jilting prom date or no. Rachel finally states that she can do this and Syd says she absolutely can.
We return to the present and Rachel on ho assignment. A guard leads Rachel to Vak's chambers, and another guard unlocks the door and lets her in. Rachel heads to Vak's bedroom and opens the door. Vak's inside, and he's totally nasty. Rachel plays her part well and they banter back and forth about speaking English. "I am Janos," he says, kissing her hand. "Ray-- Mandy," flubs Rachel. Syd rolls her eyes so far up into her skull, she can see her cerebral cortex. "Raymandy," says Janos. "Beautiful name." Heh. Vak tries to get Rachel to come over to the bed, but she nervously says she's just fine over by the computer. Syd gets on comms and tells Rachel to think about what Mandy would do. "Do you know how to make daiquiris?" Rachel asks. Whuh? Vak says he has champagne and Rachel's like, THAT WILL BE FINE THANK YOU. Heh. She's really not good at this.
Case in point: she goes to get the lipstick out of her purse and discovers that she's dropped it. She states as much out loud so that Vak hears her and thinks she's talking to him. He says her lips are perfect the way they are and he slimes over to plant one on her. Syd hisses at Rachel not to let him kiss her; to be the one who's in charge. So, instead of letting Vak kiss her, Rachel smacks him across the face. Hee. Instead of getting angry, Vak recovers and slimes, "Has baby been bad?" Oh, ew. So he doesn't have a pregnant lady fetish, but he's into punishment. Guh. "Oh, this is gonna be too easy, Rachel," says Syd. Hee.
After the break, Peyton shows up on the oil rig wearing nothing but a scuba suit/spy outfit. So, no messy disguises for her, I guess. She shoots the first guy she sees and heads after Vak. Yeah, why bother with disguises or tranquilizer lipsticks when you can just shoot the shit out of everyone? Back with Raymandy and Vak, he's tied up to the bed and telling Rachel that she's driving him crazy, but in the good way. "Did I say you could talk?" she purrs. Then she crawls up his body and says, "I'm gonna be honest with you. This whole 'baby talk' thing kind of creeps me out, so I'm just gonna cut to the chase." She slaps some duct tape on his mouth and goes, "I gotta go!" Hee. She goes over to the computer and downloads the program.
Out on the rig, Peyton continues to shoot everyone in her path. She comes upon the guard outside Vak's remove and orders him to enter the code to open the door. He does so, and she shoots him dead and enters the room. Luckily, Rachel's already ruined the computer and run off. Peyton leaves. Out on the rig, Rachel's walking toward the boat and telling Syd that the job's done. She passes a dead soldier and picks up her pace, only to find that her boat is gone. Syd says she's sending in an emergency extraction. Dix and Getty head to the rescue in a black chopper. Syd tells Rachel to get her ass to the helipad pronto. Rachel runs as fast as her little wedgies will let her.
Rachel finally gets to the helipad, only to find Peyton waiting for her with a gun. "Surprise," Peyton says. "My god, you're --" "Not dead?" quips Peyton. "I was gonna say 'evil,'" says Rachel. Heh. Peyton tries to convince Rachel that she's not evil, she just works for a different team. Rachel's all, dude, you're totally in on this with Gordo and you have been from the start. And you blew up all those innocent people! Peyton's all, honey, it wasn't personal! I always liked you! She goes on to say that she doesn't want to kill her, she just wants the program. Syd gets on comms and tells Rachel that if she believes Peyton will let her go, she should hand over the program; they can always track Peyton after she leaves the platform.
Rachel considers this and finally reaches into her bag to get the program, pulling out the ice pick brush as if to get it out of the way so she can find the software. Peyton gives her two seconds to find the program and as Rachel goes to hand it over, she triggers the ice pick and stabs Peyton in the shoulder and kicks her gun away. "You bitch," snarls Peyton. Hee. They scuffle a bit and don't do any real damage to each other. "You shoulda given me the disk," says Peyton. "You were gonna kill me anyway," says Rachel. "Yeah," says Peyton, "but I would have felt really bad about it." She pulls a stiletto out of her leg sheath and says, "Now, it's gonna be fun." Heh. And then they fight. It's nothing terribly noteworthy, however, and it's actually kind of awkwardly shot, so I'll just leave it at "and then they fight."
A guard starts shooting at them and they dive behind some barrels as Getty and Dix show up in their chopper. Dix takes out all the guards and then, when Peyton eyes Rachel's dropped purse, Dix aims the gun right at her and she...just runs away and jumps off the rig. Well, that was effective. Getty lands the chopper on the helipad and Rachel climbs aboard as the Strings of See, She Really CAN Get The Job Done play us out to the break.
Random Baddie Warehouse #23. Gordo's just standing there with his back to the camera. Sloane slams in and bitches that he told Gordo that none of his people were supposed to get hurt. "I do what I want, when I want," says Gordo. "Now where is it?" "You didn't trust me and you nearly ruined the entire operation," snaps Sloane. "I want the weapon," returns Gordo. "You don't get to have it," says Sloane in the same tone of voice my father used to use with me when I kept begging for another bomb pop after dinner. "That's my price for your mistake." "My mistake?" shouts Gordo. "I'm not the one responsible for a hundred thousand deaths. I'm not the one dangling on the end of a fishhook. I'm the one who decides if the little fish gets thrown back into the pond or if it gets flushed down the toilet. Am I being clear?" "Yoooou doooon't geeeet Vak's weapon," snarls Sloane. "How's your daughter?" asks Gordo. "Nadia has nothing to do with this," says Sloane. "Oh, yes she does," says Gordo. "I want a copy of the lasso software on my desk first thing tomorrow morning." Ouch. He is SO dead when Sloane gets his shit together at the end of the season.
Apple Store. Sydney watches as Jack meets with Rachel in his office. She walks out and meets up with Sydney. "Your father's kind of scary," says Rachel. Hee. "Tell me about it," quips Sydney. Hee hee. Syd tells her that Rachel did a good job and Rachel thanks her for being in her head during the mission. Syd knows how important that voice can be, seeing as Vaughn talked her through all her early missions at the CIA. "Sometimes his voice was all that kept me going." "I wish I could've met him," says Rachel. Syd looks like she's about to cry, so she leaves, saying she'll see Rachel tomorrow. Guess they're not roomies anymore, huh?
"The Water Is Wide" comes on the soundtrack, so you know it's time for a poignant music montage. Rachel looks out across the office and catches Getty's eye, and he gives her a little "You done good" nod of the head. Aw. Sloane visits Nadia at the hospital and this time he actually enters the room and goes to her. He takes her hand, and his face is a mask of pain. Aw. Rachel sits at her desk and finds a picture of her family in her drawer. Aw. We hear Vaughn asking Syd via comms if she's okay. Syd says she is, but she's having trouble picking the lock because her fingers are numb. Vaughn tells her that she's almost home. The camera pans over and Syd is sitting in her new rocking chair, playing the tape against her belly so her baby can hear its daddy's voice. Aw. It's such a sweet moment that I won't mention that the voice on the tape totally doesn't sound like Michael Vartan. I won't mention that at all.