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2.4 Dead Drop Sydney: "You heard me tell her I was a turkey?" Sydney managed to escape from the ice with Dixon's help, and didn't suffer any lasting effects, which is just miraculous. Personally, I'm surprised that she was able to grip the gun and the mouthpiece. And she retrieved the map with Irina's help, and in the process fielded a very interesting job offer from Sark. Irina even decoded the map -- she's incredibly helpful, huh? -- but when Sydney and Vaughn went to retrieve it in Madagascar, Jack managed to have a friend blow up the building it was in and make it appear that Irina had tried to kill Sydney. A confused Irina was taken away for questioning, and Jack did the happy dance of triumph. Well, okay, he didn't dance, but he almost smiled. This was like the Dysfunctional Spy Parent Superbowl, which makes poor Sydney the football. Irina makes a move, Jack makes a move; this week, Jack won. But Jack just made a serious mistake. Sydney is eventually going to find out that Jack set Irina up, and it's going to blow up in his face, so to speak. When it does, he's going to lose whatever ground he's gained with Sydney; how could she ever trust him again? Even though my sympathies are with Jack, it's hard to tell which of them is the worst parent. On the home front, Will did an absolutely fabulous job coping with an SD-6 agent sent undercover at an NA meeting to try and trip him up. Will is certainly finding the cup half full; he's happy that his new exploded failure of a life has brought him closer to Sydney. He's got it bad. On the supernatural front, it is starting to look like Emily is haunting her killer. Or someone is making a serious effort to make it appear so. Personally, I hope it *is* Emily and I hope she makes Sloane miserable. It occurred to me that Sloane could be faking all this for some unknown reason. That would probably be too devious, even for Sloane. Bits and pieces: -- Jack is a frightening man. It was cool that he gave Richter morphine instead of torturing him. Just a tad more sympathetic than usual, huh? -- Conspiracychick.com. :) -- Okay, why did Irina want the earrings? Really? -- Loved the scene where Vaughn reassured Sydney that while parental craziness was surrounding her, he was there for her, and always her ally. They looked like they were dying to fall into each other's arms. -- I'm sorry, but I'm a librarian; a first edition of "War and Peace" would not be that easy to retrieve from ANY library, and they certainly wouldn't allow a machine to drop it into a chute. It would be in Special Collections under lock and key and temperature control. -- Does the explosion at the end mean that the Operations Manual is now toast? -- This week's itinerary: Siberia; Moscow; Madagascar. Plus we got a short bit on Sark in the Falklands. -- This week's cool look: short, black wig and Russian military uniform with lockpicks posing as service medals. -- This week's impressive language skill: Russian! Very good. Three out of four spies, Billie |
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