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2.7 The Counteragent Sark to Sydney: "You and I were destined to work together. I truly believe that." Another excellent episode. I noticed Sydney didn't hesitate to disobey the CIA when it came right down to Vaughn's life in the balance -- not to mention her willingness to set up Sloane! That decontam scene was pretty powerful; I was a little shocked that she gave in to Sark's proposal so quickly, but she hates Sloane with a passion, and what else could she do? Sloane, after losing his cool while having Richter tortured, and desperate for a hit to keep the Alliance from closing down SD-6, was thrilled to be able to flaunt his new partnership with Sark, while Sark seemed to be a lot more fascinated with, and fixated on, Sydney. Sark and Sydney make an interesting pair. He is clearly interested in her (transferring a fixation on Irina, perhaps?) and she despises him; he brings out the worst in her. Sydney and Jack seem to have a working truce now; he surprised and pleased Sydney by helping her kidnap Sloane. Jack clearly doesn't want Sydney to carry the guilt and responsibility of committing murder, though; he doesn't want Sydney to become the person that he is. She thought she was doing it, though, so even though she didn't take that step in fact, she took it emotionally. On the ghostly front, Sloane now believes that Emily is alive and that she knows he tried to kill her. When Sloane was on the massage table, he was about to confess everything about Emily to a disguised Sydney... or was he? Sydney still doesn't know about Emily, and hearing Sloane confess to killing her could have been explosive. Sydney's relationship with Vaughn is becoming more emotional, and more romantic, every week. Twice in this episode, I thought Vaughn would tell Sydney that he loves her; in the hospital bed, and later at the end -- and he didn't. He did tell Irina, though. They had the same conversation twice, in reverse: thank you for saving my life... and, I didn't do it for you, meaning, they both did it for Sydney. How interesting. Well, she made him do it, but still... Bits and pieces: -- Syd told Will about Project Christmas, which could have been tried on five million American children in 33 states. Wow. -- I knew something had happened to Vaughn in Cap Ferrat. My original thought back at the beginning of the season was that he had been brainwashed in some way. Now we know; he'd been exposed to the virus, and Khasinau was experimenting on the victims. To find a cure, according to Irina. -- Vaughn has a good-sized tattoo on his top left shoulder. He doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would have a tattoo... so either Michael Vartan has one and they decided not to cover it, or there's stuff we don't know about Vaughn. ;-) -- Vaughn also has a girlfriend, Alice, who was listed as his emergency contact. Very interesting. One doesn't think of Vaughn as having a life, since we only see his contacts with Sydney. -- This week's cool device: propulsion boots that zip Sydney through the water -- This week's itinerary: Paldiski, Estonia; Tokyo, Japan; -- This week's language and disguise: Sydney, almost unrecognizable as a geisha, and even speaking Japanese. Four out of four spies. Excellent, Billie |
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