Review of Episode 16: Another Mister Sloane
4/20/2005
Roberts: "You ask me, both of them give me the creeps."
I'm not sure what just happened, but I'm fascinated. Has Sloane
just been biding his time all along? When has he lied? Or
has he been telling the truth? Is he actually blameless? Did
proximity to the big red golf ball battery make him nuts,
like he was in Siena with Nadia? It was like he was possessed
when he was bludgeoning Carter to death; I was completely
creeped out when he talked so softly to Nadia with blood running
down his face. Oooooh.
What Sloane said to Carter (mid-bludgeon) confused me. I
always thought immortality was the big Rambaldi thing that
made people so obsessed, but Sloane said that it was just
a lure to keep the underlings occupied. What is it, really?
Is this the season when we'll finally find out what the big
Rambaldi secret is? If it isn't immortality, then it has to
be power. World domination? A time travel machine? Warp drive?
Who the hell is Arvin Clone? (And was that laugh out loud
funny, or what?) I thought that Sloane would recognize him,
but if he did, he isn't telling. Arvin Clone told Dr. Sinclair
about his past, how he discovered Rambaldi, and it was the
same as Sloane's past: the Army Corps of Engineers, and so
on. Was he also married to a woman named Emily? Does the Clone
think he's really Sloane, like Sydney said? Maybe he actually
is a clone. Wouldn't that be interesting?
Jack felt subtly fragile somehow in this episode, as if he
were ill, which
he is. That emotional Jack/Sloane conversation in the men's
room sure made it sound like Jack killed Irina, but (I know,
I'm grasping) that might be exactly how Jack wanted it to
sound. I'm holding on to my constant belief that Jack would
know Irina was incapable of having Sydney killed, and that
he hid her away somehow and faked her death.
Questions, questions, questions.
Bits and pieces:
-- I'm such a Trek girl: I saw Dr. Sinclair and immediately
thought, "Ro
Laren." What happened with her was a lot like the Christian
Slater plot
awhile back, except they tortured her instead of kidnapping
her family to
"motivate" her.
-- Paul Ben-Victor (Carter, the grim-faced torturer) was
a lot funnier in
the "Invisible Man" series.
-- Scarface Roberts was right. He would have been safer in
prison.
"Someplace safe? What, like Mars?"
-- Did the blood on Sloane's forehead spell out a word, and
if so, what was it? "Kill! Kill!" :)
-- Who is Jacquelyn?
-- The elevators in the exchange scene looked familiar. Were
they in a
movie? If you know, drop me a line.
-- Sydney to Nadia: "Forty-seven, forty-five... "
They're playing with us,
aren't they?
-- Sloane: "You're asking me to go back to Rambaldi."
Sydney: "God help us, yes."
-- Sloane to Nadia: "Having me for a father is an arduous
undertaking."
Gee, you think?
-- This week's itinerary: Krakow, Sicily, Santiago. And aren't
the Rambaldi
artifacts in Nevada?
-- This week's gross-out moment: Whatever Paul Ben-Victor
was doing to Michelle Forbes with that thing. Bleah. Okay,
more implied than gross,
which is good, but there was a lot of screaming.
-- This week's hot look: That pin-striped suit on Vaughn.
And Sydney's
pig-tailed flight attendant outfit was cute.
It's hard to rate an episode that is one big question mark,
but I have to
say that this is "Alias" at its best. We're deeply
into the arc, I'm
totally mystified by what's going on, but I know it will all
make sense
later on. Love it. Four spies,
Billie
- Review by Billie Doux
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