Review of Episode 20: The Descent
5/18/2005
Yelena: "I'd heard you reformed."
Sloane: "I suppose I've been born again."
Irina is alive! I knew it even before the Lena Olin casting
spoiler hit the
net, though. What I'm finding hard to comprehend is Jack's
certainty that
he killed her. Jack isn't easily fooled. I thought for awhile
that we
might just get Irina in flashback, but if Dixon saw her, she's
really alive.
And isn't that grand?
Just last week, we were led to believe that Sloane has truly
reformed, and it was very convincing. And this time, Sydney
turned her back on Sloane and he ambushed her. Was he taking
her out, or protecting her? I tend to think he was protecting
her, just from the gentle way he laid her on the floor. That,
and the scene with Dixon ("You can't stop this. Only
I can. You have to trust me") had a ring of truth: Sloane
looked outright sad when Yelena shot Dixon.
Vaughn asking Jack for his blessing to marry Sydney was a
full circle return to the pilot, where Danny did the same
thing and got killed. Which makes me think that Vaughn might
die. Vaughn can't die! And it's not just that I adore him;
won't they need him next season if Jennifer Garner really
is pregnant? (It was funny that Jack's initial response to
Vaughn was also sarcastic, much like his response to Danny...
except I don't remember Jack actually giving Danny his blessing.
He did eventually give it to Vaughn.)
So Yelena is after another Rambaldi assembly kit. At least
we finally know, after four years, what Rambaldi's ultimate
endgame is: the big A,
Apocalypse. I did a frame-by-frame of Nadia's vision in Siena.
Most of it
is apocalypsey stuff, but the last frame is Nadia herself,
very white, with
red eyes. Uh-oh.
Bits and pieces:
-- Dixon and Chase are having a hot affair! How utterly delightful.
But why
did they have to get Dixon crunched, *again?* Is that the
third time this
season? Dixon had better be okay; it would be just too sad
if he died now that he's found love again.
-- Loved watching Katya, as always, aggressively flirting
with Jack. "I
should warn you, I have quite a bit of stamina. But you already
know that
about me."
-- Yelena ran the Covenant, too. Is there anything bad she
didn't do? And
hey, if she's so smart, how come she didn't take the medallion
with her when she left?
-- We finally got flashbacks to Sloane's Rambaldi-related
madness in Siena, where he was literally walking on glass
and acting all Darth Vader (he even said, "Nadia, I am
your father".) Sloane looked pretty badly injured by
the broken glass, which reminded me of the Rambaldi healing
fluid. Could we assume he took some along?
-- Marshall: "I'm sure Mr. Bristow's going to be thrilled."
Vaughn: "Really?
I'm just hoping he doesn't shoot me on the spot." Vaughn
sure knows Jack better than Danny did.
-- Virgin Mary? Living embodiment? "My daughter is not
an artifact."
-- Nadia: "Sydney has her own laptop. She also has..."
Agent: "An assault
rifle, a twelve-gauge shotgun, four handguns, two tasers,
and a secret
drawer of knives." And a partridge in a pear tree.
-- Jack: "Time is running out, and she's the only Derevko
we have."
-- This week's itinerary: They sure got around this time.
Cannes, Mexico,
Prague, plus China and Siena in flashback.
-- This week's hot look: "Don't touch the fur. All right,
you may touch the
fur." "Put." "Do." :)
-- Yelena also looked pretty hot in the black suit and ponytail;
Sonia Braga is a beautiful woman.
This was a fabulous episode, all on its own. "The Descent"
and "Search and Rescue" aired together, but they're
very dense episodes: I decided to review them separately.
More in part two,
Billie
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- Review by Billie Doux
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