Review of Episode 5: Out of the Box
10/27/2005
Sydney: "This isn't an abduction. It's a rescue."
Usually, I have some glimmer of an idea of what's going on,
but this frozen guy thing has me at a complete loss.
At least we now know who's in the box: Dr. Aldo Desantis,
played by "Pretender" alumni Patrick Bachau. What
happened to Renee's father, then? Was it doubling? The immunosuppressants
hint that it was a brain transplant, which takes us dangerously
into Frankenstein territory. Why was he frozen for twenty
years? Does it have anything to do with Rambaldi?
I just don't believe Sloane was sincere about threatening
Senator Lewis' daughter; he staggered just a bit as he was
leaving the skating rink, which signaled to me that he was
upset about it. The fun part was that Jack is prepared for
Sloane going dark again. (I don't know why that surprised
me; Jack is certainly no one's fool.) I like the idea of Jack
as the permanent APO director, and the thought of him and
Sloane on opposite sides again almost makes me salivate. I
wish they'd stop teasing us with the possibility of Sloane
turning evil again, and just deliver.
There's a whole lotta bonding going on. Sydney and Renee
achieved trust. Marshall and Rachel had a cute bonding scene
over "War Games" and hacking into the Pentagon.
(They never did reveal what their favorite movies were.) And
finally, Tom Grace seems like a younger version of Jack. They
did some bonding, too, and the resemblance gets more pronounced
every week.
Bits and pieces:
-- Renee told her "father" that it was 2006. Is
this the first time we're told what the date actually is?
Is this how they're handling Sydney's two missing years? Plus,
they referred to Desantis' hibernation as lasting 23 years,
and then they said it was 20. What was it?
-- Rachel is living with Sydney? Geez, how many roommates
has she had in the course of the series?
-- That initial raid on the base made Renee look like Wonder
Woman. She even broke out of an upper story window, in flames,
and fell into the back of a truck. Stunt-o-rama.
-- "Charlotte" was one of Marshall's cuter gadgets.
-- Did Renee get a haircut? Or was that another wig?
-- This week's itinerary: Frankfurt, Marseilles, San Francisco,
Kaesong, and Geneva in flashback. They sure got around this
time.
-- This week's semi-hot look: Dixon and Rachel, in color-coordinated
cover clothes.
-- Marshall: "I always thought of Germany as the home
of processed meats, you know, because of all the sausages.
And there's liverwurst, bratwurst, fleishwurst..."
-- Tom: "Let's take a look at our bad boy." (pause)
"Make that a bad girl."
-- Sydney: "My father is overprotective." You think?
-- Tom: "My mother always said if someone was worth
shooting once, they're worth shooting twice." Jack: "Sorry
I never met her. She sounds like my kind of woman." Tom:
"I think the two of you would have gotten along."
Two out of four spies,
Billie
- Review by Billie Doux
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