When we last saw our heroine, she was trapped under the ice, ready to freeze to death, with an irritating European spy waiting above to kill her if she tried anything. Having seen the cliffhanger and the resolution in the wrong order, it’s hard to say if her escape was a cop out or not. Am I right to assume machine guns work underwater? I know I’d want them to. Sydney’s still on top form this week. I particularly enjoyed her Russian military uniform. I don’t know what that says about me.

Meanwhile, back at Vaughn and Sydney’s exciting fence, Vaughn’s very upset. “I certainly didn’t join the CIA looking for fairness,” he exclaims in surprise. Oh. It must have been to meet hot chicks then. On this front he’s doing alright, but frankly, he deserved a snog at one point and Syd’s a meanie for not giving him one. But then, she has issues too. Having divorced parents is never easy, and it makes it even more difficult if they’ve been going around killing people. Her mum seems quite a sweetie. I’m not so sure about her dad though. His eyes are very close together and his mouth is teeny weeny. These can’t be good signs.

Ah. And he’s taken to booby trapping cottages with explosives. Anti-social tendencies like this won’t help anyone. Least of all Sydney. Mr Bristow seems a fairly sensible man but frankly if my daughter were a super spy who’d been running rings around a highly dangerous weapon smuggling operation for over a year, I’d be just a little more nervous about attempting to hoodwink her. You could see him feeling a bit guilty when everyone told him how cool he was though. His mouth got that extra bit smaller.

I have my doubts about this SD-6 business actually. Surely Sloane must be getting just a little suspicious that all the missions he sends Sydney on result in near failures, or meaningless data. One would think that every now and then they’d have to let them have SOMETHING. But right now Sloane’s a bit distracted by some creepy goings-on concerning his wife. It’s nice when the bad guys don’t get away with naughty things like spoucicide.[ftn] Still, I reckon one simple ‘trailing’ operation on one or both of the Bristows would reveal some valuable information.

And lastly — good on Will. Often in these shows, the normal people are forced to act dumb to prove to us just how clever the super heroes are. Will appears to have escaped this fate. He’s not fooled by cute chicks who want his SD-6 knowledge.

Footnotes

1. This may not be a real word.

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