Episode 5: Out of the Box
October 29, 2005 – 8:16 pmRemember Renee the bad girl who stole the coffin-like box? After a week’s break she finally returns. We see someone break into some place and steal a thingy. Of course that person is Renee. She defeats like a dozen people and get away alive, jumping through flames.
So of course APO gets the news, and Dixon suspects whoever did it was the whoever that stole the body-in-the-box. Syd is determined to go see Renee and find out why, but Jack is over-protective and asks Tom to escort her.
Meanwhile, Sloane, enjoying his freedom, meets up with Jack, who says he’s already sent in a request to allow Sloane full access to all CIA files. (I am surprised by Jack’s all-too-simple trust…)
Tom and Syd visit Renee, where they find the corpse walking around. Renee is so happy — he’s her father. Unfortunately, they have no time for chatting, because they are attacked by a group of whoevers.
In San Francisco, Dixon and Rachel hack into some thingy using Marshall’s little remote-control thingy. They are trying to find some Dr Desantes, whose name was in the box as reported by Tom.
Tom and Renee hold off the bad guys, while Syd stays with Renee’s father. Some old stories are told, of which Syd finds a blooper. And everybody (at least she and APO people) realize that the body was Renee’s father, but the brain wasn’t. The body used some kind of thingy which is used for those transplants where the body rejects the organ.
In other words, Renee’s ‘father’ had a transplanted brain. And the bad guys were coming to rescue him. Obviously this brain belonged to Dr Desantes, because in the end, after he got rescued, Dean came to see him. And called him Desantes.
In between all these are Sloane scenes. Sloane has some deal with Dean, which means he has to get back to APO, in order to be able to allow Dean convenience. Unfortunately, there is a senator in the way, so Sloane goes and threatens her daughter.
Which in the very next day, Sloane gets complete access to CIA files. His motive was to search a cure for Nadia. And the show ends with Sloane walking into APO, towards Jack.
Rating: 6.5/10
Not bad. But the ratings have been a new low, in USA, that is. I’m afraid that it may get cancelled. Blame those stupid ABC people!! They put Alias in the ‘dead’ time on Thursday night.
Off-topic: Recently the Titanic Special Edition DVD came out. I wonder whether I should get it, seeing that there are so many special stuff. The bunny thing from angry alien productions is cute, watch it: 30-second Titanic Bunnies!