Episode 9: Horizons
December 17, 2005 – 4:24 pmWe start with Syd and Vaughn - gasp, but no surprise (spoiled too much already) - carrying groceries. Which is wrong. Then someone tells Syd to stick with Vaughn, then poof - two days earlier.
Syd went for her usual checkup, along with Jack. Jack gives Syd her thingy which she used to love when she was three and under.
Then there’s Kelly Peyton, Dean’s right-hand man (girl), now the leader of the bad guys who used to be under Dean. She kills a guy for his watch, and breaks into someplace where she steals Vaughn files.
Which makes APO go crazy. Syd is assigned to meet with Renee and see whether Vaughn ever told her anything. Nothing. But Syd is kidnapped, at the roadside, even though Renee flung two knifes (okay, that’s really cool), and shot a van like crazy. Renee only got the guy whom she thought to be her father episodes earlier (5x05 Out of the Box).
Jack takes it personally, so he goes to wherever where Renee is, where she holds the wounded guy. The guy is keeping his mouth shut, and won’t say anything, so Jack slices off his ear. But the guy’s tough, and won’t give up. Renee finds an address book on him, where there is an address written at least three times, and one time on the date of Syd’s delivery, which is in three days.
Meanwhile, Syd is fighting hard under hypnosis (or whatever). She goes back into all kinds of memories - season 4, 3, 2, 1, and Vaughn keeps telling her to let him go because the bad guys need intel that he tells her…and stuff.
Anyway there’s this bad guy behind the wall using distorted voice to direct the doctor guy. At last, Syd gives a wrong place name to them. And we see that behind the glass it is — Irina! And she talks to Peyton.
Kelly Peyton comes in, and Syd stabs her with the needle and rushes off. Meanwhile, Jack and Renee are at the specific address found in the book. All three are running around, then Jack enters a room, where there’s a crib, and rocking chair, and he’s surprised (in his Jack way), and says, “Good Lord!”
And Syd races out of the door into the sun just in time to see a helicopter take off, and that she’s so stuck on a cargo ship (called Athena). Looks like she is so going to have to deliver the baby on the ship just as the bad guys want .
Rating: 8/10
Just because of Irina, and Jack back in action (almost action, that is), and well the surprises in the end that really did caught me. Although Irina back wasn’t quite a shocker, I had stupidly half-spoiled myself in the forums before watching and suspected something. The scenes were obviously spliced in, and some say it is old footage, others say it is new stuff, shot in New York. Personally, it doesn’t really matter, so long as she’s there. And the crib room. Spooky. Please don’t tell me the baby is actually the real Rambaldi prophecy or whatever. I’m sick of this junk.
By the way, though this episode takes the highest rating in season 5 so far for me, it obviously doesn’t do the same for the people in USA. This episode has the lowest ratings of the entire series. How devastating can that be?
Hiatus until March. Until then, I’ll hopefully have the season 4 dvd. And meanwhile, so long as Lena Olin comes back, Alias will always rock. (almost always…)