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Srah's weekly JHAC-copied "Alias" recap/review

Srah's weekly JHAC-copied "Alias" recap/review (I promise, it's the last... unless Shepard becomes a recurring character...)

Rather than a few brief encounters in the last fifteen minutes, JH was a major character in the first half hour of the show. It makes me wonder how this show is written, because it seems that they end one thread of a story very promptly on the half-hour or the quarter-hour. Anyway...

When last we saw Sydney, she had a look of open-eyed and open-mouthed horror as she had discovered her partner with his neck slit. Mmmmm. Then along came the guards and caught her. This week, we find Sydney having a nice little bath. With electrodes attached to her. They are electrocuting her to torture information out of her. Unfortunately, she doesn't have any!

She convinces the evil doctors/orderlies, who are with K-Directorate (another (!) spy organization) that Shepard will trust her because she's another patient. In return for the information that Shepard gives her, they will spare her life and just send her to a Tchechnian prison. I am pretty sure I spelled that wrong.

On a side note, isn't it nice that everyone in this Romanian mental institution has learned English for Shepard and Sydney's sake? Awwwww.

So, she befriends our pal Shepard. He is confused and victimized and a lovely lovely actor. You can see the pain and confusion in his eyes and face. He thought he was safe in this desolate, remote location, but they tracked him here. He doesn't know what's going on in his mind - he just knows he's having these horribly vivid black-and-white flashbacks that he thinks are dreams. He thinks he's delusional or dangerous.

Sydney fills him in on what's been done to him and tells him she needs his help to escape. Shepard doesn't want to escape because he doesn't want to be dangerous on the loose. Erm, what else?

Eventually, she convinces him that there are bad people in the hospital who are going to get him anyway.

Shepard still doesn't quite trust her, because he has a flashback that night that makes him wonder if she's setting him up - considering HE KILLED HER FIANCE! Hmmm. Fortunately for him, Sydney doesn't know that. Yet.

They escape and go to a little hut, call Daddy on the cell phone (why do all of these spies have cell phones? aren't those insecure?), and Shepard tells-all to Sydney, who opens her mouth really wide and makes sobbing sounds. Then she forgives him.

She tells SD-6 that he's dead. Srah says "No, he's not. She's just telling SD-6 that he is." Sydney tells the CIA, "No, he's not. I'm just telling SD-6 that he is." Srah says, "Aha! Why am I not being paid to write this?"

Then other things happen. Sydney has an outside life. In the three episodes I've seen, I've never seen this graduate student do anything academic. Isn't her job at the bank enough? And how do I get a bank job as a graduate student that makes me travel constantly all over the world? Doesn't Francie wonder about the bruises and such? No, Francie is busy getting engaged.

La la, conflict with Daddy, then at the end, we get... postcard from Martin! Yay! I'm trying to figure out if it's JH's handwriting, but it's printed and I've only seen his cursive writing, I think. If it's his, it doesn't look familiar.

Fin.

srah - Monday, 26 November 2001 - 12:02 PM
Tags: alias, john hannah, reviews, tv

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