Slinking in late because the brain-melt has been severe over this ep, as you know. The following will be both random and long. Please forgive the hijack.
...my bet is that it involves either political power or the Rambaldi material.
...or both, since "Peace" implies a lot of political power, on a very practical level. At least, I assume it does if you're Arvin Sloane.
It would also imply that the Covenant exists to gain control of Rambaldi material, which would tie in with the information provided by Allison that her life was saved by some kind of Rambaldi formula.
I had a fairly wild thought here, actually. Allison's reference to "a Covenant-run hospital" made me wonder if there weren't a program running to implement Rambaldi's techniques on human subjects. Which led to two other thoughts: one, that Lazarey is actually not dead (oooh! Left field!) and two, that the NSC and the Covenant are in some sort of Rambaldi race, in fact. Because I'm really bugged about the disposition of all the Rambaldi material that was presumably Arvin Sloane's dowry when he cozied up to the US gov. You can't tell me that the DoJ/NSC would have hold of all that stuff and not try to use it. But in any case it's clear that we're beyond acquisition and into implementation, where Rambaldi's concerned. And the NSC does not investigate the murders of diplomats, yo.
Arvin's clearly playing a deep game and if he isn't running the Covenant he's manipulating it to his own ends and will no doubt set it up to blow when he's finished with it, a la SD-6 and the Alliance. I can't rid myself of the thought that all of the CIA/Covenant running-around-after-weapons-technology is part of Arvin's plan for Peace. He's letting others do most of the work, as usual. And if they all think they're pursuing their own agendas, why, of course! It's a win-win-win situation, up to a point.
I'm sorry, but with the Russian connection, Irina's got to be here somewhere. Doesn't she?
Jack. I find it quite plausible that he'd work with Sark, and that Sark would work with him if he were persuaded that Jack could help him recover the gold. In fact, speaking of timing, Jack's release and the events that led to Sark's escape were very suggestively consecutive, weren't they? And I certainly believe it's within Jack's power to instigate an NSC balls-up. But if Sark were working with Jack wouldn't he be working with Irina, by extension? And how does that play out?
I just can't shake the sense that something is up with Jack Bristow.
I wonder if Dixon is in on whatever Jack's doing? But you're right, Jack's doing something and it ain't pretty.
Your speculation that Sark was also wearing a wire during that meeting was really cool. I certainly had the impression, on rewatching the ep, that he was baiting Sydney when he said "Oh, she's a very good judge of character" and "We're going to Bulgaria." He had that Sark gleam in his eye. I think he and Allison both knew Sloane was wired because Sloane had done or said something deliberately to make that clear, and I think Sark knew or guessed who'd be on the other end, listening. The notion that Sark might also be feeding information to another control just makes the whole thing tastier.
Speaking of Sark, I was also struck by the contrast between his reaction to Sydney and his reaction to Allison, both of whom he'd believed dead, at first seeing each again. I'm coming around to the notion that he's playing it safe with Allison. That reunion after he was shoved out of the van struck me as odd. He reacted as though he considered her an immediate threat--that sort of frozen guardedness--but not one he could neutralize in the usual way. Perhaps I've been lingering too long by the banks of that river in Egypt, however.
The big hole at the center of all of this is Sydney, and I'm getting tired of her simply because I'm getting tired of endlessly recomplicated plots and never any resolutions. Poor girl. I hope she at least gets laid soon.
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Date: 2003-11-05 08:25 pm (UTC)...my bet is that it involves either political power or the Rambaldi material.
...or both, since "Peace" implies a lot of political power, on a very practical level. At least, I assume it does if you're Arvin Sloane.
It would also imply that the Covenant exists to gain control of Rambaldi material, which would tie in with the information provided by Allison that her life was saved by some kind of Rambaldi formula.
I had a fairly wild thought here, actually. Allison's reference to "a Covenant-run hospital" made me wonder if there weren't a program running to implement Rambaldi's techniques on human subjects. Which led to two other thoughts: one, that Lazarey is actually not dead (oooh! Left field!) and two, that the NSC and the Covenant are in some sort of Rambaldi race, in fact. Because I'm really bugged about the disposition of all the Rambaldi material that was presumably Arvin Sloane's dowry when he cozied up to the US gov. You can't tell me that the DoJ/NSC would have hold of all that stuff and not try to use it. But in any case it's clear that we're beyond acquisition and into implementation, where Rambaldi's concerned. And the NSC does not investigate the murders of diplomats, yo.
Arvin's clearly playing a deep game and if he isn't running the Covenant he's manipulating it to his own ends and will no doubt set it up to blow when he's finished with it, a la SD-6 and the Alliance. I can't rid myself of the thought that all of the CIA/Covenant running-around-after-weapons-technology is part of Arvin's plan for Peace. He's letting others do most of the work, as usual. And if they all think they're pursuing their own agendas, why, of course! It's a win-win-win situation, up to a point.
I'm sorry, but with the Russian connection, Irina's got to be here somewhere. Doesn't she?
Jack. I find it quite plausible that he'd work with Sark, and that Sark would work with him if he were persuaded that Jack could help him recover the gold. In fact, speaking of timing, Jack's release and the events that led to Sark's escape were very suggestively consecutive, weren't they? And I certainly believe it's within Jack's power to instigate an NSC balls-up. But if Sark were working with Jack wouldn't he be working with Irina, by extension? And how does that play out?
I just can't shake the sense that something is up with Jack Bristow.
I wonder if Dixon is in on whatever Jack's doing? But you're right, Jack's doing something and it ain't pretty.
Your speculation that Sark was also wearing a wire during that meeting was really cool. I certainly had the impression, on rewatching the ep, that he was baiting Sydney when he said "Oh, she's a very good judge of character" and "We're going to Bulgaria." He had that Sark gleam in his eye. I think he and Allison both knew Sloane was wired because Sloane had done or said something deliberately to make that clear, and I think Sark knew or guessed who'd be on the other end, listening. The notion that Sark might also be feeding information to another control just makes the whole thing tastier.
Speaking of Sark, I was also struck by the contrast between his reaction to Sydney and his reaction to Allison, both of whom he'd believed dead, at first seeing each again. I'm coming around to the notion that he's playing it safe with Allison. That reunion after he was shoved out of the van struck me as odd. He reacted as though he considered her an immediate threat--that sort of frozen guardedness--but not one he could neutralize in the usual way. Perhaps I've been lingering too long by the banks of that river in Egypt, however.
The big hole at the center of all of this is Sydney, and I'm getting tired of her simply because I'm getting tired of endlessly recomplicated plots and never any resolutions. Poor girl. I hope she at least gets laid soon.