Alias 3x07: Prelude to what?
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vaznettiThe usual postep musings, in no rational order...
Michael Vaughn needs to be practicing his cricket. The England team needs him! He also needs to realize that his urge to protect both Sydney and Lauren is going to get him into a great deal of trouble. It was obvious enough that Jack set him and Lauren up, and my only question was whether he bothered to ask Javier a few questions before killing him. It rather depends on how much one thinks Jack already knows.
Of course, Jack didn't plan for Sark. Did Sark just discover the pictures, or was he lying to Allison last week? We'll probably never know. Cue the fic. Also the fic where Sark sees the pictures for the first time. Who gave them to him? Allison? Sloane?
Sark, the gentleman assassin. "Get in the car, please." "Everything on your registry was taken." I turn to goo. Someone brought that young man up right, though. I suppose it wasn't the father he never knew, and I have my doubts about Irina. This does rather put a dent in my "Sark and Jack are secretly working together" plot, though, as I can't imagine Jack would OK Sark letting Lauren in on that little secret. But it works nicely with the "Sark working with Sloane or Irina" theories, as the effect was to drive Sydney straight to Rome. The timing was rather suspicious: first the key, then her secret is revealed. I think it likely that Sloane is pulling all the strings here. He broke the code and knew where Sydney would go, and had someone in place to leak her location to the Italian police. The goal, of course, is to put himself in the position to arrange her rescue, and get Jack and Sydney working with him again.
Unless... my secret theory is correct, and Marshall is the mastermind behind it all? Come on--you know Marshall could take over the world in about a week, if he thought about it. And the scene with Sloane in the CIA meeting room? They were so totally passing coded messages to each other.
Ahem. Perhaps not.
As for Irina... it seems that she did not share all her intel with Jack. My barbieshipper heart is broken, but my higher brain functions are not very surprised. Does this imply that Julia and Irina spent time together? How interesting--Julia and Irina in Rome would be so nice! Since it seems that Julia knew that she was Sydney (how else to explain the letter sent to Sloane with the enclosure for Sydney?). Was Irina responsible for Sydney's re-emergence? So many interesting possibilities, so little hard information...
Jack is focused on one thing, and one thing only: keep Sydney safe. I expect that to drive him straight to Sloane. I wonder how far he's willing to trust Vaughn at this point, even with Vaughn's turnaround rescue of Sydney.
And finally, Dixon. As CIA directors seem to be about as useless as England cricket captains, I hope that Dixon's demotion means that he can be interesting again. How I loved the scene where he and Slaone came face to face!
OK, I admit it. I love any scene with Crazy Uncle Arvin. He's my new secret boyfriend. I am going straight to hell for this.
Peace now!
Michael Vaughn needs to be practicing his cricket. The England team needs him! He also needs to realize that his urge to protect both Sydney and Lauren is going to get him into a great deal of trouble. It was obvious enough that Jack set him and Lauren up, and my only question was whether he bothered to ask Javier a few questions before killing him. It rather depends on how much one thinks Jack already knows.
Of course, Jack didn't plan for Sark. Did Sark just discover the pictures, or was he lying to Allison last week? We'll probably never know. Cue the fic. Also the fic where Sark sees the pictures for the first time. Who gave them to him? Allison? Sloane?
Sark, the gentleman assassin. "Get in the car, please." "Everything on your registry was taken." I turn to goo. Someone brought that young man up right, though. I suppose it wasn't the father he never knew, and I have my doubts about Irina. This does rather put a dent in my "Sark and Jack are secretly working together" plot, though, as I can't imagine Jack would OK Sark letting Lauren in on that little secret. But it works nicely with the "Sark working with Sloane or Irina" theories, as the effect was to drive Sydney straight to Rome. The timing was rather suspicious: first the key, then her secret is revealed. I think it likely that Sloane is pulling all the strings here. He broke the code and knew where Sydney would go, and had someone in place to leak her location to the Italian police. The goal, of course, is to put himself in the position to arrange her rescue, and get Jack and Sydney working with him again.
Unless... my secret theory is correct, and Marshall is the mastermind behind it all? Come on--you know Marshall could take over the world in about a week, if he thought about it. And the scene with Sloane in the CIA meeting room? They were so totally passing coded messages to each other.
Ahem. Perhaps not.
As for Irina... it seems that she did not share all her intel with Jack. My barbieshipper heart is broken, but my higher brain functions are not very surprised. Does this imply that Julia and Irina spent time together? How interesting--Julia and Irina in Rome would be so nice! Since it seems that Julia knew that she was Sydney (how else to explain the letter sent to Sloane with the enclosure for Sydney?). Was Irina responsible for Sydney's re-emergence? So many interesting possibilities, so little hard information...
Jack is focused on one thing, and one thing only: keep Sydney safe. I expect that to drive him straight to Sloane. I wonder how far he's willing to trust Vaughn at this point, even with Vaughn's turnaround rescue of Sydney.
And finally, Dixon. As CIA directors seem to be about as useless as England cricket captains, I hope that Dixon's demotion means that he can be interesting again. How I loved the scene where he and Slaone came face to face!
OK, I admit it. I love any scene with Crazy Uncle Arvin. He's my new secret boyfriend. I am going straight to hell for this.
Peace now!
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Date: 2003-11-10 05:39 am (UTC)I love and adore your icon. Crazy Uncle Arvin is my hero!
And mmm...Sark can assassinate me gently any time.
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Date: 2003-11-10 10:06 am (UTC)What I would really want to see, of course, is Jack's face when he finds out. I think that's the news that would cause his facade to crack.
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Date: 2003-11-10 06:37 am (UTC)You too?
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Date: 2003-11-10 07:47 am (UTC)You and me, both.
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Date: 2003-11-10 10:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-10 08:47 am (UTC)It's *so* true. I want her to be good, but I know she's evil. It's too early to start imagining what possible excuse she had for this, but I'm guessing it goes something like her excuse for shooting Syd: "Brainwashing you and turning you into an assasin was the only way I could think of to protect you..." Ahem. However, this does wonders for the theory that Irina is behind the Covenant.
Sark, the gentleman assassin.
Why is it so sexy that he always says please when he's pointing a gun at someone? Sigh. What manners! What grace!
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Date: 2003-11-10 10:09 am (UTC)ROTFL. But if you think about it, that's always Jack's excuse too. "I know I just betrayed the CIA and mordered a dozen people, sweetheart, but it was all to keep you safe..." There's a reason Jack and Irina are such a good pair.
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Date: 2003-11-10 08:51 am (UTC)oh now that's just rich! isn't speculation fun??
OK, I admit it. I love any scene with Crazy Uncle Arvin. He's my new secret boyfriend. I am going straight to hell for this.
LMAO - okay me may not be my new secret boyfriend, but I am so loving any and every scene with him. He always looks like he knows more than he lets on. Wonder what it would take to truly wipe that smirk off his face?
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Date: 2003-11-10 10:22 am (UTC)I knew I had a problem when I realized that I don't want to see this. I want all of Sloane's evil little plans to come to fruition, because I want him to be happy.
Yep. Going to hell.
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Date: 2003-11-10 09:04 am (UTC)I guess I'll be joining you in hell.
(And. Sark. With the gun and and the accent and the manners. Sigh.)
This SpyMommy icon is in honor of Irina and Julia in Rome. I agree that Julia knew she was Sydney. But pretty much didn't care.
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Date: 2003-11-10 10:12 am (UTC)I wanted to be the one dancing with him! Seriously! He's such a good dancer!
I think that this is a sign that I'm getting old. I mean, Sark's extremely good-looking, but the actor is younger than some of my students, so the hidden squick-factor there is high. Whereas I can drool over Sloane and Jack with no fear that I'm doing something terribly, terribly wrong.
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Date: 2003-11-10 11:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-10 08:50 pm (UTC)But my opinion is not to be trusted. After all, I regularly lust after my male undergrads. [blushes] At least until they hand their first unbelievably bad papers in, and the attraction vanishes as quickly as it began.
So yes, as impure loves go, your Sloane-crush is not so reprehensible.
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Date: 2003-11-11 09:11 am (UTC)I have no idea whether or not this is true, but I've decided to take it as true to allay my fears that I'm turning into a dirty old woman. It ought to be true!
(As for the Sark/Lauren references, just call me your dealer.)
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Date: 2003-11-10 10:25 am (UTC)no, seriously! i totally think that! there's this crazy nut job of an asshole on SD-1 (not sure if you know what that is?) who used to be the biggest Swillage shipper ON EARTH. he was evil. but he was also convinced that marshall was rambaldi. and...it makes sense. the obsession with prime numbers. the smarts. i'm not saying marshall's going to start prophesying any time soon, but it's still worth watching out for.
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Date: 2003-11-10 01:22 pm (UTC)no subject
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