Before I begin, I should probably mention that this episode
makes me giddy. When I am in need of a
good Alias fix and I am only going to watch a single episode, this will be the
episode that I turn to most often. It
definitely has it’s aspects for adding to the relationship, but it is an
episode that also makes me laugh which is never a bad thing considering how
often I can break into tears during an episode.
This episode can also produce tears for me as well, but three things
make this one of my favorite episodes, and since I shouldn’t put all the
spoilers at the top of the page. I will
indicate my favorite moments as I break it down.
After what Sydney went through in the last episode, she is
finally able to get what looks like some good rest. At least we see Sydney sleeping and not
waking up from a nightmare as we have seen all season. Once she is awake and has figured out what is
going on, she wonders across to another warehouse and finds Jack, Sloane, Vaughn,
and Lauren all working together to create a plan of some kind. Sloane was the first to notice her come in,
and once they noticed the room fell silent.
Jack went over and comforted her, but once it was appropriate, as Sydney
approached the table Vaughn stood to greet her and asked her how she
feels. She tells him fine and
thanks. Once again, even with his wife
there to witness, he shows off how chivalrous he is towards Sydney; standing as
she approaches, and being her protector, always wanting to make sure that she
is okay. Sydney gives them all thanks,
and then nods at Lauren and says all of you.
Admitting that even though Lauren is to blame for getting Sydney
arrested in the first place; she did help break her out, so she does need
thanks. With all that Sydney has been
through, you have to admit that she is pretty gracious to Lauren, even when
Lauren doesn’t deserve it. She has the
common sense to know that she can’t bad mouth Vaughn’s wife, at least not to
him, if she wants them to at least stay friends. Well at least for now.
It doesn’t take long for Sydney to want to be part of
whatever is going on and to help, so Vaughn explains that they are all
currently classified as fugitives, but they are working out a plan to frame the
covenant for breaking her out. So that they can all eventually return to the
positions that they had before.
Overall the beginning of the episode is a little bland for
me; however it is necessary to point out some details. Jack tells Sydney how instrumental Sloane has
been, so basically be nice, at least for now. They found where the code really
leads to which is in the desert about an hour from where they are now. Jack wants to go alone but Sydney insists on
going with. Jack then tells Sydney that
they may have a lead on someone that can unlock her memories. Sloane gives out grants to researchers, and
one of them happens to be working on a project that would cure long term
amnesia. Sydney got defensive and asked
why he didn’t tell her before, and he said that she wouldn’t have listened to
him before.
Before Jack and Sydney leave though, Lauren actually
apologizes to Sydney. Although as I was
just watching to look for other clues, you do see Vaughn making a face at
Lauren and her looking back at him right before she does this. I have to wonder if Vaughn and Lauren had a
heart to heart about how she needs to fix this, was he prodding her to say what
he thinks needs to be said. Either way, what she said was quite nice, she tells
Sydney; “So I was an idiot. Michael tried
to warn me about Lindsey, but I didn’t listen. I couldn’t believe what he was
telling me, so I did what I always do… I followed the rules.” Sydney doesn’t accept the apology, which
I think is fine, but she does give Lauren a small smile to indicate
appreciation for the apology.
We do get to see how good Sydney is at lying under pressure,
the false coordinates that she gave to Lindsey led him to a liquor store in
Simi Valley. The real coordinates led
Jack and Sydney to a box, and once they opened the box, they found a severed
hand which had the Rambaldi <O> symbol on it.
Back at the warehouse, they are discussing the hand and how
Lauren is going to go back to her position first. Her cover story being that she was held by
the Covenant and that they let her go, but is still holding Sydney. Sloane will contact Lindsey to set up an
exchange, the Rambaldi device for Sydney.
Vaughn and Jack are setting up a paper trail that will show them
investigating Sydney’s disappearance; so that they can go with Sydney to the
dream therapy guy. After looking at all the evidence that the others will have,
Lauren then realizes something beautiful, she tells them; “If Lindsey’s to believe I was being held by the Covenant, there needs
to be some evidence of my mistreatment.” Lauren then looks to Sydney. But Vaughn being the gentleman that protects
the women in his life immediately, tells them no, but with his immediate hand
to the head in frustration knows that she’s right. Jack then tells them that she is right and
that he was going to bring it up at the very last possible moment. Vaughn then stands up and starts to tell
them that he’s not going to let them beat his wife, but Lauren tells him that
since she is NSC, she is the only one that can go back and have Lindsey listen
to. We again see Vaughn turn to Jack,
telling him that it is insane and wondering if there is another option. Jack is very nice about it, and tells Vaughn
that the whole situation presents a problem, but they need physical evidence to
sell the idea that the Covenant was responsible. Vaughn looks down and sighs,
knowing that it has to happen whether he likes it or not. Lauren then looks at Sydney and tells her
that she should do it, whenever she is ready.
I have to wonder if Lauren chose Sydney because when she is home with
Vaughn she can bring up, remember how I helped you rescue your old girlfriend
and then she beat me up. Sydney isn’t so
sure about this idea though, logically she knows that it has to happen, but she
also knows how Vaughn likes to protect the women in his life, and she doesn’t
want to upset Vaughn. So before agreeing
to do it, she looks to Vaughn for his approval, he looks very conflicted by the
idea of Sydney beating up Lauren, and almost begs for Sydney to only go as far
as needed with his eyes; then tells her to just get it over with.
So now we reach one
of my favorite three parts, Sydney gets to finally take out her frustrations
with the situation at hand on Lauren.
Come on, at one point or another we have all wanted to punch Lauren in
the face, and Sydney finally has the chance, not to mention the fact that
Lauren won’t fight back and Sydney has Vaughn’s permission to do so. This is a no lose situation for Sydney. The
two women walk into another part of this warehouse and Lauren starts to make a
comment about how difficult this must be for her, but Sydney doesn’t even give
her the chance to get out the words, and she goes for a full effect punch
across the face, knocking Lauren to the ground. You can see how much Sydney
wanted to do that and how much power she wanted to go into it. It was awesome! But Sydney, not being overly catty tells
Lauren, that one was for turning me into Lindsey in the first place. But then Sydney reaches down to help Lauren
up and tells her that helping her up is her way of saying thank you for helping
her breakout. Then Sydney tells her, now
we can get this over with. I love how
Sydney shows Lauren that she isn’t to mess with her again, but also shows her
that they can become friends if they work at it. Then we see the extent of damage
that Sydney inflicted when Lauren shows up at the CIA. The first time I watched this, I had wished
that we could’ve seen more, but they made up for it. But now you know one of the reasons I love
this episode is because Sydney gets to beat up Lauren, at no personal cost to
herself.
On the jet going to Connecticut to meet with Dr. Brezzell,
the dream therapy man, Jack uses a voice distorter to talk with Lindsey about
the Covenant’s demands and Lindsey agrees to them. Once jack is finished, we see Vaughn and
Sydney sitting across the aisle form each other on the plane each doing their
own thing. When Jack sits down, he tells
Vaughn that Lauren did well, and Vaughn nods in thanks for letting him
know. Jack then looks at Sydney, and she
can tell that Jack wants a moment with Vaughn, so she excuses herself. We see another example of how Jack and Vaughn
are starting to connect again. Once
Sydney is gone Jack tells Vaughn; ”I
never thanked you for helping extract Sydney.” Vaughn just shakes his head and replies; “You don’t have to thank me.” Vaughn is clearly implying that he will also
do anything for Sydney as well. Jack
looks at him very serious and tells him; “Yes
I do; especially given your history. I used to think you didn’t have much of a
spine.” At first Vaughn looked worried with where
Jack’s statement was going, but now is almost smiling since Jack rarely gives
out a compliment. Vaughn then asks; “And has that assessment changed at all?” Jack looks at Vaughn and tells him; “no”, but Vaughn can tell that something
is up, so he just smiles at Jack, then Jack actually grins showing Vaughn that
he actually thinks highly of him, but just wanted to attempt to make a joke
with Vaughn. Which in itself is a pretty
big step considering where they were a few weeks ago. I think that it is in this comment that
allows Vaughn to feel like he should consider Jack’s advice that he will offer
or almost demand of Vaughn in the next episode.
Once they reach the dream therapy man, Dr. Brezzell, and
have been in his presence for a moment and have met his student that works with
him in more than the traditional ways.
Jack, Vaughn and Sydney are all a little Skeptical, but Jack is at least
hopeful. Once the doctor is far enough
away so they can talk, Jack turns around and Vaughn has moved from being by
Jacks side to a protective position near Sydney and Vaughn says; “Okay, you have got to be kidding me.” With an immediate response from Sydney saying;
“I can’t do this.” But Jack tells them that they really don’t
have many other options. But they all
sit down and the doctor explains how he came up with the idea, as well as how
the therapy works, basically saying that he will place her in a dream state,
and her memories can be accessed through her dreams. In the process he mentions some of his past
and how he found how to do this with drugs.
During the conversation Jack is asking questions, but Sydney and Vaughn
spend most of the time giving each other concerned looks.
As Dr. Brezzell is hooking Sydney up to his machines, he
explains to her that most people don’t realize that they are dreaming until
they wake up, but she is going to have to become lucid in the dream state. Sydney wonders how this is going to happen, and
you can see Vaughn watching Sydney on the monitors very concerned. He tells her that the drugs that he will give
her will do most of the work, but he will monitor her brain activity and once
he knows that she is in a dream state, he will help guide her back to where she
needs to go. He instructs her to try and
go back to her last memory she has, once she knows that she is in the dream
state. Because if she can reach that
point, ultimately, she will become aware of what happened next. – Okay I know this has nothing to do with the
relationship, but I felt it was necessary to explain how the therapy works so
we can talk about what is real and what is not.
Although it is interesting to note that as the doctor is working with
her and as he is putting her to sleep with the drugs, Vaughn is very anxious
and scared as he watches, but Jack remains calm, at least in comparison to Vaughn.
We watch as Sydney falls asleep and then she instantly opens
up her eyes again. But as we get a
better look, we see that she is all bloody, in an ambulance and Vaughn is
there. The moment she opens her eyes, he
immediately reaches down and says hey, happy to see her awake. Sydney on the other hand is confused by
seeing Vaughn; she even says his name as if it is a question. He keeps smiling and tells her that it is
him. We then see the EMT, who is telling
her not to move. Sydney wants to know
where she is, and the EMT tells her that she is on her way to the hospital,
that she has a mild concussion, but she will be okay. Vaughn then tells her that Will is going to
be okay, that he lost a lot of blood, but they got to him in time. This only furthers Sydney’s confusion, saying
that Will is in Witness Protection.
Obviously we know that this is a dream, by seeing her in the outfit she
wore when fighting with Allison. Vaughn
even tells Sydney that she wasn’t living with Francie, but with Allison. Sydney tells him that she knows, and starts
to get up when she is talking about the second double the one that they never
found. The EMT forces her back down, but
Sydney doesn’t care, she asks Vaughn if he has ever heard of the Covenant. He tells her that they were listed on a
report the day before as an emerging threat and he wonders if they are involved
with this. But Sydney isn’t answering
any of his questions, she wants to know when she is now, and is trying to
figure out what is going on. So she asks
if Sloane has been pardoned. Vaughn just
looks at her as if that is the most obscure thing he has ever heard and even
repeats the word pardoned, as a question.
She then looks down at his hands holding on to her own, and then tells
him that he’s not wearing a wedding ring. I love his response, he smiles and
tells her; “No, I thought we’d go to
Santa Barbara first and see how that went.” With that statement of Vaughn’s Sydney is now
ready to accept that everything that has happened over the last few weeks was
simply a nightmare, and that she didn’t miss two years of “her life. So she sits up, and says; “You’re not married?” Vaughn just smiles at her, obviously not
knowing what she is talking about and tells her that she really must’ve hit her
head hard. Then Sydney just stares at Vaughn as if she is about to cry, seeing
that she has just had a nightmare and says; “I
thought you gave up on us.” Vaughn
takes her closer to him, and with every ounce of sincerity he tells her; “Syd, when I walked into your apartment and
I saw you lying there, I thought, God, don’t let me miss a chance to tell her
how much I love her.” She just looks
at him and is so happy she is in tears and tells him; “I love you.” Then they kiss.
Now before I go on to what happens
after the kiss I want to point a few things out. One being that this scene is one of those
moments that I can watch over and over again and is one of the three favorite
moments. Within a few episodes of each
other, we have now seen what Vaughn dreams of and what Sydney dreams of. They both paint a different picture, however
they are similar. Sydney wishes that everything
has been a nightmare. She is slow to
accept that Vaughn still loves her and would be with her. It isn’t until she confirms that all of the
things in the last two years didn’t happen does she accept or even confess that
she thought she had lost Vaughn. I wish
that they had kept it in the script, but after Vaughn tells Sydney that he
loves her, he goes on to say that they hadn’t said it yet, and he was waiting
for the right moment. Once she realizes
that Vaughn is hers still she just wants to hold on tight to him. With Vaughn’s dream he dreams that Sydney
will forgive him for marrying Lauren and that is why in his dream he sees
Sydney by his side instead of Lauren and she tells him that he’s home. Like he said, he doesn’t fully regret
marrying Lauren, but he still wants to be with Sydney. In his dream we see that he wants her to admit
how much she misses him, or them, for a better term since they have been around
each other. Then he can admit how he
really feels as well. Another thing to
point out if you are looking at my train of thought on some subjects, this
scene would suggest that Vaughn wasn’t ready to propose to Sydney in Santa
Barbara. But this is Sydney’s dream, she
wouldn’t think that someone could propose that soon into a relationship, but
seeing how fast Vaughn married Lauren, he was definitely planning on proposing
in Santa Barbara. On a side note, even
though it is in a dream state, it is the first time we hear either of them say
the words “I Love You” to each other. We
have heard Vaughn tell her how much he loved her, and we have heard Sydney say
that she loves him; but never to each other.
The last thing that I want to point out is that Sydney is being led to
clues in this episode, she never actually sees where she really was, because of
the procedure that she had, but the audience doesn’t know she had. But Vaughn the two things that Vaughn brings
up to her, before discussing themselves, was Will is safe, and Francie was not
Francie, but was Allison. This right
there tells me that they will have something to do with the outcome overall.
It’s just one of those clues that you don’t see or pay attention to unless you
know what to look for.
Back to the dream, unfortunately
it wasn’t real and when Sydney came out of the kiss, she found herself in
another nightmare, still in the ambulance, but kissing Sloane this time. So she
screams and jumps away, but then we hear that it is Sloane’s face with Dr.
Brezzell’s voice. He tells her that she
is dreaming and that she needs to try and go back to the place that she last
remembered, in her apartment, as well as telling her that she is in control of
her environment. Then we see Sloane
push her out of the ambulance and we see the end of the Allison/Sydney fight of
last season. Then we see Sydney watching
herself Vaughn asks how she can be able
to access those memories if she was knocked unconscious, Brezzell tells him
that even though her eyes were closed some of her other senses were alert
enough to be able to bring back the memory. There are a few dreams that Sydney
does go through including watching men take her away from her apartment. And
then one of a childhood birthday party of hers where the cake went from saying
Happy Birthday to St. Aiden and then cuts the cake and it pours out blood. Brezzell tells her that she has to go back to
where she was, because as he had just told jack and Vaughn, she went into a
tangent and was no longer in memory. Back in memory, she finds a door that
reads 47, and then goes the other direction of a sound and then begins chasing
after herself. After all that chasing
going down stairs included, she is back at room 47, she is about to enter when
a voice calls her name. She turns and it
is Lauren, at this point it is important to note that Sydney is now in all
white clothing and Lauren is in all black.
Seeing Lauren throws Sydney off of
her course and doesn’t follow herself into the room marked with the 47. She instead follows after Lauren in a room
that is full of plastic sheeting. We
pull out of the dream to see that Brezzell is very confused because she
essentially pulling an Inception move, where she is in a dream within her dream
of her memories. But since he has never
seen it happen, he is a bit frazzled which only makes Vaughn more nervous. Sydney is shaking a bit on the table as well
which is of concern to them. Sydney
continues to follow Lauren, they eventually meet and Lauren tells Sydney that
she knew better. Sydney then tells
Lauren that she was a part of this. We
see them fighting and Lauren is quite capable, and throws Sydney around the
room a few times. Then finally Lauren
wraps a plastic sheet around Sydney, and suffocates Sydney. I am sure that I could go on a tangent myself
on what this may mean with a dream interpretation. But I am just going to say that Sydney had
every right to believe that Lauren was a part of what kept her away, as well as
the thought line that for Sydney in real life, she feels like Lauren is killing
her every day by being with Vaughn.
While Sydney is dreaming about dying, Sydney
begins to flat-line on the table and Jack finally has the look of concern that
Vaughn has had the whole time. Brezzell, and the guys work on bring her back,
pushing adrenaline into her heart as well as using the defibrillator on
her. We watch as the doctor works on her
and jack and Vaughn both sit and watch to see what will happen and the screen
goes blank for the commercial. These two
guys are not even close to being willing to lose her again, especially with
them watching.
Before she can go on though, the
door opens and Jack walks in and sees them close together with Sydney’s hand
coming off of his face, both Sydney and Vaughn turn to look. Jack tells her that her vitals are normal
and that she is going to be fine. It
finally hits her that she is not in a dream.
Jack walks off with a look of disappointment. Sydney is suddenly very ashamed of herself,
and closes her eyes and starts to apologize, but Vaughn stops her and tells her
that it is okay. And then they both look
away and have an awkward moment. I love
this moment I do, Sydney so rarely lets down her defenses, and when she was
with Vaughn before was one time that she could, so to see that vulnerability
with her and have it be a real moment is so great. Plus now we have seen Vaughn dreaming of
kissing Sydney, as well as Sydney dreaming of kissing Vaughn. But this is the first time that they actually
do get to kiss. We saw how much Vaughn
wanted to when he sent her off to Rome.
And we know how much Sydney has wanted this since she woke up. So it is a great moment that they finally get
to have their dream moment even if Vaughn knows it’s wrong and eventually the
need to do right by Lauren wins out.
That right there is my favorite moment in this episode. I know it’s dumb and that it isn’t perfect,
but to see them happy for even the small five seconds is all worth it to me.
A little while later Jack, Sydney,
and Vaughn are sitting and discussing Sydney’s dream, and Brezzell comes in and
explains why she had flat lined, so they wondered what else she had
remembered. She told them about not
being able to see the faces of the men that took her and that they took her to
a building and she lost them after they wheeled her through a door. Sydney pauses for a moment and looks at
Vaughn almost as if to see if he is ready to hear the next part, but goes on
anyway. She then proceeds to tell them
that Lauren strangled her. Vaughn looks
flustered and eyes the rest of the people in the room questioning what that
could mean. Then goes on to say; “Well…
That was a dream. It must have been a dream right?” He doesn’t like the idea of his wife showing
up in what was supposed to be a memory recall session of Sydney’s missing two
years. The last part of his statement was directed at Brezzell, but I have to
believe that with this, he may begin to have the feeling that Lauren may not be
the person for him. We know he has
doubted his marriage, although never admitting to it except for what we see in
his dreams, as well as how often he has gotten mad at her over her recent
actions.
The doctor explains that it is
unclear, it could’ve been Lauren, but it also could represent another
figure. Hearing this Vaughn seems a
little more relieved, but not 100%. The
doctor goes into a little more detail, but then Sydney interrupts him and tells
them that she wants to go back. When she
says this, she immediately looks to Vaughn.
We don’t see his reaction immediately, because her glace turns to Jack
when he starts speaking, telling her that it is a mistake. But I think that her initial line of thinking
was to see what Vaughn thought. Sydney’s
relationship with her father is infinitely better this season than any other
time in her life, but that is only because she doesn’t have Vaughn to turn to. Her looking to Vaughn first to gauge his
reaction reminds me of the deleted scene from the Indicator, S2 E5. Where she apologizes to him for calling him
irrelevant and tells him that through everything that she has gone through,
SD-6, her mother, etc. He has been the one constant in her life. Ever since they met, they have had a connection,
and he was always the one she would turn to.
She still wants and craves that part of their relationship even if they
can’t be together. And after this
experience, she is starting to believe that there might actually be a
possibility that it could happen. But
after Jack told her that it was a bad idea, she feels like she needs to explain
why she wants to go back and she tells them that they were taking her towards a
room, and that it was room 47. Once she
says 47, she turns back to Vaughn, to tell him she was being held in room 47. Once again, we go back to Vaughn being the
one person who understands her best. He
was the one who initially showed her page 47 and the significance that people
place on her. He was also the one who poured over that page looking for a
logical way to show that she was not the one in the prophecy. We finally get to see Vaughn’s face, and he
is showing nothing but concern. He has
never liked the effects that Rambaldi has had on Sydney, because it has
generally caused her pain in one way or another. She continues to saying that she has to go
back and see what happened to her in there.
We see Vaughn again and still concerned, he doesn’t say anything, but
just looks at her with that level of concern that only someone who loves you
will give you. Vaughn then looks to
Jack, once again we see that more and more Vaughn wants validation from Jack
and wants to hear his opinion before acting.
Even with Jack and Vaughn’s concern with Sydney going back into the dream
state, they go ahead and get her ready again.
As the doctor hooks her up, you see Vaughn back at the monitors watching
her every move very carefully. There is
no way that after what happened that last time she was in the dream state, that
he will let her come anywhere near that again.
He will be ultra-conscious of every move she makes.
Once Sydney is back in her dream,
she is in a car with Dixon, and he is driving a St. Aiden car, she remarks on
how she has never heard of one, Dixon tells her that they are hard to
find. The care ends up parking in her
living room, where Weiss and Marshall are playing cards and using the Rambaldi
clock from Time Will Tell, S1 E8, she asks for directions to the room with the
plastic and they tell her to check the kitchen.
Back in real life, Brezzell tells Jack and Vaughn that she is back into
the memory stage of her dream. Vaughn
immediately asks if she is alright. The doctor
explains some of her vitals, including that her heart rate is up again, but the
excitement level of the doctor when he says that she is on track for another
vivid one, makes Vaughn glare at him. it
wasn’t the answer that he was looking for. Sydney and Lauren meet up
again. Lauren tells her that she shouldn’t
have come back and that she doesn’t want to be here. Sydney then wants to figure out who Lauren is
supposed to be. Sydney even asks Lauren
who she is, because she knows that she isn’t Lauren. Lauren tells her that it doesn’t matter who
she is, just that she leaves. Sydney
tells her to get the hell out of her way, and then Lauren pulls out a gun and
tells her that she can’t do that. Sydney
kicks the gun away and then strangles Lauren with the plastic. Suddenly Lauren turns into Sydney, but a
Sydney who is dressed in all black and has a deeper voice. The two Sydney’s fights, the new Sydney
tells the real Sydney that she is stubborn, and is being an idiot. That they knew that the Covenant had them and
that they wanted to stay away, as well as asking her if she really thinks it’s
an accident that they don’t remember anything.
The real Sydney asks the new Sydney what happened to her, and she is
told to trust Lazarey. Sydney wants
more answers, but the new Sydney just tells her that she’s asked enough
questions. Back in real life Jack is
demanding that the doctor pull her out, that he isn’t going to risk her life
again. He is saying this as Sydney is
somewhat thrashing on the table again, Brezzell tells him no, that she is fine,
you can see that Vaughn doesn’t agree with the statement, but refuses to take
his eyes off of Sydney and the monitors.
The two Sydney’s start fighting again, but the real Sydney ends up
shooting the new Sydney and then running to the doors marked 47, she walks inside,
looks, and says “Oh my God.” Then the episode ends.
I know that it is an odd episode
to have as my favorite, but there are so many good aspects of it, and I know I
have rambled much more than necessary, as I often do. But this episode really does show how much
Vaughn still cares for Sydney. This
attribute only continues to grow as the season continues. I hate that they can’t be together, but I
love the tension and chemistry that they continue to have. It just makes for great television.
- Items that I found noteworthy…
- Sloane and Lindsey have a secret meeting, to discuss the demands of Sydney’s release. But Lindsey has other thoughts on his mind. He even tells Sloane that it is an awkward conversation, because he has a special request from Sloane. He wants Sloane to use his contacts to have Sydney killed during the exchange. Lindsey even goes as far as to say that he wants it done while he is there to get the assurance that Sydney is eliminated. To convince Sloane that he is serious he explains that he has proof of Sloane’s endgame and hands him a sheet of paper that shows the endgame.
- Lauren and Marshall worked on confirming the DNA on the hand and it belonged to Lazarey, so that means that Lindsay has nothing on Sydney, because she didn’t actually kill him and she can come home.
I really really love how Vaughn stands up as Sydney approaches the table. Ann, your description of this scene is great! And of course he asks "How are you feeling?" You're right, even in front of his wife he shows how much he cares about Sydney ...
ReplyDeleteI love the way Vaughn smiles so sweetly at Sydney on the plane when she gets up to leave Jack and Vaughn alone. Wow it was such a smile that I felt as if he had reached out and caressed her arm - power smile!
I LOVE the smiles creeping up on Vaughn's face and then Jack's face when they talk about Vaughn having a spine.
How can Lauren have any doubt what her husband still feels for Sydney? That he is even on this 'mission' to save Sydney speaks volumes - though I guess Dixon would do the same for Sydney. But aha would Dixon stand as she approached the table? ;p
I notice Sydney trying to act almost hostile towards Vaughn despite her being very concerned about him - she wants to know how he is going to avoid getting into trouble but she doesn't want it to appear that she cares so she just says - and what about you - in an almost hostile manner ... hahaha
and Ann, you are right. Sydney looks to Vaughn for permission to beat up his wife because she knows that if she doesn't get his permission, he will be really upset with her. She knows how protective he is over the 'women' in his life - something Lauren apparently doesn't quite understand.
Jack saying he didn’t think Vaughn had much of a spine is just so off the mark. In season 2 Vaughn was always challenging Jack, who was his superior. I can think of 2 or 3 instance where he confronted Jack….. very courageous on Vaughn’s part. Like many dads…nobody is good enough for their daughters.
DeleteOh it was wonderful to see Sydney and Vaughn kiss ... as Melissa says in her commentary, Vaughn really went for the kiss despite being married to her character haha and he did! He closed his eyes and let the kiss last more than a second - all the while, he knows it isn't a dream!
ReplyDeleteI'm really sad to call him this but it's true isn't it - he has a real cheating heart. See Vaughn ... you shouldn't have gotten married so soon. With all the people in the last few years who have died and come back to life, why couldn't Sydney? (this is a really bizarre show I just realised but I still love it to pieces!)
I think the reason Vaughn pulled away is because he knows that Sydney would never be a mistress - he knows this before she even says it herself. I'm not sure how much of pulling away was because of his loyalty to Lauren or him knowing that Sydney won't be the mistress ... hmmm
Yikes ... the torture on Vaughn's face as she is caressing his face ... he looks at her face, I am sure, admiring her beauty which he has referenced to a couple of times before, usually before they ... errr ... get amorous ...
But it was sad to see Sydney's face go from illuminated with happiness to completely crest fallen when Jack entered the room and she realised she wasn't dreaming.
Jack looks really disapproving!
And later Vaughn talks to her in the most impersonal way he can. Until she says she wants to go back under and then he looks completely panicked (and so does Jack!)
Vaughn pulls away because he doesn’t want to be disloyal to his wife….admirable considering how much he loves Sydney. Vaughn would end his marriage before having an affair. When Jack and Sydney keep telling Vaughn that Sydney won’t have an affair Vaughn should have stood up for himself and said he wouldn’t have one either. I guess he sort of did that with Jack.
DeleteI'm sorry to add just a quick note - all the dream sequences that just go on and on are pretty much a waste of time and could have been concised in like 2 minutes of it ... i just didn't like it ... just my view!
ReplyDeleteIf Vaughn were a cheater he would be kissing Syd every chance he got and trying to manipulate her into bed. He has steadfastly maintained his physical/sexual distance from Syd since he was married even though he is obviously still in love with her. She has kept her distance as well until she thought she was still dreaming. She caught him off guard and he stopped it almost immediately.
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