In the nineteenth episode of the third season of Alias<\/i>, the team tries to manipulate the manipulators. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch Alias<\/i>.<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still waiting for THE big confrontation between Vaughn and Lauren, and I am certain it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to hurt to watch. Throughout \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hourglass,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Vaughn is a portrait of contained anger. He is brimming with it, and at any given moment, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s seconds away from letting it overflow. But he can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t<\/i>. No, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got to play the dutiful, loving husband, and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got to do it in a way so that his wife doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t suspect that he has now turned on her. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s incredible to watch, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also frustrating. Obviously, I want him to cut ties with Lauren so that he and Sydney can finally go get that cup of coffee, but he can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. AND IT HURTS. Watching him interact with her is unbearable, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s necessary.<\/p>\n
So, aside from the unending tension that we get from this plot, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hourglass\u00e2\u20ac\u009d weaves in a number of longstanding plot arcs from past seasons, and it all combines to give us another breathless and shocking episode of Alias<\/i>. This was like\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 finale-worthy, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. AND YET IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S NOT THE FINALE. How? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m frightened, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to be so much more, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t there?<\/p>\n
Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s jump into the Passenger, then, before I talk about Arvin Sloane and Jack. Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, the answer was RIGHT THERE in front of me, but I never considered that Sloane and Irina had had a child<\/i>. (Remember when I thought it implied that somehow, Sydney was Sloane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s child? EW, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122M SO GLAD THAT THEORY WAS PROVEN TO BE GARBAGE.) For some reason, Sydney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s half-sister is the Passenger, and she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been protected since birth. But why?<\/i> What is it about her that makes her so important to Rambaldi and Rambaldi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s followers? At this point, the mystery really only needs this one final piece, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m hoping it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll give me some sort of closure. Why? Why all of this production? Why so many pieces of this nightmarish machine? Could all of this possibly<\/i> be worth it for anyone<\/i>?<\/p>\n
Clearly, people think so. David Carradine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s character (whose name I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember) devoted his life to protecting the passenger. So did that man in the mansion. (Was he monitoring her??? I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t comment on it in the review, but WOW, that gave me major LOST<\/i> vibes.) She is apparently the<\/i> final step in this whole Rambaldi plot, and she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s even the means by which we learn that Arvin Sloane did<\/i> lie about the Telling. He got so much more than the word, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Peace.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
I suppose, then, that this confirms that Sloane really did<\/i> change his focus after being a mega-villain in seasons one and two. Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very hard for me to rectify my image of this character with this reality. I still don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t trust him, and I will certainly roll my eyes at the notion that it took him having a daughter for him to give up being evil. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like those dudes who are like, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I was a huge misogynist until I had a daughter!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Like\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 that<\/i> is what it took for you to care about other people? OKAY. NICE TRY, ARVIN SLOANE.<\/p>\n
Yet\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 shit, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. He looked SO UPSET throughout this episode, and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if that was genuine grief and devastation, or if he was merely reacting to his impending death. WHICH WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT RIGHT NOW. Holy shit, I expected Jack to maybe pull everything back just to help Sydney with the Hourglass, and then Marcus was saying goodbye and they were strapping Arvin into that chair and HOW THE FUCK WAS ANY OF THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENING? And then he flatlined and I was in shock. I was so surprised by that plot twist that I just\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 stopped believing it happened. It was a trick, right? EXCEPT THERE WERE MULTIPLE WITNESSES. MULTIPLE PEOPLE WHO DEFINITELY WERE NOT IN ON SOME ULTERIOR PLAN ALL WATCHED HIM DIE.<\/p>\n
I just have to appreciate this on two levels:<\/p>\n
This is building up to something terrible, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it? How long can the CIA keep their secret from Lauren? Her mother probably spoiled it, so what now<\/i>? Will they continue trying to fool one another? Will this escalate even FURTHER than it already has? HELP ME.<\/p>\n
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