Alias (TV Series) Mockingbird (2005) User Reviews

Left Hanging!

[Tweekums · 8/10 · 30 January 2012]

The episode opens with Sydney, Dixon and Tom going into a Monte Carlo casino in order to get their hands on Gordon Dean's electronic dossier; things go according to plan until they have driven away; as Sydney calls to say she is at the rendezvous point her car is picked up by a crane and lifted high into the air; her phone rings and Dean demands that she gives him Mockingbird. We then go back three days and learn that Mockingbird was Rachel's codename in his organisation. In the three days prior to the crane incident Sydney and Rachel went back to Prague to access Dean's computers there while Dixon and Tom headed to the Cayman Islands to empty Dean's accounts; there is a slight difficulty when the meeting is brought forward meaning Sydney and Rachel will have to rush to access files giving vital account details... this is tenser than it sounds as the 'bankers' have guns pointed at Dixon and Tom and will shoot if they get any details incorrect! Without his money Dean appears to get sloppy and lets slip details of his dossier which leads us to where the episode started with Sydney swinging from a crane two hundred feet up. The matter is confused by the fact that Rachel is actually hiding in the boot of her car! Away from this action Sloane's appeal is taking place; it appears to be going never badly until somebody approaches him and offers to help... for a price.

This was another decent episode which further helped to establish the characters of Rachel and Tom; Rachel is shaping up to be a good character; Rachel Nichols does a good job in the role a Tom's character is developing in a good way too. There were plenty of tense moments; most obviously when Sydney and Rachel were swinging from the crane but also when Rachel couldn't access all the data Dixon needed in the bank. While not the most action packed episode there was enough and the tension more than made up for it. Sloane's scenes weren't as riveting but I'm sure they were needed to set things up for what is to come.

Leaves you hanging (literally)

[gridoon2024 · 7/10 · 31 January 2010]

With Rachel's help, the APO team is able to hack into Gordon Dean's bank account and steal his funds. Infuriated, Dean realizes that Rachel is still alive despite the explosion at the Prague office, so he traps Sydney in a car hanging from a giant remotely-controlled electromagnet a few hundred feet off the ground, and demands that the CIA surrenders "Mockingbird" (Rachel's code name) back to him. The catch? He doesn't know that Rachel is hidden inside the truck of the car! It's a pretty scary situation, and admittedly Sydney's and Rachel's escape from it is a bit dodgy. But there are things to like about this episode: Rachel continues to grow as a character, the twist of the opening sequence not showing the complete picture has been done before but it works again, and this season's Sloane's story is finally going somewhere (he is released from prison - but at what cost?). On a personal note, I'm still having trouble deciding who is more amazingly, show-stoppingly beautiful: Rachel Nichols or Amy Acker? *** out of 4.

Big Mama's Alias ! (in The Memory of a Late Great Show)

[elshikh4 · 18 November 2007]

In the first scenes, we watched (Sydney) in one of her successful missions, but while her pregnancy! OH MY GOD, a pregnant secret agent?! And in action too?!! It's not the usual "HA HA HAA" it's "How shoddy and creepy?!". Although the script just tried hard to make it suitable for (Garner) to do her stuff easily, with the support of a direction that wouldn't show her inflated belly that much. BUT it was BIG catastrophe indeed. Actually this is maybe the first action show in the history which had a pregnant woman as the lead! And to compensate her inability to perform, her very well known professional kicks, and the absence of (Vaughn), (Weiss), and (Nadia)--they brought the flat face (Balthazar Getty) along with the charismatic (Rachel Nichols) into play, however nothing would be normal again. And you may think that it can't hit lower bottom. No.. It can. How is that?! I'll tell you..

We've watched lately the spoof of the evil organization which had (Rachel) as a loyal agent who thought all along that she was working for the good guys until HEY, you're wrong kido.. You're working for the other EVIL side! Well, it looks like the bold move of (Sloane) at the first season became a common fashion between all the retired intelligence's men! But don't you ever bother yourself; it's not the first time to make an unbelievable event here. Yes, it's all some nice fiction, but after matters like these, it became a bad, rather disgraceful, fiction!

Moreover, we witnessed finally the trial of Mr. (Sloane). OHHHH, the dream of the whole mankind was fulfilled eventually. We've been waiting, for ages, to see that, however it happened not only so late, but also so dumb. There was some hot trial where the mad judge said all the logic accusations which you could furiously charge the writers with. Honestly, he was so nervous like a viewer who had, at last, all the team of the previous season's writers in front of him! HOWEVER the verdict was: "He is not guilty"??? He has a clean slate as unborn baby. Frankly, AAAHHHHHHHHH!!! You're the guilty ones you morons! They sued themselves for their worst sin, (Sloane), to obtain victory to their nonsense again, just to put it on TV for longer time, and for what? More money, more destroying for their work, and more torturing for us!

Even the famous sudden fade out, of "Lost" too, as a thrilling sharp end, for every exciting sequence, which was one good signature for that show's personality; now with all of that absurd dealing, it became like one computer that goes crazy to turn itself off unawares! Then quickly restart itself again!! Also they put a lot of fast shots from the past seasons in the opening credits, to make you recall some of the glorious bygone, when (Garner) was less paunchy, and the show was more sane!

Although the episode contains some well-done scenes, interesting music, and talented thrilling moments like the suspension of the car by a giant magnet, the deadly riddle of the unfinished funny sentences.. etc. But that's the main deplorable thing in the latest seasons of (Alias), it became like watching your good old heroes coming back to life, and in action again, but as an ugly ghosts!

Now it's your decision. You can watch THAT for: having a pastime, an awful brainless pastime, OR to regard attentively the collapse of a great show by the very hands of its makers, OR to enjoy it as a comic show, a parody of the real (Alias), especially when (Sydney) became (Vaughn) of the first 2 seasons, and sure with the case of "fat mama Bond" it's the perfect farce!

Dear (Alias). Rest in peace. Soon please!