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Despite his almost unbearable grief, Dixon insists that he wants to remain on active duty, however his single-minded determination to make Sloane pay for killing his wife, combined with his unprescripted drug use, make him somewhat of a loose cannon. Meanwhile, the CIA decrypts a page from a Rambaldi document that has so far accurately predicted worldwide apocalyptic events like the beginning of WWI and the Hiroshima bomb....and the next date set on that page is only a few hours away. The key to all this may be the mechanical heart of a Panama citizen with a specific DNA profile, but when Sydney and Dixon go to meet him he has already been killed and his heart has been stolen from his body. The acting is one of the areas where this series has excelled from the beginning (there is not even one weak actor in the cast), but here it is particularly powerful from Carl Lumbly as a desperate, violent Dixon. Sloane is not in a much better mood, either, as he goes to Nepal to find the man who, 30 years earlier, sent him on his Rambaldi quest. But in the midst of all the tragedy, some relief is provided by the nerdy flirting between Marshall and an NSA tech expert, played by the quite adorable Amanda Foreman - these two are a match made in heaven. This episode was made around the period when Jennifer Garner was also doing "Daredevil", and you can see her comfort with double swords in one action sequence; cult guest stars Danny Trejo and David Carradine are also welcome. The only problem with this episode is the ending: it seems to imply that either Rambaldi's prophecy was wrong (don't think so), or that the big disaster he predicted was the mere event of Sloane finally reading one of his documents. Sorry, I don't care what was ON that document, when you promise an apocalyptic event, you have to deliver it on time. *** out of 4.
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